Nearly 1,400 master鈥檚 and doctoral students in 听are enrolled at the 蘑菇传媒, with their areas of study ranging from philosophy to physics. 蘑菇传媒 half are international students who come from 67 nations.
鈥淪tudents are drawn to the intellectual rigor of our departments, but they find a home in our closely connected campus,鈥� says Melissa Sturge-Apple, dean of graduate studies in Arts, Sciences & Engineering. 鈥淭he scientist can literally walk 300 yards across the quad and connect with the humanist. And the ability to make cross-disciplinary collaborations for our graduate students fuels scholarly exchange and leads to intellectual innovation.鈥�
Here鈥檚 a look at some of the University鈥檚 graduate students.
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(蘑菇传媒 photos / J. Adam Fenster)
Carson Kautz听is a first-year PhD student in clinical psychology from Lodi, California, and a recipient of a听Provost鈥檚 Fellowship. She鈥檚 working with Christie Petrenko, a research associate at Mt. Hope Family Center. Kautz鈥檚 research focuses on interventions听to reduce adverse outcomes for children with developmental disabilities, particularly those with fetal alcohol spectrum disorders.
Austin Skeeters听is a third-year PhD student from Fort Walton Beach, Florida, and a recipient of the听. The 2016 Florida State University graduate is working in physics professor Patrick Oakes鈥檚 lab. His primary research project is characterizing the curvature-sensing properties of the cytoskeletal protein septin.
Aeshaan Wahlang听is a second-year master鈥檚 student in computer science. The India native is part of the Quantitative Semantics Lab in the linguistics department, studying nominal semantics through data science techniques.
Dominique Townsend听is a first-year English doctoral student from Southern California who studies construction of racial and gender identity in 20th-century American and British literature. She鈥檚 a recipient of a听Provost鈥檚 Fellowship.
Nik Chatzikonstanti听is a fourth-year PhD student in mathematics from Rhodes, Greece, and a听听recipient whose research focus is a problem in geometric measure theory called 鈥淔alconer鈥檚 conjecture.鈥�
Sarah Henry,听a third-year doctoral student from Benson, North Carolina, poses while helping to construct one of eight cosmic ray tagger frames at the European Organization for Nuclear Research, known as CERN,听in Geneva, Switzerland. Henry is studying high energy physics and is a听听谤别肠颈辫颈别苍迟.
Wednesday Bushong听is a fourth-year brain and cognitive sciences doctoral student from San Diego. A听听recipient, she studies how people quickly and effortlessly process language. She does this through behavioral experiments and computational modeling.
Yanssel Garcia听is a fourth-year doctoral student in philosophy from Miami. He is primarily interested in understanding the nature of consciousness and its relationship to the brain.
April Wang听is a fourth-year doctoral student in electrical and computer engineering from Yantai, China. Her research focuses on using ultrasound elastography to study the pancreatic cancer tumor microenvironment, and in particular, how the latter鈥檚 biomechanical properties affect therapies.
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