Each year Arts, Sciences & Engineering and the School of Medicine and Dentistry recognize outstanding research and dissertations by PhD students.
The following students are听recipients of Arts, Sciences & Engineering鈥檚 Outstanding Dissertation Award听for 2017鈥�18.
Engineering:听Chitraleema Chakraborty, Materials Science, 鈥淔latland Nanophotonics: A Study of Quantum Confined Excitons in 2D Materials.鈥澨齁oseph听Izraelevitz, Computer Science (commendation), 鈥淐oncurrency Implications of Nonvolatile Byte-Addressable Memory.鈥�
Humanities:听Jenevive Nykolak, Visual and Cultural Studies; 鈥淧ainting in Question, 1967-1981: 鈥楤MPT,鈥� Supports/Surfaces, and ja-na-pa.鈥澨齂yle Robinson, History (commendation), 鈥淏ody and Soul of Enlightenment: John Wesley, Methodism, and the Age of Reason.鈥�
Natural Sciences:听Frank Garcea,听Brain and Cognitive Sciences, 鈥淭he organization of manipulable object concepts in the human brain.鈥�
Social Sciences:听Brett Peters,听Clinical and Social Sciences in Psychology, 鈥淭he Consequences of Having an Insecure Partner: A Pre-Emptive Buffering Model.鈥�
The following students are听recipients of School of Medicine and Dentistry Commencement Awards听for 2017鈥�18.
Vincent du Vigneaud Award:听Anthony DiPiazza, Microbiology and Immunology, 鈥淚nsights into CD4 T Cell-Mediated Immunity to Influenza Viruses.鈥� The award is conferred by the Office of Graduate Education to a graduating student whose thesis is judged superior and unique in potential for stimulating and extending research in the field.
Wallace O. Fenn Award:听Benjamin Plog, Pathology, 鈥淣ovel Insight into Regulation of Glymphatic Flow with Implications for Traumatic Brain Injury.鈥� The award is given annually to a graduating student judged to have performed especially meritorious research and who presented a Ph.D. thesis suitable to honor the name of Wallace Fenn, former professor and chair of physiology.
Marvel-Dare F. Nutting Award听(recognizing an outstanding Biochemistry PhD):听Amber Cutter, whose PhD dissertation was on听鈥淢olecular Characterization of Nucleosome Recognition by Linker Histone H1.0.鈥�
