The Chancellor’s Dissertation Completion Award

To the Campus Community: 
 
I am pleased to announce the first round of recipients for the Chancellor’s Dissertation Completion Award. is awarded to doctoral students in the final year of dissertation completion. The award is intended to afford doctoral students the resources needed to alleviate teaching and other duties in order to focus on dissertation completion. 
 
Thanks to those faculty members who generously volunteered their time to serve as evaluators for this award. 
 
Congratulations to these outstanding doctoral students and to their faculty advisors as well:

AWARD RECIPIENTS

• Vedangi Hambardikar (Center for Computational Biology and Integrative Biology)
  Advised by Dr. Maria Solesio: Role of mitochondrial inorganic polyphosphate in maintaining mitochondrial physiology in Huntington’s Disease 
• Anna Perry (Childhood Studies)
  Advised by Dr. Lauren Silver: The problem with being accommodated: disabled students’ experience navigating accommodations in higher education
• Halle Singh (Childhood Studies)
  Advised by Dr. Kate Cairns: Girlhood after dark: nighttime, leisure, and the temporality of gender
• Christopher Sottolano (Center for Computational Biology and Integrative Biology)
  Advised by Dr. Nir Yakoby: An interdisciplinary approach to study the evolution of TGF-alpha-like ligand gurken in drosophila
• Galadriel Thoman (Public Policy and Community Development)
  Advised by Dr. Lorraine Minnite: Flyover citizes: how proximity to distressed communities impacts the political behavior of rural voters
• Deszeree Thomas (Childhood Studies)
  Advised by Dr. Lauren Silver:  Ain’t I a child
• Lidong Xiang (Childhood Studies)
  Advised by Dr. Lynne Vallone: Cruel girlhood: violent practices and Chines schoolgirls in films and fiction.

I applaud the critical work being undertaken by this group of future academic leaders and researchers.  

Sincerely,
 
Antonio D. Tillis, Ph.D.
Chancellor