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Research NewsArts and Sciences graduate students received various awards and honors for their research during the 2006-2007 academic year. Below is a listing of some of their notable achievements: Biology graduate students Nicole Cyr, Molly Dickens, David DesRoches, Jocelyn Muller, and Randi Rotjan received outside funding to pursue their research. This funding came from, to name a few, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), the National Science Foundation (NSF), the Switzer Foundation, and the Smithsonian. Chemistry graduate students Ashleigh Baber, Timothy Blicharz, Irene Li and Victoria Campbell received Graduate Assistance in Areas of National Need (GAANN) Fellowships, while Olena Rabotyagova and Deniz Yüksel received research funding from the United States Air Force and the University of Connecticut's National AUC Facility respectively. Child development graduate student Iris Ponte received a Fulbright scholarship to conduct research in China and fellow student Elizabeth Norton was the recipient of a 3-year National Science Foundation (NSF) Graduate Research Fellowship. Drama graduate student Adrienne C. Macki received both a $20,000 research fellowship from the American Association of University Women and a $900 dissertation grant from the American Society of Theatre Research and fellow student Dassia Posner received a Mellon Dissertation Fellowship. History graduate student Neilesh Bose received a dissertation-writing fellowship from the College of Saint Rose's Center for Citizenship, Race, and Ethnicity Studies and fellow student Greg Liakos received a Tufts University Research Travel Grant to conduct research in Great Britain as part of his master’s thesis. Mathematics graduate students Jamison Wolf and Meredith Brown received financial support from the National Science Foundation to attend the International Levy Conference in Copenhagen, Denmark and Cristian Gonzalez-Martinez was awarded a "Marie Curie, Early Stage Researcher" fellowship which allowed him to work in the mathematics department at Oxford University during the summers of 2006 and 2007. Physics graduate students Chang Liu, Robert Thompson, Peter Malave and Benjamin Whitehouse won Burlingame Fellowships. Over twenty psychology graduate students received funding for their research or other recognition, including Evan Apfelbaum (who received an early researcher award from the American Psychological Association), Tali Ditman (the recipient of an American Psychological Association dissertation research award), Kristin Dukes (who received a travel grant from the Association for Psychological Science), and Kathryn Handwerger (the recipient of a graduate fellowship award from the National Science Foundation). Urban and Environmental Policy and Planning graduate student Abby Lindsay was selected as an Environmental Leadership Program (ELP) fellow, one of only 24 in the Greater Boston Region, and fellow graduate students Monica Magari and Abby Yenco, with Associate Professor and Department Chair Julian Agyeman and alumna Kara Fitzpatrick, received a grant from The Anonymous Foundation to research vacant lot reclamation and transformation in Boston. |
