2006-2007
Arts and Sciences graduate students at Tufts University excelled in a variety
of areas during the 2006-2007 academic year. Below is a listing of some of their
notable achievements:
Art and Art History
Art and Art History graduate students presented their work at several conferences
and meetings in 2006-2007. Some of these events included the International Congress
on Medieval Studies (Kalamazoo, Michigan), the annual meeting of the Space Between
Society (Annapolis, Maryland), the International Medieval Congress (Leeds, England),
and the Pacific Ancient and Modern Language Association's Annual Conference
(Bellingham, Washington).
Students in the department also received awards and other honors, the most notable
being Ben Zweig who received a Fulbright Scholarship to study at Sweden's
Uppsala University during the 2007-2008 academic year, and Carrie Butt,
recipient of the Copley Society of Art's Robert C. Vose, Jr. and Ann Peterson Vose
Scholarship for the Study of American Art History.
Biology
During the 2006-2007 academic year, five 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.
Biology graduate students also made their mark outside of Tufts, evidenced by the
articles they authored or co-authored (which appeared everywhere from the American
Journal of Physiology to Science) and their participation in a number of
domestic and international meetings and conferences. These events included the Annual
Meeting of the Ecological Society of America (San Jose, California), the International
Society for Reef Studies European Meeting (Bremen, Germany), and the National
Conference of the Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology (Phoenix, Arizona).
Chemistry
Several chemistry graduate students received funding or other honors during the
2006-2007 academic year. Four students (Ashleigh Baber, Timothy Blicharz, Irene
Li and Victoria Campbell) received Graduate Assistance in Areas of National
Need (GAANN) Fellowships, while two others received research funding from the United
States Air Force (Olena Rabotyagova) and the University of Connecticut's National
AUC Facility (Deniz Yüksel).
Along with seven articles they authored or co-authored, graduate students in the
department also delivered twenty-three presentations at conferences and meetings held
throughout the world. These events included the International Symposium on Molecular
Spectroscopy (Columbus, Ohio), the École Polytechnique Fédérale
de Lausanne (Lausanne, Switzerland), the Gordon Conference (Ventura, California),
and the JCF Fruehjahrs Symposium (Chemnitz, Germany).
Child Development
Working with faculty and fellow students, Eliot-Pearson Department of Child Development
graduate students authored or co-authored numerous research-related articles, which
appeared in books, academic journals, and other publications, in 2006-2007. These
articles were part of publications such as Mind, Brain, and Education, the
Journal of Research in Childhood Education, the Journal of Youth Development,
and the recently published Encyclopedia of Human Development.
Child development graduate students were a fixture at several domestic and international
conferences and meetings, sharing their research at, among others, the Annual Meeting
of the American Education Research Association (Chicago, Illinois), the European
Society for Research in Developmental Psychology's Conference (Jena, Germany), the
International Conference on Adoption Research (Norwich, England), and the European
Early Childhood Education Research Association's Conference (Reyjavik, Iceland).
Graduate students from the department also received funding and other recognition,
including Iris Ponte (who received a Fulbright scholarship to conduct research
in China), Elizabeth Norton (the recipient of a 3-year National Science
Foundation (NSF) Graduate Research Fellowship) and Michael Niewiecki who
received the "Wind Beneath Their Wings Award" from the Westborough,
Massachusetts Special Education Parent Advisory Council for his clinical and
consultation work on behalf of young students with autism and emotional disorders.
Classics
As part of the Concordia Foundation Fellowship program, nine classics graduate
students participated in archeological field projects during the 2006-2007 academic
year. These field project participants included James Artz (Athenian Agora
excavations, Athens Greece), Skylar Neil and Jessica Pesce (Stanford
Monte Polizzo Project and the Tufts Marsala Survey, Sicily, Italy) and Shayna
Meyers (Greco-Canadian excavations at Argilos, Greece).
In addition, Robin Ngo and Ryan Hughes, both of whom recently graduated
from the master's-only program, plan to pursue their Ph.D.'s at the University of
Pennsylvania and the University of Michigan, respectively. Two other recent graduates,
Robert Wanner and Christina Triantafillou, are pursuing Ph.D.s in
archaeology at the University of Leicester and Oxford University in the United Kingdom,
respectively.
Drama
During the 2006-2007 academic year, drama graduate students delivered twenty-two
research-related presentations. These presentations took place at conferences and
meetings within the United States and abroad, including the American Society for
Theatre Research's annual conference (Chicago, Illinois), the International
Federation of Theatre Research's (IFTR) conference (Helsinki, Finland), and the
Popular Culture Association/American Cultural Association's Conference (Boston,
Massachusetts).
In addition to their presentations, students from the department published their
work in several leading drama-related publications as well, including Meron
Langsner, whose articles were included in Text and Presentation, The
Fight Master, and the Electronic Journals of Martial Arts and Sciences,
and Virginia Anderson, whose review of the Beijing People's Art Theatre's
production of "Teahouse" was included in Theatre Journal.
(Anderson was also accepted into the AIDS Action Committee of Massachusetts'
Larry Kessler Scholars Program).
Also, 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 Dassia Posner
received a Mellon Dissertation Fellowship.
Economics
During the 2006-2007 academic year, graduate students Lala Xun Ma and
Kaipin Shan completed their master's thesis, researching interpersonal
trust and social interactions and labor markets, respectively.
In addition, graduate students in the department launched the Graduate
Economics Society, which was named an "outstanding graduate student
organization" by the Tufts University Graduate Student Council (GSC).
Education
Education Students in the department's Mathematics, Science, Technology, and
Engineering (MSTE) M.S. and Ph.D. program authored or co-authored several
articles and book chapters during the 2006-2007 academic year. These works
appeared in, to name a few, the Journal of Mathematical Behavior, the International
Journal of Engineering Education, Astronomy Education Review, and the Journal
of STEM Education.
In addition, over 80 students developed their field-based experiences as
supervised student-teachers at elementary, middle, or high schools in the
Boston-area. Of these, 18 students were full-time interns in urban schools as
part of the department's Urban Teacher Training Collaborative (UTTC), a program
which supports students interested in teaching in urban settings.
English
During the 2006-2007 academic year, graduate students in the Department of
English received research-related support or awards from, among others, the
Holocaust Educational Foundation (Emily King), the Graduate Institute
for Teaching at Tufts (GIFT) (Ashley Shelden), and the Popular Culture
Association/American Culture Association (Abby Manzella).
Graduate students in the department also delivered fourteen presentations at
conferences and meetings--such as the annual Modern Language Association
Conference (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania), the British Women Writer's Conference
(Lexington, Kentucky), and the International Conference on Narrative (Ottawa,
Ontario)--and published articles in leading English-related publications such
as the Sigma Tau Delta Review, Scribner's American Writers Series, and
Literature Compass.
German
Melanie Adley and Silvia Seidel graduated from the German
program, a master's-only degree track at Tufts, during the 2006-2007 academic
year. Adley is currently a doctoral candidate at the University of Pennsylvania,
while Seidel is pursuing her MBA.
History
During the 2006-2007 academic year, graduate student Neilesh Bose
received a dissertation-writing fellowship from the College of Saint Rose's
Center for Citizenship, Race, and Ethnicity Studies, Greg Liakos
received a Tufts University Research Travel Grant to conduct research in
Great Britain as part of his master's thesis, and Lata Parwani,
a current doctoral student in South Asian History, received a Tufts
University Graduate Student Research Award for her project titled:
"Recovering Lost Sindhi Hindu Voices: Locating Sindh in Partition
Historiography."
On the programmatic front, the department launched a new doctoral program
in Global History.
Mathematics
Graduate students in the Department of Mathematics presented their work at
conferences, meetings, and other events over the course of the 2006-2007
academic year. Specifically, graduate student Erin Munro presented
a poster at the Annual Meeting of the Society for Industrial and Applied
Mathematics (Boston, Massachusetts) and traveled to Edinburgh, Scotland to
participate in the Organization for Computational Neurosciences Annual
Meeting.
Outside the classroom, graduate student Malena Espanol interned at
the software company Mathworks and portions of the code she helped develop
will be included in future releases of MATLAB, a leading computational
software program. Espanol also co-authored an article, which appeared in
the SIAM Journal on Scientific Computing, and presented her research
at the International Congress on Industrial and Applied Mathematics in
Zurich, Switzerland.
On the awards front, 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.
Music
The Department of Music said goodbye to several outstanding students who
graduated from the master's-only program during the 2006-2007 academic
year. Some of these former students, like Jiwon Chang and Beau
Kenyon, are currently pursuing careers as music teachers at locations
such as the St. George's School in Newport, Rhode Island and the Kingsley
Montessori School in Boston, Massachusetts. Three graduates (Julian Wason
Cook, Maria Guarino, and Katie Stufflebeam) have continued their
graduate studies as Ph.D. students at the University of Virginia (Cook and
Guarino) and at UCLA (Stufflebeam), respectively.
Occupational Therapy
During the 2006-2007 academic year, graduate students in the Department
of Occupational Therapy participated in the work of a number of nonprofit
organizations, rehabilitation clinics, hospitals, and related settings as
part of the fieldwork requirement of the program. This work took students
everywhere from the New England Sinai Rehabilitation Center (Amanda
Hamm) to the Spaulding Rehabilitation Hospital (Shannon Small).
Students participated in the work of other settings as well, providing
community service to organizations such as the Walnut Street Center of
Somerville, Massachusetts (Reese Himmer), the Charlestown,
Massachusetts Boys and Girls Club (Lisa Newcombe), Morgan Memorial
Goodwill of Boston (Bernadette Keegan), and the South Boston
Neighborhood House (Jamie Weiner). Collectively, students in the
department participated in almost 200 fieldwork placements, and 11 students
also completed practicum experiences at, for example, Community Rehab Care
of Medford, Massachusetts (Sarah McGinley), the Medford, Massachusetts
public schools (Amy Urquhart), THOM Boston Early Intervention (Kate
Sangster), Massachusetts General Hospital (Ritika Trehan), Mount
Auburn Hospital of Cambridge, Massachusetts (Michelle Magnifico) and
Boston's Brigham & Women's Hospital (Harpreet Kaur).
In addition, 16 occupational therapy graduate students traveled to New
Orleans to assist with the continuing relief effort there. The group, dubbed
"OT Gulf Support," volunteered at local hospitals and
rehabilitation centers and helped gut homes that had been affected by
Hurricane Katrina. This was OT Gulf Support's second trip to New Orleans,
as they provided assistance during the 2005-2006 academic year as well.
Philosophy
In 2007, Tufts reaffirmed its longstanding reputation as the institution
with the best philosophy Ph.D. program placement record in the world. Students
applying to Ph.D. programs (after completing the department's terminal philosophy
master's program) earned acceptance into some of the top ranked schools in the
United States. These recent graduates, and where they have continued their
educations, include: Avery Archer (Columbia University), Laura Beeby
(University of Sheffield), Talia D'Abrama (University of Texas)
Andrew Jewell (UCLA), Blakely Phillips (Indiana University),
Ignacio Prado (University of Texas), and Ang Tong (NYU).
The department often admits talented students with backgrounds in law who are
interested in deepening their understanding of philosophy. Brandon Hogan,
for example, will be interrupting his master's work to complete a degree
at the Harvard Law School this fall and Anthony DiClaudio is taking
a leave of absence from the program to accept a federal clerkship with the
Honorable Norma L. Shapiro of the Eastern District of Pennsylvania.
Physics
Working with faculty and fellow students in their respective research groups,
physics graduate students co-authored 68 papers (and 15 recently submitted
for publication) during the 2006-2007 academic year. These papers appeared
in a wide range of refereed physics journals, including Physical Review
Letters, Physical Review D, Physics Letters B (Particle
Physics and Cosmology), and Thermochimica Acta.
In addition, many students attended and gave presentations during meetings
held at the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (Batavia, Illinois), the
Conference on Physical Electronics (Urbana, Illinois) and the AVS National
Symposium (Seattle, Washington).
Several physics graduate students also received fellowships and other
recognition in 2006-2007. Chang Liu, Robert Thompson, Peter Malave and
Benjamin Whitehouse won Burlingame Fellowships and Spencer Smith
received a Graduate Institute For Teaching (GIFT) award.
Psychology
Over twenty psychology graduate students received funding for their research
or other recognition during the 2006-2007 academic year, 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),
Kathryn Handwerger (the recipient of a graduate fellowship award from
the National Science Foundation), and Neil Cohn, whose paper titled
"The Grammar of Comics" was recognized with the M. Thomas Inge Award
for Comics Scholarship at the 2007 Popular Culture Association Conference.
Psychology graduate students also authored or co-authored over twenty
research-related articles or book chapters (which appeared in, to name a
few, the American Journal of Psychiatry, Applied Cognitive Psychology,
Psychological Science, Social Neuroscience, and Biological Psychiatry)
and delivered seventy-three presentations during this period as well. These
presentations took place both within the United States and abroad, and included
the annual meetings of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology (Palm
Springs, California), the Japanese Psychological Association (Fukuoka City,
Japan), the Society for Personality and Social Psychology (Memphis, Tennessee),
and the Psychonomics Society (Houston, Texas).
Studio Art (offered in collaboration with the School of the Museum of Fine
Arts, Boston)
Studio art graduate students traveled to a variety of domestic and international
locations as part of the school's Bartlett and Montague Travel Grants program.
The grants provide students with travel opportunities that enhance their studio
practice and bring them into direct contact with global and national fine art.
Travel grant recipients for the 2006-2007 academic year include:
Dawit Petros (who traveled to Red Rock Canyon State Park in California,
and Manitoba, Canada to produce film, installation and performance work),
Matthew Meta (who attended London's Performance Studies International #12,
an international conference which explored the relationship between performance
and the fight for human rights), Darren Miller (who traveled to the Blue
Mountain Center in Blue Mountain Lake, NY for an artist's residency), Vasia
Markides (who went to Cyprus to film her documentary on the reunification of
the Greek and Turkish sides of Cyprus), Laura Torres (who traveled to
Ecuador to produce art work based on local consumer culture) and Andrea
Wenglowskyj (who photographed the Ukrainian-American summer camp, Noviy
Sokil, in New York. Wenglowskyj was awarded the prestigious Josef Karsh Award
in photography for this work).
Urban and Environmental Policy and Planning
During the 2006-2007 academic year, Abby Lindsay was selected as an
Environmental Leadership Program (ELP) fellow, one of only 24 in the Greater
Boston Region, and 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.
In addition, graduate student Nicole Guanzon was one of only 14 Tufts
students to receive the Tufts University Presidential Award for Citizenship
and Public Service, E. Franklin Miller received the Robert M. Hollister
Award for Graduate Student Citizenship, and recent graduate Jesse McEntee
was a fully-funded visiting scholar at Cardiff University's Center for Business
Relationships, Accountability, Sustainability, and Society.
Graduate students in the department were also active outside of Tufts. As
part of their internship requirement, 40 students interned at locations such
as Massachusetts Advocates for Children (Quincy Chang), the Mystic
River Watershed Association (Alex Clee), and the Office of United
States Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton (John Foss).
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