Champaign, IL – The Graduate College is pleased to announce the awardees of the 2016-17 Graduate College Dissertation Completion Fellowship, Master’s Project Travel Grant, and Dissertation Travel Grant. They are:
2016-17 Dissertation Completion Fellowship Awardees
Barlaz, Marissa (Linguistics)
Bian, Lin (Developmental Psychology)
Chen, Jing (East Asian Languages and Cultures)
Chen, Wan-Ting (Agricultural and Biological Engineering)
Chipman, Melissa (Ecology, Evolution and Conservation Biology)
Eager, Christopher (Spanish Linguistics)
Greene, Daniel (Kinesiology and Community Health)
Hsu, Ning (Speech and Hearing Science)
Irwin, Katie (Communication)
LaLonde, Priya (Education Policy, Organization and Leadership)
Li, Weiwei (Atmospheric Sciences)
Lin, Chunfeng (Institute of Communications Research)
Liu, Liang (Civil and Environmental Engineering)
Makowski, Martha (Curriculum and Instruction)
Mayhew, Emily (Food Science and Human Nutrition)
Mekawi, Yara (Psychology)
Metzner, Emily (Anthropology)
Nicholas, Jessica (French)
Pan, Yung-Tin (Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering)
Sattari, Negin (Sociology)
Smart, Devin (History)
Suppakittpaisarn, Pongsakorn (Landscape Architecture)
Truran, Wendy (English)
Tse, Pui-Sze Priscilla (Music)
Wang, Zhangyang (Electrical and Computer Engineering)
Wu, Hong-An (Art Education)
Wu, Wei (Atmospheric Sciences)
You, Yizhi (Physics)
Zhou, Peiyun (Educational Psychology)
2016 Master’s Project Travel Grant Awardees
Choi, Kyung Yun (Aerospace Engineering)
Decker, Brenna (Entomology)
Hornik, Kaitlyn (Natural Resources and Environmental Science)
Keep, Miriam (Urban and Regional Planning)
Lee, Sungmin (East Asian Languages and Cultures)
Leopold, Lilah (Art History)
Montag, William (Entomology)
2016 Dissertation Travel Grant Awardees
Bliss, AnnaMarie (Architecture)
Catedral, Lydia (Linguistics)
Chereson, Peter (Political Science)
DeFlamingh, Alida (Ecology, Evolution and Conservation Biology)
Guner, Ezgi (Anthropology)
Jones, Jennifer (Ecology, Evolution and Conservation Biology)
Kim, Myeong Hyeon (Linguistics)
Maitreemit, Lassamon (Landscape Architecture)
Minefee, Ishva (Business Administration)
Updyke, Erin (Entomology)
“These fellowships and travel awards are a critically important component of Graduate College support for our students,” says Wojtek Chodzko-Zajko, dean of the Graduate College. “The quality of submissions from this year applicant pool was truly remarkable. We congratulate the winners of this year’s awards and are confident that these funds will help them take maximal advantage of their graduate education at Illinois.”
Graduate College Dissertation Completion Fellowships help students complete the doctoral degree by providing one year of financial support and allowing these fellows to devote themselves to the completion of the dissertation. Forty-five departments from across campus submitted a total of 74 nominations for the Graduate College Dissertation Completion Fellowship. Of those, 29 nominations from 27 departments were selected for awards.
Master’s Travel Grants provide funding for short term projects where travel for research or creative work is required for degree completion. Dissertation Travel Grants support travel and associated costs necessary for doctoral dissertation research, whether for exploring a potential dissertation topic or for conducting dissertation research. This year, twenty-four departments submitted a total of 54 nominations for Master’s and Dissertation Project Travel Grants. Seventeen nominations from 13 departments were selected for travel awards.
The competition for these awards includes a rigorous two-stage of review process. Each nomination is first reviewed by one of the Graduate College Fellowship Board’s four Area Committees, which are comprised exclusively of faculty members. Finalists are then reviewed by the Fellowship Board’s Executive Committee, which includes faculty and two graduate students.
“The Fellowship Board gives every nomination a very thorough review,” says Ken Vickery, director of External Fellowships and Campus Competitions. “It constitutes a major time commitment, but it results in our competitions manifesting the highest level of integrity. I congratulate all the students who’ve won an award, and I also thank the Fellowship Board for their phenomenal devotion to the process.”
For more information about these awards visit the listings in the Graduate College’s Fellowship Finder database.