Award-Winning Graduate Students
Each year departments present Graduate Achievement Awards at Honors Day.
Meghna Bhattacharya, PhD Physics 21
With her internationally recognized work on the Muon g-2 experiment at Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (Fermilab), “Meghna Bhattacharya has been a …Read more...
Zach Redding, PhD Psychology 21
For his master’s project, Redding studied pharmacological approaches for reducing attentional lapses in rats. This work was presented at the …Read more...
Jemar Tisby, PhD History 21
Author of the New York Times bestseller The Color of Compromise, president and cofounder of The Witness: A Black Christian Collective, and cohost of the podcast …Read more...
Martha Grace Mize,
MA Anthropology & Southern Studies 21
“My research, focused on rural economic development efforts in the Alabama Black Belt, has only added to my plans to work with and for local communities in the …
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Allison M. Serraes, PhD English 20
Serraes’ work with UM’s Prison-to-College Pipeline Program serving incarcerated students shaped her research and future plans. She received a …Read more...
Sayontani Sinha Roy,
PhD Chemistry & Biochemistry 21
“Finding cleaner alternative energy sources is the need of the hour. It is especially important for countries where the persistent energy crisis is the bottleneck of …
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Gabrielle Dinger, MFA Art with an Emphasis in Sculpture 20
2020 Graduate Achievement Award recipient “My focus on sculpture during my education has been not only about challenging material and space, but creating conversations around topics of personal interest. During my time here, I have taken part as a committee member for the National Conference on...
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Tierney Bamrick, MA Sociology 20
2020 Graduate Achievement Award recipient “We Show Up Together: Connecting Art and Activism in a New Black Arts Organization” took Tierney months of ethnographic field work, hours of participant observation, and a dozen in-depth interviews to compose what Kirk Johnson, associate professor of...
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Andrew Marion, PhD History 21
2018 Graduate Achievement Award recipient Andrew conducted research for the University of Mississippi Slavery Research Group and has presented his findings at four academic conferences. He shares this research with students, faculty, staff, alumni, and visitors through campus slavery tours that...
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Marci Weber, PhD Clinical Psychology 21
2019 Graduate Achievement Award recipient “I chose clinical psychology to directly impact children and adolescents’ mental health, as well as to do scientific research. I love the mix of conducting research and directly applying it. My research is on disaster-related trauma, sexual trauma, and...
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Hyerim Park, PhD Economics 21
2019 Graduate Achievement Award recipient “After working with labor statistics at the Ministry of Labor and Employment in Korea, I wanted to study labor economics in both theoretical and empirical ways. At Ole Miss I study gender wage gap and women’s labor supply with my advisor, Dr. Kolesnikova...
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