Award-Winning Graduate Students
Each year departments present Graduate Achievement Awards at Honors Day.
Frances “Frankie” Evelyn Barrett, MA Southern Studies 19
2019 Graduate Achievement Award recipient For her thesis, “A Bargain at Any Cost: The Rise of Dollar General,” Frankie’s research draws on her undergraduate background in gender studies and critical regional lens at UNC-Chapel Hill to explore the history and effects of the US dollar store industry...
Read MoreZhencao Ge, PhD Mathematics 20
2018 Graduate Achievement Award recipient “The Ole Miss math department has many great number theorists, and I am lucky to study with them. My current research for my doctoral thesis is on the irregularities of value distribution of L-functions. This is joint work with Jonathan Bober at the...
Read MoreSarah Johnson Arradondo, PhD Chemistry 19
2019 Graduate Achievement Award recipient “Ever since I was a little girl i’ve been interested in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics. However, most of my STEM teachers were men. The few female STEM professors transformed my life and placed me on my current path. I’m getting my phd in...
Read MoreFeng Liu, PhD Economics 18
2018 Graduate Achievement Award recipient A remarkably accomplished researcher interested in applied econometrics, financial bubbles, and monetary economics, Feng coauthored a paper with Professor John Conlon, “The Simplest Rational Greater-Fool Bubble Model” published in the Journal of Economic...
Read MoreSaeed Kamali, PhD Physics 19
2018 Graduate Achievement Award recipient Saeed’s doctoral work is in the area of high energy theory and particle physics. His paper, in collaboration with Professor Stefan Meinel, a well-known physicist at the University of Arizona, was published in the prestigious Journal of High Energy Physics...
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