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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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...
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Zhencao 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...
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Sarah 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...
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Feng 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...
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Saeed 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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