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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Katrina Alford, MA Sociology 18
2018 Graduate Achievement Award recipient With a passion for topics related to inequality and wellbeing, Katrina seeks to understand complex problems and inform solutions through the social sciences with research in rural sociology, demography, and stratification. Her work addresses the tension...
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Nalaka Liyanage, PhD Chemistry 18
2018 Graduate Achievement Award recipient A member of Professor Jared Delcamp’s Renewable Energy Research Lab, Nalaka researches pancromatic organic dye synthesis for dye-sensitized solar cells and synthesis of organometallic complexes for photocatalitic CO2 reduction. The dyes they developed are...
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Shuang Cheng, MA Modern Languages with Emphasis in Applied Linguistics and TESOL 18
2018 Graduate Achievement Award recipient Originally from China, Shuang has taught Chinese to students from kindergarten to the university level in China, Thailand, and the US. As a graduate student at UM, Shuang pursues study in second-language teaching, comparing the pedagogies of Teaching English...
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Philip Baltuskonis, PhD History 20
2018 Graduate Achievement Award recipient Philip’s study of Latin America explores the role of ideas in the independence movements of Colombia that emerged after the collapse of the Spanish monarchy in 1808. His dissertation, “Hesitant Independence in Spanish America,” examines how alumni from local...
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Feng Liu, PhD Economics 18
2017 Graduate Achievement Award recipient Feng has developed a new test of predictive accuracy for macroeconomic applications and written elaborate programs to generate results for the new test—working as a full research partner with Economics Professor Walter Mayer and Mathematics Professor Xin...
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