Award-Winning Graduate Students
Each year departments present Graduate Achievement Awards at Honors Day.
John Lindbeck, PhD History 18
2017 Graduate Achievement Award recipient “Slavery’s Holy Profits: Religion and Capitalism in the Antebellum Lower Mississippi Valley” is John’s dissertation exploring the relationship between capitalist markets, religious faith, and the institution of slavery in the antebellum Southwest. “I am...
Read MoreJustin “JP” Lawrence, PhD Biology 18
2017 Graduate Achievement Award recipient JP works in Biology Professor Brice Noonan’s lab exploring the evolution of warning coloration in poison frogs of the Neotropics. His most recent success securing research funding is an Australian Endeavour Fellowship to spend five months with a new...
Read MoreJosh Green, BA Classics and History 08, MA Southern Studies 17
2017 Graduate Achievement Award recipient Josh’s undergraduate honors thesis on the end of prohibition in Mississippi was so good that The Mississippi Encyclopedia editors asked him to write the essay on the topic for the book. Josh obtained a law degree from Tulane University and practiced law in...
Read MoreKatelyn Dreux, PhD Chemistry 17
2017 Graduate Achievement Award recipient Katelyn’s graduate research experience includes the application of sophisticated quantum mechanical methods to study small, noncovalently bound clusters and also the investigation of physical properties of moderately-sized molecules and clusters of unusual...
Read MoreAnna Katherine Black, PhD Clinical Psychology 18
2017 Graduate Achievement Award recipient Doctoral winner of UM’s Three Minute Thesis Competition challenging graduate students to explain their research in three minutes and using only one slide, Anna Katherine’s dissertation is “An Experimental Manipulation of Fear of Pain in Migraine.”...
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