Midwestern Association of Graduate Schools (MAGS) annually solicits for nominations for the MAGS Distinguished Master’s Thesis Awards to recognize and reward distinguished scholarship and research at the master’s level.
Biological Sciences
Miles Corcoran
Environmental and Energy Policy
Amanda Kreuze
Biomedical Engineering
Ameya Narkar
The Graduate School is pleased to announce the awarding of the Portage Health Foundation Graduate Assistantships to provide support to PhD candidates. These assistantships are available through the generosity of the Portage Health Foundation. They are intended to recognize outstanding PhD talent in health-oriented research areas.
Biological Sciences
Robert Larson
Chemistry
Ni Fan
Chemical Engineering
Maryam Khaksari
Biological Sciences
Ida Fonkoue
Biomedical Engineering
Zichen Qian
Chemical Engineering
Sanaz Habibi
Chemistry
Shahien Shahsavarri
The Graduate School is pleased to announce the 2014 awarding of the Graduate Education for Minorities (GEM) Fellowship. GEM provides a large network, financial support, and expert knowledge to help ensure student success in competitive academic and professional environments.
Christina Welch
Mechanical Engineering-Engineering Mechanics
Abayomi Famuyiwa
The King-Chávez-Parks Future Faculty Fellowship Program is to increase the pool of traditionally underrepresented candidates pursuing faculty teaching careers in post-secondary education.
Rhetoric, Theory and Culture
Sara Potter
Data Science
Karen Colbert
Environmental and Energy Policy
Marie Richards
Geology
Christine Torres Rosa
Applied Cognitive Science and Human Factors
Amber Kemppainen
Biological Sciences
Ida Fonkoue
Forest Science
Joanna Rogers
The Graduate School is pleased to announce the awarding of two DeVlieg Foundation Fellowships. The DeVlieg Foundation supports graduate students pursuing research in engineering, wildlife, and biology at Michigan Tech.
Forest Science
Kelsey Carter is interested in plant physiological responses to climate warming. Her work was with a novel leaf-warming apparatus, which was developed in collaboration with Michigan Tech’s School of Forestry and Environmental Science and the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering. The leaf-warming apparatus will have broad field and laboratory applications in predicting the effects of climate change on plant communities.
Physics
Tyler Capek studies how radiation interacts with aerosols in the atmosphere. His work focuses on developing instrumentation that characterizes the optical properties of various aerosols to study how the optical properties of aerosol (such as lab generated soot) change as a result of cloud processing. This work will allowing for a better understanding on the effect aerosols have on Earth’s radiative budget.
Mentoring and network building will be addressed in the next Professional Development series from the Graduate School.