Awards

Arpan Das is a third year PhD student studying Molecular Cellular and Developmental Biology (MCDB). His research focuses how genes are regulated in mammals by different non-coding RNAs. Arpan was recently awarded a Teaching Excellence Award based on his teaching philosophy and dedication to his students. We asked Arpan a...

Rachel Havranek is a fourth year PhD student studying Geological Sciences. Her research focuses on how information about the hydrologic cycle is recorded in the geologic record. Rachel was recently awarded a Teaching Excellence Award based on her teaching philosophy and dedication to her students. We asked Rachel a few...

Anthony Pinter is a fourth year PhD student studying Information Science. His research focuses on how people "do" identity online, particularly in times of identity change -- to do this, he explores how people change their social media presence(s) and activity in the midst of and after a romantic break-up...

Vincent Russel is a fourth year PhD student studying Communication. His research focuses on grassroots community efforts to advance participatory and deliberative democracy. Specifically, Vincent's research (a) emphasizes communication activism for social justice scholarship, which details how communication scholars can work collaboratively with marginalized individuals, activist groups, and community-based organizations...

Kate E. Hinshaw, MFA, recently graduated from the Cinema Studies and Moving Image Arts program. She works as a tactile filmmaker and cinematographer interested in using the cinematic gaze to render visible the interiority of the feminine. Tactily, she works with 16mm and super 8mm film through bleaching, scratching, painting,...

Bertha Alicia Bermúdez Tapia is a sixth year PhD student studying Sociology. Her research focuses on the qualitative aspects of the relationship between migration, asylum, deportation, and border lives, particularly exploring community responses to restrictive immigration policies and violence on the US Mexico Border. Bertha was recently awarded a Teaching...

Brendan Connell is a fifth year PhD student studying Political Science. His research focuses on international political economy (IPE) with an emphasis on the politics of international finance. Brendan was recently awarded a Teaching Excellence Award based on his teaching philosophy and dedication to his students. We asked Brendan a...

Sarah Schoonraad is a fourth year PhD student studying Materials Science and Engineering. Her research focuses on tissue engineering with an aim to develop materials that can be incorporated into the human body to replace tissue that has been damaged and promote regeneration. Sarah was recently awarded a Teaching Excellence...

Laura Margarita Malaver is a third year PhD student in Ethnic Studies. Their research focuses developing a praxis-oriented theory called recovecos (Spanish for nook, hidden turn, and twist) that examines subject's relation and interaction with space (nook) and time (hidden turn), while interrogating and highlighting still-forming projects of performance and...

Dustin Cook is a fourth year PhD student studying Civil Engineering. His research focuses on risk assessment methods pertaining to the seismic performance of buildings and their post-disaster functionality. Dustin was recently awarded a Teaching Excellence Award based on his teaching philosophy and dedication to his students. We asked Dustin...