Third Annual Provost's Fellowship Award Ceremony
Since its inception in 2012, the Provost's Fellowship has allocated two million dollars of campus funding in order to award 50 graduate students a $25,000 stipend as well as remission of their tuition and fees for the year. All recipients are given this prestigious award based on their academic excellence and progressive research in their respective fields of study. The objective of the fellowship is to enhance the recipients' experience at UC Davis by giving them more opportunities to focus on their coursework and research. Moreover, the fellowship aims to bring awareness to the importance of arts, humanities and social sciences education at UC Davis and discover future graduate students who desire to excel in these areas of study at UC Davis.
The event began with a welcome from Vice Provost - Graduate Education and Dean - Graduate Studies Jeffery C. Gibeling and a speech from Provost and Executive Vice Chancellor Ralph J. Hexter. They congratulated this year's fellows on their exceptional achievements and discussed how each recipient's work demonstrates the importance of arts, humanities and social sciences education in the current STEM-oriented environment. Each fellow was honored by the dean of his or her respective college: Interim Dean Mary E. Delany, College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences; Dean Jessie Ann Owens, Division of Humanities, Arts and Cultural Studies; Dean George R. Mangun, Division of Social Sciences. To conclude the ceremony, several recipients gave student testimonials discussing their research work and how the fellowship affected their graduate studies experience at UC Davis.
2014-2015 Recipients
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Social Sciences
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Humanities, Arts & Cultural Studies
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Agricultural and Environmental Sciences
- First-Year Fellowships
Lauren Acosta, Sociology
Renzo Aroni, History
Taylor Bell, Anthropology
Rachel Boddy, Philosophy
Grace Davis, Anthropology
Samantha Felice, Sociology
Oakley Gordon, Political Science
Isaac Hale, Political Science
Hannah Kramer, Psychology
Abby Lavine, Psychology
Justin Malachowski, Anthropology
Lindsey Rein, Communication
Kenneth Sharp, History
Yilin Wang, Psychology
Alan Wong, Linguistics
Dissertation-Year Fellowships
Emily Hembacher, Psychology
Elira Kuka, Economics
Jorge Nunez Vega, Anthropology
Krysti Ryan, Sociology
Edward (Ted) Shear, Philosophy - First-Year Fellowships
Jai Apate, French
Maureen Burdock, Cultural Studies
Averyl Dietering, English
Kristin Hough, Art
Gillian Irwin, Music
Christopher Miller, Study of Religion
Nicole Peisl, Performance Studies
Robert Pierotti, Dramatic Art
Bethany Qualls, English
Kaitlin Reed, Native American Studies
Arelis Rivero Cabrera, Spanish
Monika Sierkowska, German
Tobias Smith, Cultural Studies
Magnus Thor Snaebjoernsson, Comparative Literature
Patrice Soehnlein, Design
Nicholas Talbott, Comparative Literature
Scott Tsuchitani, Cultural Studies
Dissertation-Year Fellowships
Hilary Berwick, Cultural Studies
Jordan Carroll, English
Sergio Diaz-Luna, Spanish
Myha Do, Comparative Literature
Emelie Mahdavian, Performance Studies
Lauren Nossett, German
Theresa Souza e Silva Bachmann, Spanish
Karl Zoller, Cultural Studies
- First-Year Fellowships
Elliot Johnson, Human Development
Bonnie Magnuson, Geography
Kevin Nakolan, Agricultural and Resource Economics
Dissertation-Year Fellowships
Gabriel Lade, Agricultural and Resource Economics
Hyeyong Choe, Geography