ProQuest Distinguished Dissertation Award Winners.
Distinguished Dissertation Awards Winners of the Distinguished Dissertation Award were honored at an April 29 ceremony. The winners are: (front row) Shannon Dawdy, Feng Shao and Andrea Seri; (back row) Victor Perlin, Julie Zimmerman, Gregory Burton and Jeremy Hartnett.
The Ward J. MacNeal Educational and Scientific Memorial Trust Distinguished Dissertation Award for University of Michigan Microbiology and Immunology Graduates This award honors Ward J. MacNeal (A.B. 1901, Ph.D 1904, M.D. 1905, Honorary Sc.D. 1939).
Distinguished Dissertation Awards The ProQuest Distinguished Dissertation Award recipients are: Front row, from left, Lauren Cline, natural resources and environment; Konstantina Karageorgos, English language and literature; Bai Song, mechanical engineering.
Michael Erik Myatt Distinguished Dissertation Award. Call for Nominations Named after Michael Erik Myatt, who conceived UMInDS and worked tirelessly to establish it, the Distinguished Dissertation Award in Disability Studies is given annually in recognition of exceptional work by terminal degree (PhD and MFA) students in the field of Disability Studies.
The 2014 ProQuest Distinguished Dissertation Award recipients are: Front row, from left: David Lai, biomedical engineering; Kai Mao, molecular, cellular and developmental biology; Weiqiang Chen, mechanical engineering; Ronit Stahl, history; Yi-Chin Wu, electrical engineering and computer science.
The Department of Astronomy is excited to share the news that Dr. Juliette Becker (U-M Astronomy Ph.D. 2019) has been selected as the recipient of a ProQuest Distinguished Dissertation Award.
April 29 event Distinguished Dissertation Awards. The Horace H. Rackham School of Graduate Studies, Society of Fellows, and ProQuest Information and Learning will host the annual Distinguished Dissertation Awards ceremony 2-4 p.m. April 29 in the Assembly Hall of the Rackham Building.
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Weiqiang Chen - ProQuest Distinguished Dissertation Award, which is given in recognition of the most exceptional scholarly work produced by doctoral students at the University of Michigan. Yue Shao - Ivor K. McIvor Award, which is presented to senior graduate students in the UM College of Engineering who have demonstrated excellence in research and scholarship in applied mechanics.
The nomination dossiers submitted are then read and discussed by a review panel of faculty members who identify the finalists. Members of the Michigan Society of Fellows read the finalists’ dissertations, review the merits, and select the winners. We recognize these exceptional dissertations with the ProQuest Distinguished Dissertation Awards.
The ProQuest Distinguished Dissertation Award recognizes exceptional and unusually interesting work produced by doctoral students from the Rackham School of Graduate Studies. Kevin was a doctoral student in Anish Tuteja’s group and is currently an an assistant professor at the Okanagan campus of the University of British Columbia.
Read more about Vitali Selected for Honorable Mention of the ProQuest Distinguished Dissertation Awards Rachel Vitali was co-advised by Prof. Noel Perkins (ME) and Prof. Cindy Finelli (EECS) on a dissertation that sought to advance inertial measurement unit (IMU) technology in two distinctly different areas of research: human biomechanics and engineering education.
The ProQuest Distinguished Dissertation Awards are given out each year to recognize highly accomplished graduate students who have produced outstanding dissertations of the highest scholarly quality in any field of study. For 2018 there were 10 awards given and one was to ME Post-Doctoral Research Fellow, Dakotah Thompson.
Event: Distinguished Dissertation Awards, April 24 The Horace H. Rackham School of Graduate Studies, U-M Society of Fellows, and ProQuest Information and Learning invite the University community to attend the annual Distinguished Dissertation Awards ceremony and reception 2-4 p.m. April 24 in the Michigan League's Vandenberg Room.
News and Events. Kurt Lundeen successfully defended his Ph.D. dissertation in February 2019. Professor Kamat’s co-authored paper was awarded the 2018 Collingwood Prize by the ASCE. Professor Kamat awarded the 2017 Distinguished Professor Award by the Construction Industry Institute LIVE awarded Best Paper Award at the 2016 International Symposium on Automation and Robotics in Construction.
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