The Rackham Predoctoral Fellowship is one of the most prestigious awards granted by the Rackham Graduate School. Doctoral candidates who expect to graduate within six years since beginning their degrees are eligible to apply, and the strength and quality of their dissertation abstract, publications and presentations, and recommendations are all taken into consideration when granting this award. You can view the abstracts of the winners here.
Winners will receive a stipend over three terms, candidacy tuition, and GradCare health insurance for 2016-2017. Join us in congratulating these 82 outstanding graduate students!
Yubraj Acharya, Health Management and Policy
Maryam Arbabzadeh, Natural Resources and Environment
Maria Arredondo, Psychology
Kevin Bakker, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
Vivienne Baldassare, Astronomy and Astrophysics
Meredith Blank, Political Science
Kevin Boehnke, Environmental Health Sciences
Pablo Cabrera Ventura, Chemistry
Raymond Cavalcante, Bioinformatics
Qiushu Chen, Biomedical Engineering
Yin-Hsiu Chen, Biostatistics
Ellen Compernolle, Sociology
Natalie Davis, Educational Studies
Jeseth Delgado Vela, Environmental Engineering
Dzovinar Derderian, Near Eastern Studies
Tyler Dillstrom, Mechanical Engineering
Daniel Drucker, Philosophy
Joseph El Adli, Earth and Environmental Sciences
Harold Elliott, History
Anthony Fiorino, Mechanical Engineering
Joanne Garbincius, Molecular and Integrative Physiology
Gail Gibson, English and Education
Jillian Gross, Higher Education
Brady G'sell, Anthropology and History
Ashley Hardin, Business Administration
Leslie Hempson, History
Randeep Hothi, Asian Languages and Cultures
Amr Ibrahim, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Annemarie Iddins, Communication Studies
Donia Jarrar, Music Composition
Nan Jiang, Computer Science and Engineering
Lauren Johns, Environmental Health Sciences
Anna Johnson, Asian Languages and Cultures
Alexei Kananenka, Chemistry
Benjamin Katz, Education and Psychology
Kyle Ketchesin, Neuroscience
Dana Kornberg, Sociology
Ho Chak Law, Musicology
Benjamin Lawson, Physics
Doowon Lee, Computer Science and Engineering
Jhansi Leslie, Microbiology and Immunology
Jake Levinson, Mathematics
Shasha Li Medicinal, Chemistry
Wen-Chi Lin, Chemical Engineering
Xu Liu, Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology
Geoffrey Lorenz, Political Science
Sara Meerow, Natural Resources and Environment
Megan Michalski, Oral Health Sciences
Kaitlin Moore, Applied Physics
Orquidea Morales, American Culture
Alex Nett, Chemistry
Yashar Niknafs, Cellular and Molecular Biology
Cyrus O'Brien, Anthropology and History
Lukasz Ochyl, Pharmaceutical Sciences
Alan Olvera, Materials Science and Engineering
Joon Ha Park, Statistics
Amy Pistone, Classical Studies
William Runyan, Comparative Literature
Leigh S. Saris, Anthropology
Brian Segal, Biostatistics
Wendy Sepponen, History of Art
Apoorv Shanker, Macromolecular Science and Engineering
Yue Shao, Mechanical Engineering
Diana Carolina Sierra Becerra, History and Women's Studies
Kyera Singleton, American Culture
Helena Skorovsky, Romance Languages and Literatures
Matthew Spellings, Chemical Engineering
Ethan Sperry, Human Genetics
Andréa Thomaz, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
Joshua Logan Wall, English Language and Literature
Brandan Walters, Biomedical Engineering
Amy Westmoreland, Psychology
Josh Wondra, Psychology
Amanda Wong, Immunology
Adrienne Woods, Education and Psychology
Carrie Wenjing Xu, Information and Economics
Xiang Yin, Electrical Engineering: Systems
Rachel Young, Applied Physics
Zhen Zhao, Nuclear Engineering and Radiological Sciences
Junxing Zheng, Civil Engineering
Zhengting Zou, Bioinformatics
Weizhong Zou, Chemical Engineering