Home About News Announcing the 2022-2023 Rackham Predoctoral Fellowship Awards Announcing the 2022-2023 Rackham Predoctoral Fellowship Awards The Rackham Predoctoral Fellowship supports outstanding doctoral candidates working on dissertations that are unusually creative, ambitious and impactful. April 22, 2022 | Rackham Graduate School Categories: News The Rackham Predoctoral Fellowship is one of the most prestigious awards granted by 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. Read the abstracts of the awardees. Congratulations to all of this year’s predoctoral fellows: Biological and Health Sciences Maria Ahmed, Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology Nolan Carney, Chemical Biology Elizabeth Chase, Biostatistics Daniel Doyle, Neuroscience Shannon Estadt, Immunology Hye Jee (Lily) Hahn, Cell and Developmental Biology Lauren Hein, Cancer Biology Sophie Hill, Neuroscience Fatema Shafie Khorassani, Biostatistics Kelsey Kochan, Pharmacology Emily Laub, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Emily Makowski, Pharmaceutical Sciences Gabriel Manske, Cellular and Molecular Biology Jessy Martinez, Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology Teresa Pegan, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Kazandra Rodriguez, Movement Science Calli VanderWilde, Environment and Sustainability Physical Sciences and Engineering Mojtaba Abdolmaleki, Civil Engineering Harsh Agarwal, Chemical Engineering Touheed Anwar Atif, Electrical and Computer Engineering Hayley Beltz, Astronomy and Astrophysics Ryan Cardman, Physics Seokhyun Chung, Industrial and Operations Engineering Madelyn Cook, Earth and Environmental Sciences Matthew de Furio, Astronomy and Astrophysics Changyu Deng, Mechanical Engineering Bradley Dirks, Mathematics Nazanin Farjam, Mechanical Engineering Siying Feng, Computer Science and Engineering Lloyd Fisher, Jr., Chemistry Vishwas Goel, Materials Science and Engineering Duncan Greeley, Materials Science and Engineering Wen Guo, Chemistry Yaohui Guo, Industrial and Operations Engineering Huanqi He, Environmental Engineering Aidan Herderschee, Physics Kwanghwi Je, Chemical Engineering Zhe Jian, Electrical and Computer Engineering Minjun Jin, Biophysics Gurcharan Kaur, Biomedical Engineering Syanatan Khan, Mathematics Tanvir Ahmed Khan, Computer Science and Engineering Virginia Larson, Chemistry Christina Lee, Biomedical Engineering Julia Lenef, Materials Science and Engineering Kaiwen Liu, Aerospace Engineering Meichen Liu, Earth and Environmental Science Xiangpeng Luo, Physics Peter MacDonald, Statistics Larissa Markwardt, Astronomy and Astrophysics Sean McSherry, Chemical Engineering Cameron Pratt, Astronomy and Astrophysics Alireza Ramyar, Electrical and Computer Engineering Agnes Resto, Mechanical Engineering Gurmeet Singh, Aerospace Engineering Anna Stuhlmacher, Electrical and Computer Engineering Suk Hyun Sung, Materials Science and Engineering Tessa Swanson, Industrial and Operations Engineering Michael Wadas, Mechanical Engineering Logan Walker, Biophysics Yueqiao Wu, Mathematics Ziping Xu, Statistics Colleen Yancey, Earth and Environmental Sciences Cheng Yang, Chemistry Troy Zehnder, Chemistry Jennifer Zupancic, Chemical Engineering Social Sciences Timothy Berke, Urban and Regional Planning Erin Cikanek, Political Science Ellen Kim DeLuca, Health Services Organization and Policy Megha Ghosh, Psychology Miriam Gleckman-Krut, Sociology Paola Andrea Guerrero Rosada, Education and Psychology David Helps, History Christine Hwang, Urban and Regional Planning 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