Announcing the 2026-2027 Rackham Predoctoral Fellowship Awards

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

• Babli Adhikary (Barbour Scholar), Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology
• Julianne Armijo, Nursing
• Elysia Chou, Bioinformatics
• Princess Felix, Neuroscience
• Jianxing Guan (Barbour Scholar), Environment and Sustainability
• Adam Hafner, Microbiology and Immunology
• Noah Helton, Genetics and Genomics
• Belle Henry, Immunology
• Mohamad Ismail (Roblin Fellow), Clinical Pharmacy Translational Science
• Haley Jenkins, Environmental Health Sciences
• Huseyin Karaburk, Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology
• Lara Khalifeh, Clinical Pharmacy Translational Science
• Divya Kolli, Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology
• Katy Krupinsky, Microbiology and Immunology
• Bhaskar Kumawat, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
• Xiang Liu, Pharmaceutical Sciences
• Timothy Muhich, Environment and Sustainability
• Youngseo Na, Medicinal Chemistry
• Jennifer Nguyen, Medicinal Chemistry
• Malcolm Risk, Biostatistics
• Nicholas Rossiter, Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology
• Minli Ruan, Biological Chemistry
• Jennifer Russ, Biological Chemistry
• Abrianna Soule, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
• Jade Yangyupei Yang, Epidemiological Science
• Yuezhong Zhang (Barbour Scholar), Molecular and Integrative Physiology
• Yifan Zheng, Clinical Pharmacy Translational Science

Humanities and the Arts

• Olawale Akingbade, Linguistics
• Henry Chen, American Culture
• Tomi Drucker, Comparative Literature
• Briand “Brinni” Gentry, Film, Television, and Media
• Ryan Hoaglund, Slavic Languages and Literatures
• Kelly Hoppenjans, Music (Academic): Musicology
• Patricia Jewell, English and Women’s and Gender Studies
• Egor Korneev, Middle East Studies
• Ginevra Miglierina, Ancient Mediterranean Art and Archaeology
• Jungyun Seo, Linguistics
• Laura Stahl, Germanic Languages and Literatures
• Margot Witte (Lipschutz Fellow), Philosophy

Physical Sciences and Engineering

• Maxfield Arnson, Aerospace Engineering
• Mohammad Asadi Tokmedash, Chemical Engineering
• Bobo Bai, Earth and Environmental Sciences
• Angana Borah, Computer Science and Engineering
• Ruei-Che Chang, Computer Science and Engineering
• Samuel Chen, Mechanical Engineering
• Yunfan Chen, Earth and Environmental Science
• Jae-Won Chung, Computer Science and Engineering
• Evan Deddo, Physics
• Evangelos Dikopoulos, Electrical and Computer Engineering
• Julia Donovan, Chemistry
• Juan-Alberto Estrada-Garcia, Industrial and Operations Engineering
• Arkajit Ghosh, Materials Science and Engineering
• Fernando Gomez, Chemistry
• Ehsan Hafeziasl, Electrical and Computer Engineering
• Min-Chun Han (Barbour Scholar), Civil Engineering
• Yiling Huang, Statistics
• Chuqi Huang (Barbour Scholar), Materials Science and Engineering
• Owen Hughes, Climate and Space Sciences and Engineering
• Yuefeng Jin, Mechanical Engineering
• Renisha Karki (Barbour Scholar), Civil Engineering
• Sally Keating, Earth and Environmental Sciences
• Taeho Kim, Environmental Engineering
• Gladwin Bryan Labrague, Chemistry
• Jiaqi Lu, Earth and Environmental Sciences
• Matthew Manion, Chemical Engineering
• Cayenne Matt, Astronomy and Astrophysics
• Ruo-Syuan Mei, Mechanical Engineering
• Lisa Nguyen, Applied Physics
• Yuyang Pan, Electrical and Computer Engineering
• Kanishka Panda, Mechanical Engineering
• Rebecca Pereles, Biomedical Engineering
• Sabrina Reich, Chemistry
• Alexander Rodriguez, Astronomy and Astrophysics
• Avinava Roy, Materials Science and Engineering
• E. Schwartz, Climate and Space Sciences and Engineering
• Saket Shah, Mathematics
• Elizabeth Strehl, Engineering Education Research
• Wonjoon Suk, Materials Science and Engineering
• Henry Thurber, Macromolecular Science and Engineering
• Katharine Walters, Robotics
• Haozheng Wang, Naval Architecture and Marine Engineering
• Ying Wang, Mathematics
• Sydney Wheeler, Biomedical Engineering
• Jingyi Xia, Biomedical Engineering
• Gunwoo Yong, Civil Engineering
• Anna Yue Yu (Barbour Scholar), Environment and Sustainability
• Jennifer Zamudio, Industrial and Operations Engineering
• Huijie Zhang, Electrical and Computer Engineering
• Weizhe Zhang, Physics
• Qining Zhang, Electrical and Computer Engineering

Social and Behavioral Sciences

• Shanley Corvite, Information
• Laurel Detert, Management and Organization
• Kelcie Ferrara-Gerson, Public Policy and Economics
• Audrey Halversen, Communication and Media
• Soobin Jeon, Educational Studies
• Rachel Kulikoff, Health Services Organization and Policy
• McKensey Miller, Anthropology
• Micaela Rodriguez (Roblin Fellow), Psychology
• Lanika Sanders, Urban and Regional Planning
• Lonjezo Sithole, Economics
• Olivia Stowell, Communication and Media
• Huiran Yi, Information
• Chenjun Yu, Higher Education
• Chendi Zhao, Survey and Data Science
• Jun Zhou (Roblin Fellow), Sociology

University of Michigan – Dearborn

• Duha Alkurdi, Industrial and Systems Engineering
• Yuhui Wang, Electrical, Electronics, and Computer Engineering