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Office of Graduate Education Announces New Fellowship Recipients

The Office of Graduate Education announces the new fellowship recipients for 2016-17. The Office supports fellows in three categories — Dissertation, Diversity and Presidential. Each fellowship carries a stipend, tuition and health insurance.

Graduate fellows

Fellows (left to right): First row – Pedro Ruiz, Ashlei Peterson, Katheryn Sheldon, Edward Holt; second row – Caleb Bobo, Idolina Hernandez; third row – Emily Kalaf, Robert Wood, Ph.D. (associate provost of academic affairs), Dominique Lockett. Not pictured – Mark Grzovic, Ryan VanPatten, Sara Baumann.

Fellows are selected through a competitive process that begins with a nomination by the major department and concludes with a review by a faculty selection committee.

Fellows and their programs are:

Dissertation

Diversity

Presidential

Dissertation fellows receive a year of support to assist in completion of the dissertation without other responsibilities. Diversity and Presidential fellows are supported for two years for master’s degrees and four years for doctoral degrees. Students who begin in a master’s program and move to a doctoral program are eligible for four years of total funding. Presidential and Diversity fellows may serve as graduate assistants as part of their fellowships and all fellows are required to perform some type of service to the Office of Graduate Education or the greater University.

Continuing fellows during the 2016-17 academic year are:

Diversity

Presidential