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Michael H. Granof Awards for Excellence in Graduate Education
Dr. Michael Granof Chairman - 2001-Present
Ernst & Young Distinguished
Centennial Professor of
Accounting, PHD
The University Co-op and the Graduate School extend hearty congratulations to all of this year's award winners. Their achievements are an extension of a long and rich heritage of excellence in graduate education at The University of Texas at Austin. They make us proud, and they set the standard for all who follow. We wish them the best in their future endeavors and look forward to hearing about their accomplishments. Congratulations to our award winners!
Information and Nomination Forms
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The Graduate School and the University Co-op hosted the awards presentation on May 18 at The Four Seasons Hotel. The University Co-op provides the funding that makes these awards possible.
AUSTIN, Texas - Millidhashni Reddy, a College of Pharmacy doctoral candidate at The University of Texas at Austin, has won the $10,000 Michael H. Granof Outstanding Graduate Student Award at the Graduate School/University Co-op Awards for Excellence in Graduate Education.
The Excellence in Graduate Education Awards recognize and reward outstanding graduate students for distinguished scholarship, research, writing and teaching.
Reddy, a Fulbright scholar, is completing her dissertation, which assesses cost of care and health outcomes in patients with HIV and drug-resistant tuberculosis in South Africa. The topic grew from her clinical experiences in South Africa and England, and results could affect how these patients receive treatment in the future. She is working with the World Health Organization to create a model to analyze the global data they collect.
In 2009, Reddy received an Outstanding Commitment award from the Clinton Global Initiative (CGI). With funding from the CGI and the Pat Tillman Foundation she built and stocked a library called Peo's Place that brings literature, reference books, computers and continuing education to the KwaZulu Natal Midlands in South Africa.
Reddy plans to graduate in August 2011.
Outstanding Dissertation Award
The Outstanding Dissertation Award recognizes exceptional work by doctoral students. Three awards of $4,000 each were presented to: Ian Ulysses Roederer, Astronomy; Reagan R. Wetherill, Psychology; and Naminata Diabate, Comparative Literature.
Ian Ulysses Roederer, Astronomy From Heavy Atoms to the Outer Galaxy: Characterizing the Chemistry of the Milky Way Halo.
Dissertation supervisor: Christopher Sneden.
Reagan R. Wetheril, Psychology-Clinical Alcohol-induced Fragmentary Blackouts: Associated Memory Processes and Neural Corralates.
Dissertation supervisor: Richard Meier, Department of Linguistics, College of Liberal Arts.
Naminata Diabate, Comparative Literature Genital Power: Female Sexuality in African Literature and Film.
Dissertation supervisors: Lisa L. Moore and Neville W. Hoad.
Outstanding Thesis/Report Award
The Outstanding Thesis/Report Award recognizes exceptional work by a master's student. An award of $2,000 was presented to Emmanouil Chatzopoulos from Astronomy.
Emmanouil Chatzopoulos, Astronomy Discovery, Observations and Theory of Over Luminous Supernovae and Peculiar Transients.
Thesis supervisor: John Craig Wheeler.
Excellence in Graduate Research Award
The Award for Excellence in Graduate Research recognizes outstanding research that is substantially in progress. Three awards of $2,000 each were presented to: William Liechty, Chemical Engineering; Sharon Adams, Geography; and Rebecca Onion, American Studies.
Sharon W. Adams, Geography Encountering El Tigre: Jaguars and People in the United States, 1800-2010.
Supervising professor: Leo Zonn.
William B. Liechty, Chemical Engineering Nanoscale Hydrogels for Oral Delivery of Small Interfering RNA.
Supervising professor: Nicholas Peppas.
Rebecca Onion, American Studies Science, Technology, and the Culture of American Childhood, 1890-1970.
Supervising professors: Julia Mickenberg and Janet M. Davis.
William S. Livingston Outstanding Graduate Student Academic Employee Award
The William S. Livingston Outstanding Graduate Student Academic Employee Award recognizes an outstanding teaching assistant, assistant instructor and graduate research assistant. Three awards of $2,000 each were presented to Zeina Halabi, Middle Eastern Studies, for Outstanding Assistant Instructor; Ashley O'Connell, Section of Integrative Biology, for Outstanding Graduate Research Assistant; and Matthew Haley, Physics, for Outstanding Teaching Assistant.
Zeina G. Halabi, Assistant Instructor, Middle Eastern Studies. Supervising faculty member: Kristen Brustad.
Matthew Haley Teaching Assistant, Physics. Supervising faculty member: Charles B. Chiu.
Ashley L. O'Connell, Graduate Research Assistant, Section of Integrative Biology. Supervising faculty member: Hans A. Hofmann.
The Graduate School and the University Co-op hosted the awards presentation on May 18 at The Four Seasons Hotel. The University Co-op provides the funding that makes these awards possible.
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