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Council of Graduate Schools Recognizes Three UConn Graduate Alumni for Contributions to the Public Good

Three University of Connecticut graduate alumni are included among the 300 highly selected and prestigious representatives from across the U.S. in a publication just released (April 2008) by the Council of Graduate Schools --"Making a Difference: A Selection of Graduate Degree Holders and their Contributions to the Public Good". [Full Article]

Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship Program: May 2008 Competition

The Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship Program is now accepting applications for the Spring 2008 competition. The deadline submission is May 31, 2008. [Announcement]

Graduate Course Renumbering

During the 2007-2008 academic year we will be renumbering the graduate courses, moving from a 3-digit catalog number to a 4-digit catalog number. The default numbering scheme is to simply add a 5 in front of all 300-level courses and a 6 in front of all 400-level classes. Many programs are taking the opportunity to reorder their courses into a more logical sequence. The Excel spreadsheet containing the final changes is here (812 KB). If you need to make any changes or corrections, please contact Jim Henkel.

Graduate Student Accolades

MPA student Barbara Rua was awarded the 2008 Government Finance Officers Association (GFOA) Daniel B. Goldberg Scholarship The Goldberg Scholarship recognizes outstanding performance of graduate students preparing for a career in state and local finance. The award carries a $10,000 prize. Barbara will receive her award at the annual GFOA conference in Fort Lauderdale, Florida in June, 2008.

Dawn Carone, a Ph.D. candidate in Genetics and Bioinformatics working in the lab of Prof. Rachel O’Neill (MCB) was recently awarded a prestigious fellowship from the National Science Foundation’s East Asia and Pacific Summer Institutes (EAPSI ) for her work on marsupial small RNAs. This year, only 20 awards (from over 530) were granted to Australia and Dawn was the only molecular biology recipient in the US. For more information about this award: http://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2003/nsf03608/nsf03608.htm

Trina Bayard, a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, has been awarded a 2008 Chapman Grant from the American Museum of Natural History's Frank M. Chapman Memorial Fund. The grant, named for a long-term Chairman of the Department of Ornithology at the Museum, will support Trina's field research on the behavioral ecology and conservation of saltmarsh sharp-tailed sparrows in coastal Connecticut. For more information on this award: http://research.amnh.org/ornithology/grants.htm

Angie Beeman, Graduate Student and PhD candidate from the Sociology department, won the Racial/Ethnic Minority Graduate Scholarship given by the Society for the Study of Social Problems (SSSP). The scholarship is for $10,000 and also provides an additional $500 to attend the annual meeting of the SSSP.

Julie Richmond, a graduate student from Animal Science, received a monetary award for winning an oral presentation competition that took place on May 7, 2007 at the International Association of Aquatic Animal Medicine. The topic of her presentation was "Somatotropic Axis in Rehabilitated Harbor Seals: Hormones Associated with Nutrient Utilization and Growth.

Nanci Ross, a Graduate Student from Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, has been awarded the 2007 Richard E. Schultes Award for her research proposal. The Richard E. Schultes student research award is intended to help defray the costs of field work on a topic related to economic botany. Recipients are expected to submit a manuscript based upon their proposed research for publication in Economic Botany (the official journal of the society). Ms. Ross is a graduate student working with Greg Anderson.

Amanda Wendt, a doctoral student from Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, will be receiving a grant for $1500 from the Organization for Tropical Studies to support her proposed research on "Roosting behavior, foraging behavior, and seed dispersal by frugivorous phyllostomid bats in secondary forests at La Selva Biological Station."

Amanda Snook, a first year graduate student in the Psychology Department, was awarded a three-year National Science Foundation doctoral fellowship. Ms. Snook studies forgiveness in close relationships. Her advisor is Professor David A. Kenny.

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