The Graduate College is pleased to announce the recipients of the prestigious Marshall Foundation Dissertation Fellowship and the Dr. Maria Teresa Velez Marshall Dissertation Scholarship for final-phase dissertation support. In addition to a stipend from the Louise F. Marshall Foundation and the Graduate College, each student will receive student health insurance for the term of the award and a Graduate Tution Scholarships for up to 2 semesters.
Spring 2021 Marshall Foundation Dissertation Fellowship recipients:
- Tamee Albrecht, Geography – “Water Governance in Transboundary Arid Regions: Coordinating across Jurisdictions and Resource Sectors”
- David Knoff, Biomedical Engineering – “Artificial Protein Biopolymer Design to Mimic Protein Nano-mechanics at the Macroscale for Cardiovascular Biomaterials”
- Cesar Medina, Neuroscience – “Vocal Deficits in an Alpha-Synuclein Overexpression Model of Parkinson's Disease”
- Khalid Omer, Optical Sciences – “Deep Learning for Polarization Imaging”
- Roberta Tayah, Language, Reading & Culture – ”Family Stories: How Homes and Schools Influence and Navigate Career Pathway for Navajo High School Students”
- Norma Nohemi Villagómez-Márquez, Environmental Science – “Chemicals of Emerging Concern Measured in Roof-Harvested Rainwater from Rural and Urban Communities in Arizona”
- Rebekah Waller, Biosystems Engineering – “Food + Energy: The Integration of Greenhouse Crop Production Systems with Organic Photovoltaics”
Spring 2021 Dr. Maria Teresa Velez - Marshall Foundation Dissertation Scholarship recipient:
- Diana Zamora-Reyes, Hydrology – “Enhanced Hydroclimatic Variability in the Southwestern US”
