Dean's Award for Graduate Research Excellence Cohorts

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Dean's Award for Graduate Research Excellence Cohorts

2025 Nominees

Winner

Merve Ileri-Tayar / Psychological & Brain Sciences

 

Finalists

Annie Jarman / Political Science

Gabrielle Adams / Earth, Environmental, and Planetary Sciences

Héctor Pineda Cupa / Romance Languages & Literatures

Ruotian (Reginald) Gong / Physics

 

Semifinalists

Alexander Wentzell / Psychological & Brain Sciences

Bayla Kamens / Classics

Christina Smiley / Music

Chun Huang / Physics

Collin Merrick / Chemistry

Kim Lacey / History

Laura Evers / English

Lauren Wiseman-Jones / Anthropology

Weiye (Rex) Deng / Political Science

Past Nominees

2024

Winner

Wesley Wagner / Chemistry

 

Finalists

Jey Sushil Jha / Comparative Literature and Thought

Kristin Emanuel / English

Gabriel Siegel / Philosophy

Jhan Salazar / Biology

Jack Berner / Anthropology

Sarah Paul / Psychological & Brain Sciences

 

Semifinalists

Sylvia Sukop / Comparative Literature and Thought (German PhD)

Jessica King / Music

Aidan Schneider / Biology

Takuya Okawa / Physics

Gechun Lin / Political Science

 

2023

 

Winner

 

Finalists

Taylor Damann / Department of Political Science

Xiaojin Jin Ma / Department of Psychological & Brain Sciences

Nicole Rodriguez Cavero / Department of Physics

Rodrigo Viqueira / Hispanic Studies

 

Semifinalists

Chukwuebuka Ibeh / Department of English

Ann Marie Jakubowski / Department of English

Dain Lee / Department of Economics

Guanghui He / Department of Physics

Aryeh Miller / Department of Biology

Shruti Santosh / Philosophy-Neuroscience-Psychology Program

 

2022

Winner

Benjamin Noble / Department of Political Science

 

Finalists

Ryan Calcutt / Department of Biology

Alex Mouw / Department of English

Judith Carlisle / Philosophy-Neuroscience-Psychology

Seth Grooms and Grace Ward / Department of Anthropology

Jinping Yang / Department of Chemistry

 

Semifinalists

Kari Miller / Department of Biology

John Christian / Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences

Graham Renz / Department of Philosophy

Garrett King / Department of Physics

Madelyn Frumkin / Department of Psychological & Brain Sciences

Jennifer Crawford / Department of Psychological & Brain Science

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