Outstanding Dissertation
Jess Hamlet
Shakespeare, Race, and Adaptation in Times of Unrest, 1601-1888
Department of English
Committee Chair: Michelle Dowd
Soohyun Park
Gene by Environment Interactions on Late-Life Cognitive Functioning: Integrative Roles of Polygenic Score, Early Life Trauma, and Psychological Resilience
Department of Psychology
Committee Chair: Rebecca Allen and Giyeon Kim
Rebecca Varney
Biomineralization in the Radula of the Chiton Acanthopleura Granulata
Department of Biological Sciences
Committee Chair: Kevin Kocot
Outstanding Master’s Thesis
Sezgi Acar
The Role of Language use in Identity Construction Amongst LGBTQI+ Youtubers
Department of English
Committee Chair: Robert Poole
Musfiq Bhuiya
Accessibility of Movement Challenged Persons and their Earthquake Risk Perception
Department Geography
Committee Chair: Wanyun Shao
Barbara-Shae Jackson
The Color Line: The Influence of Race on Aesthetic Experience and its Inferred Connection to Implicit Bias
Department of Psychology
Committee Chair: Sheila Black
Outstanding Research by a Doctoral Student
Jonathan Frame
Department of Geological Sciences
Outstanding Research by a Master’s Student
Julia Loup
Department of Psychology
Outstanding Teaching by a Doctoral Student
Cassie Whitt
Department of Psychology
Outstanding Teaching by a Master’s Student
Grey Wolfe LaJoie
Department of English
Outstanding Service by a Graduate Student
Katie Lightfoot
Department Of Modern Languages and Classics