Congratulations!      The  Graduate  School  and  the  Division  of  Biology  &  Medicine  are  pleased  to  co-­‐sponsor  this  reception  celebrating  student  

success,  primarily  in  the  area  of  external  funding.  

  Peter  Weber      Dean  of  the  Graduate  School  

  Jabbar  Bennett    Associate  Dean  for  Recruiting  and  

Professional  Development  

  James  Campbell    Associate  Dean  for  Student  Life  

  John  Tyler    Associate  Dean  for  Academic  Affairs  

  Brian  Walton    Associate  Dean  for  Administration  and  

Program  Development  

  Edward  Wing    Dean  of  Medicine  &  Biological  Sciences  

  Lindsay  Graham    Executive  Dean  for  Administration  

  Edward  Hawrot    Associate  Dean  for  Biology  

  Elizabeth  Harrington    Associate  Dean  for  Graduate  &  Postdoctoral  

Studies  

  Terrie  Fox  Wetle    Associate  Dean  for  Public  Health  and  Public  

Policy  

Brown  Graduate  Students  

World  Class?  Yes.    

Cutthroat?  No.  

Anthropology         Nicholas  Carter  

  Dumbarton  Oaks  Fellowship  

  Susan  Ellison    Jacob  Javits  Award    Joukowsky  Outstanding  

Dissertation  Award  

 Brian  Horton    NSF  Graduate  Fellowship    IGERT  Award  

 Alexander  Jones    IGERT  Award  

 Karen  Jorge    IGERT  Award  

 Kimberly  Lewis    NSF  Graduate  Fellowship  

  Katharine  Marsh    Mellon  Award  

Anthropology         Chelsea  Cormier  McSwiggin    NSF  Award  

 Bryan  Moorefield    NICHD  Fellow  

 Sarah  Newman    Fulbright  Award    NSF  Doctoral  Dissertation  

Grant  

 Mohamed  Yunus  Rafiq    Jacob  Javits  Award  

 Derek  Sheridan    IGERT  Award  

APPLIED  MATHEMATICS   Seonmin  Ahn  

  Samsung  Foundation  of  Culture  Scholarship  

 Carey  Caginalp    NSF  Graduate  Fellowship  

 Manuel  Sanchez-­‐Uribe    CONICYT  Award  –  National  

Commission  for  Scientific  &  Technological  Research  -­‐  Chile  

 Alexandra  Volkening    NSF  Graduate  Fellowship  

Biomedical  Engineering  

 Molly  Boutin    NSF  Graduate  Fellowship  

 Cristina  Lopez-­‐Fagundo    NSF  Graduate  Fellowship  

 Bryan  Sutermaster      Sidney  E.  Frank  Graduate  Fellowship  in  Biology  &  Medicine  Award  

Chemistry  

 Hongwei  Xu    Vince  Wernig  Fellowship  

Classics   Perot  Bissell  

  Fulbright  Award  

  Jennifer  Swalec    Virginia  Grace  Fellowship  for  

Study  at  American  School  of  Classics  in  Athens  

Cogni>ve  Linguis>c  and  Psychological  Sciences   Ryan  Miller  

  NSF  Graduate  Fellowship  

 Claire  Paulson    NSF  Graduate  Fellowship  

 Kevin  Rio    Link  Foundation  Fellowship  

  Jason  Scimeca    Presidential  Award  for  Excellence  in  Teaching        

Ecology  &  Evolu>onary  Biology   Henry  Astley  

  John  G.  Peterson  Fellowship  Award  

 Ryan  Carney      NSF  Graduate  Fellowship  

  Sarah  Corman    NOAA  Fellowship  

 Rachel  Nagy    EPA  Fellowship  

 Christopher  Graves    Frederick  Poole  Gorham  Biological  Fellow  

Award  

  Lillian  Hancock    Oliver  Cromwell  Gorton  Arnold  Biological  

Fellowship  

 Catherine  Luria    Professor  Jack  L.  Strominger  Award  

Engineering  

 Susan  Herringer    NSF  Graduate  Fellowship  

 Lindsay  Kuhn    NSF  GK-­‐12  Award  

 David  A.  Stout    NSF  Graduate  Fellowship  

English                                     Andrea  Actis  

  Social  Sciences  and  Humanities  Research  Council  of  Canada  Fellowship  

  Jeffrey  Neilson    John  Cargill  MacMillan  Graduate  Fellowship  

  Ian  Sampson    Social  Sciences  and  Humanities  Research  Council  of  Canada  Fellowship  

 Stephanie  Tilden    Albert  M.  Greenfield  Foundation  Dissertation  Fellowship  

Epidemiology   Kipruto  Kirwa  

  Fogarty  Fellowship  

Geological  Sciences   Kevin  Cannon    

  Natural  Sciences  &  Engineering  Research  Council  of  Canada  Fellowship  

 Nicholas  Dygert      NASA  Space  Grant  Fellowship  

 Timothy  Goudge    Natural  Sciences  &  Engineering  Research  

Council  of  Canada  Fellowship  

 Hillary  O’Brien    NASA  Space  Grant  Fellowship  

Geological  Sciences   Mary  Peterson  

 NSF  Graduate  Fellowship    Jeffrey  Salacup  

  EPA  Fellowship   Kathleen  Scanlon  

 NASA  Fellowship   Megan  Syal  

 NASA  Fellowship  

Health  Services  Research   Emily  Li  

  Community  Health  Fellowship  Award  

Perilous  pills  Prescribing  rates  of  high-­‐risk  medications  for  seniors  on  Medicare  Advantage  plans  were  highest  in  the  South,  lowest  in  New  England.  The  map  shows  the  percentage  of  seniors  who  received  one  or  more  high-­‐risk  medications.  (Click  to  enlarge)  Credit:  Danya  Qato/Brown  University    

History   Zachary  Dorner  

  Institute  of  Historical  Research,  Mellon  Dissertation  Fellowship  

 Zoe  Griffith    Fulbright-­‐Hays  Doctoral  Dissertation  Research  

Abroad  Fellowship  

 Benjamin  Holtzman    Mellon  Fellowship  for  Dissertation  Research  in  

Original  Sources  

History   Liise  Lehtsalu  

  Eugene  L.  Cox  Fellowship,  Wheaton  College  

 Adam  J.  Sacks    Fellowship  in  Advanced  Shoah  Studies  

 Lindsay  Schakenbach    John  E.  Rovensky  Fellowship  in  US  Business  or  Economic  History  

  Jennifer  Wells    Huntington  Library  Fellowship    London  –  Mellon  Foundation  Fellowship,  Institute  of  Historical  Research  

History  of  Art  &  Architecture  

 Mazie  Harris    Terra  Foundation  for  American  Art  Award  

 Ruth  Lo    Donald  and  Maria  Cox  Pre-­‐doctoral  Rome  Prize  (The  American  Academy  in  Rome)  

Joukowsky  Ins>tute  of  Archaeology  and  the  Ancient  World   Emanuela  Bocancea  

  Social  Sciences  and  Humanities  Research  Council  of  Canada  Doctoral  Fellowship  

 Sarah  Craft    Koç  University  Research  Center  for  

Anatolian  Civilizations  Junior  Fellowship  

 Pinar  Durgun    Fulbright  Fellowship  

 Katherine  Harrington    Lucy  Shoe  Merritt  Fellowship  –  

American  School  of  Classic  Studies  at  Athens  

 Kathryn  McBride    American  Numismatic  Society’s  Eric  

P.  Newman  Award  

Joukowsky  Ins>tute  of  Archaeology  and  the  Ancient  World   Claudia  Moser  

  Irene  Rosenzweig  /Samuel  H.  Kress  Foundation/Helen  M.  Woodruff  Fellowship  of  the  Archaeological  Institute  of  America  Pre-­‐Doctoral  Rome  Prize  

 Elizabeth  Murphy    Belgian  American  Educational  

Foundation  Fellowship  

  Jessica  Nowlin    Frank  Brown/Samuel  H.  Kress  

Foundation/Helen  M.  Woodruff  Fellowship  of  the  Archaeological  Institute  of  America  Pre-­‐Doctoral  Rome  Prize  

 Catherine  Steidl    Joukowsky  Presidential  Fellowship  

  Jennifer  Thum    Joukowsky  Presidential  Fellowship  

Mathema>cs  

 David  Lowry   NSF  Graduate  Fellowship  

Modern  Culture    &  Media  

 Aniruddha  Maitra    Five  College  Pre-­‐Doctoral  Fellowship  –  Hampshire  College  

Molecular  Biology,  Cell  Biology  &  Biochemistry   Kristen  Beale  

 NSF  Graduate  Fellowship  

 Jeffrey  Hofmann   NIH  NRSA  

 Marissa  Holmbeck   NIH  NRSA  

 Stephen  Jones   NIH  NRSA  

Molecular  Biology,  Cell  Biology  &  Biochemistry  

 Courtney  Klaips    NIH  NRSA  

 Christine  Langlois    NIH  NRSA  

 Allison  Porman   NIH  NRSA  

 Marcela  Soruco   NIH  NRSA  

Molecular  Biology,  Cell  Biology,  &  Biochemsitry   Arthur  Sugden  

  NIH  NRSA  

 Steven  Swartz    NIH  NRSA  

 John  Urban    NSF  Graduate  Fellowship  

 Catherine  Volle    Dept  of  Defense  NDSEG  Fellowship  

Open  Curriculum  Students  2013  

Molecular  Pharmacology  &  Physiology   Nicholas  Bellono  

  NSF  Graduate  Fellowship    Helen  Fitzgerald  Cserr  

Memorial  Fund  Award  

  Leroy  Cooper      NIH  NRSA  

  Jennifer  Davis      NSF  Graduate  Fellowship    Joukowsky  Family  Foundation  –  

Outstanding  Dissertation  Award  

Molecular  Pharmacology  &  Physiology   Kirk  Haltaufderhyde  

  NSF  Graduate  Fellowship  

 Hilary  Nicholson    Pharmacia  Fellow  Award  

 Rana  Ozdeslik    Pharmacia  Fellow  Award  

  Nedyalka  Valkov    Pharmacology  Fellowship  

Award  

Music:      Computer  &  Mul>media   Jacob  Richman  

  Cogut  Fellowship  

Music:    Ethnomusicology   David  Fossum  

  American  Research  Institute  in  Turkey  Fellowship    

 Benjamin  Raphael  Teitelbaum    Joukowsky  Family  Foundation  –  Outstanding  Dissertation  Award  

Neuroscience          Justine  Allen    

  Dept  of  Defense  NDSEG  

  Jennifer  Barredo    NIH  NRSA  

 Yao-­‐Jen  Chang    Taiwan  Fellowship  

 Patricia  Fogerson     NSF  Graduate  Fellowship  

 Prannath  Moolchand     Fulbright  Scholarship  

Neuroscience         Michael  Rule  

   NSF  Graduate  Fellowship  

 Fabien  Wagner       Epilepsy  Foundation  Fellowship  

 Kristin  Webster    NIH  NRSA  

 Rachel  Stevenson       Sidney  E.  Frank  Graduate  

Fellowship  

Brown  –  Wheaton  Fellows  2013  Alexandra  King  –  Philosophy  

Niki  Clements  –  Religious  Studies  

 Angel  Byrd      UNCF/Merck  Graduate  Science  Research  

Dissertation  Fellowship  

 Matthew  Hirakawa      Frederick  Poole  Gorham  Biological  Fellowship  Award  

 Noelle  Hutchins    NIH  NRSA  

 Kun  Yang     China  Scholarship  Council  Award  

Pathobiology  

Philosophy   Nicolas  Bommarito  

  John  Cargill  MacMillan  Graduate  Fellowship  

 Alexandra  King    Brown  –  Wheaton  Faculty  Fellow  

Physics   Alex  Geringer-­‐Sameth  

  Galkin  Foundation  Fellowship  

 Ryan  Michney    NSF  GK-­‐12  Fellowship  

  Jacqueline  McCleary    NASA  RI  Space  Grant  Fellowship  

 Michael  Morse    NSF  GK-­‐12  Fellowship  

 Peter  Nagler    NASA  RI  Space  Grant  Fellowship  

Physics   Timothy  Raben  

  NSF  GK-­‐12  Fellowship  

 Ravi  Singh    Simon  Ostrach  Fellowship  

 Hao  Tu      Physics  Merit  Dissertation  Fellowship  

 Michael  Ming  Hong  Luk    Joukowsky  Family  Foundation  Outstanding  Dissertation  Award  

Community  and  Collabora=on  

Angel  Byrd  

Dean  Jabbar  Bennett  

Breann  Brown  

George  Aninwene  

Poli>cal  Science   Carla  Alberti  

  Fulbright  Award  

 Yelena  Biberman    US  Institute  of  Peace,  Peace  Scholar    

 David  Blanding    Ford  Foundation  Fellowship  

 Poulomi  Chakrabarti    Foundation  for  Urban  and  

Regional  Studies    Studentship  

Poli>cal  Science   Diego  Diaz  

  CONICYT  Fulbright  Fellowship  

 Angelica  Duran-­‐Martinez    Craig  M.  Cogut  Dissertation  Fellowship  

 Oddny  Helgadottir    Leifur  Eiriksson  Foundation  Scholarship  

 Colin  Johnson    IGERT  Award  

 Pellumb  Kelmendi    Brown  Graduate  Program  in  Development  Fellowship  

 Daniel  Kushner    IGERT  Award  

Poli>cal  Science   Fiorella  Jazmin  Sierra  

  Andrew  Mellon  Foundation  ACLS  International  Dissertation  Research  Fellowship  

Religious  Studies   Anna  F.  Bialek    

  Presidential  Award  for  Excellence  in  Teaching  

 Elizabeth  Cecil    Council  on  Library  &  Information  Resources  Mellon  Fellowship  

 Niki  Clements    2013  Brown  Wheaton  Faculty  Fellow  

Sociology   David  Ciplet  

  Robert  &  Patricia  Switzer  Foundation  Award  

  Horowitz  Foundation  for  Social  Policy  Grant  

 Orly  Clerge    SSSP  Racial  /  Ethnic  Minority  Scholarship  

 Peter  Klein    Fulbright  ETA  Program  ~  Brazil  

Sociology   Robert  Patrick  Mayne  

  Mellon  Fellowship  

 Oi  Yang  Pang      ZEIT  Stiftung  Fellowship  

 Trina  Vithayathil    NSF  Doctoral  Dissertation  Grant    Fulbright  Hays  Doctoral  Dissertation  Grant    American  Institute  of  Indian  Studies  Junior  Fellowship  

Theater  Arts  &  Performance  Studies  

 Alice  Coleman  Nye    Cogut  Center  for  the  Humanities  Dissertation  Fellowship  

Joukowsky  Outstanding  Disserta>on  Prize  for  2013    Social  Sciences:      

 Susan  Ellison  ~  Anthropology    Humanities:  

 Benjamin  Raphael  Teitelbaum  ~    Ethnomusicology  

  Physical  Sciences:   Michael  Ming  Hong  Luk  ~    Physics  

  Life  Sciences:   Jennifer  Davis  ~    Molecular  Pharmacology  &  Physiology  

Congratula>ons!  

Congratula>ons!  

Congratula>ons!  

Congratula>ons!  

Congratula>ons!