UT Graduate Students –International Recognition

Graduate students from UT doctoral and master’s programs regularly present their research at national and international conferences and garner awards. Two recent examples are highlighted this week. 

English Master’s Students Present at International Conference

Six M.A. students from the UT English graduate program recently traveled to San Jose State University (California) to present their research at a conference entitled “Steinbeck and the Politics of Crisis: Ethics, Society and Ecology” that focused on John Steinbeck -the American writer and Pulitzer and Nobel prize winner- for his body of work that included Grapes of Wrath and Of Mice and Men.

Steinbeck Center director Nick Taylor told UT News, “We had paper proposals from all over the world, so the students were competing with scholars from India, Japan, Europe. One of our goals with this conference was to regenerate the ranks of Steinbeck scholarship, and thanks to [Dr.] Tom Barden, [UT Professor of English,] we are well on our way.”

Congratulations to the students presenting at the conference: Laura Delucia, Zachary Fishel, David Hartwig, Felicia Preece, Jamie Renda and Juliana Restivo.  

Environmental Sciences Ph.D. Candidate Awarded Great Lakes Scholarship

The International Association of Great Lakes Research (IAGLR) recently awarded an IAGLR Scholarship to Carson Prichard, a UT Environmental Sciences doctoral student. This award is one of two IAGLR scholarships given to two promising Ph.D. students whose dissertation research is likely to make a significant contribution to the understanding of the Great Lakes. Mr. Prichard’s project on Environmental DNA detection and quantification: a new test for Great Lakes native and high-risk invasive fish species has earned him a $2,000 scholarship and a one-year membership in IAGLR. He will be recognized in June at the 56^th annual Conference on Great Lakes Research in West Lafayette, Indiana. Congratulations to Carson on this recognition!

The College of Graduate Studies is proud of the achievements of these and other graduate students who actively engage in the scholarship of their discipline by participating at national and international meetings.

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