SISS Doctoral Student
Selected For Graduate Research Award
UT Spatially-Integrated
Social Science doctoral student, Jeffrey Eloff, was recently selected as a
participant in the Graduate Research
Award Program on Public-Sector Aviation Issues for the 2013-14 academic
year. Jeff will receive a research stipend of $10,000 from the Federal Aviation
Administration of the U.S. Department of Transportation. He previously earned his MA in Economics here at
UT and is now a research assistant in the SISS program.
The College of
Graduate Studies congratulates Jeff on his award!
UT Graduate Alumna
Wins “Best Postgraduate Paper” at APhA
Monita Karmakar, a recent graduate of the Master’s program
in Health
Outcomes and Socioeconomic Sciences in the Colelge of Pharmacy and
Pharmaceutical Sciences, recently won the award for “Best Postgraduate Paper”
at the American Pharmacists Association annual meeting. Her paper on
“Predicting Adherence to Aromatase Inhibitor Therapy in Patients with Breast
Cancer Using Protection Motivation Theory” was one of 69 papers accepted for
presentation in her category. The paper was a result of Monita’s thesis
research and was completed under the advising of Dr. Sharrel Pinto. Monita is
currently pursuing her Ph.D. in the Health
and Recreation Professions department in the College of Health Sciences at
UT.
Congratulations to Monita on her accomplishment!