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CS&E Announces 2024-25 Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship (DDF) Award Winners

Seven Ph.D. students working with CS&E professors have been named Doctoral Dissertation Fellows for the 2024-25 school year. The Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship is a highly competitive fellowship that gives the University’s most accomplished Ph.D. candidates an opportunity to devote full-time effort to an outstanding research project by providing time to finalize and write a dissertation during the fellowship year. The award includes a stipend of $25,000, tuition for up to 14 thesis credits each semester, and subsidized health insurance through the Graduate Assistant Health Plan.

CS&E congratulates the following students on this outstanding accomplishment:

• Athanasios Bacharis (Advisor: Nikolaos Papanikolopoulos )
• Karin de Langis (Advisor:  Dongyeop Kang )
• Arshia Zernab Hassan (Advisors: Chad Myers )
• Xinyue Hu (Advisors: Zhi-Li Zhang )
• Lucas Kramer (Advisors: Eric Van Wyk )
• Yijun Lin (Advisors: Yao-Yi Chiang )
• Mingzhou Yang (Advisors: Shashi Shekhar )

Athanasios Bacharis

Bacharis’ work centers around the robot-vision area, focusing on making autonomous robots act on visual information. His research includes active vision approaches, namely, view planning and next-best-view, to tackle the problem of 3D reconstruction via different optimization frameworks. The acquisition of 3D information is crucial for automating tasks, and active vision methods obtain it via optimal inference. Areas of impact include agriculture and healthcare, where 3D models can lead to reduced use of fertilizers via phenotype analysis of crops and effective management of cancer treatments. Bacharis has a strong publication record, with two peer-reviewed conference papers and one journal paper already published. He also has one conference paper under review and two journal papers in the submission process. His publications are featured in prestigious robotic and automation venues, further demonstrating his expertise and the relevance of his research in the field.

Karin de Langis

Karin's thesis works at the intersection of Natural Language Processing (NLP) and cognitive science. Her work uses eye-tracking and other cognitive signals to improve NLP systems in their performance and cognitive interpretability, and to create NLP systems that process language more similarly to humans. Her human-centric approach to NLP is motivated by the possibility of addressing the shortcomings of current statistics-based NLP systems, which often become stuck on explainability and interpretability, resulting in potential biases. This work has most recently been accepted and presented at SIGNLL Conference on Computational Natural Language Learning (CoNLL) conference which has a special focus on theoretically, cognitively and scientifically motivated approaches to computational linguistics.

Arshia Zernab Hassan

Hassan's thesis work delves into developing computational methods for interpreting data from genome wide CRISPR/Cas9 screens. CRISPR/Cas9 is a new approach for genome editing that enables precise, large-scale editing of genomes and construction of mutants in human cells. These are powerful data for inferring functional relationships among genes essential for cancer growth. Moreover, chemical-genetic CRISPR screens, where population of mutant cells are grown in the presence of chemical compounds, help us understand the effect the chemicals have on cancer cells and formulate precise drug solutions. Given the novelty of these experimental technologies, computational methods to process and interpret the resulting data and accurately quantify the various genetic interactions are still quite limited, and this is where Hassan’s dissertation is focused on. Her research extends to developing deep-learning based methods that leverage CRISPR chemical-genetic and other genomic datasets to predict cancer sensitivity to candidate drugs. Her methods on improving information content in CRISPR screens was published in the Molecular Systems Biology journal, a highly visible journal in the computational biology field. 

Hu's Ph.D. dissertation is concentrated on how to effectively leverage the power of artificial intelligence and machine learning (AI/ML) – especially deep learning – to tackle challenging and important problems in the design and development of reliable, effective and secure (independent) physical infrastructure networks. More specifically, her research focuses on two critical infrastructures: power grids and communication networks, in particular, emerging 5G networks, both of which not only play a critical role in our daily life but are also vital to the nation’s economic well-being and security. Due to the enormous complexity, diversity, and scale of these two infrastructures, traditional approaches based on (simplified) theoretical models and heuristics-based optimization are no longer sufficient in overcoming many technical challenges in the design and operations of these infrastructures: data-driven machine learning approaches have become increasingly essential. The key question now is: how does one leverage the power of AI/ML without abandoning the rich theory and practical expertise that have accumulated over the years? Hu’s research has pioneered a new paradigm – (domain) knowledge-guided machine learning (KGML) – in tackling challenging and important problems in power grid and communications (e.g., 5G) network infrastructures.

Lucas Kramer

Kramer is now the driving force in designing tools and techniques for building extensible programming languages, with the Minnesota Extensible Language Tools (MELT) group. These are languages that start with a host language such as C or Java, but can then be extended with new syntax (notations) and new semantics (e.g. error-checking analyses or optimizations) over that new syntax and the original host language syntax. One extension that Kramer created was to embed the domain-specific language Halide in MELT's extensible specification of C, called ableC. This extension allows programmers to specify how code working on multi-dimensional matrices is transformed and optimized to make efficient use of hardware. Another embeds the logic-programming language Prolog into ableC; yet another provides a form of nondeterministic parallelism useful in some algorithms that search for a solution in a structured, but very large, search space. The goal of his research is to make building language extensions such as these more practical for non-expert developers.  To this end he has made many significant contributions to the MELT group's Silver meta-language, making it easier for extension developers to correctly specify complex language features with minimal boilerplate. Kramer is the lead author of one journal and four conference papers on his work at the University of Minnesota, winning the distinguished paper award for his 2020 paper at the Software Language Engineering conference, "Strategic Tree Rewriting in Attribute Grammars".

Lin’s doctoral dissertation focuses on a timely, important topic of spatiotemporal prediction and forecasting using multimodal and multiscale data. Spatiotemporal prediction and forecasting are important scientific problems applicable to diverse phenomena, such as air quality, ambient noise, traffic conditions, and meteorology. Her work also couples the resulting prediction and forecasting with multimodal (e.g., satellite imagery, street-view photos, census records, and human mobility data) and multiscale geographic information (e.g., census records focusing on small tracts vs. neighborhood surveys) to characterize the natural and built environment, facilitating our understanding of the interactions between and within human social systems and the ecosystem. Her work has a wide-reaching impact across multiple domains such as smart cities, urban planning, policymaking, and public health.

Mingzhou Yang

Yang is developing a thesis in the broad area of spatial data mining for problems in transportation. His thesis has both societal and theoretical significance. Societally, climate change is a grand challenge due to the increasing severity and frequency of climate-related disasters such as wildfires, floods, droughts, etc. Thus, many nations are aiming at carbon neutrality (also called net zero) by mid-century to avert the worst impacts of global warming. Improving energy efficiency and reducing toxic emissions in transportation is important because transportation accounts for the vast majority of U.S. petroleum consumption as well as over a third of GHG emissions and over a hundred thousand U.S. deaths annually via air pollution. To accurately quantify the expected environmental cost of vehicles during real-world driving, Yang's thesis explores ways to incorporate physics in the neural network architecture complementing other methods of integration: feature incorporation, and regularization. This approach imposes stringent physical constraints on the neural network model, guaranteeing that its outputs are consistently in accordance with established physical laws for vehicles. Extensive experiments including ablation studies demonstrated the efficacy of incorporating physics into the model. 

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Outstanding Dissertation Award

The Outstanding Dissertation Award was established in 1979 by the Graduate School to recognize exceptional work by doctoral students and to encourage the highest levels of scholarship, research, and writing.

The Michael H. Granof Award will be given in 2024 to recognize the University’s top dissertation. The recipient of this year’s award will be selected from one of the three dissertation winners. The Granof Award is considered the top graduate student award. All prizes will be announced in spring of 2024.

Graduate Studies Committee (GSC) chairpersons nominate one doctoral student from their programs for the award. Winners are selected in three categories:

• Area A — Humanities and Fine Arts
• Area B — Social Sciences, Business and Education
• Area C — Mathematics, Engineering, Physical Sciences, and Biological and Life Sciences

A dissertation may be considered in only one competition category. Select the category most appropriate to the topic and methodology of the nominated dissertation.

Professional & Student Awards

Awards Open: November 1, 2023 Awards Close: February 16, 2024

If you have questions, email  Brianna Smallman .

Eligibility

To be eligible for the 2024 award, the dissertation must meet one of the following criteria:

• It will be submitted in final form to the Graduate School by April 26, 2024 for a degree to be awarded in May 2024.
• It was submitted for a degree awarded in August 2023 or December 2023.
• It was submitted after April 1, 2023, for a degree awarded in May 2023.

Nominations

The graduate school's online awards system.

Nominees for the award must be submitted through the Graduate School's dedicated online awards system. The application process entails the nominator filling out the application with the necessary details about the nominee.

To successfully complete the online application, please gather the following documents:

• Nomination Letter : A letter from the chairperson of the Graduate Studies Committee (GSC) that succinctly outlines the reasons for selecting the dissertation as the program's nominee.
• The dissertation supervisor
• The graduate adviser
• The department chair
• A committee member
• Dissertation Copy : Include one copy of the complete dissertation, along with the abstract.

Ensure all components are compiled and submitted through the Graduate School's online awards system to facilitate a thorough and efficient nomination process.

The faculty review committees will consider both the methodological and substantive aspects of the dissertations, including the:

• Importance/impact of the subject;
• Originality/creativity of the work;
• Quality of the scholarship;
• Potential for publishing;
• Organization of the dissertation;
• Quality of the writing; and
• Other appropriate factors that denote excellence.

Individuals writing letters of support should be encouraged to keep these criteria in mind as they comment on the significance/major contribution of the dissertation and the particular aspects of the dissertation that distinguish it.

2024 Award Recipients

Faith Deckard

Michael H. Granof Award winner Program: Sociology Dissertation Title: Bonded: Bail Agents, Families, and the Management of Risk

Program: Electrical & Computer Engineering Dissertation Title: Light-AI Interaction: Bridging Photonics and Artificial Intelligence via Cross-Layer Hardware/Software Co-Design

Melissa Santillana

Program: Radio-Television-Film Dissertation Title: Destrúyelo todo: The Women behind the Mexican Feminist Spring

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Dissertation Award

The RSA Dissertation Award  is presented yearly to recognize an exemplary dissertation in the field of Rhetorical Studies completed by a student member of the Society.

SELECTION COMMITTEE

In consultation with the RSA President and the Chair of the Committee on Committees and no later than December of the year prior to the award date, the Awards Steering Committee (ASC) Chair identifies four RSA members to serve on the dissertation award selection committee.

• Unless all ASC members have a conflict of interest, the Chair of the dissertation award selection committee will also be a member of the Awards Steering Committee.
• The other three members of the ASC should reflect the diversity of rhetorical studies with regard to rank, institution type, and identity categories.

ELIGIBILITY

To be eligible for the Dissertation Awards, a dissertation must…

• Have been defended between January 1 and December 31 of the designated calendar year. For the 2024 Award, dissertations completed between January 1, 2023 and December 31, 2023 are eligible.
• Have been completed by a student member of the Society.

REVIEW PROCESS

Nominations are reviewed by the RSA Dissertation Award selection committee, a sub-committee of the Awards Steering Committee, which recommends winners to the Board for final approval.

When more than 15 dissertations are nominated for the Dissertation Award, the selection committee will conduct a first round review to identify semi-finalists for the award. In that review, the nominated dissertations are randomly divided into two groups. The dissertations in each group are read by two committee members. Those committee members identify approximately five semi-finalists from their list to forward to the full selection committee for review.

The full selection committee reviews the semi-finalists (or the entire list if fewer than 15 dissertations are nominated) to identify finalists and the award recipient.  

In reviewing nominees for the Dissertation Award, the selection committee considers:

• The dissertation’s contributions to rhetorical studies (e.g. expanding, synthesizing, correcting, and/or re-directing previous rhetorical scholarship).
• Effective, generative use of methodological and/or analytical tools.
• Engagement with primary and secondary texts: Here, we were thinking about demonstrating depth and breadth of knowledge of text and context.
• Clear, accessible, engaging prose and style.
• The dissertation’s contribution to the Society’s IDEA and/or social justice values through topic, content, citational choices, and/or framing.
• Strong prospect for publication as a book and/or evidence of the project’s readiness to contribute to the field.

Deadline for nominations: January 24, 2024

Conflict of Interest for the Dissertation Award

No one who has served as a member of the dissertation committee for any nominee may sit on the Dissertation Award selection committee.  Members of the selection committee who feel that they are unable to be impartial in judging any nominee must recuse themselves from discussion of that nominee.

Ratified by the RSA Board of Directors May 2004. Amended October 29, 2021.

SUBMISSION INFORMATION

Each nomination must include:

• A completed nomination form, including affirmation that the dissertation was defended during the eligibility period.
• A letter of nomination written by the supervising professor, a member of the dissertation committee, or–with approval from the ASC chair–another person familiar with the dissertation.
• An abstract of the dissertation no longer than one double-spaced page.
• The complete dissertation as a pdf file absent identifying information regarding dissertation chairs.
• A 35-page, double-spaced (12pt font) extract from a chapter of the dissertation, including all materials, e.g., references, charts, or images (the extract should be taken from one complete chapter, not a composite of multiple chapters).

Dissertations that depart from traditional written formats (e.g. multimodal projects, collaborative projects) are welcome. All nomination materials are to be submitted electronically to the chair of the selection committee.

Please contact the society’s Awards Committee with any outstanding questions about the nomination, submission, or selection processes.

Award Recipients

Stephanie jones.

Afrofuturist Feminism as Theory and Praxis: Rhetorical Root Working in the Black Speculative Arts Movement.   (Completed under the direction of Gwendolyn Pough)

Florianne Jimenez

“Echoing and Resistant Imagining: Filipino Student Writing Under American Colonization.” University of Massachusetts Amherst – Rebecca Lorimer Leonard 

MEGAN POOLE

“Technical Beauty: Rhetorics and Aesthetics of Science.” Penn State University – Debbie Hawhee

2021 Dissertation Award  Video

Brandee Easter

“Weird Code: Gender and Programming Languages.” University of Wisconsin-Madison, Christa Olson

MARNIE RITCHIE

“Diffuse Threats: Counterterrorism as an Anxious Affective Infrastructure” University of Texas, Chairs Dana Cloud and Joshua Gunn

Jose Angel Maldonado

“Diana’s Confession: Precarious Rhetoric in Post-NAFTA Mexico” University of Utah, Chair Kent Ono

Christopher Earle

“Dead Words: Prisoners’ Constrained Rhetorical Agency and the Possibility of Rhetorical Action” University of Wisconsin, co-chairs Michael Bernard-Donals and Christa Olson

CHRIS INGRAHAM

“Affective Ecologies:The Cultural Public Sphere in a Digital World” University of Colorado – Boulder, Chair, Gerard A. Hauser

HEIDI MORSE

Minding “Our Cicero”: Nineteenth-Century African American Women’s Rhetoric And The Classical Tradition University of California, Santa Cruz, Chair, Kirsten Silva Gruesz

Jean Bessette

“Composing Historical Activism: Anecdotes, Archives, and Multimodality in Rhetorics of Lesbian History” University of Pittsburgh, co-chairs Jessica Enoch and Jean Ferguson Carr

Lindsay Rose Russell

“Women in the English Language Dictionary” University of Washington, co-chairs Anis Bawarshi and Colette Moore

Henrietta Rix Wood

“Praising Girls: The Epideictic Rhetoric of Young Women, 1895-1930.” University of Missouri-Kansas City with advisor Jane Greer.

CHRISTA J. OLSON

Constitutive Visions: Indigeneity, Visual Culture, and the Rhetorics of Ecuadorian National Identity University of Illinois-Urbana-Champaign under the direction of Debra Hawhee and Ralph Cintron, English

NANCY BIXLER

2011 Award (Honorable Mention)

Walk Me Home: How Bodies Move and are Moved in the Breast Cancer Walk University of Washington under the direction of Leah Ceccarrelli, Communication.

Sarah Overbaugh Hallenbeck

Writing the Bicycle: Women, Rhetoric, And Technology In Late Nineteenth-Century America. Duke University, under the direction of Jane Danielewicz & Jordynn Jack

ROSALYN COLLINGS EVES, PHD

Mapping Rhetorical Frontiers: Women’s Spatial Rhetorics in the Nineteenth-Century American West. Penn State University under the direction of Cheryl Glenn.

Charlotte Robidoux, PhD

2019 Award (Honorable Mention)

‘More children from the fit, less from the unfit’: Discourses of Hereditary ‘Fitness and Reproductive Rhetorics, post Darwin to the 21st Century. Miami University under the direction of Cindy Lewiecki-Wilson.

WENDY HAYDEN

Unlikely Rhetoric Allies University of Maryland; directed by Jeanne Fahnestock

Politics of Public Confession: Expressivism and American Democracy Dissertation completed at Penn State University

PATRICIA M. MALESH

“Rhetorics of Consumption: Identity, Confrontation, and Corporatization in the American Vegetarian Movement” Department of English, University of Arizona

Shevaun Watson

“Unsettled Cities: Rhetoric and Race in the Early Republic.” Dissertation completed at Miami University.

Never Mind What Harvard Thinks: Alternative Sites of Rhetorical Instruction in American Colleges, 1873-1947 Written at the University of Texas at Austin under the direction of Linda Ferreira-Buckley

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• CGS/ProQuest Distinguished Dissertation

CGS/ProQuest Distinguished Dissertation Award

First presented in 1981 and sponsored jointly by CGS and ProQuest, part of Clarivate, these awards are made each year to individuals who, in the opinion of the award committee, have completed dissertations representing original work that makes an unusually significant contribution to the discipline.

Two awards are given annually in two different broad areas ( mathematics, physical sciences, and engineering ; and social sciences ; and the biological and life sciences; and humanities and fine arts.) Individuals must be nominated for these awards by a member institution, nominations will be accepted until July 3, 2024 . Nominated dissertations must be in the ProQuest database to be eligible for the award.

The fields of competition for this year are:

• Mathematics, Physical Sciences, and Engineering
• Social Sciences

2024 Call for Nominations

2024 Nomination Form

Past Award Winners

Anna M. Naranjo

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PhD Dissertation Award

About the award for best dissertation in public policy and management.

The Association for Public Policy Analysis and Management (APPAM) seeks to recognize emergent scholars in the field by presenting an award for the best PhD dissertation in public policy and management. 

For the 2024 nominations, any dissertation that has been completed in the academic years 2022 - 2023 or 2023 - 2024, and granted a degree in that period, is eligible for consideration. No dissertation that has been completed prior to May 1, 2022 will be accepted and previously submitted dissertations will not be considered. Dissertations from any discipline are acceptable as long as they deal substantively with public policy issues and are nominated by a faculty member from an APPAM institutional member university. The faculty member does not need to be the major adviser or supervisor of the student’s dissertation, but can nominate the dissertation based on the belief that it makes a strong contribution to policy analysis.  

Nominations are now open through July 17, 2024! Access the nomination form  here .

Congratulations to the 2023 Recipient!

Neil Cholli University of Chicago The 2023 PhD Dissertation Award for Best Dissertation in Public Policy and Management will be presented to  Neil Cholli . Cholli received his PhD from University of Chicago in December 2022 where he completed his dissertation Essays on Social Policy Reforms and Human Capital . He is currently serving as a Klarman Fellow at Cornell University. 

Honorable Mentions Andrew King, University of Massachusetts, Boston Opening the Halls of Power: Implementing a Community Organizing Approach to Parent Engagement in New York City's Community Schools Paula Clasing, University of Michigan The Promise of Free Tuition: The Case of Chile  

Prior Winners

2021 - 2022.

Katharine Nelson, Housing Initiative at Penn (HIP) FHA and the Dual Mortgage Delivery System in Philadelphia

Honorable Mentions Hector Blanco, Massachusetts Institute of Technology The Economic Effects of Public Housing Programs Isabelle Cohen, University of California, Berkeley Essays on Public Finance and Development

2020 - 2021

George Zuo, University of Maryland Essays on Bridging Economic and Educational Disparities in America

Honorable Mentions Zachary Bleemer, University of California Berkeley On the Meritocratic Allocation of Higher Education Brandyn Churchill, Vanderbilt University Three Essays in Health Economics Ezra Karger, University of Chicago Essays on the Measurement of Income in Economic Analysis

Jun Li, University of Michigan Medicare Incentives, Payment Reform, and Quality in the Nursing Home Health Care Sector

2019 - 2020

Cody Tuttle, University of Maryland Government Responses to Crime and Racial Inequality

Honorable mentions Theresa Anderson, George Washington University What If Mom Went Back to School? A Mixed Methods Study of Effects and Experiences for Both Generations When Mothers Return to School

Andrew Bacher-Hicks, Harvard University Essays on the Economics of Education

2018 - 2019

Shiran Victoria Shen, Stanford University Political Pollution Cycle: An Inconvenient Truth and How to Break It

Honorable mentions: Patricio Dominiquez Rivera, Inter-American Development Bank and Elizabeth Pérez-Chiqués, CIDE

2017 - 2018

Garima Siwach, University at Albany, State University of New York Impact of Employment Barriers on Individuals with Criminal Records: An Econometric Evaluation of Criminal Records in New York Honorable mentions: Y. Nina Gao, University of Chicago and Allison C. Kelly, University of Washington

2016 - 2017

Mallory Flowers, Georgia Tech School of Public Policy Green Certification Pathways: The Roles of Public Goods, Private Goods and Certification Schemes Honorable mentions: Alan Zarychta, University of Colorado - Boulder

2015 - 2016

Vincent Reina, University of Southern California, Sol Price School of Public Policy The Impact of Mobility and Government Rental Subsidies on the Welfare of Households and Affordability of Markets Honorable mentions: Eric Roberts, John Hopkins University and Daniel Sebastian Tello-Trillo, Vanderbilt University

Manasi Deshpande, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Essays on the Effects of Disability Insurance Honorable mentions: Alexander Smith, University of Virginia and Gabriel Cardona-Fox, University of Texas, Austin

Anjali Adukia, Harvard University The Role of Basic Needs in Educational Decisions: Essays in Education and Development Economics Honorable mention: Sara Heller, University of Chicago

Sarah Anzia, University of California, Berkeley Election Timing and the Political Influence of the Organized Honorable mention: Hosung Sohn, University of California, Berkeley

Daeho Kim, Brown University

Essays in Health Economics

Honorable mentions:

Chloe Gibbs, University of Chicago

Christopher Robert, Harvard University JFK School of Government

Kurt Lavetti, University of California-Berkeley

Essays on the Estimation of Prices in Implicit Markets

Cassandra Marie Doll Hart, Northwestern University

Heidi Williams, MIT

Essays on Technological Change in Healthcare Markets

Kristin Seefeldt, University of Michigan

Judith Scott-Clayton, Harvard University JFK School of Government

2008 - 2009

Steven Hemelt, University of Maryland-Baltimore County

Essays in Education Policy: Accountability, Achievement, and Access

None recognized for this year

Haitao Yin, University of Pennsylvania

The Environmental and Economic Impacts of Environmental Regulations: The Case of Underground Storage Tank Regulations

Maria Fitzpatrick, University of Virginia

Jeremy Rosner, University of Maryland

Christopher Herbst, University of Maryland-College Park

Effects of Social Policy Reforms and the Economy on Welfare Participation and Employment of Single Mothers

Douglas Carr, University of Kentucky

Stephanie Cellini, University of California-Los Angeles

Kilkon Ko, University of Pittsburgh, Graduate School of Public and International Affairs

Behaviors of Policy Analysts in Public Investment Decisions: How Policy Analysts Make Decisions

Leah Brooks, University of California-Los Angeles

Elizabeth Votruba-Drzal, Northwestern University

Asim Zia, Georgia Institute of Technology School of Public Policy

Cooperative and Non-Cooperative Decision Behaviors in Response to the Inspection and Maintenance Program in the Atlanta Airshed, 1997-2001

Margaret Patrick Haist, University of Kentucky

Sergio Fernandez, University of Georgia

Shreyasi Jha, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill

Linkages Between Trade and Liberalization and Environmental Policy: Evidence from India

Zhong Yi Tong, University of Maryland

Jesse Levin, University of Amsterdam and Tinbergen Institute

Rucker Johnson, University of Michigan

Essays on Urban Spatial Structure, Job Search and Job Mobility

R. Karl Rethemeyer, Harvard University JFK School of Government

Gail Corrado, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill

Mark Long, University of Michigan

The Effects of Education Policy on College Entry and Household Savings

Brian Jacob, University of Chicago

Katherine Magnuson, Northwestern University

Jacob Hacker, Yale University

Boundary Wars: Political Struggle Over Public and Private Social Benefits in the U.S.

Jean Marie Abraham, Carnegie Mellon University

Shanti Rabindran Gamper, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Susanna Loeb, University of Michigan

Economic Analyses of Elementary and Secondary School Resource Provision

Laura J. Dugan, Carnegie Mellon University

Patrick McEwan, Stanford University

Meredith Phillips, Northwestern University

Early Inequalities: The Development of Ethnic Differences in Academic Achievement During Childhood

Karen Baehler, University of Maryland

Carol Silva, University of Rochester

Kevin Volpp, University of Pennsylvania

Market-based Reforms and the Impact on Quality of Care: An Examination of the Quality Impacts of the Transition from Hospital Rate-Setting to Price Competition in New Jersey

Kim Rueben, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Katherine Baicker, Harvard University JFK School of Government

Xavier De Souza Briggs, Harvard University JFK School of Government

Brown Kids in White Suburbs: Housing Mobility, Neighborhood Effects and the Social Capital of Poor Youth

Ingrid Gould Ellen, New York University

Rebecca London, Northwestern University

Sheila E. Murray, University of Maryland-College Park

Two Essays on the Distribution of Education Resources and Outcomes

Johannes M. Bos, New York University Wagner School of Public Service

The Labor Market Value of Remedial Education: Evidence from Time Series Data on an Experimental Program for School Dropouts

Kathryn A. Foster, Princeton University Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs

Special Districts and the Political Economy of Metropolitan Service Delivery

Thomas J. Nechyba, University of Rochester

Fiscal Federalism and Local Public Finance: A General Equilibrium Approach with Voting

Kenneth Langa, University of Chicago Harris School of Policy Studies

Medicaid Cost-Containment in the 1980s: Did It Encourage Interpayer Differences in Hospital Care

Thomas J. Kane, Harvard University JFK School of Government

College Entry by Blacks Since 1970: The Role of Tuition, Financial Aid, Local Economic Conditions and Family Background

About the 2019 Recipient: Shiran Victoria Shen, University of Virginia

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Distinguished Dissertation Award

These awards recognize outstanding and exceptional scholarship and research at the doctoral level. Nominations are due by 5 p.m. PST, May 2, 2024. Each recipient will receive an honorarium of $1,000 and will be publicly recognized by the Graduate School.  

Call for Nominations  

The Graduate School is pleased to announce the 2024 Distinguished Dissertation Awards competition in the following four categories:  

• Biological Sciences  
• Humanities and Fine Arts 
• Mathematics, Physical Sciences and Engineering* 
• Social Sciences* 

* CGS/ProQuest Distinguished Dissertation Award 2024 fields of competition  

These awards recognize outstanding and exceptional scholarship and research at the doctoral level. Nominations are due by 5 p.m. PST, May 2, 2024 . Each department can submit only one nomination per category.  

Eligibility  

The effective date of degree award must fall within the period of July 1, 2023, and June 30, 2024, inclusive, for the nominee selected.  To be eligible, the nominee’s dissertation must be available in the ProQuest database.    

Formatting      

For all documents, fonts are to be no smaller than 11-point and margins no narrower than one inch.  We will strictly observe page-length limits and formatting guidelines.    

Nomination packet materials  

Step 1   

Please provide information about the nominee, the nominating department, etc. via this Microsoft Form .  

Step 2   

Combine the following materials into a single Adobe PDF file, observing the strict page length cap of each component:     

• A non-technical summary (NTS) addressing the purpose, methods, results of the research and its significance within the discipline of this dissertation. An NTS is a concise document that provides a description of the process and its findings in a manner that is both appealing to read and easily understood by the general public. The NTS must not exceed two pages, typed and double-spaced. Please include the nominee’s name and doctoral program on this page.  
• An abstract of the nominee’s dissertation (not to exceed five double-spaced pages).  Appendices containing other material–such as charts, tables, and/or references–may be included as additional pages.  All pages should be numbered, and each should bear the name of the nominee.  
• Three letters of recommendation evaluating the significance and quality of the nominee’s dissertation work. One of these letters is to be from the nominee’s dissertation supervisor, another from a member of the nominee’s dissertation committee, and the third from a person of the nominee’s choice.  
• The nominee’s curriculum vitae (not to exceed five pages) 

Step 3   

The department chair, graduate program advisor, or the graduate program coordinator should submit the complete nomination file c/o [email protected] by the deadline of 5 p.m. PST, May 2, 2024 . This is a firm deadline; in fairness to all nominators, no exceptions or extensions will be granted.   

Please save your file in this format:  

LASTNAMENOMINEE – Nominating Department – Dissertation – [Category] – 2024.pdf    

Ex:  SONG – Astrobiology – Dissertation – Mathematics, Physical Sciences and Engineering – 2024.pdf     

Criteria  

A Graduate School committee will select the award recipients. The nominated dissertations should represent original work that makes an unusually significant contribution to the disciplines.  

Both methodological and substantive quality will be judged. Nominations will be evaluated on the following:  

• Innovation: The degree of innovation, creativity and insight shown by the author.  
• Scope: The scope and importance of the work to the department and to the field.  
• Writing: The effectiveness of the writing (including whether it is written in language that is reasonably understandable to faculty in related disciplines).  

Awards  

Each recipient will receive an honorarium of $1,000 and will be publicly recognized by the Graduate School.  

Council of Graduate Schools Distinguished Dissertation Award national competition   

2024 UW Graduate Schools distinguished dissertation award materials will be forwarded to the Council of Graduate Schools/ProQuest Distinguished Dissertation Award competition when the awardees’ dissertations fall within the current year’s fields of competition as the UW’s institutional nominations for this prestigious recognition.   

The 2024 fields of competition are Mathematics, Physical Sciences and Engineering and Social Sciences. Click here for more details about the CGS/ProQuest Distinguished Dissertation Award and for clarification regarding which fields/disciplines are included under the above categories. 

Address nomination materials c/o:  

Joy Williamson-Lott Dean of The Graduate School [email protected]

Jerry Pangilinan Assistant to the Dean [email protected]

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RESEARCH PROFILE

Tugce Martagan is an Associate Professor in the Department of Industrial Engineering and Innovation Sciences at the Eindhoven University of Technology. Her research interests include stochastic optimization and game theory with applications in the pharmaceutical industry, biomanufacturing, and healthcare. Her research has received several international prizes, such as the INFORMS Franz Edelman finalist for achievement in Operations Research and Management Science (2022), first prize in the INFORMS TIMES dissertation award (2017), first prize in the POMS Applied Research Challenge (2016), honorable mention in the INFORMS George B. Dantzig dissertation award (2016). She has also been recognized as the best teacher in the Master's program in operations management and logistics (2018, 2019, 2021, 2022). She received the 2016 Marie S. Curie Research grant from the European Commission, and the 2018 VENI (early career) and 2023 VIDI (mid-career) grants from the Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research. She is an Associate Editor for Operations Research, and keynote speaker at the 2024 INFORMS Annual Meeting.

My research is motivated by innovative applications of operations research in healthcare. I like working on applied problems that are relevant to industry and society.

ACADEMIC BACKGROUND

Tugce Martagan received her Ph.D. in Industrial Engineering from the University of Wisconsin-Madison (2015). During her PhD., she also worked at the Center for Quick Response Manufacturing, where she was involved in several industry projects. She received her MSc in Industrial Engineering from Mississippi State University, and BSc in Manufacturing Systems Engineering from Sabanci University.

Key Publications

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MSD: Continuous Pharmaceutical Manufacturing Data for the 2024 MSOM Data-Driven Research Challenge

Improving access to rare disease treatments, merck animal health uses operations research methods to transform biomanufacturing productivity for lifesaving medicines, managing trade-offs in protein manufacturing, performance guarantees and optimal purification decisions for engineered proteins, prizes & grants.

• 2022 2022 INFORMS Franz Edelman Laureate Operations Planning Acc. & Control
• 2019 Education Award, Best Teacher in the Operations Management and Logistics Program Operations Planning Acc. & Control
• 2017 First Place in the INFORMS TIMES Best Dissertation Award Operations Planning Acc. & Control
• 2016 First Place in the 2016 POMS Applied Research Challenge Operations Planning Acc. & Control
• 2016 Honorable Mention in the 2016 INFORMS George B. Dantzig Dissertation Prize Operations Planning Acc. & Control

Current Educational Activities

• Modeling and analysis of manufacturing systems
• Manufacturing integration course

Ancillary Activities

No ancillary activities

Dean’s Dissertation Award

The AFSE Executive Committee helps select the winner of the Dean’s Dissertation Award, which recognizes excellence in dissertation research.

The Dean’s Dissertation Award recognizes excellence in dissertation research that embodies the ASU Charter and design aspirations and the FSE values as evidenced by contributions to (a) scientific discovery, (b) engineering innovations, and (c) use-inspired applications with the potential for major societal impact.

Nominations will be evaluated based on the content and quality of the nomination materials. In both the nomination letter and personal statement, competitive nominations should detail how the research contributes new or transformative knowledge, theoretical frameworks, methodologies, techniques, applications, and/or translations of the research.

The award promotes FSE research as well as the awardees themselves, giving them an edge in their potential future career in academia. The Dean’s Dissertation Award winners will be recognized at the Ph.D. Convocation Ceremonies in the fall and spring.

The award is presented to up to 5% of the number of prior year’s Ph.D. graduates in the FSE. The best submission from each program may be recognized with a Certificate of Recognition.

Spring nominations are open

Deadline for submission is February 28, 2024 .

Timeline and call for nominations

There will be two calls for nominations:

August nomination

Nominate for candidates with a graduation window of the past summer and into the current fall semester.

January nominations

Nominate in January for candidates with a graduation window of the past fall semester and into the current spring semester.

Each call may result in up to half the specified number of awardees for the academic year.

Nominations Specifications for School Director

Nominations specifications for school directors.

• An announcement is sent to schools in early August and early January.
• The nomination allocation is the total number of nominations that may be submitted for the academic year over two award cycles (August and January). Schools may decide how to allocate their submissions for each award cycle.
• Nominees must be a Ph.D. candidate at the date of submission of the nomination.
• Graduation windows for the two award periods are defined in the Introduction.
• The internal selection process is left up to each individual school.

Nominations to the Dean’s office will be sent by the director of each school.

• Nominations for the two award periods are due in September and February. See the Submission of Application section for specific dates.

Application specifications

• Letter of nomination from the dissertation advisor, clearly indicating date of completion of comprehensive examination and/or dissertation proposal/prospectus examination. The nomination should address specifically the criteria listed in the Introduction. Nomination letters may not exceed 3 pages.
• An abstract of the dissertation limited to one page, including title, overview, broader impacts, and intellectual merit.
• A curriculum vitae (CV) of the candidate, including a list of publications that clearly distinguishes publications related to and not related to the dissertation research. The CV may not exceed 4 pages.
• A personal statement from the candidate, limited to one page, outlining why the candidate believes they should receive this award, specifically addressing the criteria listed in the Introduction.
• One letter of recommendation from a faculty member other than the dissertation advisor, who may be in or out of the candidate’s school, but typically within ASU. The letter should address specifically the criteria listed in the first paragraph.

Submission of application

School directors should submit nominations for the nomination window to Hahnna Christianson ( [email protected] ) by the nomination deadline below. 

The Executive Committee will then review the materials for recommendation to the dean, and the final decisions will be made by the dean.

Nomination deadlines

January nomination window deadline: February 28, 2024 .

August nomination window deadline: September 16, 2024 .

Award process

• Winners are announced by the dean.
• Winners will be recognized at the Fulton Schools PhD Convocation ceremonies in fall and spring.

Review process

• Based on the number of applications, the Executive Committee (EC) will determine how many reviews each application will receive. Assignments will be based on knowledge of the dissertation topic and with a goal to distribute among schools. EC members will score each application on a scale of 1 – 5 based on the criteria listed in the first paragraph. These scores will be recorded in a spreadsheet, discussed and ranked during a committee meeting.
• The EC will send a ranking of the received nominations to the dean. This could be based on categories, e.g., highly competitive / competitive / not competitive and/or include a numerical ranking in the top categories.

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UC San Diego Alums Snag Tony Award Nods for Acting, Direction, Design

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Four UC San Diego  Department of Theatre and Dance  alumni are among the nominees for the 2024 Tony Awards .

One, director Michael Greif , a 1985 grad, helmed the new musical by singer Alicia Keys, Hell’s Kitchen , which tied for the lead for most nominations with 13.

The other nominated Triton alums:

• Obie Award-winning director Anne Kauffman , a 1999 grad, for the new play, Mary Jane .
• Two-time Obie Award-winning actor Quincy Tyler Bernstine , also a 1999 grad, for best performance by a featured actor in a play, for the revival of Doubt : A Parable .
• Four-time Tony-nominated scenic designer and current UCSD faculty member Robert Brill , a 1988 grad, for Hell’s Kitchen .

Greif, a five-time Tony nominee, also holds the distinction of setting a Broadway record this year for directing three new musicals in one season. In addition to Hell’s Kitchen , he led the cast and crew for Days of Wine and Roses and The Notebook.

“I am delighted that the unique directing, design and acting talents of our alumni are being recognized,” said Dean Cristina Della Coletta. “They are truly making a mark on Broadway, contributing to the excellence of the field at large.” 

The Tony Awards will be broadcast at 5 p.m. PST June 16 from the Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts in New York City. Viewers can watch it live on CBS or stream live and on demand on Paramount+.

Manchester City’s Erling Haaland retains Premier League Golden Boot award for 2023-24

Erling Haaland has won the Premier League ’s Golden Boot for the 2023-24 season.

The 23-year-old’s haul of 27 goals was five more than Cole Palmer ’s 22 and six more than Newcastle United striker Alexander Isak , who found the net 21 times in his second season on Tyneside.

The award seals a successful day for Haaland, whose side clinched their fourth consecutive Premier League title after their 3-1 victory over West Ham United on Sunday.

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Haaland retains the award he won in his debut season in England after scoring a league record 36 goals as part of Manchester City ’s 2022-23 title-winning side.

The Norwegian striker becomes the first player since Harry Kane to finish as the top goalscorer in back-to-back seasons, and the fifth overall after Alan Shearer, Thierry Henry and Robin van Persie.

Shearer is the only player in Premier League history to claim the accolade three years in a row. He achieved the feat twice with Blackburn Rovers in 1994-95 and 1995-96, and again in 1996-97 in his debut season at Newcastle United.

Earlier this season Haaland became the fastest player to reach 50 Premier League goals, taking just 48 games to reach the milestone — 17 fewer than previous record holder Andy Cole.

Haaland joined Manchester City from Borussia Dortmund in the summer of 2022 for a £51.2million fee.

He scored 52 goals in all competitions in his first season at the club, the second-most goals by a player from England ’s top-flight after Dixie Dean, who scored 63 in 1923-24.

Man City did not really miss Haaland but he is transformative when he plays

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