Award Opportunities
The Graduate School office sponsors awards, fellowships, scholarships and assistantships for deserving students.
Many public and private organizations also provide fellowships and scholarships for graduate students. Please visit the Office of Nationally Competitive Awards for assistance in finding and applying to competitive awards.
Recent Graduate Student Award Winners
Excellence in Teaching Award for Graduate Assistants, 2019-20
Smruti Deoghare, Biomedical Informatics (MED), PhD student
Jana Hockersmith, Communication (A&S), MA student
College Awardees
- A&S: Crystal Whetstone, Political Science, PhD
- CEAS: Madhav Lolla, Computer Science, PhD
- DAAP: May Khalife, Architecture, PhD
- LCOB: Xin Li, Business Administration (Finance), PhD
MAGS Distinguished Thesis Award, 2019-20 UC Nominee
Humanities
Bisola Sosan, Architecture, MSArch
The Fruits of Our Labor: Reading Toni Morrison’s Beloved as an Oneiric Space
CGS/ProQuest Distinguished Dissertation Awards, 2019 UC Nominees
Biological Sciences
Courtney Sullivan, Neuroscience, PhD
Bioenergetic Abnormalities in Schizophrenia
Humanities/Fine Arts
Maria Eugenia Achurra G., Architecture, PhD
An Exceptionalist Spectacle: Federal Architecture After the 1898 Spanish-American War
2019 Presidential Medal of Graduate Student Excellence
Caitlin Doyle, English & Comparative Literature (Creative Writing, Poetry), PhD
Courtney Giannini, Medical Scientist Training Program (Environmental Health, Epidemiology), MD/PhD