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
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
2019-20 Provost Graduate Fellowship Recipients
Aria Alexander, Immunology Graduate Program, College of Medicine
Ezekiel King Phillips, Department of Geology, College of Arts & Sciences
Anessa Ibrahim, Department of English, College of Arts & Sciences
2019-20 Albert C. Yates Fellowship Recipients
| Fellows | College | Program | Degree |
| Ricardo Allen | CCM | Saxophone | MM |
| Gary Lee Burgess | CCM | Music Education | MM |
| Taylor Byas | A&S | English & Comparative Literature | PhD |
| Sarah Caisser | DAAP | Architecture | PhD |
| Angela Cannata | MED | Immunology | PhD |
| Ian Castro | CECH | Educational Studies | PhD |
| Marianne Chan | A&S | English & Comparative Literature | PhD |
| Kabelo Chirwa | CCM | Music (Musicology) | PhD |
| Sharlene Cleveland | A&S | Germanic Languages & Literature | MA |
| Vincent del Prado | A&S | Philosophy | PhD |
| Mariah Emery | CAHS | Communication Sciences and Disorders | MA |
| Ndate Fall | NURS | Nursing Research | PhD |
| Emory Freeman | CCM | Clarinet | MM |
| Jamien Johnson | CAHS | Physical Therapy | DPT |
| Ana Ocasio | A&S | Psychology | PhD |
| Roderick Pearson | A&S | Sociology | PhD |
| Esther Scheibler | CECH | Criminal Justice | PhD |
| Alyssa Solano | MED | Medical Scientist Training Program | MD/PhD |
| Devonte Stewart | A&S | Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies | MA |
| Vanessa Turkson | MED | Molecular, Cellular & Biochemical Pharmacology | PhD |
| Linda Vu | A&S | Biological Sciences | PhD |
| Lewis Warren | CCM | Piano | MM |
| TraciAmanda Washington | CECH | Educational Studies | PhD |
| DeAngela Weakley | DAAP | Community Planning | MCP |
| Taylor Zuleger | MED | Neuroscience/Medical Science Scholars Interdisciplinary | PhD |