Each year the Council of Graduate School Programs gives awards to students and faculty who have demonstrated exceptional performance in teaching, scholarship, and civic engagement. Below are the recipients of the 2024 Council of Graduate School Programs Awards. 

 

Excellence in Civic Engagement to Promote Social Justice

Larry (Leo) Davis, MPH, MSS

Social Work PhD candidate, MBA Candidate

 

Excellence in Teaching

Melissa Kinsella, Sociology PhD Candidate

 

Biomedical and Sciences Dissertation of the Year

Dissertation Alexander J. Nelson, Microbiology and Immunology PhD

Dissertation Director: Dr. Yee Ling Wu

“Lung-resident memory B cells maintain allergic IgE responses in the respiratory tract”

 

Biomedical and Sciences Thesis of the Year

Jacob Exline,  Neuroscience MS

Thesis Director: Dr. Eileen Foecking

“Targeting the subacute progression of hippocampal cellular senescence following repetitive mild traumatic brain injury.”

 

Social Sciences Dissertation of the Year

Christopher Hansen,  Sociology PhD

Dissertation Director: Dr. Dana Garbarski

“Gender diversity in U.S. adolescents: an exploration of multidimensional survey measures of gender and their associations with health and social outcomes using a national sample of adolescent-parent dyads.”

 

Humanities Dissertation of the Year

Shane Patrick Gormley, Theology PhD

Dissertation Director: Dr. Edmondo Lupieri

“To this you were called: Discipleship, suffering, and social identity in First Peter.”