The Joukowsky Family Foundation Outstanding Dissertation Award is an annual prize awarded by the Graduate School for superior achievements in research by students who are completing their Ph.D.s. Supported through the generosity of the Joukowsky Family Foundation, the awards are usually given to four students per year, one from each of the four main areas: the humanities, the life sciences, the physical sciences, and the social sciences. The award carries at $2,500 honorarium and is given out at the Graduate School Commencement ceremony.
All dissertations nominated for the Joukowsky Prize are reviewed by the Graduate Council, which also makes final determinations regarding the winners.
Nomination process and requirements:
- The deadline for nominations is April 1. Please send nominations to Associate Dean David Lindstrom and copy Barbara Bennett.
- The award is open to completing doctoral candidates from all programs.
- Each candidate must be nominated by his or her program, and each doctoral program may submit only one nomination.
- Each program must submit a letter of nomination that includes an explanation of the student's achievement and the potential impact on the scholarship or research on his or her field. There is no form for the nomination process.
- Two printed copies of the student's dissertation MUST accompany the nomination. Copies of the dissertations will not be returned unless the nominating program requests them.
Winners of the Joukowsky Family Foundation Outstanding Dissertation Award include:
2009
- John Pannill Camp III, Theatre and Performance Studies, "'Le Premier Cadre': Theatre Architecture and Objects of Knowledge in Eighteenth-Century France"
- Lijie Zhang, Engineering, "Biologically Inspired Rosette Nanotube Nanocomposites for Bone Tissue Engineering, Orthopedic and Vascular Applications"
- Chenjie Xu, Chemistry, "Modification of Superparamagnetic Nanoparticles for Biomedical Applications"
- Sarah Dorothy Wald, American Civilization, "The Nature of Citizenship: Race, Citizenship, and Nature in Representations of Californian Agricultural Labor"
2008
- Gül Dolen, Neuroscience, "Genetic Interaction Between Frm1 and Grm5: A Role for mGluR5 in the Pathogenesis of Fragile X Syndrome"
- Huinan Liu, Biomedical Engineering, "Design, Fabrication and Evaluation of 2D to 3D Nanostructured Ceramic/Polymer Composites for Orthopedic Regeneration and Controlleed Drug Delivery"
- Robert Newcomb, Portuguese and Brazilian Studies, "Counterposing Nossa and Nuestra America: Brazil in the Late-Nineteenth and Early-Twentieth Century Intellectual Construction of Latin America"
- Paul White, Anthropology, "Chuckwalla and the Belligerent Burro: Timbisha Shoshone, Miners, and the Footprinits of Dispossession in the Panamints"
2007
- Prasanna Satpute-Krishnan; Molecular Biology, Cell Biology, and Biochemistry; "Mechanistic Insights Into Prion Propagation by Monitoring Protein Dynamics In Vivo"
- Matthias vom Hau, Sociology, "Contested Inclusion: A Comparative Study of Nationalism in Mexico, Argentina, and Peru"
- Stefan Roth, Computer Science, "High-Order Markov Random Fields for Low-Level Vision"
- Laetitia Iturralde, Comparative Literature, "Out of the Void: Writing 'Lo Argentino' in France"
2006
- Jeffrey Reingold, Chemistry:"Pi-Bonded Organometallic Complexes of Manganese and Rhodium Electrochemical Studies and Applications to Supramolecular Coordination Chemistry, Nanoparticle Self-Assembly, and Catalysis"
- Brian Mayer, Sociology: "Blue and Green Shades of Health: Forging Cross-Movements Coalitions between Labor and Environmental Organizations"
- Nathaniel Levtow, Religious Studies: "Images of Others: Icon Parodies and Iconic Politics in Ancient Israel "
- William Querbes, Pathobiology: "Mechanisms of JC Virus Cellular Invasion"
2005
- Lorrain Lisiecki, Geological Sciences: "Paleoclimate Time Series: New Alignment and Compositing Techniques, A 5.3 MYR Benthic 180 Stack, and Analysis of Pliocene-Pleistocene Climate Transitions"
- Sabrina McCormick, Sociology: "Scientization and Democratizing Knowledge: A Comparative Study of the Brazilian Anti-Dam Movement and the Environmental Breast Cancer Movement in the United States"
- G. Michael Pace, Philosophy: "Perceptual Consciousness and Epistemic Justification"
- Julian Ling-Chao Wong, Molecular Biology, Cell Biology, and Biochemistry: "Molecular Mechanisms of the Animal Block to Polyspermy"
2004
- Rachel White, Religious Studies: "Recovering the Past, Renewing the Present: Martin Buber, Gershom Scholem and the History of Historical Consciousness in German-Jewish Thought"
- Matthew Lange, Sociology: "The British Colonial Lineages of Despotism and Development"
- Sang Ryul Park , Physics: "Neutron Scattering and AC Susceptibility Studies of Vortex Matter"
- Scott Robbins, Pathobiology: "Expression and Function of the KLRG1 Molecule on NK Cells and T Cells"
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