ProQuest sponsors our graduate students and their ambitions.
| Year | Region | Author | University | Field | Title | 
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| 2019 | |||||
| CGS | Brian Musa Sweis | University of Minnesota | Biological and Life Sciences | Beyond Simple tests of value: A neuroeconomic, translational. Disease-relevant, and circuit-based approach to resolve the computational complexity of decision making | |
| CGS | Kishauna E. Soljour | Syracuse University | Humanities and Fine Arts | Beyond the Banlieue: French Postcolonial Migration & the Politics of a Sub-Saharan Identity | |
| NAGS | Hyun Ryu | University of Toronto | Social Science and Education | Participants’ Perspectives on Ethical Issues in Arts-Based Health Research: A Qualitative Study  | |
| MAGS | Miji Um | Indiana University – Purdue University at Indianapolis | Clinical psychology | Resting-State Neural Circuit Correlates of Negative Urgency: A  Comparison Between Tobacco Users and Non-Tobacco Users  | |
| MAGS | Najam Kahn | South Dakota State University | Management, Statistics, Operations research | Location Optimization of a Coal Power Plant to Balance Costs against Plant’s Emission Exposure  | |
| WAGS | Gregory Findlay | University of Washington | Genetics | High Throughput Interrogation of Genome Function and Cellular Lineage | |
| WAGS | Hajar Homayouni, | Colorado State University | Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics | An Approach for Testing the Extract-Transform-load Process in Data Warehouse Systems  | |
| CHBGS | Sarah Adjei-Fremah | North Carolina A&T University | Molecular biology, Animal Sciences, Immunology | Molecular Effects of Cowpea Polyphenols on Mammalian Transcriptome, Proteome, and Microbiome  | |
| CHBGS | Faihaa Ahmed | North Carolina A&T University | Bilogoy | Meprin B Activity Modulates Downstream Mediators of the Protein Kinase A Signaling Pathway in Ischemia/Reperfusion Induced Acute Kidney Injury | |
| CAGS | Soren Mellerup | Queen’s University | Engineering, Medical Sciences and Natural Sciences | Chiral N,C-Chelate Organoboron Compounds: Photoreactivity and Optoelectronic Applications  | |
| CAGS | Janelle Baker | McGill University | Fine Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences | Eating in the Oil Sands: Sâkawiyiniwak (Northern Bush Cree) Experiences with Wild Food Contamination in Alberta’s Oil Sands  | |
| 2018 | |||||
| CGS | Mohamed S. Ibrahim | Duke University | Math, Physical Sciences and Engineering | Optimization of Trustworthy Biomolecular Quantitative Analysis Using Cyber-Physical Microfluidic Platforms | |
| CGS | Eiko Strader | University of Massachusetts, Amherst | Social Sciences | Immigration and Within-Group Wage Inequality: How Queuing, Competition, and Care Outsourcing Exacerbate and Erode Earnings Inequalities | |
| CAGS | Dr. Christian Reimer | National Institute for Scientific Research (INRS) | Engineering, Medical Science and Natural Sciences | Optical quantum state generation with integrated frequency combs | |
| CAGS | Dr. Ashley Whillans | University of British Columbia | Fine Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences | Exchanging cents for seconds: The happiness benefits of choosing time over money | |
| CHBGS | Simone R. Barrett | Morgan State University | African American Studies, Black history, American history, Higher education | "We Bring Thee Our Laurels Whatever They May Be": A Concise History of Morgan State College Student-Led Protest | |
| CHBGS | Anish Bhandari | Morgan State University | Biology, Chemistry | High Throughput Crystallization of Peptides Using the iCrystal System and Metal-Assisted and Microwave-Accelerated Evaporative Crystallization (MA-MAEC) Technique | |
| CSGS | James P. Fancher | Texas State University | Life Sciences | Evaluation of Soil Chemistry in Human Decomposition Sites | |
| CSGS | Heather Hyden | University of Kentucky | Social Science, Education, and Business | Cultivating a Culture of Food Justice: Impacts of Community Based Economies on Farmers and Neighborhood Leaders in the Case of Fresh Stop Markets in Kentucky | |
| MAGS | Rafael Martinez-Feria | Iowa State University | Biological and Life Sciences | Suitability of winter canola (Brassica napus) for enhancing summer annual crop rotations in Iowa | |
| MAGS | Hilo Sugita | Indiana University | Humanities | Uncovering the Dead: An Extensive Study of the Late-Period Coffin Lid of Qnw-pw-s in the Eskenazi Museum, Indiana University. | |
| NEAGS | James W. Mnatzaganian | Rochester Institute of Technology | Physical Sciences, Mathematics and Engineering | A Mathematical Formalization of Hierarchical Temporal Memory’s Spatial Pooler for use in Machine Learning | |
| WAGS | Momcilo Gavrilov | Simon Fraser University | Innovation in Technology | Experiments on the Thermodynamics of Information Processing | |
| WAGS | Cole Crawford | Oregon State University | Humanities, Social Sciences, Education and Business | Respect the Gap: From Big to Boutique Data Through Laboring-Class Poets Online | |
| WAGS | Prem Pokharel | University of Alberta | Biological Sciences, Mathematics, and Physical Sciences, Life Sciences, and Engineering | Nursery Fertilization and Understory Competition Affect Seedling Growth in Oil Sands Reclaimed Soils in Alberta | |
| 2017 | |||||
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 | CAGS | Dr. Boyang Zhang | University of Toronto | Engineering, Medical Science and Natural Sciences | A Microfluidic Approach to Tissue Vascularization | 
| CAGS | Dr. Leila Qashu | Memorial University of Newfoundland | Fine Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences | Toward an Understanding of Justice, Belief and Women’s Rights: Ateetee, an Arsi Oromo Women’s sung Dispute Resolution in Ethiopia | |
| CHBGS | Dr. Kristen L. Rhinehardt | North Carolina A&T State University | Dissertation | Computational Modeling of Nucleic and Peptide Aptamer Interactions –IL6, S100Beta and GFAP Protein Biomarkers for Traumatic Brain Injury | |
| CSGS | Maël Le Noc | Texas State University | Digital Scholarship | Family Arrest and Separation during the Holocaust in Italy | |
| CSGS | Sepideh Maleki | Texas State University | Mathematics, Physical Sciences, and Engineering | Higher-Order and Tuple-Based Massively-Parallel Prefix Sums | |
| CSGS | Carl Rice | North Carolina State University | Humanities and Fine Arts | Diocletian’s “Great Persecutions”: Minority Religions and the Roman Tetrarchy | |
| MAGS | Andra Raisa Petca | Ohio University | Master's Thesis- Social Sciences | Factors Associated with Healthy and Impaired Social Functioning in Middle-School Adolescents with ADHD | |
| MAGS | George A. Van Den Driessche | Illinois State University | Master's Thesis – Mathematics, Physical Sciences and Engineering | Computational Investigations of Oxygen-Containing Donor-Acceptor Complexes Involving Sulfur Dioxide or Sulfur Trioxide | |
| NEAGS | Eric Beck | Wilfred Laurier University | Master's Thesis | The effects of external focus of attention exercise rehabilitation on dual task walking in Parkinson's disease | |
| WAGS | Vamsi Talla | University of Washington, Seattle | Innovation in Technology Award (Dissertation) | Power, Communication and Sensing Solutions for Energy Constrained Platforms | |
| WAGS | Daniela Navia | University of Calgary | Master’s Thesis - Humanities, Social Sciences, Education and Business | Uncovering Colonial Legacies: Voices of Indigenous Youth in Child Welfare (dis)Placements | |
| WAGS | Michael Himmelfarb | University of Calgary | Master’s Thesis - Biological Sciences, Mathematics, and Physical Sciences, Life Sciences, and Engineering | Measurement of Amplifier and Mixer Noise Parameters | |
| 2016 | |||||
| CAGS | Dr. Drew Higgins | University of Waterloo | Engineering, Medical Science and Natural Sciences | Nanostructured Oxygen Reduction Catalysts Designs to Reduce the Platinum Dependency of Polymer Electrolyte Fuel Cells | |
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 | CAGS | Dr. Douglas Hunter | York University | Fine Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences | Stone of Power: Dighton Rock, Colonization and the Erasure of an Indigenous Past | 
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 | CHBGS | Jeremy C. Ferrell | North Carolina A&T State University | Dissertation | A Distributed Model of Oilseed Biorefining, via Integrated Industrial Ecology Exchanges | 
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 | CHBGS | Hector Malagon | University of Maryland Eastern Shore | Dissertation | Population Dynamics of Young of the Year Summer Flounder (Paralichthys Dentatus) in Maryland Coastal Bays | 
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 | CSGS | Sergio Carvajal-Leoni | Texas State University | Digital Scholarship | The Texan Italian Stories Documentary Series: Fostering Social Connections Among Members of a Geo-Ethnic Community Through the Process of Media Creation | 
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 | CSGS | Andrew MacLaren | Texas State University | Life Sciences | Automated Detection of Rare and Endangered Anurans using Robust and Reliable Detection Software | 
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 | CSGS | Gandalf Nicolas | The College of William and Mary | Social Sciences, Business and Education | Confrontation of Prejudice Towards Multiracials and Monoracials | 
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 | MAGS | Nicholas Borcherding | University of Iowa | Master's Thesis | Non-Canonical WNT Signaling in Breast Cancer Initiation and Progression | 
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 | MAGS | Saul Meyerson-Knox | University of Cincinnati | Master's Thesis | “African Blues”: The Sound and History of a Transatlantic Discourse | 
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 | NEAGS | Whitten Overby | Cornell University, Ithaca | Master's Thesis | Postcards from God: Grace and the Corporate Everyday at Orlando’s Holy Land Experience | 
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 | WAGS | Morgan Dixon | University of Washington, Seattle | Innovation in Technology | Pixel-Based Reverse Engineering of Graphical Interfaces | 
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 | WAGS | Maegan Hough | University of Victoria | Humanities, Social Sciences, Education and Business | Personal Recollections and Civic Responsibilities: Dispute Resolution and the Indian Residential Schools Legacy | 
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 | WAGS | Cameron Jack | Oregon State University | Biological Sciences, Mathematics, and Physical Sciences, Life Sciences, and Engineering | Colony Level Infection of Honey Bee Gut Pathogen, Nosema ceranae and Role of Pollen Nutrition in Nosema cerenae Infection and Bee Survival | 
| 2015 | |||||
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 | CGS | Jeongmin Choi | University of Missouri | Biological and Life Sciences | Identification of an extracellular adenosine 5’-triphosphate receptor in Arabidopsis thaliana | 
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 | CGS | Timo Schaefer | Indiana University | Humanities and Fine Arts | The Social Origins of Justice: Mexico in the Age of Utopian Failure, 1821-1870 | 
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 | NEAGS | Jeffery Stokes | Boston College | Master's Thesis | The Influence of Intergenerational Relationships on Marital Quality Following the Death of a Parent in Adulthood | 
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 | MAGS | Christina Holbein | Loyola University of Chicago | Master's Thesis | Towards Observational Measurement of Social Competence In Youth With Chronic Health Conditions: Development of Peer Interactions Scales For Youth With Spina Bifida | 
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 | MAGS | Gavin D'Souza | University of Cincinnati | Master's Thesis | Influence of Serial coronary Stenoses on Diagnostic Parameters: An In-vitro Study with Numerical Validation | 
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 | CHBGS | Jennifer Green | Florida A&M University | Dissertation | The Characterization of Selective Estrogen Receptor Modulators (SERMs) as a Possible Treatment Option for Prostate Cancer | 
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 | CSGS | Eric Ross Anderson | University of Alabama-Huntsville | Digital Scholarship | Analysis of rainfall-triggered landslide hazards through the dynamic integration of remotely sensed, modeled and in situ environmental factors in El Salvador | 
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 | CSGS | Brandee Ester | University of Alabama | Humanities and Fine Arts | Data Visualization of Indian Mutiny Causes in Victorian Higher Journalism | 
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 | CSGS | Mohammad Saied Dehghani Sanij | Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University | Mathematics, physical Sciences, and Engineering | Optimal Resource Allocation Strategies to Protect Network-structured Systems | 
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 | WAGS | Sidhant Gupta | University of Washington | Innovation in Technology | ElectriSense: Single-Point Sensing Using EMI for Electrical Event Detection and Classication in the Home | 
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 | WAGS | Adam Nott | University of Victoria | Humanities, Social Sciences, Education and Business | Transnational Law and Resource Management: The role of a private legal system in the promotion of sustainable development in the mining industry | 
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 | WAGS | Kimberly Snyder | University of British Columbia | Science, Technology, Engineering and Medicine | Investigating the role of Podocalyxin on breast cancer progression and metastasis | 
| 2014 | |||||
| CAGS | Daniel Boyce | Dalhousie University | Engineering, Medical Science and Natural Sciences | Patterns and Drivers of Marine Phytoplankton Change over the Past Century | |
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 | CAGS | Eric Paul Weissman | Concordia University | Fine Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences | Spaces, Places and States of Mind: A Pragmatic Ethnography of Liminal Critique | 
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 | NEAGS | Nagavenkat Adurthi | University of Buffalo, State University of New York | Master's Thesis | The Conjugate Unscented Transform- A Method to Evaluate Multidimensional Expectations Integrals | 
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 | Matthew D. Reed | Yale University | Mathematics, Physical Sciences and Engineering | Entanglement and Quantum Error Correction with Superconducting Qubits | |
| Joshua David Kertzer | The Ohio State University | Social Sciences | Resolve in International Politics | ||
| Eric Paul Weissman | Concordia University | Fine Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences | Spaces, Places and States of Mind: A Pragmatic Ethnography of Liminal Critique | ||
| Daniel Boyce | Dalhousie University | Engineering, Medical Sciences and Natural Sciences | Patterns and Drivers of Marine Phytoplankton Change over the Past Century | ||
| Nagavenkat Adurthi | University of Buffalo, State University of New York | The Conjugate Unscented Transform: A Method to Evaluate Multidimensional Expectation Integrals | |||
| Kaylia Mekelda Duncan | University of Iowa | Dynamics of Tumor Progression and Therapy Response in IL-6 and Driven Cell Malignancy | |||
| Anna Ruth Lynch | University of Iowa | Early Lutheran Education in the Late Reformation in Mecklenburg | |||
| Tetsuto Miyashita | University of Alberta | Science, Technology, Engineering and Medicine | Comparative Analysis of the Anatomy of the Myxinoida and the Ancestry of Eaarly Vertebrate Lineages | ||
| Hannah Harris | University of Alaska-Fairbanks | Humanities, Social Sciences, Education and Business | Perspectives on Economics policy and Personal Identity and Culture of Cook Inlet and Kenai River Salmon Fisheries | ||
| Lucas Ting | University of Washington | How Mechanotransduction Responds to Endothelial Cell Monolayers and Platelets | |||
| Kai Zhang | Norfolk State University | Development of Magnetic and Optic Nanomaterials for Biomedical Applications | |||
| Tiara Nydia Moore | Hampton University | Fish habitat diminution by sedimentary oxygen demand | |||
| Anita Lam | Texas State University, San Marcos | Typeline, a bilingual typographic reference guide for Chinese students | |||
| David Frank | University of North Carolina at Greensboro | Social Sciences, Business and Education | Metacognitive Age Differences in Strategy Shift: Retrieval Avoidance or General Shift Reluctance? | ||
| Manashree Prajapati | Tarleton State University | Life Sciences | The effects of cholesterol carrier proteins and statin on fibroblast migration and signal transduction via Sterol Regulatory Element Binding Proteins (SREBP) | ||
| 2013 | |||||
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 | Christopher Barnett | University of Alaska Anchorage | Biological Sciences, Mathematical and Physical Sciences, Life Sciences, and Engineering | Williams Syndrome Transcription Factor is Critical for neural crest cell function in Xenopus laevis | |
| Austin Mason | University of Minnesota, Twin Cities | Listening to the Early Medieval Dead: Religious | |||
| Valorie Salimpoor | Rotman Research | Music, Emotion, and the Reward System: Investigations with (11C) raclopride Positron | |||
| Sarah Teets | University of Colorado Boulder | Humanities, Social Sciences, Education, and Business | Historian Historicized: The Representation of Nicolaus of Damascus in Josephus' Judaean Antiquities | ||
| Andrew Top | Simon Fraser University | Automated Confidence-based User Guidance for Increasing Efficiency in Interactive 3D Image Segmentation | |||
| Dr. Aaron Shafer | Engineering, Medical Sciences and Natural Sciences | On the Evolution History and Population Genetic Structure of the North American Mountain Goat (Oreamnos americanus) | |||
| Amirhossein Arzani | Illinois Institute of Technology | Validation and Characterization of Turbulence in an Aortic Coarctation | |||
| Alexandra Corrine Keller | University of Buffalo-SUNY | Direct Reprogramming of Neural Stem Cells into Oligodendrocyte Progenitors by Defined Factors | |||
| Sarah Suda | North Carolina State University | Hygroscopicity Frequency Distributions of Secondary Organic Aerosols | |||
| Gregory C. Mitchell | Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University | The Reconciliation of Art + Science | |||
| 2012 | |||||
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 | Bjorn Bernhard Brandenburg | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill | Mathematics, Physical Sciences & Engineering | Scheduling and locking in multiprocessor real-time operating systems | |
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 | Junjie Chen | University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign | Social Sciences | While the state claims the intimate: Population control policy and the makings of Chinese modernity | |
| 2011 | |||||
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 | Nathaniel Adam Sowa | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill | Physical Sciences, Mathematics & Engineering | Characterization of Ectonucleotidases in Nociceptive Circuits | |
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 | Kirsten A. Weld | Yale University | Social Sciences | Reading the Politics of History in Guatemala's National Police Archives | |
| 2010 | |||||
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 | Charles Conroy | Princeton University | Physical Sciences, Mathematics & Engineering | Stellar Population Synthesis for the Future | |
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 | Gregory R. Samanez-Larkin | Stanford University | Social Sciences | Incentive Processing in the Aging Brain: Individual Differences in Value-Based Learning and Decision-Making Across the Adult Life Span | |
| 2009 | |||||
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 | Mark Julian Kiel | University of Michigan | Physical Sciences, Mathematics & Engineering | Identification, Localization and Characterization of Hematopoietic Stem Cells and Their Niche | |
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 | Kristel Renee Smentek | University of Delaware | Humanities & Fine Arts | Art, Commerce, and Scholarship in the Age of Enlightenment: Pierre-Jean Mariette and the Making of Art History | |
| 2008 | |||||
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 | Thomas Rondeau | Virginia Tech | Electrical & Computer Engineering | Application of Artificial Intelligence to Wireless Communication | |
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 | Jessica Horst | University of Iowa | Psychology | Turning Novel Names into Known Names: Understanding Referent Selection and Retention in 24-Month-Old Children and Neural Networks | |
| 2007 | |||||
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 | Christobal Uauy | University of California, Davis | Plant Sciences | Positional Cloning of Gpc-B1, A Wheat Quantitative Trait Loci Affecting Senescence and with Pleiotropic Effects on Grain Protein, Zinc and Iron Concentration | |
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 | Michael David Chasar | University of Iowa | English | Everyday Reading: U.S. Poeetry and Popular Culture, 1880-1945 | |
| 2006 | |||||
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 | Paul Michael Collins | Binghamton University | Social Sciences | Friends of the Supreme Court: Examining the Influence of Interest Groups in the U.S. Supreme Court, 1946-2001 | |
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 | Katey Marion Walter | University of Alaska Fairbanks | Mathematics, Physical Sciences & Engineering | Methane Emissions from Lakes in Northeast Siberia and Alaska | |
| 2005 | |||||
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 | Hallem, Elissa Anyon | Yale University | Biology & Life Sciences | The Role of Odorant Receptors in Odor Coding | |
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 | Thomas N Sizgorich | University of California, Santa Barbara | Humanities | Monks and Mujahidun: Militant Piety in Late Antiquity and Early Islam | |
| 2004 | |||||
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 | Eric Todd Brown | Princeton University | Mathematics, Physical Sciences & Engineering | “Neural Oscillators and Integrators in the Dynamics of Decision Tasks” | |
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 | Pedro C. Magalhaes | Ohio State University | Social Sciences | “The Limits to Judicialization: Legislative Politics and Constitutional Review in the Iberian Democracies” | |
| 2003 | |||||
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 | Li Yu | Ohio State University | Humanities & Fine Arts | “A History of Reading in Late Imperial China,. 1000-1800” | |
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 | Tadzia Jean GrandPré | Yale University | Biology & Life Sciences | “Nogo: A Molecular Determinant of Axonal Growth and Regeneration” | |
| 2002 | |||||
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 | Bryan K. Ritchie | Emory University | Social Sciences | “The Political Economy of Technical Intellectual Capital Formation in Southeast Asia” | |
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 | Daniel Adam Steck | University of Texas at Austin | Mathematics, Physical Sciences & Engineering | “Quantum Chaos, Transport, and Decoherence in Atom Optics” | |
| 2001 | |||||
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 | Beverly Schwartzberg | University of California, Santa Barbara | Humanities & Fine Arts | “Grass Widows, Barbarians, and Bigamists: Fluid Marriage in Late Nineteenth-Century America” | |
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 | Robin Douglas Knight | Princeton University | Biology & Life Sciences | “The Origin and Evolution of the Genetic Code” | |
| 2000 | |||||
| Barry C. Burden | Ohio State University | Social Sciences | “Candidates’ Positions in Congressional Elections” | ||
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 | Duiliu-Emanual Diaconescu | Rutgers | Physical Science, Engineering and Mathematics | “D-Branes and Non-Perturbative Dynamics in String Theory” | |
| 1999 | |||||
| Matthew Lawrence Albert | Rockefeller University | Biology & Life | “Resurrecting the Dead: Dendritic Cells Cross-present Aantigen Dervied from Apototoc Cell, and Induce Viral-and Tumor-specific Cytotoxic T Lymphocytes | ||
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 | Karen Redrobe Beckman | Princeton University | Humanities & Fine Arts | “Vanishing Women” | |
| 1998 | |||||
| Kenneth Tate Andrews | SUNY Stony Brook | Social Sciences | “Freedom is a Constant Struggle: The Dynamics and Consequences of the Mississippi Civil Rights Movement” | ||
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 | Luis Lehner | University of Pittsburgh | Math/Physical Sciences | “Gravitational Radiation from Black Hole Space Times” | |
| 1997 | |||||
| Firdaus Dhabhar | Rockefeller University | Biology/Life Sciences | “Stress Induced Enhancement of Antigen-Specific, Cell Mediated Immunity—The Role of Hormones and Leukocyte Trafficking” | ||
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 | Susan Behrends Frank | University of Iowa | Humanities/Fine Arts | “The Collaborations of Salvador Dali and Luis Bunel” | |