Recipients of Endowed Fellowships for 2008-09
The University of Minnesota Fellowships listed below are supported by endowed income from
wills and trusts or, in a few instances, by donations from organizations.
Alexander and Lydia Anderson Fellowship
To support students who have completed either a bachelor's or a master's degree at the University of Minnesota and who are currently pursuing a graduate degree in the plant or animal sciences. Alexander Anderson worked his way through the University of Minnesota studying mechanical drawing and chemistry. He graduated in 1894 and later completed an M.S. at the University. After receiving a Ph.D. in botany from the University of Munich, he served as an assistant professor of botany at the University of Minnesota (1899). In subsequent years he taught at Clemson and Columbia Universities. The inventor of the process for puffed wheat and puffed rice, Anderson spent most of his life on research to improve the process.
Recipients:
Michael Dixon
Conservation Biology, Fisheries & Aquatic Biology
The Role of Resource Partitioning and Competition in Bat Community Assembly
Adviser: Sharon Jansa
Beth Holbrook
Water Resources Science
Physical and Biological Influences on the Spatial Arrangement of Fish Populations at Two Locations in Lake Superior
Advisers: Thomas Hrabik and Donn Branstrator
Margaret Mangan
Applied Plant Sciences
Native Plant Polycultures for Bio-energy Production
Advisers: Donald Wyse and Craig Sheaffer
Carolyn Crosby Fellowship
To support students engaged in field-based botanical investigation. Carolyn Crosby earned a master's degree in botany in the early 1900s. The fund was established by her brother, John Crosby, and other relatives.
Recipients:
Evan Larson, Geography
Fire Regimes, Forest Succession, and the Effects of Fire Supression in Whitebark Pine Forests
Advisers: Kurt Kipfmueller and Kathy Klink
Annika Moe, Ecology, Evolution & Behavior
Plant Hybridization via Pollinator Sharing in an Obligate Pollinator Mutualism
Adviser: George Weiblen
John Stanton-Geddes, Ecology, Evolution & Behavior
Ecological and Evolutionary Fate of Migrants
Advisers: Ruth Shaw and Peter Tiffin
Louise T. Dosdall Fellowship
To support women graduate
students in any field of the natural or physical sciences who show exceptional
promise for a successful career in research. Louise Dosdall entered
the University of Minnesota in 1912 and completed her Ph.D. here in
1922. An expert on mushrooms and ornamental plants, she taught plant
pathology at the University of Minnesota for 41 years. She established
the fellowship in her will.
Recipients:
Amy Hansen
Civil Engineering
Quantifying the Effects of Flow Conditions on the Mass Transfer Dynamics of Submerged Canopies
Adviser: Miki Hondzo
Chunze Lai
Chemistry
Receptor-Based Chemical Sensors with Perflouropolymer Matrixes and Three-Dimensionality Ordered Nanoporous Carbon-Contacts for Enhanced Robustness, Selectivity and Stability
Adviser: Philippe Buhlmann
Stanwood Johnston Memorial Fellowship
To support graduate students
of promise in the fields of biochemistry, chemistry, geology, geophysics,
microbiology, and physics. The memorial fund was established by the
will of Juliet Johnston in honor of her son Stanwood, who died while
studying at the University of Chicago. Juliet Johnston was the widow
of John Black Johnston, former Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences
at the University of Minnesota. Before assuming the deanship, he had
a noteworthy career as an M.D. and neurologist in the Department of
Anatomy.
Recipient:
Sergiy Dubynskiy
Physics
Nonperturbative Properties of Baryons and Heavy Mesons
Adviser: Mikhail Voloshin
Frieda Martha Kunze Fellowship
To support graduate students in biochemistry, chemistry, or biomedical sciences.
Recipient:
Melissa Fierke
Chemistry
The Utilization of Monolithic Three-Dimensionally Ordered Macroporous Carbon in Electrochemical Applications
Adviser: Andreas Stein
Harold Leonard Film
Study Fellowship and Grant
To support graduate students
doing study/research in film history, criticism, theory, or aesthetics.
The fund was established by the will of Clara Lefkovits in honor of
her son, Harold Leonard.
Recipients:
Morgan Adamson
Comparative Literature
The End of the Gold Standard and the Crisis in Fil, 1967 - 1974
Advisers: Cesare Casarino and John Mowitt
Paige Sweet
Comparative Literature
The Secret Politics of Punctuation
Adviser: John Mowitt
Eva O. Miller Fellowship
To support graduate students
in the broad areas of psychology and of statistics and measurement who
are engaged in research. Eva O. Miller was the wife of W. S. Miller,
a faculty member in the Department of Educational Psychology at the
University of Minnesota from 1916 to 1948. During two periods, 1937-40
and 1943, he served as acting dean of the Graduate School. He was best
known for his outstanding research on the measurement of high-level
ability, including the authorship of the Miller Analogies Test. The
funding for the fellowship comes from royalty income from the Miller
Analogies Test.
Recipient:
Zhicheng Lin
Psychology
Seeing the Invisible: The Sope and Limits of Unconscious Processing
Advisers: Sheng He and Yuhong Jiang
Torske Klubben Fellowship
The Torske Klubben, which was founded in 1933, is a Minneapolis luncheon club of men of Norwegian heritage who are deeply interested in Norway and Norwegian-American history and relationships. Since shortly after World War II, the organization has supported University of Minnesota graduate fellowships for Norwegian citizens. Recently, Torske Klubben created a new award for Minnesota residents who have an interest in or connection with Norway and/or its culture. The overarching goal of the fellowship program is supporting future leaders and maintaining cultural ties between Norway and America.
Minnesota Recipients:
Leif Eikevik
Architecture
Adviser: Steven Weeks
Daniel Westholm
Biochemistry, Molecular Biology & Biophysics
Adviser: Grant Anderson
Norwegian Recipients:
Nina Slupphaug
Public Policy
Lars Stormo
Electrical Engineering
Mark and Judy Yudof Fellowship
To support a top graduate student pursuing interdisciplinary work in the areas of science policy and ethics. The fellowship was established in 2002 in honor of former University of Minnesota President Mark Yudof and his wife Judy.
Recipient:
Emily Smith
American Studies
Cyborgs or Luddites?: Embodying Science while Resisting Cures
Advisers: Bruce Elliott and Roderick Ferguson
Warren and Henrietta Warwick Fellowship
To support a Ph.D. student in the biomedical sciences, preferably a medical school resident. Dr. Warwick is a pioneering pediatrician in the treatment of cystic fibrosis.
Recipient:
John Albin
Microbiology, Immunology, & Cancer Biology
Adviser: Reuben Harris
Tibor and Olga Zoltai Fellowship
The fellowship was established in 2000 by Olga Zoltai and the late Tibor Zoltai to support a graduate student from Hungary. Tibor Zoltai was a professor in the department of geology and geophysics.
Recipient:
Andrea Szabo
Economics
Adviser: Larry Jones
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