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Recipients of the "Best Dissertation" Award

Each year the University of Minnesota Graduate School recognizes the University's top recent Ph.D. graduates by presenting ‘best dissertation’ awards in four broad disciplinary areas.  The recipients receive an honorarium of $1,000.

 

2012 Best Dissertation Award Recipients

Arts & Humanities

 

Caley D. Horan, History

Advisers: Regents Professor Elaine Tyler May and Professor Lary May

Dissertation: “Actuarial Age:  Insurance and the Emergence of Neoliberalism in the Postwar United States”

Current Position: Lecturer, Princeton University

Caley D. Horan

Caley D. Horan

Biological & Medical Sciences

 

Sagar S. Agarwal, Pharmaceutics

Adviser: Professor William Elmquist

Dissertation: “Improving Delivery of Molecularly Targeted Agents to Glioma”

Current Position: Senior Clinical Pharmacokineticist l, Abbott Laboratories

Sagar S. Agarwal

Sagar S. Agarwal

Physical Sciences & Engineering

 

Eduardo Reategui, Mechanical Engineering

Adviser: Professor Alptekin Aksan

Dissertation: “Encapsulation of Proteins and Cells in Silica Nanoporous Materials”

Current Position: Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School

Eduardo Reategui

Eduardo Reategui

Social & Behavioral Sciences & Education

 

Ellery Frahm, Archaeology

Adviser: Professor Gilbert Tostevin

Dissertation: “The Bronze-Age Obsidian Industry at Tell Mozan (Ancient Urkesh), Syria”

Current Position: Marie Curie Experienced Research Fellow, University of Sheffield

Ellery Frahm

Ellery Frahm

 

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