Congratulations to 2021-2022 faculty, student recipients of graduate awards

The Office of Graduate Studies congratulates recipients of the annual Dean's Award for Excellence in Graduate Education; Graduate Student Excellence Award; Outstanding Graduate Teaching Assistant Award; Outstanding Graduate Research & Creative Activities
The Office of Graduate Studies congratulates recipients of the annual Dean's Award for Excellence in Graduate Education; Graduate Student Excellence Award; Outstanding Graduate Teaching Assistant Award; Outstanding Graduate Research & Creative Activities

The Office of Graduate Studies congratulates recipients of the annual Dean's Award for Excellence in Graduate Education; Graduate Student Excellence Award; Outstanding Graduate Teaching Assistant Award; Outstanding Graduate Research & Creative Activities Award; and the Folsom Distinguished Dissertation and Thesis awards.

Dean’s Award for Excellence in Graduate Education honors faculty members whose dedication to graduate students and commitment to excellence in graduate mentoring have made a significant contribution to graduate education at Nebraska.

  • Katrina Jagodinsky | Susan J. Rosowski Associate Professor of History and Graduate Chair, Department of History
  • Richard Perrin | Jim Roberts Professor of Agricultural Economics, Department of Agricultural Economics
Graduate Student Excellence in Mentoring Award recognizes graduate students who have demonstrated excellence in mentoring undergraduate and other graduate students in research and creative activities.
  • Kelsey Karnik | Statistics
  • Keting Chen | Human Sciences: Child, Youth, and Family Studies
  • Morgan Cade | Biological Sciences: Bioinformatics
Outstanding Teaching Assistant Award recognizes graduate teaching assistants who have demonstrated special effectiveness in teaching undergraduates at Nebraska.
  • Eunhong Lee | Philosophy
  • Tanner Harrod | Music: Music Composition
Outstanding Research & Creative Activities Award recognizes excellence in graduate student research and creativity at Nebraska.
  • Gonzalo Rizzo | Agronomy and Horticulture: Crop Physiology and Production
  • Erin Ramsdell | Psychology
Folsom Distinguished Doctoral Dissertation Award recognizes the outstanding research and creative accomplishments of the university's doctoral students.
  • Amir Monemian Esfahani | Ph.D. in Engineering: Biomedical Engineering
    Dissertation Title: A Single Cell Pair Mechanical Interrogation Platform to Study Cell-Cell Adhesion Mechanics
  • Erin Hamel | Ph.D in Human Sciences: Child, Youth, and Family Studies
    Dissertation Title: Exploring Non-Contact Time in Early Childhood Education
Folsom Distinguished Master's Thesis Award recognizes the outstanding research and creative accomplishments of the university's doctoral students.
  • Reagan Myers| M.A. in English: Composition and Rhetoric
    Thesis Title: In Defense of Girls Who Love Taylor Swift
  • Cassidy Taladay | M.A. in Communication Studies
    Thesis Title: Tales of love and perseverance: Family bereavement stories as a means to investigating impacts of end-of-life care on sense-making