In the last year of graduate work students receive a dissertation completion fellowship.
She will receive a dissertation grant totaling $10,000 from the Center to fund independent research during the 2012-13 academic year.
Rebecca Elliott of sociology has received a Mellon/ACLS Dissertation Completion Fellowship for research on social classification and climate change risk distribution in the United States.
He received a SIGMOD Dissertation Award in 2010, an NSF CAREER Award in 2011, an Alfred P. Sloan Fellowship in 2013, a Moore Data Driven Investigator Award in 2014, the VLDB early Career Award in 2015, the MacArthur Foundation Fellowship in 2015, and an Okawa Research Grant in 2016.
Like Kilcullen, she was drawn to the study of human conflict and also its reality: at Yale, where she received a doctorate, her dissertation was based on several years she spent living among supporters of the Irish Republican Army and then among British counterinsurgents.
What I dislike, is receiving a long dissertation on someone's career and self-described wonderfulness.
Under the direction of Gilbert N. Lewis, he received a doctorate for his dissertation on electron distribution in the energy levels of the hydrogen atom and thermodynamic calculations on gaseous molecules.
He received a Fulbright-Hays Doctoral Dissertation Research Abroad grant to support his research.
He received an ACM Doctoral Dissertation Honorable Mention and NSF Career Award, and he was named one of the Brilliant 10 Young Scientists by the Popular Science magazine and one of AI's 10 to Watch by the IEEE Intelligent Systems Magazine.
