Fourteen students named to UAB’s College of Arts and Sciences fellows program

Incoming doctoral students earn prestigious fellowships to pursue degrees in UAB’s College of Arts and Sciences.
Written by: Katherine Shonesy
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CAS bannerA group of UAB’s incoming doctoral students have been selected as recipients of the UAB Graduate Fellow in the Arts and Sciences award.

This prestigious fellowship honors applicants to doctoral programs in the UAB College of Arts and Sciences who show exceptional promise in research and scholarship and offers an annual stipend of $32,000, plus tuition and fees. 

The fellowships are typically granted for two years, contingent on satisfactory progress and department recommendation.

This year’s group of awardees comprises students who are pursuing doctorates at UAB after completing undergraduate degrees and master’s programs at institutions across the United States.

“We are indeed fortunate to be able to recruit such outstanding talent to UAB,” said Robert Palazzo, Ph.D., dean of the College of Arts and Sciences. These Ph.D. students are among the best in the country. We look forward to providing them with every opportunity to successfully compete with their counterparts across the United States and around the world. UAB provides excellent faculty and facilities, and now we also provide the competitive support needed to attract the best of the best into our Ph.D. programs. I look forward to the future success of these outstanding doctoral students.”  

The 2015 recipients of the UAB Graduate Fellow in the Arts and Sciences are: Lauren Allen, behavioral neuroscience; Benjamin Burgess, developmental psychology; Corey Cates, biology; Christina D’Angelo, medical psychology; Heather Dark, medical psychology; Anthoni Goodman, behavioral neuroscience; Kathryn Ham, physics; Stephanie Mueller, medical psychology; Ahana Roy Choudhury, computer and information sciences; Emma Sartin, developmental psychology; Yali Sun, biology; Marissa Swanson, medical psychology; Melissa Thye, developmental psychology; and Jessica Valles, medical sociology.