The NDSU Graduate School has awarded Graduate School Doctoral Dissertation Fellowships to 15 students for the 2014-15 academic year. Each fellowship recipient will receive a stipend distributed during 12 months, plus additional funding for academic travel and supplies.

Application evaluation criteria included a summary of quality of the student’s research and credentials, a timeline for dissertation completion within 12 months and the quality of the adviser’s mentoring plan.

Fellowship recipients are:

• Harsharan Dhillon, cellular and molecular biology/biological sciences

• Justin Fisher, environmental and conservation sciences/biological sciences

• Angela Geraci, health nutrition and exercise science

• Jessica Holmin, psychology

• Mary Laughlin, English

• Ramkumar Moorthy, chemistry and biochemistry

• Yidong Peng, industrial and manufacturing engineering

• Mohyeldin Ragab, civil and environmental engineering

• Sayan Roy, electrical and computer engineering

• John Stenger, plant sciences

• Ai Ni Teoh, psychology

• Nandini Vallavoju, chemistry and biochemistry

• Rui Wang, plant pathology

• Yi Xu, pharmaceutical sciences

• Shuang Zhou, pharmaceutical sciences

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