Five NDSU students are recipients of the Doctoral Dissertation Award program through North Dakota Experimental Program to Stimulate Competitive Research (ND EPSCoR). The recipients will receive $174,240 in stipend support during two years.

Award winners and their advisers are:
• Michael Caruso, biological sciences; Mark Sheridan, professor
• Rebecca Hermann, chemistry and molecular biology; Glenn Dorsam, assistant professor
• Christopher Heth, chemistry and molecular biology; Seth Rasmussen, associate professor
• Bethany Kubik, mathematics; Sean Sather-Wagstaff, associate professor
• Shashindra Man Pradhan, civil engineering; Dinesh Katti, professor

ND EPSCoR’s DDA program is designed to increase the completion rate of doctoral students enrolled in the science, engineering and mathematics disciplines at North Dakota’s two research-intensive universities and to increase the number of competitive proposals submitted to the National Science Foundation.

ND EPSCoR is a federally and state funded program designed to improve the ability of university researchers to compete more effectively for federal, regional and private research grants in the sciences, engineering and mathematics. For more information on the Doctoral Dissertation Award program, visit www.ndepscor.nodak.edu/programs.