The NDSU Graduate School has awarded Graduate School Doctoral Dissertation Fellowships to 12 students for the 2013-14 academic year. Each fellowship recipient will receive a stipend distributed during 12 months, plus additional funding for academic travel and supplies. 

The fellowship recipients were selected from a group of 28 applicants. 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.

Graduate School Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship recipients include:

• Carolyn DeLorme, education
• Davi Duff, emergency management
• Chunju Gu, civil engineering
• Steven Hammer, English
• Mun Yee Kwan, psychology
• Karina Montero, biological sciences
• Itai Mutukwa, natural resource management
• Atif Osmani, industrial and manufacturing engineering
• Gitanjali Sharma, pharmaceutical sciences
• Brianna Stenger, environmental and conservation sciences
• Zhenping Zhou, materials and nanotechnology
• Tara Zolnikov, developmental science 

NDSU is recognized as one of the nation’s top 108 public and private universities by the Carnegie Commission on Higher Education.