Student Recognition Awards
Recipients of the following Graduate School award programs are selected by central committees that include members of our graduate faculty. Applications and nominations are submitted to the Graduate School's Office of Graduate Fellowships and Awards Administration.
Applications will open in the August timeframe for the upcoming academic year. Please check with your program for details and competition links.
Inquiries regarding these programs can be directed to the Office of Graduate Fellowships and Awards Administration.
The Graduate School is proud to sponsor the awards below for our students annually. Learn more about each award and how to nominate a student below.
2023–24 Student Award Recipients
Alumni Association Dissertation Award
Arts & Humanities
- Dima Abu-Aridah, Architecture, College of Arts and Architecture
- Corinne Lajoie, Philosophy with a dual title in Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, College of The Liberal Arts
- Maria Rovito, American Studies, Penn State Harrisburg
Social Sciences
- Katie Bernhard, Recreation, Park, and Tourism Management with a dual title in Transdisciplinary Research on Environment and Society, College of Health and Human Development
- Mengqi Liao, Mass Communications, Donald P. Bellisario College of Communications
Life & Health Sciences
- Mason Breitzig, Epidemiology, College of Medicine
- Mayura Dhamdhere, Biomedical Sciences with a dual title in Clinical and Translational Sciences, College of Medicine
- Meredith Persico, Horticulture, College of Agricultural Sciences
- Gavin Rackoff, Psychology, College of the Liberal Arts
Engineering
- Haoyang Chen, Bioengineering
- Myoung Hwan Kim, Biomedical Engineering, College of Engineering
Physical & Computational Sciences
- Marius Jürgensen, Physics, Eberly College of Science
- Divya Singh, Physics, Eberly College of Science
AT&T Graduate Fellowship
- Mohammadreza Abbasi, Electrical Engineering, College of Engineering
Distinguished Master's Thesis Award
Physical & Computational Sciences
- Chowdhury Imam, Architecture, College of Arts and Architecture
Arts & Humanities
- Arjun Janardhanan,, Architecture, College of Arts and Architecture
Engineering
- Adam Park, Computer Science and Engineering, College of Engineering
Graduate Student Excellence in Mentoring Award
- Rebecca Welch, Materials Science and Engineering, College of Earth and Mineral Sciences
Graduate Student International Research Award
- Sarah Richards, Ecology with a dual title in International Agricultural and Development, Intercollege Program
Harold F. Martin Graduate Assistant Outstanding Teaching Award
- Benton Bickerton, Chemistry, Eberly College of Science
- Allison Carothers, Integrative and Biomedical Physiology, Intercollege Program
- Andrew Domzal, Philosophy, College of the Liberal Arts
- Carolin Jolitz, German with a dual title in Language Science, College of the Liberal Arts
- Timothy D. Smith, American Studies, Penn State Harrisburg
- Abigail Stebbins, Curriculum and Instruction, College of Education
- Kelly Sweeney, Communication Arts and Sciences, College of the Liberal Arts
- Yin Tang, Statistics, Eberly College of Science
- Brooke Tybush, French and Francophone Students with a dual title in Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, College of the Liberal Arts
- Morgan Vincent, Chemistry, Eberly College of Science
Harold K. Schilling Dean's Graduate Scholarship
- Ryan Naylor, Recreation, Park, and Tourism Management, College of Health and Human Development
Intercollege Graduate Student Outreach Achievement Award
- Ana V. Leon-Apodaca, Bioinformatics and Genomics, Intercollege Program
Penn State Alumni Association Scholarship for Penn State Alumni in the Graduate School
- Sarah Torhan, Civil Engineering, College of Engineering
- Tyus Yeingst, Biomedical Engineering, College of Engineering
Professional Master's Excellence Award
- Allison Brault, Music, College of Arts and Architecture
- Grace Buddle, Biotechnology, Eberly College of Science
- Kimberly Cunningham, Architecture, College of Arts and Architecture
- Erin Stanek, Theatre, College of Arts and Architecture
Thomas and June Beaver Fund
- Kiran Bhaskar, Mechanical Engineering, College of Engineering