University Fellows Program Recruits 17 Top Graduate Students

By David Bradshaw, Graduate College
Aug. 30, 2022
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Subject: University Fellows Program Recruits 17 Top Graduate Students
Date: Aug 30, 2022

The Graduate Center, a unit of the Graduate College, is pleased to announce the incoming University Fellows cohort. For the past eight years, the University Fellows Program has recruited the University’s most distinguished graduate applicants. They were nominated by faculty in their programs and selected by five interdisciplinary committees comprised of faculty representatives from across the University.

The 2022-2023 cohort members are listed below in alphabetical order by last name. They are a richly diverse and accomplished group from three continents.

  • Ayrton Pablo Almada Jimenez, Applied Mathematics Graduate Interdisciplinary Program (PHD)
  • Maura Beste, Gender & Women's Studies (PHD)
  • Maria Fátima Corona del Toro, Musical Arts – Conducting (DMA)
  • Gözde Durgut, Second Language Acquisition and Teaching Graduate Interdisciplinary Program (PHD)   
  • Catherine Ellis, Physiological Sciences Graduate Interdisciplinary Program (PHD)
  • Jenna Green, Art History & Education - Art and Visual Culture Education (PHD)
  • Hilary Houlette, Higher Education (PHD)
  • Gabriella LaRose, Philosophy (PHD)
  • Eden McEwen, Optical Sciences (PHD)
  • Joona Mikkola, Arid Lands Resource Sciences Graduate Interdisciplinary Program (PHD)
  • Mary Monaghan, Musical Arts – Performance (DMA)
  • Crystal Morales, Arizona Biological and Biomedical Sciences Doctoral Program
  • Enrique Olivares-Pelayo, Geography (PHD)
  • Richard Park, Microbiology (PHD)
  • Addison Plummer, Aerospace Engineering (PHD) 
  • Jamie Schafroth, Anthropology (PHD)
  • Claire Taylor, Art (MFA)

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About the University of Arizona Graduate Center, a unit of the Graduate College

The Graduate Center provides graduate students and postdoctoral fellows – as well as their programs – support that enhances their academic and professional success. We benefit the next generation of researchers, academic professionals, and leaders by facilitating recruitment of distinguished graduate students, building opportunities for professional development and mentoring, and fostering interdisciplinary research, innovative collaboration, networking, and engagement with diverse communities.

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