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Doctoral Recognition Ceremony Honors Student Accomplishments

6/11/2018

 
Dean Richard Arum opened the 2018 Doctoral Recognition Ceremony on May 22 by welcoming students, faculty, staff, and guests.

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This has been a year of accomplishments and change. Our ranking moved up to #15 in the U.S. among public universities, and we are preparing to welcome the newly hired faculty and students who will be joining us at the beginning of the Fall quarter, 2018. 

You, doctoral students, have continued your impressive range of accomplishments and honors, including graduations, publications in major journals, presentations throughout the U.S., and representing the School of Education in the best possible light. 

At this event, we begin by recognizing the graduates who received their degree in the last calendar year. They generally are not in attendance because they are dispersed in their new academic positions throughout the U.S., but an additional 12 names have been added to the Ph.D. honor plaque for 2017: Nicholas Graham, Christa Greenfader, NaYoung Hwang, Ksenia Korobkova, Janet Garcia Mercado, Lynn Reimer, Jennifer Sun, Viet Vu, Summer (Wei) Wang, Tyler Watts, Soo Bin Yim, and Sara Young. Copies of their dissertations are being ordered. 

Twelve of our current candidates will receive their degree in June: Melissa Callaghan, Brandy Jenner, Suhang Jiang, Ryan Lewis, Grace Lin, Veronica Newhart, Tutrang Nguyen, Rachel Stumpf, Christopher Stillwell, Tamara Tate, Nancy Tsai, and Neil Young.

In April, 80 of you completed your Annual Report of Student Progress, which detailed your activities from Spring 2017 into Spring 2018.  
  • During this period, you published a total of 58 articles, demonstrating both scholarship accomplishment and your progression along the path to future membership in the Academy.
  • Collectively, 109 of your articles are currently in preparation or under review.
  • A total of 167 conference and professional presentations were delivered this past year.  

During 2017-2018, you assumed leadership positions and volunteered your time:

• Within the school  
  • ADSE, SoE DECADE, and Student Reps
  • Recruitment Weekend, PhD Orientation, and UCI Writing Project 
  • Professional Development Seminars, Brown Bag Presentations, and Guest Speakers
  • Faculty Search Committees
  • Admissions Committee 
  • Labs and Research Centers
  • Projects, such as Project Crystal 
• Within the university 
  • DECADE, Associated Graduate Students
  • Undergraduate Research Symposium (UROP)
  • UCI’s Discover Science Initiative
  • Pedagogical Fellows Program
  • UCI Homecoming
  • UCI’s Data Mining Symposium
  • UCI College, Career, and Community Writers Program
  • Division of Teaching Excellence and Innovation
• And at local, state, and national levels  
  • AERA, APA
  • California Forum on Diversity 
  • Orange County Head Start
  • SRCD
  • El Sol Science and Arts Academy of Santa Ana
  • North American Taiwan Studies Association
  • National Council of Teachers of Mathematics

Your scholarship has been recognized both within the university and by outside organizations. To name a few of awards that are supporting your studies:
  • California Educational Research Association Dissertation Grant
  • CATESOL David E. Eskey Memorial Award
  • Cystic Fibrosis Thriving Scholar Grant
  • Division of Teaching Excellence & Innovation Pedagogical Fellowship
  • Eugene Cota Robles Fellowship
  • Faculty Mentor Program Fellowship
  • Gordon Hein Scholarship
  • Higher Education Teaching & Learning Fellowship
  • John Templeton Foundation Emerging Scholars Award 
  • National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship
  • Newkirk Graduate Student Fellowship 
  • Provost Fellowship
  • Public Impact Dissertation Fellowship
  • Presidents Dissertation Year Fellowship
  • Society for Research on Child Development Dissertation Award
  • Spencer Dissertation Fellowship
  • UC Consortium on the Developmental Science of Adolescence Seed Grant
  • UCI Chancellor’s Club Fund for Excellence Fellowship
  • UCI Engage Graduate Student Future of the Field Award

Congratulations to all of you for your hard work and your success. You have excelled, and you have brought honor to UCI and to the School of Education.

The recognition program closed with the presentation of awards.
  • Michael E. Martinez Prize for Outstanding Research and Service: Priyanka Agarwal
  • Michael E. Martinez Prize for Outstanding Research and Service Honorable Mention: Melissa Callaghan
  • Associate Doctoral Students in Education Service Award (ADSE): Wendy Ochoa
  • School of Education Diverse Educational Community and Doctoral Experience (DECADE) Award: Diana Gamez
  • Keith Curry PhD Student Award: Wendy Ochoa
  • Keith Curry Undergraduate Student Award: Walter Ramirez
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