15 graduate students receive Completion Fellowships

Fifteen Arizona State University doctoral and MFA students in the arts, humanities, education and social sciences have been awarded fellowships by the Graduate College.

Their diverse research advances scholarship in their fields and pursues solutions to local and global challenges.

• A doctoral candidate in Justice and Social Inquiry explores the unique needs of the deaf community, minorities with disabilities, and female students in traditionally underrepresented majors, with a goal of helping educators increase graduation rates in these groups.

• An interior design student is inspired by Florence Nightingale’s principles of patient-centered hospital design to create healthcare environments that will raise the quality of life for patients, families, and health professionals.

• An Iraq veteran in an MFA Creative Writing program is completing a manuscript of poetry that he hopes will illuminate the lives and experiences of soldiers at home and abroad.

“Completion Fellowships allow graduate students in the final stages of completing their degrees a semester of full-time effort to complete a dissertation, thesis or project,” says Andrew Webber, Associate Vice Provost at the Graduate College. “They are selected on the basis of their outstanding scholarship and the high quality of research that each of these students is pursuing.”

Deadline for applications for the fall 2012 semester is March 30, 2012. Full details are at graduate.asu.edu/completion.

The spring 2012 scholars are:

Stefan Borg, doctoral candidate, School of Politics and Global Studies, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences

Reshawna Chapple, doctoral candidate, Justice and Social Inquiry, School of Social Transformation, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences

Haiying Dong, doctoral candidate, Educational Leadership and Policy Studies, Mary Lou Fulton Teachers College

Cody Ferguson, doctoral candidate (History), School of Historical, Philosophical and Religious Studies College of Liberal Arts and Sciences

Andrew Hadle, MFA candidate, (Sculpture), School of Art, Herberger Institute for Design and the Arts

Miyoung Hong, doctoral candidate (Interior Design), Design School, Herberger Institute for Design and the Arts

Atsuko Kawakami, doctoral candidate (Sociology), School of Social and Family Dynamics, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences

Kimberly Louie, doctoral candidate (Spanish-Literature), School of International Letters and Cultures, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences

Hugh Martin, MFA candidate, (Creative Writing), Department of English, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences

Valerye Milleson, doctoral candidate (Philosophy), School of Historical, Philosophical and Religious Studies, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences

Ann Morton, MFA candidate (Fibers), School of Art, Herberger Institute for Design and the Arts

Robbie Robichau, doctoral candidate (Public Administration), School of Public Affairs, College of Public Programs

Tanita Saenkhum, doctoral candidate (Rhetoric, Composition and Linguistics), Department of English, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences

Ebony Tucker, MFA candidate (Theatre for Youth), School of Theatre and Film, Herberger Institute for Design and the Arts

Amy Way, doctoral candidate, Hugh Downs School of Human Communication, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences