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Event Details - Dissertation Year Fellowship (DYF) Info Session

Dissertation year fellowship (dyf) info session.

These fellowships are available on a competitive basis to doctoral students who have advanced to candidacy. These awards include a stipend and a waiver of the doctoral research fee and mandatory fees for the period of the award. Located in Dimond Library Room 352.<br></span>"> These fellowships are available on a competitive basis to doctoral students who have advanced to candidacy. These awards include a stipend and a waiver of the doctoral research fee and mandatory fees for the period of the award. Located in Dimond Library Room 352.

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Congratulations to BCNM DE and Lyman Fellow, Vincente Perez, who was awarded a prestigious UC Dissertation Year Fellowship!

UC Berkeley is committed to recognizing and rewarding student’s contributions to diversifying the academy during their graduate careers and beyond. The purpose of this fellowship award is to provide funding to diverse doctoral students that allow them to prioritize and focus on completing the dissertation. Fellows will receive a $30,000 stipend, payment of in-state fees, travel allowance ($1,000 maximum) and $6,000 bonus for early dissertation filing.

Vincente Perez is a poet, scholar, and writer working at the intersection of poetry, Hip-Hop, and digital culture. He makes work that refuses binary thinking, which allows him to be in conversation with people, places, and things that refuse to make sense in a Western framework. He is currently a Ph.D. Candidate in the Performance Studies program at UC Berkeley and holds a B.A. in Anthropology and Comparative Race & Ethnic Studies from The University of Chicago. They were a 2021–22 Poetry and the Senses Fellow at UC Berkeley's Arts Research Center. Their debut poetry chapbook, Other Stories to Tell Ourselves,(link is external) is being published by Newfound (2023). Their poems and research have appeared in Poet Lore, Honey Literary, Poetry.onl,(link is external) BAMPFA, Association of Internet Researchers,(link is external) and more is forthcoming.

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Congratulations to GDDF and PDY Fellowship Awardees

Congratulations to the Engineering graduate students who were awarded the GDDF and PDY Fellowships by the UCI Graduate Division Office!

Graduate Dean’s Dissertation Fellowship

The Graduate Dean’s Dissertation Fellowship ( GDDF ), aims to increase dissertation and thesis completion amongst doctoral and MFA students. The $5000 award will allow students to forgo their non-research related employment obligations to concentrate on completing their dissertation/degree during the summer of 2024.

President’s Dissertation Year Fellowship

The President’s Dissertation Year ( PDY ) Fellowship is intended for students in their final year of graduate study, who are planning to pursue teaching and research appointments after their dissertation fellowship year. This award assists graduate students with the completion of their dissertation and enhances their qualifications as candidates for university faculty teaching and research appointments by providing professional opportunities needed to successfully obtain a faculty appointment.

For additional information on current fellowships open for applications to Engineering graduate students, please visit our Active Fellowships page.

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News Roundup Spring 2024

CEGE Spring Graduation Celebration and Order of the Engineer

Forty-seven graduates of the undergraduate and grad student programs (pictured above) in the Department of Civil, Environmental, and Geo- Engineering took part in the Order of the Engineer on graduation day. Distinguished Speakers at this departmental event included Katrina Kessler (MS EnvE 2021), Commissioner of the Minnesota Pollution Control Agency, and student Brian Balquist. Following this event, students participated in the college-wide Commencement Ceremony at 3M Arena at Mariucci. 

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The University of Minnesota’s Crookston, Duluth, and Rochester campuses have been awarded the Carnegie Elective Classification for Community Engagement, joining the Twin Cities (2006, 2015) and Morris campuses (2015), and making the U of M the country’s first and only university system at which every individual campus has received this selective designation. Only 368 from nearly 4,000 qualifying U.S. universities and colleges have been granted this designation.

CEGE contributed strongly to the College of Science and Engineering’s efforts toward sustainability research. CEGE researchers are bringing in over $35 million in funded research to study carbon mineralization, nature and urban areas, circularity of water resources, and global snowfall patterns. This news was highlighted in the Fall 2023 issue of  Inventing Tomorrow  (pages 10-11). https://issuu.com/inventingtomorrow/docs/fall_2023_inventing_tomorrow-web

CEGE’s new program for a one-year master’s degree in structural engineering is now accepting applicants for Fall 2024. We owe a big thanks to DAN MURPHY and LAURA AMUNDSON for their volunteer work to help curate the program with Professor JIA-LIANG LE and EBRAHIM SHEMSHADIAN, the program director. Potential students and companies interested in hosting a summer intern can contact Ebrahim Shemshadian ( [email protected] ).

BERNIE BULLERT , CEGE benefactor and MN Water Research Fund founder, was profiled on the website of the University of Minnesota Foundation (UMF). There you can read more about his mission to share clean water technologies with smaller communities in Minnesota. Many have joined Bullert in this mission. MWRF Recognizes their Generous 2024 Partners. Gold Partners: Bernie Bullert, Hawkins, Inc., Minnesota Department of Health, Minnesota Pollution Control Agency, and SL-serco. Silver Partners: ISG, Karl and Pam Streed, Kasco, Kelly Lange-Haider and Mark Haider, ME Simpson, Naeem Qureshi, Dr. Paul H. Boening, TKDA, and Waterous. Bronze Partners: Bruce R. Bullert; Brenda Lenz, Ph.D., APRN FNP-C, CNE; CDM Smith; Central States Water Environment Association (CSWEA MN); Heidi and Steve Hamilton; Jim “Bulldog” Sadler; Lisa and Del Cerney; Magney Construction; Sambatek; Shannon and John Wolkerstorfer; Stantec; and Tenon Systems.

After retiring from Baker-Tilly,  NICK DRAGISICH  (BCE 1977) has taken on a new role: City Council member in Lake Elmo, Minnesota. After earning his BCE from the University of Minnesota, Dragisich earned a master’s degree in business administration from the University of St. Thomas. Dragisich retired in May from his position as managing director at Baker Tilly, where he had previously served as firm director. Prior to that, he served as assistant city manager in Spokane, Washington, was the city administrator and city engineer in Virginia, Minnesota, and was mayor of Chisholm, Minnesota—all adding up to more than 40 years of experience in local government. Dragisich was selected by a unanimous vote. His current term expires in December 2024.

PAUL F. GNIRK  (Ph.D. 1966) passed away January 29, 2024, at the age of 86. A memorial service was held Saturday, February 24, at the South Dakota School of Mines and Technology (SDSM&T), where he started and ended his teaching career, though he had many other positions, professional and voluntary. In 2018 Paul was inducted into the SDSM&T Hardrocker Hall of Fame, and in 2022, he was inducted into the South Dakota Hall of Fame, joining his mother Adeline S. Gnirk, who had been inducted in 1987 for her work authoring nine books on the history of south central South Dakota.

ROGER M. HILL  (BCE 1957) passed away on January 13, 2024, at the age of 90. His daughter, Kelly Robinson, wrote to CEGE that Roger was “a dedicated Gopher fan until the end, and we enjoyed many football games together in recent years. Thank you for everything.”

KAUSER JAHAN  (Ph.D. 1993, advised by Walter Maier), PE, is now a civil and environmental engineering professor and department head at Henry M. Rowan College of Engineering. Jahan was awarded a 3-year (2022- 2025), $500,000 grant from the U.S. Department of Environmental Protection Agency (USEPA). The grant supports her project, “WaterWorks: Developing the New Generation of Workforce for Water/Wastewater Utilities,” for the development of educational tools that will expose and prepare today’s students for careers in water and wastewater utilities.

SAURA JOST  (BCE 2010, advised by Timothy LaPara) was elected to the St. Paul City Council for Ward 3. She is part of the historic group of women that make up the nation’s first all-female city council in a large city.

The 2024 ASCE Western Great Lakes Student Symposium combines several competitions for students involved in ASCE. CEGE sent a large contingent of competitors to Chicago. Each of the competition groups won awards: Ethics Paper 1st place Hans Lagerquist; Sustainable Solutions team 1st place overall in (qualifying them for the National competition in Utah in June); GeoWall 2nd place overall; Men’s Sprint for Concrete Canoe with rowers Sakthi Sundaram Saravanan and Owen McDonald 2nd place; Product Prototype for Concrete Canoe 2nd place; Steel Bridge (200 lb bridge weight) 2nd place in lightness; Scavenger Hunt 3rd place; and Aesthetics and Structural Efficiency for Steel Bridge 4th place.

Students competing on the Minnesota Environmental Engineers, Scientists, and Enthusiasts (MEESE) team earned second place in the Conference on the Environment undergraduate student design competition in November 2023. Erin Surdo is the MEESE Faculty Adviser. Pictured are NIKO DESHPANDE, ANNA RETTLER, and SYDNEY OLSON.

The CEGE CLASS OF 2023 raised money to help reduce the financial barrier for fellow students taking the Fundamentals of Engineering exam, a cost of $175 per test taker. As a result of this gift, they were able to make the exam more affordable for 15 current CEGE seniors. CEGE students who take the FE exam pass the first time at a rate well above national averages, demonstrating that CEGE does a great job of teaching engineering fundamentals. In 2023, 46 of 50 students passed the challenging exam on the first try.

This winter break, four CEGE students joined 10 other students from the College of Science and Engineering for the global seminar, Design for Life: Water in Tanzania. The students visited numerous sites in Tanzania, collected water source samples, designed rural water systems, and went on safari. Read the trip blog: http://globalblogs.cse.umn.edu/search/label/Tanzania%202024

Undergraduate Honor Student  MALIK KHADAR  (advised by Dr. Paul Capel) received honorable mention for the Computing Research Association (CRA) Outstanding Undergraduate Research Award for undergraduate students who show outstanding research potential in an area of computing research.

GRADUATE STUDENTS

AKASH BHAT  (advised by William Arnold) presented his Ph.D. defense on Friday, October 27, 2023. Bhat’s thesis is “Photolysis of fluorochemicals: Tracking fluorine, use of UV-LEDs, and computational insights.” Bhat’s work investigating the degradation of fluorinated compounds will assist in the future design of fluorinated chemicals such that persistent and/or toxic byproducts are not formed in the environment.

ETHAN BOTMEN  (advised by Bill Arnold) completed his Master of Science Final Exam February 28, 2024. His research topic was Degradation of Fluorinated Compounds by Nucleophilic Attack of Organo-fluorine Functional Groups.

XIATING CHEN , Ph.D. Candidate in Water Resources Engineering at the Saint Anthony Falls Laboratory is the recipient of the 2023 Nels Nelson Memorial Fellowship Award. Chen (advised by Xue Feng) is researching eco-hydrological functions of urban trees and other green infrastructure at both the local and watershed scale, through combined field observations and modeling approaches.

ALICE PRATES BISSO DAMBROZ  has been a Visiting Student Researcher at the University of Minnesota since last August, on a Doctoral Dissertation Research Award from Fulbright. Her CEGE advisor is Dr. Paul Capel. Dambroz is a fourth year Ph.D. student in Soil Science at Universidade Federal de Santa Maria in Brazil, where she studies with her adviser Jean Minella. Her research focuses on the hydrological monitoring of a small agricultural watershed in Southern Brazil, which is located on a transition area between volcanic and sedimentary rocks. Its topography, shallow soils, and land use make it prone to runoff and erosion processes.

Yielding to people in crosswalks should be a very pedestrian topic. Yet graduate student researchers  TIANYI LI, JOSHUA KLAVINS, TE XU, NIAZ MAHMUD ZAFRI  (Dept.of Urban and Regional Planning at Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology), and Professor Raphael Stern found that drivers often do not yield to pedestrians, but they are influenced by the markings around a crosswalk. Their work was picked up by the  Minnesota Reformer.

TIANYI LI  (Ph.D. student advised by Raphael Stern) also won the Dwight David Eisenhower Transportation (DDET) Fellowship for the third time! Li (center) and Stern (right) are pictured at the Federal Highway Administration with Latoya Jones, the program manager for the DDET Fellowship.

The Three Minute Thesis Contest and the Minnesota Nice trophy has become an annual tradition in CEGE. 2023’s winner was  EHSANUR RAHMAN , a Ph.D. student advised by Boya Xiong.

GUANJU (WILLIAM) WEI , a Ph.D. student advised by Judy Yang, is the recipient of the 2023 Heinz G. Stefan Fellowship. He presented his research entitled Microfluidic Investigation of the Biofilm Growth under Dynamic Fluid Environments and received his award at the St. Anthony Falls Research Laboratory April 9. The results of Wei's research can be used in industrial, medical, and scientific fields to control biofilm growth.

BILL ARNOLD  stars in an award-winning video about prairie potholes. The Prairie Potholes Project film was made with the University of Delaware and highlights Arnold’s NSF research. The official winners of the 2024 Environmental Communications Awards Competition Grand Prize are Jon Cox and Ben Hemmings who produced and directed the film. Graduate student Marcia Pacheco (CFANS/LAAS) and Bill Arnold are the on-screen stars.

Four faculty from CEGE join the Center for Transportation Studies Faculty and Research Scholars for FY24–25:  SEONGJIN CHOI, KETSON ROBERTO MAXIMIANO DOS SANTOS, PEDRAM MORTAZAVI,  and  BENJAMIN WORSFOLD . CTS Scholars are drawn from diverse fields including engineering, planning, computer science, environmental studies, and public policy.

XUE FENG  is coauthor on an article in  Nature Reviews Earth and Environment . The authors evaluate global plant responses to changing rainfall regimes that are now characterized by fewer and larger rainfall events. A news release written at Univ. of Maryland can be found here: https://webhost.essic. umd.edu/april-showers-bring-mayflowers- but-with-drizzles-or-downpours/ A long-running series of U of M research projects aimed at improving stormwater quality are beginning to see practical application by stormwater specialists from the Twin Cities metro area and beyond. JOHN GULLIVER has been studying best practices for stormwater management for about 16 years. Lately, he has focused specifically on mitigating phosphorous contamination. His research was highlighted by the Center for Transportation Studies.

JIAQI LI, BILL ARNOLD,  and  RAYMOND HOZALSKI  published a paper on N-nitrosodimethylamine (NDMA) precursors in Minnesota rivers. “Animal Feedlots and Domestic Wastewater Discharges are Likely Sources of N-Nitrosodimethylamine (NDMA) Precursors in Midwestern Watersheds,” Environmental Science and Technology (January 2024) doi: 10.1021/acs. est.3c09251

ALIREZA KHANI  contributed to MnDOT research on Optimizing Charging Infrastructure for Electric Trucks. Electric options for medium- and heavy-duty electric trucks (e-trucks) are still largely in development. These trucks account for a substantial percentage of transportation greenhouse gas emissions. They have greater power needs and different charging needs than personal EVs. Proactively planning for e-truck charging stations will support MnDOT in helping to achieve the state’s greenhouse gas reduction goals. This research was featured in the webinar “Electrification of the Freight System in Minnesota,” hosted by the University of Minnesota’s Center for Transportation Studies. A recording of the event is now available online.

MICHAEL LEVIN  has developed a unique course for CEGE students on Air Transportation Systems. It is the only class at UMN studying air transportation systems from an infrastructure design and management perspective. Spring 2024 saw the third offering of this course, which is offered for juniors, seniors, and graduate students.

Research Professor  SOFIA (SONIA) MOGILEVSKAYA  has been developing international connections. She visited the University of Seville, Spain, November 13–26, 2023, where she taught a short course titled “Fundamentals of Homogenization in Composites.” She also met with the graduate students to discuss collaborative research with Prof. Vladislav Mantic, from the Group of Continuum Mechanics and Structural Analysis at the University of Seville. Her visit was a part of planned activities within the DIAGONAL Consortium funded by the European Commission. CEGE UMN is a partner organization within DIAGONAL, represented by CEGE professors Mogilevskaya and Joseph Labuz. Mantic will visit CEGE summer 2024 to follow up on research developments and discuss plans for future collaboration and organization of short-term exchange visits for the graduate students from each institution. 

DAVID NEWCOMB  passed away in March. He was a professor in CEGE from 1989–99 in the area of pavement engineering. Newcomb led the research program on asphalt materials characterization. He was the technical director of Mn/ROAD pavement research facility, and he started an enduring collaboration with MnDOT that continues today. In 2000, he moved from Minnesota to become vice-president for Research and Technology at the National Asphalt Pavement Association. Later he moved to his native Texas, where he was appointed to the division head of Materials and Pavement at the Texas A&M Transportation Institute, a position from which he recently retired. He will be greatly missed.

PAIGE NOVAK  won Minnesota ASCE’s 2023 Distinguished Engineer of the Year Award for her contributions to society through her engineering achievements and professional experiences.

The National Science Foundation (NSF) announced ten inaugural (NSF) Regional Innovation Engines awards, with a potential $1.6 billion investment nationally over the next decade. Great Lakes ReNEW is led by the Chicago-based water innovation hub,  Current,  and includes a team from the University of Minnesota, including PAIGE NOVAK. Current will receive $15 mil for the first two years, and up to $160 million over ten years to develop and grow a water-focused innovation engine in the Great Lakes region. The project’s ambitious plan is to create a decarbonized circular “blue economy” to leverage the region’s extraordinary water resources to transform the upper Midwest—Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Minnesota, Ohio, and Wisconsin. Brewing one pint of beer generates seven pints of wastewater, on average. So what can you do with that wastewater?  PAIGE NOVAK  and her team are exploring the possibilities of capturing pollutants in wastewater and using bacteria to transform them into energy.

BOYA XIONG  has been selected as a recipient of the 2024 40 Under 40 Recognition Program by the American Academy of Environmental Engineers and Scientists. The award was presented at the 2024 AAEES Awards Ceremony, April 11, 2024, at the historic Howard University in Washington, D.C. 

JUDY Q. YANG  received a McKnight Land-Grant Professorship Award. This two-year award recognizes promising assistant professors and is intended to advance the careers of individuals who have the potential to make significant contributions to their departments and their scholarly fields. 

Professor Emeritus CHARLES FAIRHURST , his son CHARLES EDWARD FAIRHURST , and his daughter MARGARET FAIRHURST DURENBERGER were on campus recently to present Department Head Paige Novak with a check for $25,000 for the Charles Fairhurst Fellowship in Earth Resources Engineering in support of graduate students studying geomechanics. The life of Charles Fairhurst through a discussion with his children is featured on the Engineering and Technology History Wiki at https://ethw.org/Oral-History:Charles_Fairhurst#00:00:14_INTRODUCTION

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Anika Alam, Cohort 3

Program: Education Policy, Graduate School of Education Faculty Advisor: A. Brooks Bowden Area of Interest: PreK-12 policy evaluation, high school completion, safety net programs

Anika applies machine learning and causal inference to better understand policies and programs that improve education outcomes, especially for children from households struggling with poverty. Her projects include building early prediction models for high school dropout prevention; an economic evaluation of a father engagement program for Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh; and an examination the role of social support programs in early childhood on later education outcomes. She has completed IES apprenticeships with the School District of Philadelphia and with the Urban Institute. Prior to joining Penn, Anika completed an M.A. in Education Policy at Teachers College, Columbia University. She previously taught at DC Public Schools as a secondary math teacher for 4 years. She holds a B.S. in Policy, Analysis, and Management from Cornell University.  

Johanna (Hanna) Bernard, Cohort 2

Program: Education Policy, Graduate School of Education Faculty Advisor : A. Brooks Bowden Area of Interest: Inequality, early childhood, and skill development

Hanna is a fourth-year Ph.D. Student in Education Policy. Her research interests involve the long-term causal effects of policy interventions in early childhood that aim to reduce inequality, build skills, and promote opportunity and self-determination later in life. Her current research includes a long-term evaluation of a literacy curriculum administered in Philadelphia, an economic evaluation of a parenting program for Syrian refugees in Jordan, and an evaluation of a Montessori Pre-K program for girls in Nigeria. During her time as an IES fellow, she completed apprenticeships at MDRC and with the North Carolina Office of Early Learning. She holds a B.A. in Psychology from Bowdoin College, an M.Ed. in Child Studies from Vanderbilt, and an A.M. in Statistics from Wharton.

Autumn Brown, Cohort 3

Program: Interdisciplinary Studies in Human Development, Graduate School of Education Faculty Advisor: Sharon Wolf Area of Interest: Collaborating with practitioners to support children and families by generating actionable evidence on not only what works, but how and for whom.

 Autumn's research interests are centered around leveraging her ten years of experience as a humanitarian aid and development practitioner to generate actionable evidence around how to promote children's positive development in understudied contexts. This involves evaluating program impacts, investigating environmental influences on children’s development, assessing measure appropriateness across diverse socio-cultural contexts, and enhancing program implementation quality. In Penn’s RIPPLE Lab, Autumn supports RCTs in Ghana and Nigeria. As an IES Fellow, Autumn worked with Mathematica during the design phase of a multi-site RCT integrating parenting support into TANF programs and with an improvement network supporting high school students’ math achievement in rural California. Autumn is passionate about working in close collaboration with practitioners and making research findings accessible to a wide range of stakeholders.

Caroline (Ellie) Dewitt, Cohort 2

Program: Education Policy, Graduate School of Education Faculty Advisor: John Fantuzzo Area of Interest: Evidenced-based problem solving to improve the lives of vulnerable young children using secondary and administrative data sources.

Caroline "Ellie" DeWitt is a PhD Candidate in Education Policy. Ellie's research interests lie in evidenced-based problem solving to improve the lives of vulnerable young children and their families using secondary and administrative data sources. She is also interested in early childhood special education and for her dissertation, she is investigating how poverty and access to professionals (i.e., health care and early care and education) moderate the relationship between ethnoracial group and early childhood special education identification. At Penn, she works with the Penn Early Childhood and Family Research Center (PECF) on a variety of partnership-based projects with both the city of Philadelphia and the School District of Philadelphia. She received a B.A. in Psychology and Public Policy (both with honors) with a minor in Educational Studies from Gettysburg College where she was a member of Phi Beta Kappa.

Lindsay Dusard, Cohort 4

Program: Quantitative Methods, Graduate School of Education Faculty Advisor: Wendy Chan Area of Interest: Quantitative, mixed, and participatory research methods, statistics education, experiences of resettled refugee children in the U.S. education system 

Lindsay is a PhD Candidate in Quantitative Methods at the University of Pennsylvania, Graduate School of Education. She is concurrently pursuing a master's degree in Statistics at The Wharton School. Prior to starting graduate school, Lindsay supported the U.S. Department of Education and Administration for Children and Families’ response to the Foundation of Evidence-Based Policymaking Act, developing and managing their data inventories. Previously, she ran programs for resettled refugee children and youth at the International Rescue Committee. She currently serves as a subject matter expert on youth and adult education for SwitchboardTA, the Office of Refugee Resettlement’s technical assistance network.

Michael Lachanski, Cohort 3

Program: Demography & Sociology, School of Arts and Sciences Faculty Advisor: Xi Song Area of Interest: Applying reproducible data science methods and modern econometrics to study long-term policy effects on education, immigration, and crime in the context of contemporary social issues.

Michael holds an MPA with a focus on economic policy and population and an AB in economics, both from Princeton University. He is interested in the study of long-run policy changes to education, immigration, and crime with an eye to contemporary social problems. His research interests are in organizational demography and historical stratification. Currently, he is studying the single and intergenerational effects of compulsory schooling and the effects of immigration restrictions on specific causes of death. Additionally, Michael is a contributor on a project that aims to understand how individuals in declining occupations navigate the U.S.'s changing occupational structure.

Patrick Lavallee Delgado, Cohort 4

Program: Education Policy, Graduate School of Education Faculty Advisor: Sade Bonilla Area of Interest: Workforce education, rural education, postsecondary transition

Patrick is a PhD student in Education Policy at the University of Pennsylvania, Graduate School of Education, where he serves as an IES Predoctoral Fellow and as a Fontaine Fellow. His research interests include community college and career & technical education, how they prepare a local workforce for good jobs today and new jobs tomorrow, and disparities in their education and labor outcomes. Prior to doctoral study, Patrick worked as a data scientist with Mathematica, supporting impact evaluations and technical assistance for education and employment policy interventions. He has also worked in undergraduate career services, which sparked his interest in education policy. Patrick holds a BA in Government & Legal Studies from Bowdoin College and a MS in Computational Analysis and Public Policy from the University of Chicago.

David Loeb, Cohort 4

Program: Education Policy, Graduate School of Education Faculty Advisor: Ericka Weathers Area of Interest: K-12 finance and policy, economic and racial inequality.

David studies inequality in the K-12 education system and its connection with broader socioeconomic inequalities. He uses quantitative methods to analyze policies that promote or hinder equity, both within and outside of the K-12 system. Before beginning his PhD, he worked as an education policy advocate in the Philadelphia region focused primarily on reforming Pennsylvania’s K-12 funding system. K-12 funding remains a passion and top research interest along with anti-poverty and family support policies.

Estefanie (Stephanie) Aguilar Padilla, Cohort 4

Program: Higher Education, Graduate School of Education Faculty Advisor: Rachel Baker Area of Interest: Educational equity and access for incarcerated and system-impacted students. 

Estefanie is a Penn Presidential Ph.D. Fellow. She is the daughter of Mexican immigrants and a first-generation college graduate. Prior to coming to Penn GSE, she served on the University of Utah Prison Education Project's leadership team while being a graduate researcher with the Research Collaborative on Higher Education in Prison. Estefanie strongly believes in educational equity and access for all. Her research specifically focuses on barriers to post-secondary education for incarcerated and system-impacted students.

Katie Pullom, Cohort 4

Program: Education Policy, Graduate School of Education Faculty Advisor:   A. Brooks Bowden Area of Interest: Equity in education, preK –12 policy evaluation, social policy, safety net programs.  

Katie is a PhD student in Education Policy. She holds a B.S. in Chemistry from MIT and an M.Ed. in Secondary Education and Teaching from Pace University. Previously, Katie was the policy director for the Alabama House Democratic Caucus. She is also a former public school educator who taught high school chemistry and physics. She is interested in the connections between poverty and education, especially in how to best provide comprehensive supports to students through school to support learning and engagement in the classroom. Her research interests include evaluating supplemental programs that support student success and emphasize the social and emotional well-being of K-12 students. She also studies ways to leverage community partnerships to mitigate the effects of poverty and provide supplemental resources to schools and ways to collaborate across agencies to strengthen the safety net for students to provide the support, resources, and school climate necessary for students to thrive throughout their educational trajectory.

Noelle Suntheimer, Cohort 2

Program: Interdisciplinary Studies in Human Development, Graduate School of Education Faculty Advisor: Sharon Wolf Area of Interest: Global child development, home and school-based protective factors, longitudinal studies, equity in educational outcomes.

Noelle is an Interdisciplinary Studies in Human Development PhD Candidate at Penn GSE. Noelle is an interdisciplinary research professional, in which her work lies at the intersection of education, developmental psychology, and social policy. She applies a developmental-ecological framework along with quantitative methodologies to study the developmental and educational consequences of childhood adversity, modifiable factors in the home context to promote resilience, and protective factors in educational settings and school-based interventions. Outside of academic settings, Noelle held a year-long doctoral apprenticeship with the U.S. Administration for Children and Families, Office of Community Services and worked for six years as a Research Associate at the University of Texas at Austin School of Social Work serving as a program evaluator for the AdoptUSKids project.

Noelle holds a B.S. in Psychology from the University of Massachusetts Amherst and an MS.Ed. in Interdisciplinary Studies in Human Development from the University of Pennsylvania. She is currently an IES Predoctoral Fellow and AERA-NSF dissertation scholar.

Chelsea Zhang, Cohort 4

Program: Higher Education, Graduate School of Education Faculty Advisor: Manuel Gonzalez Area of Interest: Quantitative higher education research, causal inference, mixed methods, economic aspects of college access.

Chelsea holds a BA in human development and family studies from Kent State University and an MS in higher education administration from the University of Michigan. Her primary research interests are centered on quantitative aspects of higher education research, including quasi-experimental and mixed methods research for estimating causal impacts and explaining underlying mechanisms through which causal impacts occur. Chelsea is particularly interested in the economic aspects of college access, such as analyzing the impact of college tuition on student enrollment and student loan amounts and in investigating the relationship between research funding and knowledge production, power dynamics, and equity in higher education institutions. 

Former Fellows Still in Doctoral Studies

Kristen Beamer Shure

Ph.D. Candidate in Economics, School of Arts and Sciences IES Predoctoral Fellow: 2021 - 2023 Faculty Advisor: Petra Todd, Professor of Economics

Kristen’s research interests are at the intersection of labor economics, local public finance, and K-12 schools. During her IES Pre-doctoral fellowship, she had a research apprenticeship with AIR, working on an evaluation of the Birth through Eight Strategy for Tulsa , OK (BEST) and an apprenticeship with the School District of Philadelphia’s Office of Research and Accountability. 

Pooja R. Patel, Cohort 2

Program: Higher Education, Graduate School of Education Faculty Advisor: Laura Perna Area of Interest: postsecondary public policy and finance, philanthropy, educational equity.

Pooja is a Ph.D. candidate in Higher Education at the University of Pennsylvania’s Graduate School of Education and previously worked as a researcher at the National Association for College Admission and Counseling (NACAC). Pooja studies postsecondary public policy and finance issues as they relate to college access and affordability for students who come from marginalized backgrounds. Specifically, her research focuses on topics such as college promise, issues related to student debt and dependency status, and college admission processes and their implications for equity in postsecondary education. Her dissertation explores the actions and influence of national philanthropic actors in the U.S. postsecondary landscape.

Pooja is a member of the William T. Fontaine Society at Penn and a Gates Millennium Scholar. She earned a B.A. in International Studies from the University of Richmond and an M.A. in Higher Education Administration from Boston College.

Elena van Stee

Ph.D. Candidate, Sociology, School of Arts and Sciences IES Predoctoral Fellow: 2021 - 2023 Faculty Advisors: Professors Wendy Roth and Hyunjoon Park, Sociology 

Elena studies culture and inequality, focusing on social class, families, higher education, and the transition to adulthood. Her research examines how young adult college graduates (aged 27 – 33) and their parents understand and negotiate parental support at this life stage. Her prior research examined college students’ relationships with their parents after COVID-19 campus closures. Elena currently serves as the Blog Editor for Contexts Magazine, the public-facing magazine of the American Sociological Association.

Zach Weingarten

Ph.D. Candidate, Economics, School of Arts and Sciences IES Predoctoral Training Fellow: 2021 – 2023 Faculty Advisor: Professor Petra Todd

Zach’s research interests are broadly focused on issues at the intersection of education, labor and industrial organization. One specific area of interest has been the education market design and its impact on students and teachers. While a fellow, he had a year-long apprenticeship with the North Carolina Department of Public Instruction, where he was involved in research design, background research, and data analysis on priority issues for the State. He subsequently extended this work for a journal article on student responses to grading leniency. Zach then had a research apprenticeship with the U.S. Department of Education where he conducted econometric analysis in service of public policy needs of the department.

Former Fellows Who Have Earned Their Ph.D. and Certificate of Advanced Studies in Education Sciences

Alexander Adames

Ph.D, Sociology (2023) & M.S., Statistics and Data Science, Wharton (2023) Current Position: Presidential Postdoctoral Research Fellow , Department of Sociology

Alexander Adames is a Presidential Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the Department of Sociology at Princeton University. He received his PhD in Sociology from the University of Pennsylvania, where he was an Institute of Education Sciences (IES) Pre-doctoral fellow and received a master's in statistics from The Wharton School. He is a sociologist and social demographer who primarily examines the drivers and consequences of economic stratification within the United States. His work sits at the intersection of social stratification, the sociology of education, the sociology of race and ethnicity, and social psychology. Alexander examines disparities in wealth and income between and within racial and educational groups. For example, Alexander's research on racial disparities in wealth has examined variation in the Black-White wealth gap by skin tone, finding that the gap is much larger among darker-skin Black Americans. His current research on education considers how the wealth attainment of college-educated individuals is shaped by the types of colleges that they attend (i.e., horizontal stratification). 

Claire Allen-Platt

Ph.D., Quantitative Methods, Graduate School of Education (2023) & M.S., Statistics and Data Science, the Wharton School (2023) Current Position: Research Scientist, National Center for Education Evaluation, Institute of Education Sciences

Claire is a Research Scientist at the National Center for Education Evaluation. At NCEE she serves as the project officer on rigorous large-scale evaluations of federal programs, including studies of special education, school-based mental health services, violence reduction in schools, and education finance. During graduate school, she researched fairness in measurement as it relates to evaluating what works well for kids, as well as the intersection of advanced quantitative methods and practical problems of measurement. Her dissertation documented the psychometric properties of all state standardized tests in the United States and the implications of state test churn on longitudinal studies of learning. Prior to doctoral studies, Claire directed research projects in partnership with large school districts in the southern and eastern United States as a Project Director at the education nonprofit TNTP, where she led studies of programs to improve teaching quality, teacher retention, and instructional materials.

Stacey Bevan

PhD in Nursing (2024), AM in Statistics and Data Science (2022), Bachelors of Science in Nursing (2019) University of Pennsylvania Current position: Assistant Professor, University of Rhode Island College of Nursing (beginning fall 2024) 

Stacey is an Assistant Professor at the University of Rhode Island College of Nursing. Her research lies at the intersection of health equity, disability, and immigration, where she studies structural health disparities sensitive to policy improvements. Her dissertation, titled Equity in clinical pathways: Public health approaches to address mental health disparities in immigrant children, showed how adverse exposures related to immigration are associated with child health concerns and access to the clinical pathway for mental health services. Stacey is bilingual public health nurse and has research collaborations across Latin America and China. She holds a Bachelor's degree in International Relations and Biology from Tufts University, a Bachelor of Science in Nursing from Penn, and an MA in Statistics and Data Science from Wharton Business School. Before earning graduate studies, she conducted research to improve pediatric mental health care access in Spanish-speaking communities in Boston. Her PhD was supported by the Hillman Scholars of Nursing Innovation, Institute of Education Sciences, and National Institutes of Mental Health.

Ellen Bryer

Ph.D. Candidate in Sociology, School of Arts and Sciences IES Predoctoral Fellow: 2021 – 2023 Faculty Advisor: Professor Emily Hannum Future position : Postdoctoral Research Associate at the Annenberg Institute at Brown 

Ellen’s research interests are in higher education with a special interest in graduate education and student borrowing, particularly in how they relate to stratification of occupational outcomes and wealth inequity. During her fellowship, she held a research apprenticeship with Research for Action, where she worked on an impact evaluation of the Tennessee College Promise Completion Coaching program. She also had a year-long practice-focused apprenticeship with SHEEO focusing on college closures—a project that entailed statistical analysis of large, longitudinal databases and synthesizing findings for several publications.

Meghan Comstock

Ph.D., Education Policy, University of Pennsylvania (2023) Current Position:   Assistant Professor, Department of Teaching and Learning, Policy and Leadership, University of Maryland

Meghan is an Assistant Professor in Education Policy at the University of Maryland, College Park. Her scholarship is driven by a desire to understand how K-12 instructional policies and the institutional and organizational conditions in schools shape equitable educational opportunities for racially/ethnically minoritized students. Her work examines the political dimensions of equity-focused policy, implementation of initiatives in teaching and learning with emphasis on culturally responsive teaching, and the role of leadership in instructional improvement efforts. Her work has appeared in  AERA Open, Journal of School Leadership, Journal of Professional Capital and Community, Leadership and Policy in Schools,  and  Teachers College Record . Meghan earned her Ph.D. in Education Policy from the University of Pennsylvania in 2023. She also holds a B.S. in biology from the University of Virginia. Her scholarship and teaching are informed by her experience as an elementary mathematics and science teacher in Jonestown, Mississippi. 

Rebecca Davis

Ph.D., Education Policy, University of Pennsylvania (2023) Current Position: Research Associate, Family Well-being and Children’s Development, MDRC

Rebecca conducts research on programs and policies that seek to foster positive child development, expand access to high-quality education, and mitigate the hardships of poverty for children and families. She specializes in cost methodology, program evaluation, and implementation research. Davis currently works on evaluations of the  Get Ready Guilford Initiative  and the  Personalized Learning Initiative , which explore ways of offering affordable personalized learning to students via large-scale tutoring programs. In addition, she serves as a research associate at the Center for Benefit-Cost Studies in Education, an organization that drives innovation in cost methodology for education applications. A former preschool and K-12 teacher, Rebecca holds a bachelor’s degree in studio art and a master’s degree in education from the University of New Hampshire. She completed her Ph.D. in education policy from the University of Pennsylvania, where she was an Institute for Education Sciences Predoctoral Fellow in Interdisciplinary Methods for Field-based Research in Education.

Ph.D., Education Policy, University of Pennsylvania (2024) Current Position: Postdoctoral Fellow, Collaboratory for Teaching and Teacher Education at the University of Pennsylvania

Maya is currently a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Collaboratory for Teaching and Teacher Education at the University of Pennsylvania. Committed to making teacher education and K-12 teaching more racially equitable and socially just fields, her scholarship seeks to understand the potential mechanisms for researchers, policymakers, and practitioners to uplift the status of the K-12 teaching profession. To that end, she conducts mixed-methods research examining the institutional and organizational contexts of K-12 teaching, with special attention to the role of reforms in shaping teachers’ socialization into their professional roles. Maya received her PhD in Education Policy from the University of Pennsylvania Graduate School of Education, where she was a National Academy of Education (NAEd)/Spencer Dissertation Fellow and an Institute of Education Sciences (IES) Predoctoral Fellow. Maya started her career as a Fulbright Scholar at the University of Helsinki, studying Finnish teacher education and development. Prior to graduate school, Maya worked as a research and policy assistant at the Learning Policy Institute.

Monica Mielke

Ph.D., Criminology, School of Arts and Sciences (2023) Advisor: Professor John MacDonald Current Position: Research Scientist, National Center for Education Evaluation Institute of Education Sciences 

Monica's research focuses on education and juvenile justice reforms, school discipline, and student behavioral supports. She has studied supports for juveniles re-entering the community after residential placement, and the effects of expanding free school meals on student behavior and discipline. Her dissertation is titled: Prevention, diversion, and reentry: Effects of school and juvenile justice policy reforms . Prior to graduate school, Monica conducted evaluations of education and juvenile justice-related programs at the University of Chicago Crime Lab and Education Lab, at Research for Action in Philadelphia, and at Policy Studies Associates in Washington, DC. She received her BA in Sociology and Germanic studies from the University of Chicago.

Taylor Odle

Ph.D., Higher Education, Graduate School of Education (2022) & A.M., Statistics, the Wharton School (2020), University of Pennsylvania Current Position:   Assistant Professor, Educational Policy Studies, University of Wisconsin- Madison 

Taylor is Assistant Professor of Educational Policy Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He is also a faculty affiliate in Data Science, the Institute for Research on Poverty, the Institute for Diversity Science, and the Interdisciplinary Training Program in Education Sciences. His work leverages quantitative methods and data science techniques to study issues concerning the economics of education and education policy with a specific focus on college access and success, including college admissions practices, financial aid, and college advising and coaching. Before earning his PhD, Taylor led fiscal policy and research activities for the Tennessee Higher Education Commission and worked with MDRC, the National Student Clearinghouse, the College Board, and the U.S. Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions.

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The purpose of the American Dissertation Fellowship is to offset a scholar’s living expenses while they complete their dissertation. The fellowship must be used for the final year of writing the dissertation. Applicants must have completed all course work, passed all preliminary examinations, and received approval for their research proposals or plans by the preceding November. Students holding fellowships for writing a dissertation in the year prior to the AAUW fellowships year are not eligible. Open to applicants in all fields of study. Scholars engaged in science, technology, engineering and math fields or those researching gender issues are especially encouraged to apply.

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