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Best Thesis Award “Excellence in Research”

Award, eligibility and its privileges.

The IAFSS Best Thesis Award “Excellence in Research” recognises the best research thesis at PhD and Masters levels, in all the fields related to fire safety science and engineering. There are three such Awards for the three IAFSS regions, Europe and Africa, Americas, as well as Asia and Oceania.

To be eligible for nomination, the nominee’s thesis must have been officially submitted to the university granting the degree for examination and nominated for the Award by the nominee’s supervisor, as described below.

Each recipient must deliver, at the Symposium, a paper drawn from his/her thesis. While not required, the recipient will be strongly encouraged to prepare a paper, as per submission guidelines of the Symposium, based on the material included in the thesis and not published in the Symposium or other peer reviewed archival publication. The Award consists of a plaque, a grant of US $2,000 to cover travel and sustenance related to the recipient’s attendance at the Symposium and free registration for the Symposium.

Nomination Process

The following documents need to be submitted:

• A letter of recommendation by the nominee’s supervisor not to exceed 2 pages;
• A pdf copy of the thesis (preferably in English; if not available, in its original language);
• An abstract of the thesis in English (no longer than three pages);
• A list of publications. The list should comprise journal articles (including those that have been submitted for publication, whether accepted or not), and conference publications (indicating the form of review; no review, by Abstract, by full paper). Publications in preparation or draft should not be listed;
• Pdf preprints or reprints of up to three best papers derived from the nominee’s thesis (conference papers can be included) can be submitted but are not compulsory.
• If the thesis is not written in English, at least one paper in English shall be submitted.
• Submission subject to confidentiality requirements should be accompanied by an explanation from the supervisor indicating which sections of the thesis cannot be made public or submitted for review. The requirement for the recipient to deliver a presentation at the 13 th Symposium cannot be waived; therefore, this explanation has to include a clear indication of which sections will be presented at the Symposium.

Selection Considerations

Selection of the awardees will be driven by four criteria: the pertinence, quality, significance, and impact of the work. Only one thesis can be submitted for award from a given University or Institution. When more than one thesis is of sufficient quality for submission for the Award, a preliminary selection must be carried out locally and the nominee’s supervisor needs to explicitly describe in the letter of recommendation the local selection process. If more than one thesis is submitted by a single institution the nominators will be asked to withdraw the submissions voluntarily and explain the reasoning behind the selection. If more than one thesis remains by the submission date then none of the submissions from that institution will be considered.

The four criteria used to select the best thesis include:

• Pertinence : Is the thesis’ subject matter within the scope of the field of fire science and/or engineering?
• Quality : Are the methodologies applied in the thesis sound and correct? Is the thesis well written?
• Significance : Do the results of the thesis add to our present knowledge? Are the results new, accurate, useful and important?
• Impact : Do the results of the thesis have a broad impact in the fields of fire science and/or engineering?

Selection Bod y

The recipients of the IAFSS Best Thesis Award “Excellence in Research” will be selected by the IAFSS Awards Committee.

Past Recipients

IAFSS Best Thesis Award “Excellence in Research” was first presented at the 8th IAFSS Symposium at Tsinghua University in Beijing in 2005. Its past recipients are listed below:

• (Europe and Africa) Li Ma for the thesis, “ Large-eddy simulation of purely buoyant diffusion flames ” conferred by the Aix-Marseille University, advised by Dr. Fatiha Nmira from Electricité de France (EDF) and Jean-Louis Consalvi from Aix-Marseille University
• (Americas) Parham Dehghani for the thesis, “ Burning Emulations of Condensed Phase Fuels Aboard the International Space Station ” conferred by the University of Maryland, College Park, USA, advised by Prof. Peter Sunderland and Prof. James Quintiere
• (Asia and Oceania) Xiepeng Sun for the thesis “ Experimental and Theoretical Study on the Ejected Facade Flame Behavior from Compartment Fires under Different Ventilation Conditions” conferred by the University of Science and Technology of China, advised jointly by Prof. Longhua Hu at USTC and Prof. Bart Merci at Ghent University
• (Europe and Africa) Eric V. Mueller for the thesis, “ Examination of the underlying physics in a detailed wildland fire behavior model through field-scale experimentation ” conferred by the University of Edinburgh, UK, advised by Dr. Rory Hadden and Prof. Albert Simeoni
• (Americas) Joshua D. Swann for the thesis, “ A comprehensive characterization of pyrolysis and combustion of intumescent and charring polymers using two-dimensional modeling: a relationship between thermal transport and the physical structure of the intumescent char ” conferred by the University of Maryland, College Park, USA, advised by Prof. Stanislav Stoliarov
• (Asia and Oceania) Yongzheng Yao for the thesis “ Fire Behaviors and smoke transportation law of tunnel fires under confined portal boundaries ” conferred by the University of Science and Technology of China, in collaboration with RISE Research Institutes of Sweden (RISE), advised by Prof. Heping Zhang and A/Prof.Xudong Cheng at USTC and Prof. Haukur Ingason and Dr. Ying Zhen Li at RISE

2021 Honorable mentions:

• James L. Urban for the thesis “ Spot ignition of natural fuels by hot metal particles ” conferred by the University of California, Berkeley, USA, advised by Prof. Carlos Fernandez-Pello
• Francesco Restuccia for the thesis  “Self-heating ignition of natural reactive porous media ” conferred by Imperial College, London, UK, advised by Prof. Guillermo Rein
• (Europe and Africa) Cristian Maluk for the thesis,  “Development and Application of a Novel Test Method for Studying the Fire Behaviour of CFRP Prestressed Concrete Structural Element” c onferred by the University of Edinburgh, UK
• (Americas) Ali Tohidi for the thesis,  “Experimental and Numerical Modeling of Wildfire Spread via Fire Spotting” c onferred by Clemson University, USA
• (Asia and Oceania) Zihe Gao for the thesis  “Studies on Characteristics of Confined Fire Plumes and Mechanism of Natural Smoke Exhaust by Shaft in Tunnel Fires”  conferred by the University of Science and Technology of China in collaboration with Ghent University, Belgium
• (Europe and Africa) Dr Thomas Gernay, for the thesis titled “A multiaxial constitutive model for concrete in the fire situation including transient creep and cooling down phases,” Université de Liège, Belgium (2012)
• (Americas) Dr Kristopher James Overholt, for the thesis titled “Forward and Inverse Modeling of Fire Physics Towards Fire Scene Reconstructions,” The University of Texas at Austin, USA (2013)
• (Asia and Oceania) Dr Chao Zhang for the thesis titled “Reliability of Steel Columns Protected by Intumescent Coatings Subjected to Natural Fires,” Tongji University, China (2012)

2014 Honorable Mentions:

• Dr John Gales, for the thesis titled “Unbonded Post Tensioned Concrete Structures in Fire,” University of Edinburgh, UK (2013)
• Dr Mélanie Rochoux for the thesis titled “Towards a more comprehensive monitoring of wildfire spread Contributions of model evaluation and data assimilation strategies (Vers une meilleure prévision de la propagation d’incendies de forêt: Evaluation de modèles et Assimilation de données),” CNRS et École Centrale Paris, France (2014)
• Dr Steven Verstockt for the thesis “Multi-modal Video Analysis for Early Fire Detection (Analyse van multimodale video voor vroegtijdige branddetectie),” Universiteit Gent, Belgium (2012).
• (Europe and Africa)  Angus Law, for the thesis titled “The Assessment and Response of Concrete Structures Subject to Fire”, The University of Edinburgh, UK (2010)
• (Americas) Christopher Lautenberger, for the thesis titled “Generalized Pyrolysis Model for Combustible Solids”, University of California, Berkeley, USA (2007)
• (Asia and Oceania) Kai Chen, for the thesis titled “Formation of Toxic Pollutants in the Thermal Decomposition of the Sulfenimide Fungicides”, The University of Newcastle, Australia (2011)
• (Europe and Africa) Markus Knobloch ETH, Zurich, Switzerland, PhD Thesis
• (Americas) Ali S. Rangwala, University of California, San Diego, USA, PhD Thesis
• (Asia and Oceania) Johannes A.W. Dimyadi, The University of Canterbury, NZ, Masters Thesis
• (Europe and Africa) Susan Lamont, The University of Edinburgh, UK, PhD Thesis
• (Americas) Amnon Bar-Ilan, University of California, Berkeley, USA, PhD Thesis
• (Asia and Oceania) Weng Wenguo, Waseda University, Japan, PhD Thesis

Bronwyn has been involved in the IAFSS since the virtual symposium in 2021. She was very active as part of the ‘behind-the-scenes’ team that built the online conference platform. She co-organized and co-led the EDI and ECR events and brought ‘gamification’ to the conference. After the virtual symposium, she served as co-chair of the newly formed Early Career Researchers sub-committee, devising new initiatives specifically targeted towards early career researchers/professionals and is excited to continue in that role as member of the IAFSS MAC. Bronwyn is looking forward to the opportunity to share her perspectives and aims to establish valuable initiatives for others early in their fire safety careers.

Eric Guillaume is a fire expert involved in various missions, including laboratory development, teaching, standardization and regulation, fire toxicity and modelling fire behaviour of materials. In the field of fire safety, he is the author of more than 50 scientific publications, 27 book chapters and more than 200 conference acts. He is Technical advisor for fire safety for many French authorities, and active in standardization as chairman of the standardization committee ISO TC92/SC3, dealing with “Fire Threat to People and the Environment” and convenor of ISO TC61/SC4/WG2, dealing with smoke opacity and corrosivity for plastics.

Dr. Simeoni conducted his studies in France, obtaining a Bachelor Degree in Physics from the University of Corsica (1994), a Master Degree in Mechanical Engineering and a Master of Science in Physics from the University of Aix-Marseille (1996), as well as a Ph.D. in Physics from the University of Corsica (2000). Before joining WPI, he held academic leadership positions in fire research in the UK (Chair of the BRE Center for Fire Safety Engineering at the University of Edinburgh) and in France (Head of the Wildland Fire Research Program at the University of Corsica). He has also experience as a consultant in thermal and fire sciences in the US and has spent over 10 years volunteering as a firefighter in France, eventually becoming Fire Captain and Chief of a small Fire Station.

His research interests cover wildland fire and fire science. He has experience in developing experimental, analytical, and numerical techniques to better understand fire dynamics and to predict fire and wildland fire behavior and impact.

• FPE Department:   https://www.wpi.edu/academics/departments/fire-protection-engineering
• Personal webpage:  https://www.wpi.edu/people/faculty/asimeoni
• WIRC website:  https://www.wildfirecenter.org/
• Google scholar:  https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=cZHfgCsAAAAJ&hl=en

https://www.linkedin.com/in/brian-meacham-5576b210/ 

Homepage: http://www.sbee.archi.kyoto-u.ac.jp/

Xinyan has been an editor of the IAFSS website for over 10 yeras and the master of IAFSS social media (Twitter, LinkedIn, etc.) since 2015. He has won multiple Best Poster Awards and Best Fire Image Awards at the IAFSS International Symposiums. In 2020, he received the IAFSS Proulx Early Career Award for his significant contributions to the understanding of smoldering wildfires, fire dynamics in microgravity and cable fires.

• Website: https://www.polyu.edu.hk/beee/people/academic-staff/dr-huang-xinyan/ 

Beth Weckman is a professor and head of the Fire Research Group and Fire Safety Graduate program in Mechanical and Mechatronics Engineering at the University of Waterloo. She has been a member of the International Association for Fire Safety Science (IAFSS) Executive Committee (since 2017), Vice Chair for the Americas and currently Trustee and Chair of Governance Committee, as well as Local host for the 13th Symposium, Proceedings co-editor for 12th, and Co-Track Chair for 14th Symposia. She is excited to continue through the transition of IAFSS, working to enhance vibrancy and activity through outreach and expanded membership, promoting new educational initiatives, international exchange and translation of fire research information across multiple disciplines, career levels and fire safety stakeholders. As well as serving for IAFSS, she chairs the SFPE Accreditation & Curriculum Committee and serves on the FSRI Research Advisory Board, ASTM E05: Fire Standards Committee and as technical expert for Standards Council Canada on ISO TC92 on Fire Safety Engineering.

At the UW Live Fire Research Facility, Beth leads a wide range of critical fire safety and fire science related research projects with undergraduates, graduate students and partners from university, fire service, industry and government. These include small, medium and full scale experiments aimed toward understanding and improving fire dynamics and fire performance of materials and systems and development of advanced understanding of fire behavior and hot gas movement across a span of fire safety engineering applications. Ongoing exciting research involves developing new test methods and sensors to characterize wildland fire emissions, development of risk parameters and frameworks for timber fire situations and interdisciplinary work with physiologists to study how modern fire environments impact humans. Through her work, Beth seeks to couple the latest fire research with educational initiatives to enrich learning and promote broad, multidisciplinary technology transfer amongst fire safety stakeholders at all levels.

• Personal:     https://uwaterloo.ca/mechanical-mechatronics-engineering/profile/ejweckma
• Research Facility: https://uwaterloo.ca/fire-research-and-safety/

Website: https://fpe.umd.edu/clark/faculty/601/Arnaud-Trouvé

LinkedIn profile: https://www.linkedin.com/in/arnaud-trouvé-27622b30/

On the MAC, as a member representative of the Americas, I want to further the inclusion and opportunities of Early Career Researchers within IAFSS and the wider fire safety research community. I work on the Research committee to channel research ideas to ensure that our organization continues to address fire safety challenges for the 21st century in an effective and sustainable manner.

website: https://forestry.ubc.ca/faculty-profile/felix-wiesner/

Prof. Nakamura received his doctoral degree in Engineering (2000) from Nagoya University (Japan), followed by MSc (1995) and BE (1993) at the same university. Prior to joining TUT, Prof. Nakamura was appointed as Tenured Associate Professor at Hokkaido University, Japan, Assistant Professor and Research Associate at Nagoya University, Japan. During his academic career in Japan, Prof. Nakamura also joined as visiting Research Assistant at The University of Kentucky, Guest Researcher at Building Fire Research Laboratory, The National Institute of Standard and Technology (Gaithersburg Campus), and Visiting Professor at University of California, San Diego. His research interests include combustion, fire dynamics, space engineering, and scale modeling.

• Lab:   https://ece.me.tut.ac.jp/wp/
• Personal webpage:  https://ece.me.tut.ac.jp/yuji/index-e.html
• Research Gate:  https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Yuji-Nakamura
• Google scholar:  https://scholar.google.jp/citations?user=KWDFEw8AAAAJ&hl=ja&oi=ao

Miho Seike is associate professor of Hiroshima University. She got the Ph. D in 2015. Her major is safety engineering, especially evacuation behaviour experimental investigation in Large Enclosed Space Fire Safety (LES-FS) such as smoke filled tunnel, and underground space safety. She is interested in not only evacuation, but also rescue, and fire-fighting activities in large enclosed space such as tunnels and undergrounds space fire. She focuses on smoke’s and evacuees’ behaviors in tunnel fires by full-scale experiments and numerical simulations.

• Website: https://home.hiroshima-u.ac.jp/~mseike/introduction/ 
• Linkedin: www.linkedin.com/in/miho-seike-111b8b2a0

• From 2015: Professor into the University of Poitiers. Institut des Risques Industriels Assurantiels et Financiers (IRIAF) and Pprime Institute – UPR 3346 CNRS.
• From 2003 to 2015: Maître de Conférences into the University of Poitiers. Institut des Risques Industriels Assurantiels et Financiers (IRIAF) and Pprime Institute – UPR 3346 CNRS.
• 2010: “Habilitation à Diriger les Recherches” de l’université de Poitiers
• 2001: PhD of the university of Poitiers

My research takes place in the Pprime Institute and concerns the fire safety sciences aspects, notably at the interface between the solid and the gaseous phases, the interfaces solid-gas and there interactions. The expertise developed associates both experimental and numerical aspects in order to characterize the thermal decomposition of solid fuels, the development of pyrolysis models, the gaseous emissions and there kinetic of formation, the ignition and auto-ignition of solid fuels, flame propagation process and the models of combustion. Another aspect concerns the thermomechanical behavior of solid fuels.

• Co-authors of more than 60 articles in international journals and 70 international conferences.
• Currently member of the editorial board of Fire Safety Journal and of Fire and Material.
• Reviewer for main fire-related journals and conferences.
• Co-chair of several session of the International Symposium of Fire Safety Science
• Supervision (Director) of 22 Phd students and I am actually supervising 3 phD students. Supervision of 15 post-doctoral positions.
• Management of 38 programs of research (national, industrial, European) and participation to 10 others.
• I participate to 30 external PhD defenses, with 22 as reviewer.
• In 2016, creation and co-chair of the condensed phase subgroup of the International Symposium of Fire Safety Science (IAFSS) Working Group on Measurement and Computation of Fire Phenomena (MaCFP).
• Mid-term career Award FORUM IAFSS. 2019.
• The FORUM Mid-Career Researcher Award recognizes exceptional achievement and demonstrated leadership in the fields of fire safety science or fire protection engineering made by those in mid-career

https://scholar.google.com.hk/citations?user=tFsOh_IAAAAJ&hl=en&oi=ao

http://en.sklfs.ustc.edu.cn/2020/0916/c17183a449572/page.htm

https://me.vt.edu/people/faculty/lattimer-brian.html

https://eng.umd.edu/clark/faculty/1704/Shuna-Ni

Jennifer established and currently leads the Fire and Explosion Modelling Group (FMEG) at Surrey. Her research is focused on numerical studies of safety related reactive and non- reactive flows. She specializes in the development of physics-based sub-models and modelling approaches to capture the underlying physics of complex safety problems. Most of the development has been conducted within the frame of open-source computational fluid dynamics (CFD) code OpenFOAM®. In the hydrogen safety area, her team has developed a comprehensive range of solvers for consequences analysis of both gaseous and liquid hydrogen covering jets and/or catastrophic releases, ignition, jet fire, explosions including vapour cloud explosions as well as deflagration to detonation transition. In the meantime, her team has continued to develop physics based sub-models for simulating various fire scenarios, more lately these including fire whirls, flame spread over liquid fuels, coupled simulations of fire dynamics and liquid fuel evaporation as well as battery fires.

•   https://www.surrey.ac.uk/people/jennifer-x-wen
• https://www.surrey.ac.uk/fire-and-explosion-modelling-group
• https://uk.linkedin.com/in/jennifer-wen-3b929513

• Twitter/X: @Enrico_Evac
• LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/enrico-ronchi-74855a12
• Google Scholar: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=_PAp-e4AAAAJ&hl=it
• OrcId: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2789-6359
• Scopus: https://www.scopus.com/authid/detail.uri?authorId=55085890300
• Web of Science: https://www.webofscience.com/wos/author/record/1571157
• Lund University website: https://portal.research.lu.se/en/persons/enrico-ronchi

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EASO ECN Best Thesis Award (applications are now closed)

The Best Thesis Award will be presented at ECO2024, taking place in Venice, Italy from 12-15 May 2024.

The EASO Early Career Network (ECN) Best Thesis Award aims to recognise early career researchers and their contribution to the field of obesity. Early career scientists are encouraged to apply for the award to gain recognition for their thesis at an international level.

The deadline for receipt of applications is 14 January 2024  – late applications will NOT be considered.  Results will be announced in late March 2024 – all applicants will be contacted by email to announce the ECN Board decision.

To be eligible for the EASO ECN Best Thesis Award you must:

• Be nearly completing or have completed your PhD thesis
• Have carried out the majority of work in Europe (although a proportion of work may have been performed outside of Europe)
• Be a member of an EASO affiliated national obesity association  

The ECN Best Thesis Award finalists will be invited to present their research at ECO2024 in Venice, and will be offered complimentary registration to do so.  The ECN Best Thesis Award will be judged and the winner announced during the session. The winner will receive an award certificate and a €500 cash prize. Please apply using the form below.

Guidance for your application

In your application you should provide a brief summary of your thesis, highlighting any publications you have authored related to it, and highlighting how your work has contributed to the field of obesity. Your thesis will need to be in English for it to be assessed. The originality of your work and its contribution to science will be considered as part of the application.

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Faculty Awards

Sustained Research Award

This award will be presented to a research faculty member who has made significant, high quality, innovative research contributions to their field of study, visibly impacting one or more mission areas over an extended period of time. It is expected that such contributions would have brought widespread recognition to the researcher, their laboratory, and the Institute.  Outstanding research should highlight important developments of implementation that represent new area(s) of opportunity for research for the Institute and industry as appropriate. Each nomination package should include (a) a nomination letter (2 pages) summarizing the candidate’s noteworthy accomplishments (e.g., key impacts achieved in sustained research) and (b) the candidate’s resume.  A faculty member may receive this award only once.

Best Paper Award

Up to two awards consisting of a certificate, a plaque, and $3,000 each will be given to faculty authors of an outstanding paper (or multiple papers within a single, coherent subject area) published in the previous calendar year according to journal issue date.  The outstanding paper(s) should highlight important developments that represent new area(s) of opportunity for research which have been implemented in such a way that Georgia Tech and the larger field of that research derives benefit. In cases of multiple authors, the nomination should identify all GT faculty members among the authors and state the contributions of each faculty member, even if only one faculty member author thereof is nominated for the award. If a paper or set of papers with multiple GT faculty author nominees is chosen for an award, the nominated faculty authors will each receive a certificate and equal shares of the $3,000 award.

Each nomination package should include (a) a nomination letter (2 pages) highlighting the significance and impact of the paper(s), (b) a copy of the paper(s), and (c) a brief resume summarizing the noteworthy accomplishments of the candidate or candidates, with highlights for the period during the previous calendar year.

Young Faculty Award

Up to two awards consisting of a certificate, a plaque, and $3,000 each will be given to faculty of rank no higher than Assistant Professor or equivalent (Research Scientist, Research Engineer, etc.) for innovation that leads to improvements in research methods and programs at Georgia Tech, as evidenced by publications, program development results, and other research contributions. Contributions in the calendar year prior to the year of the award are emphasized. The contributions may be the result of a collaborative effort with other faculty or students. In the case of collaboration, a written statement indicating the contributions of the nominee is required. Each nomination package should include (a) a nomination letter (2 pages) highlighting the nominee’s contributions at Georgia Tech, (b) a copy of relevant paper(s) and other research products, and (c) a resume that includes the candidate’s noteworthy accomplishments, with highlights for the calendar year prior to the year of the award.

Student Awards

Each nomination package for a student award should include (a) a nomination letter (2 pages) stating the impact or significance of the thesis work, the name(s) of the student’s faculty advisor(s), and the contact information (phone numbers and email addresses) of the student and faculty advisor(s), (b) a resume with a list of papers, presentations, patents, or other intellectual products which resulted directly from the thesis research, and (c) a copy of the candidate’s thesis completed during the calendar year prior to the year of the award.

Best Ph.D. Thesis Award

Up to 10 awards consisting of a certificate, a plaque, and $1000 each will be given for outstanding Ph.D. theses. A certificate will also be presented to the faculty advisor(s) of each student winner.

Best M.S. Thesis Award

Up to two awards consisting of a certificate, a plaque, and $500 each will be given for outstanding M.S. theses, written report or published paper(s) resulting from partial fulfillment of the M.S. requirements. A certificate will also be presented to the faculty advisor(s) of each student winner.

Best Undergraduate Research Award

Up to two awards consisting of a certificate, a plaque, and $250 each will be given for outstanding undergraduate research as evidenced by a thesis, written report, or published paper(s). A certificate will also be presented to the faculty advisor(s) of each student winner.

Note: An undergraduate student can be nominated for the Undergraduate Award up to one year after graduation.

See Nomination Information on how to submit the nomination.

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CEMS grants students of the   Eastern Mediterranean Studies Specialization  with the best MA thesis award at the end of each academic year. We hope that the award will encourage students for conducting outstanding research and scholarly performance.

Andrei Dumitrescu (Medieval Studies), MA thesis:  The Visionary Emperor: Constantine the Great and the Archangel Michael in Late Fifteenth-Century Moldavian Representations  

Zeynep Olgun (Medieval Studies), MA thesis:  A Sailor's Life for Me: The Middle Byzantine Sailor on Board and at Port

Maria Golovina (History), MA thesis  Knowledge and Reciprocal Diplomacy: Alberto Vimina’s Embassy to Moscow (1655) and Ivan Chemodanov’s Embassy to Venice (1656)

Rabia Merve Demirkan Aydogan (History), MA thesis:    Schools for the Holy City: Education, Imperial Loyalty and Missionaries in Late Ottoman Jerusalem, 1876-1909

Cankat Kaplan (Medieval Studies), MA thesis :   An Anti-Ibn Arabi (d. 1240) Polemicist in Sixteenth-Century Ottoman Istanbul: Ibrahim al-Halabi (d. 1549) and His Interlocutors 

Mariia Telegina (Medieval Studies), MA thesis : Ceremonial representation in cross-confessional diplomacy: the Ottoman embassy of a Christian ambassador to Moscow in 1621.

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Phi Beta Kappa and Phi Kappa Phi each present an annual award for the best Senior Honors Thesis, with a cash prize of $250 each. Students are nominated by their academic departments and attend the annual awards luncheon co-sponsored by Phi Beta Kappa and Phi Kappa Phi where the presidents of each chapter present a Best Thesis Award for their respective chapters.

2021 Award Winners

• Phi Beta Kappa: Lily Fisher (Sociology and Anthropology) Undocumented Lives: Exploring Previously Unknown Occupations Predating the Presbyterian Manse, Staunton, VA
• Phi Kappa Phi:   Lillie Jacob (English) Drawn Queer: Queer Graphic Narratives as a Literary Movement

2020 Award Winners

• Phi Beta Kappa: Emily Barbaro (Political Science) Analyzing the Onset and Resolution of Nonstate Conflict in the Middle East & North Africa
• Phi Kappa Phi:   Paulina Bauer (Biotechnology) Examining big tau's role in DNA protection with CRISPR-Cas9 induced tau knockouts

2019 Award Winners

• Phi Beta Kappa: Rachel Barborek (Biology) Detecting the Cold: Do Innexins Function in Cold
• Phi Kappa Phi: Rhys Frazier (English) How to Live: Lessons from old English and Old Norse/Icelandic Wisdom Literature

2018 Award Winners

• Phi Beta Kappa: Kelly Moss (Political Science) Nigerian Terror: The Rise of Boko Haram
• Phi Kappa Phi: Hannah Facknitz (History) Performing Authentic Savegery: National Myth-Making and Indigenous Survival at American World's Fairs, 1893-1904

2017 Award Winners

• Phi Beta Kappa: Madeline Johnson (Sociology) Queer University: An Ethnographic Case Study of the Trans Student Experience of College Campus Space
• Phi Kappa Phi: Naomi Gilbert (Biotechnology) Survey of microbial urea degrader diversity in two freshwater ecosystems: Lake Shenandoah and the Shenandoah River

2016 Award Winners

• Phi Beta Kappa: Kirstie Ann Thompson (Chemistry) The Effect of Hofmeister Series Counterions on the Colloidal and Antimicrobial Properties of Triple-Headed Cationic Amphiphiles
• Phi Kappa Phi: Meagan Riley (English) American Gothic Families: Identity and Kinship in the American Gothic Tradition

2015 Award Winners

• Phi Beta Kappa: Jacob Bosley (Political Science) Lexicons of Colonialism: A Grounded Theory Examination of Indian and Supreme Court Definitions of Sovereignty
• Phi Kappa Phi: Rosemary Girard (Writing, Rhetoric, and Technical Communication) The Professional Writer’s Many Personae: Creative Nonfiction, Popular Writing, Speechwriting, and Personal Narrative

2014 Award Winners

• Phi Beta Kappa: Matthew Dent (Chemistry) Understanding metal-organic framework assembly in hydrotris (1,2,4-triazolyl) borate materials
• Phi Kappa Phi: Andrea Morgan (Art History) After Rembrandt: Captain William Baillie and Print Culture in Eighteenth-Century London

2013 Award Winners

• Phi Beta Kappa: Jessica Holland (Biology) The Interaction of the Lethal Fungal Pathogen Batrachochytrium Dendrobatidis (Bd) and Combinations of Anti-Bd Bacterial Species
• Phi Kappa Phi: Caitlyn Chalfant and Molly Picard (both Intelligence Analysis) Weapons of Mass Destruction and America: Assessing the Risk of a Possible Future Scenario and Its Implications

2012 Award Winners

• Phi Beta Kappa: Matthew Wallace (Biology) Topographic and Patterned Axonal Projections in Control and Mutant Ephrin-B2 Mice Prior to the Onset of Hearing
• Phi Kappa Phi: Sam Lasky (International Affairs) Causes of US Humanitarian Intervention in the Post-Cold War Era

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AcSIR Best Ph.D. Thesis Award.

Ph.D. students, who have been awarded their Ph.D. degree from AcSIR during the period  January 1, 2023 to December 31, 2023 , are eligible to apply for AcSIR Best Ph.D. Thesis Award.

These awards which consists of a citation and a cash prize, will be awarded in all the five faculty disciplines.

The students, who wish to apply for these awards, must send their completed  application form  strictly in the attached word format (do not send PDF) along with copies of all  publications, patents/technology transfer/copyright   emanating only from the Ph.D. thesis-work , Thesis abstract  and  soft copy of their signed thesis  electronically to  [email protected]  not later  than April 10, 2024.

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Archmello - Thesis of the Year Award : 2023

Total prize - inr 75000, registration dates.

29/12/2022 to 05/07/2023

Thesis , the only studio in architecture wherein the student gets a chance to select the studio program of his/her choice. It provides an opportunity to the students to explore a particular design category, address any social - cultural - political issue through architecture or work on the futuristic theme for the betterment of the society. Architectural Thesis is a stage of going beyond & exploring new dimensions of designs. We believe six months of rigorous research & design creativity should be acknowledged. THESIS OF THE YEAR AWARD - 2023 is our small attempt to honor some of the best thesis works from around the globe.

Total Prize INR 75000

Prof. Percy Adil Pithawala

Founder - The Red Studio

Sonke Hoof & Khushnu Panthaki Hoof

Principal Architects - Studio Sangath

• Edition - 1
• Edition - 2
• Edition - 3

First Prize - TA21A0052

Sergio Mutis - Colombia

Second Prize - TA21A0346

Lee Min Hui - Malaysia

Third Prize - TA21A0181

Preksha Chheda - India

Honorable Mention - TA21A0191

Hariish Ananthan - India

Honorable Mention - TA21A0587

Anandita Ayesha Rangarajan - India

Honorable Mention - TA21A0466

Theodora Li - United Kingdom

Honorable Mention - TA21A0231

Harish Kanth - India

Honorable Mention - TA21A0441

Akanksha Deolekar - India

Honorable Mention - TA21A0410

Jerwin Geo - India

Honorable Mention - TA21A0422

Santhosh Narayanan - India

Honorable Mention - TA21A0488

Saivi Shah - India

Honorable Mention - TA21A0538

Mohamed Farook Ahlam S - India

Honorable Mention - TA21A0332

Adnan Kasubhai - India

Honorable Mention - TA21A0382

Mokshit Dedhia - India

Honorable Mention - TA21A0593

Francesca Prini, Selene Rini, Nicole Vettore - Italy

Honorable Mention - TA21A0459

Riyesh Patil - India

Honorable Mention - TA21A0413

Vatsal Shah - India

Honorable Mention - TA21A0190

Lilian Silva Costa - Brazil

Honorable Mention - TA21A0182

Abishek Raj - India

Honorable Mention - TA21A0158

Ravi Modi - India

Honorable Mention - TA21A0149

Anisha Mehta - India

Honorable Mention - TA21A0108

Utkarsh Kumar Verma - India

First Prize - TA23B70923

Second Prize - TA23B70961

Third Prize - TA23B70775

Dean Smuts ( South Africa )

Honorable Mention - TA23B71226

Vinayak Bhattacharya, Tanvee Thapa, Silvia Caremoli

Honorable Mention - TA23B70689

Serah Yatin

Honorable Mention - TA23B71050

Liron Gonsalves

Honorable Mention - TA23B1225

Md. Zahidur Rahman

Honorable Mention - TA23B71236

Ritika Somani

Honorable Mention - TA23B71225

Ayesha Akhter

Honorable Mention - TA23B71206

Alvin Baride

Honorable Mention - TA23B70905

Ngo Thanh Quy

Honorable Mention - TA23B71219

Md. Muhaiminur Rahman

Honorable Mention - TA23B70901

Special Mention - TA23B71240

Snigdha Gopalkrishnan

Special Mention - TA23B70859

Rohit Belvikar

Special Mention - TA23B70912

Special Mention - TA23B71241

Riddhee Madan Patil

Special Mention - TA23B71160

Harsh Agarwal

Special Mention - TA23B71012

Priya Chauhan

Special Mention - TA23B70737

Reeshba Reji

Special Mention - TA23B1533

Special Mention - TA23B70927

Pradyumna Lalit Vikharankar

Special Mention - TA23B41425

Top 10 - TA23B70973

Riya Saira Georgi

Top 10 - TA23B41435

Eromitha Ramesh

Top 10 - TA23B1547

Vini Thakker

Top 10 - TA23B70941

Rachit Joshi

Top 10 - TA23B71129

Garima Mutha

Top 10 - TA23B1531

Urja Laddha

Top 10 - TA23B71044

Top 10 - TA23B1545

Disha Rabadia

Top 10 - TA23B70782

Zalavadiya Nikunj Harshadbhai

Top 10 - TA23B71248

Woon Zi Zheng