Dean’s Fellows

These competitive $20,000 fellowships support outstanding doctoral students who are full-time Ph.D. students working with faculty mentors in any of the eight units in the college.  The number of fellowships that will be awarded each year is contingent on funds available. Recipients may not receive the fellowship more than once.

Current CHHS faculty and staff can find eligibility and nomination information on CHHS SharePoint.

Anjali Tiwari – Department of Health and Exercise Science, Cognitive Variability as an Early Predictor of Vascular Cognitive Impairment in Stroke Survivors

Steffany Joslin – Department of Human Development and Family Studies, The Roles of Adolescent and Parent Depression in Adolescent Cardiometabolic Risk

Andy Hagen – Department of Health and Exercise Science, The Neural Underpinnings of Split-belt Treadmill Training in People with Multiple Sclerosis 

Brock Rigsby – Department of Human Development and Family Studies, Mindful Partnering: Developing and Validating an Observational Coding System for a Novel Construct and Testing Associations with Health Outcomes

Ross Atkinson – School of Education, Tracking Trajectories of Change in Well-being of Participants in a Veterans Writing Workshop: A Quasi-experimental Mixed Methods Design. Mentor: Louise Jennings

Megan Moran – Human Development and Family Studies, The Role of Engagement in the Efficacy of Mindfulness Training for Adolescents. Mentors: Rachel Lucas-Thompson and Lauren Shomaker

Maureen Walsh – Health and Exercise Science, BAM! Targeting proteostasis to simultaneously halt drivers of both Brain and Muscle aging in a novel guinea pig model. Mentor: Karyn Hamilton

Read more about the Dean’s Fellows on SOURCE.

Elliot Graham – Food Science and Human Nutrition, Mentors: Chris Gentile, Tiffany Weir – FSHN, Marcela Henao-Tamayo – Microbiology, Immunology, and Pathology, Examining the Effects of a Novel Probiotic on Blood Vessel and Gut Function in Diet-Induced Obese Mice.

Mohammad Teymouri – Construction Management, Mentor: Mahmoud Shakouri – CM. Long-Term Performance of Concrete Infrastructures Exposed to De-icing and Anti-icing Salts.

Han-Yun (Heidi) Tseng – Human Development and Family Studies,  Mentors: Manfred Diehl and Stephen Aichele – HDFS. Trajectories of Subjective Well-Being over 20 Years in Older Adults: The Role of Self-Perceptions of Aging.

Read more on the Dean’s Fellows on the College’s SOURCE news page.

Patricia Grady – Occupational Therapy, Mentor: Anita Bundy, Sc.D. Improving Health, Well-being and Equity for Children with Sensory Integration Dysfunction through Assessment: Establishing Evidence for the Validity and Reliability of the Evaluation in Ayres Sensory Integration (EASI).

Susan Mingils – Occupational Therapy, Mentors: Patti Davies, Ph.D., OTR/L, and Jaclyn Stephens, Ph.D., OTR/L. Is Moving to Music Good for Your Brain? Studying the Effects of Rhythmic Entrainment on Neural Integration and Efficiency with EEG.