Graduate Student Awards/Dissertations

Awards

2006

• Rachael Shwom has been selected to participate in the National Academies Christine Mirzayan Science and Technology Policy Graduate Fellowship Program sponsored by the National Academy of Sciences
• Jason Konefal and Elisha Marr have received the Dissertation Completion Fellowship for Fall 2006
• Carmen Bain is the new WID Assistant Director and Coordinator of the Gender, Justice, and Environmental Change (GJEC) graduate specialization program
• Lori Baralt has been awarded the 2006 Distinguished Service Award from the Society for Human Ecology in Bar Harbor, Maine, for her excellent service to Human Ecology Review
• Rachael Shwom, Lori Baralt, and David Bidwell recently presented papers at the 14th International Conference of the Society for Human Ecology
  

2005

• Satoko Motohara was selected as one of the winners of the Shao-Chang Lee Best Paper Competition 2005
• Michelle Worosz was awarded a Dissertation Completion Fellowship from the MSU Graduate School for Spring Semester 2005
• Deborah Wilson was awarded an F.L.A.S. Fellowship for the 2005 academic year
• Deborah Wilson was awarded the Walker Hill International Award for 2005-06
• Kimberly Perez was awarded the Fulbright Award for dissertation research in Africa
• Catherine Kuhn was awarded first place in the Sociology and Social Welfare Division Annual Student Paper Competition for her paper “Tracing the Role of Family Scholarship in the Design of Social Welfare Policy”

2004

• Carmen Bain was awarded an N.S.F. Dissertation Award
• Temple Day Smith was awarded an M.F.P. award

Dissertations Successfully Defended

Summer 2006

Michelle Worosz
"Pits, Pests, and the Industrial Tart." Committee: C.K. Harris (Advisor), M. Aronoff, L.B. Delind, L.M. Busch.

Spring 2006

Catherine Kuhn
"Movin' on Out? Toward a Better Understanding of the Residential Outcomes of Families Living in Concentrated Urban Poverty"

Spring 2005

Chien-Juh Gu
“Gendered Transnational Struggles and Agencies: Immigration, Social Relations, and Mental Health in a Taiwanese American Community”

Fall 2004

Andrea Rother
Advisor: Craig Harris
“Risk Perception, Risk Communication, and the Effectiveness of Pesticide Labels in Communicating Hazards to South African Farm Workers”

Kimberly Barber
“The Role of Chronic Illness, Personal Agency, Social Support, and Healthcare Discrimination in Mental Wellbeing and Alternative Healthcare”

Ragnhild Bundresmann
“Patient Perception of Provider Adherence to Treatment and Self-Care Standards: The Case of Diabetes Self-Care”

Bradley Carl
“Michigan Educational Policy and Values: Instrumental Values and the Formation of Charter School Policy”

Gayla Jewell
“Preconditions to Interorganizational Collaboration among stakeholder Organizations that Care About Prostituted Women”

Yu-His Lin
“Adaptation and Health of First-Generation Taiwanese Americans”

Andile Siyengo
“Sweet Oranges, Uncertain Markets, and Bitter Losses: A Study of Small Scale Citrus Farming in the Eastern Cape, South Africa”

Tomiko Yamaguchi
“Discourse Perspective on Agrifood Biotechnology Controversies: Bt Cotton in India”