Graduate Students Recognized for Scholarship
Fall 2009
David Ulate
PhD student David Ulate received the UC Davis Graduate Research Mentorship Fellowship for 2009-10. The award provides for student fees and a $20,000 salary. Assistant Professor Michal Kurlaender, who is serving as Ulate’s faculty mentor, said, “David’s work on college access investigates a unique route to postsecondary schooling for California high school students from different racial/ethnic backgrounds.”
Bree Murphy
Master’s student Bree Murphy has been awarded a research fellowship by the Community Forestry and Environmental Research Partnerships (CFERP) and the Pacific Northwest Research Station, USDA Forest Service. CFERP is proud to support Murphy’s project, “Culture Camp: Convergence of Traditional and Scientific Knowledge in Coastal Alaska,” in collaboration with her academic advisor, Heidi Ballard, and the Seldovia Village Tribe. Murphy’s research seeks to answer the question, “What environmental learning occurs during the convergence of traditional ecological knowledge and Western science?”
Betsy Gilliland
PhD student Betsy Gilliland received a $15,000 scholarship from the Philanthropic Educational Organization (P.E.O.) Scholar Awards program. This program was established in 1991 to provide substantial merit-based awards for women in the U.S. and Canada who are either pursuing a doctoral level degree or engaged in postdoctoral research at an accredited college or university. Gilliland will use the award to support the work she will be doing on her dissertation in 2009-10.
