UC Davis Grad Studies’ website features outstanding graduate
students. Juliet Wahleithner, a PhD student in the School’s
Language, Literacy and Culture Track with a Designated Emphasis
in Writing, Rhetoric and Communication Studies, is featured
here.
Congratulations to Socorro Shiels, a PhD student, who received a
$10,000 Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Scholarship. The award is made
to only one student per year to recognize aspiring Latino
superintendents.
Lynn Fitzpatrick, while pursuing her doctoral degree in
educational leadership, is the new curriculum and
instruction director for the Sonoma Valley Unified School
District. As reported in the
Sonoma Index-Tribune, Fitzpatrick told the school
district board that local students achieved modest STAR gains.
Brian Riley, a second year PhD student in school organization and
educational policy, was recently honored by the California
Association of the Deaf for his outstanding service to the
California Deaf Community.
The Graduate Group in Education (GGE), with support from the
Office of Graduate Studies, awarded grants to 16 graduate
students for conference presentations in 2009, more than double
the number of students in 2008.
