Fifty-six doctoral students at UC Riverside have received Dissertation Completion Fellowship Awards (DCFAs) from the UCR Graduate Division. The awards provide financial support to students in the final stage of their doctoral degree.
“Celebrating 56 Dissertation Completion Fellowship recipients reminds us just how vibrant and determined our doctoral community is,” said Emma Wilson, associate dean of the Graduate Division. “These awards help relieve students of additional duties so they can focus fully on completing their dissertations. I am immensely proud of these scholars and their contributions and look forward to seeing them graduate.”
Each DCFA recipient receives an $11,500 stipend and about $7,000 toward tuition and fee coverage per quarter. Awardees receive funding for up to two quarters, with funding for the second quarter requiring clear justification.
This year's DCFA recipients are:
Yun Ge, Anthropology
Zhiyi Wang, Anthropology
Lily Allen, Art History
Xinyi Chen, Biochemistry & Molecular Biology
Zengyu Shao, Biochemistry & Molecular Biology
William Darch, Bioengineering
Junze Liu, Bioengineering
Vala Masjedizadeh, Bioengineering
Jennel Jennett, Biomedical Sciences
Amun Chirag Patel, Biophysics
Rachel De La Torre, Cell, Molecular & Developmental Biology
Runtong Pan, Chemical & Environmental Engineering
Ruonan Peng, Chemical & Environmental Engineering
Kailong Ye, Chemical & Environmental Engineering
Yujie Cao, Chemistry
Julio Larach, Chemistry
Sakib Fuad, Computer Science
Jingyao Zhang, Computer Science
Yeji Moon, Critical Dance Studies
Saleheh Ebadirad, Earth & Planetary Sciences
Keren Fang, Economics
Ilsoo Han, Economics
Pete Pridanonda, Economics
Briana Savage, Education
Dresden Smith, Education
Shucheng Guo, Electrical Engineering
Zexin Li, Electrical Engineering
Yitian Wang, Electrical Engineering
Dongming Wang, Electrical Engineering
Loren Barbour, English
Amanda Mocsi, English
Meghan Moore, Entomology
Wonsik Woo, Environmental Toxicology
Ting Zhao, Environmental Toxicology
Jennifer Martinez, Ethnic Studies
Gary Qin, Evolution, Ecology & Organismal Biology
Marina Vollin, Evolution, Ecology & Organismal Biology
Ryan Bruellman, Genetics, Genomics & Bioinformatics
Hector Gomez, Materials Science & Engineering
Katherine Muckle, Mathematics
Ruoyi Wang, Mathematics
Darshan Gadginmath, Mechanical Engineering
Boshen Qi, Mechanical Engineering
Basubi Binti Zhilik, Microbiology
David Nikom, Neuroscience
Thomas Shoff, Neuroscience
Wenjun Chang, Physics
Erik Loyd, Physics
Shixiong Wang, Physics
Stephanie Martinez, Plant Biology
Janty Woojuh Nart, Plant Biology
Adam Hobbs, Political Science
James LeBlanc, Psychology
Tania Rodriguez, Psychology
Kimberly Diaz, Religious Studies
Liseth Espindola, Spanish