Departmental News
Chai & Samek Receive Grad School Summer Fellowships
Ph.D. students Sabine Chai and Alyssa Samek are recipients of 2009 Graduate Student Summer Research Fellowships awarded by the UM Graduate School.
The Graduate Student Summer Research Fellowships is a companion program to the University of Maryland Flagship Fellowships and the Ann G. Wylie Dissertation Fellowships. The Summer Research Fellowships provide support to doctoral students at “mid-career,” that is, in the period approximately before, during, or after achievement of candidacy.
The Summer Research Fellowships will provide doctoral students the opportunity to concentrate fully on their own scholarly activities and research, for the duration of a summer, at a critical moment in their graduate studies. The specific goal of the program is to help students to take a significant step forward in their studies in a timely manner; the overall goals are to reduce time-to-degree, to increase degree completion, and to enhance the quality of the graduate student experience.
In 2008, Ph.D. students Stephen Underhill and Ai Zhang received Summer Research Fellowships.
