{"id":133968,"date":"2023-02-28T09:22:47","date_gmt":"2023-02-28T14:22:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/133968///news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/133968//www.ucf.edu/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/133968//news/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/133968//?p=133968"},"modified":"2023-02-28T22:50:49","modified_gmt":"2023-03-01T03:50:49","slug":"ucf-graduate-deans-dissertation-completion-fellowship-drives-excellence-provides-aid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/133968///news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/133968//www.ucf.edu/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/133968//news/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/133968//ucf-graduate-deans-dissertation-completion-fellowship-drives-excellence-provides-aid/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/133968//","title":{"rendered":"UCF Graduate Dean/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/133968/u2019s Dissertation Completion Fellowship Drives Excellence, Provides Aid"},"content":{"rendered":"
As the cost of living has risen dramatically over the past several years, financial assistance has become a vital component of student success. There is no doubt that completing a dissertation is a challenging task, but the financial demands of obtaining a doctoral degree should not stand in the way./news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/133968/n
UCF aids students in completing their doctoral degrees and obtaining their goals by providing monetary support to assist them in their research endeavors. Support such as this allows students to streamline their focus and drives their research to be cutting-edge, which has helped make UCF No. 20 in innovation in the nation, according to U.S. News and World Report./news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/133968/n The College of Graduate Studies supports doctoral students with the UCF Graduate Dean/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/133968/u2019s Dissertation Completion Fellowship. The fellowship aims to increase dissertation completion among Ph.D. students by providing a stipend of $10,000 for spring semesters, tuition support and health insurance. The award is for doctoral students in their final semester of graduate education and who have a realistic expectation of degree completion in the spring, allowing them to forgo their non-research-related employment obligations to concentrate on completing their dissertation./news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/133968/n The Graduate Dean/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/133968/u2019s Dissertation Completion Fellowship recipients for the Spring 2023 semester are:/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/133968/n Fatema Ahmed /news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/133968/u201914 /news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/133968/u201917MHA Applications are due to the College of Graduate Studies by Nov. 15, and students should speak with their program director about the deadline to submit to their dean/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/133968/u2019s office for nomination consideration. Each college can nominate students based on their demonstrated ability to complete high-quality dissertation research under the assurance that the awarding of the fellowship will allow the students to complete their dissertations and graduate at the end of the term./news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/133968/n Daryn Dever /news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/133968/u201917 /news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/133968/u201920MA says receiving the award granted her the ability to prioritize her research without worrying about the cost. The modeling and simulation doctoral candidate is researching how different forms of data collection such as log files and eye tracking, can be used to understand how people learn to design new game-based learning environments./news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/133968/n /news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/133968/u201cThis fellowship has allowed me to ignore the usual financial pressures of being a graduate student in Orlando and focus on completing my dissertation and finishing the next steps in my professional career,/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/133968/u201d says Dever, who earned a bachelor/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/133968/u2019s in psychology and master/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/133968/u2019s in instructional design and technology./news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/133968/n In addition to alleviating financial stressors, the award is also fueling critical research and helping students produce their best work. Physics doctoral candidate and fellowship awardee Zackary Parsons is using the funds to further his goal of conserving the environment by creating new renewable energy technologies. His research uses scanning electrochemical microscopy to reveal structure-activity relationships for electrocatalytic materials, enabling the use of electricity from renewable sources to drive important chemical reactions./news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/133968/n
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/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/133968/nDaryn Dever /news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/133968/u201917 /news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/133968/u201920MA
/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/133968/nLauren Doocy
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/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/133968/nLinh Le
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