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Congratulations to Recent Biology Fellowship Winners
The Ph.D. program in Biology congratulates our students who have been awarded dissertation fellowships for the 2022-23 academic year:
Rose Dissertation Fellowship
Nazia Nayeem
Dissertation Year Award
Melenia Giakoumis
Gonzalo Pinilla Buitrago
Catalyst Grants
Lizettee Couto
Gonzalo Pinilla Buitrago
Simon Verlynde
Katerina Yamamoto
Dissertation Defense: Nihal Vatandas
Date: Wednesday, April 27, 2022
Time: 10 a.m. - 12 p.m.
Location: online (Zoom)
Thesis: On the Cryptographic Deniability of the Signal Protocol
Zoom meeting details:
Meeting ID: 815 0714 8091
Passcode: 571992
Students Keino Brown and Max Everett Accepted to Summer graduate schools at MSRI in 2022
- Keino Brown - Metric Geometry and Geometric Analysis (Oxford, United Kingdom)
- Max Everett - Algebraic Theory of Differential and Difference Equations, Model Theory and their Applications (St. Mary's College)
Congratulations to our PhD Candidates
Xiaomeng (Amy) Ma and Hagay Schurr are getting a Graduate Center Dissertation Year (2022-2023) award.
Dissertation Defense: Jie Chu
Date: Friday, April 8, 2022
Time: 12-2 p.m.
Location: Room 4421
Thesis: Performance Modeling for Network Anomaly Detection and Sensor Networks
Zoom meeting details:
ID: 824 8360 6507
Passcode: 396351
Prof. Juliette Blevins Talks
- Prof. Juliette Blevins was a keynote speaker at the Workshop on Sound Change, held in Donostia-San Sebastian, Spain, in February 2022.
- She will also give an invited talk at Princeton on April 13, entitled "Riotous sound change in Borneo and beyond: Elusive explanations and linguistic motivations".
- Prof. Blevins will also be the invited speaker for the May 7 International Linguistics Association meeting in New York. Her talk is "Proto-Basque and the Single Sibilant Hypothesis: Evidence, reassessment, and implications."
Dissertation Defense: Pedro Soto
Date: Thursday, April 7, 2022
Time: 1:30-3:30 p.m.
Thesis: Coded Distributed Function Computation
Zoom meeting details:
ID: 867 9281 7080
Passcode: 004281
Second Exam: Xuan Wang
Date: Tuesday, April 5, 2022
Time: 12:00-2:00 p.m.
Thesis: Literature Review: Context Understanding in Computer Vision
Zoom meeting details:
ID: 862 7679 3154
Passcode: 317403
Thesis Proposal: Candidate Pedro Soto
Date: Thursday, March 24, 2022
Time: 1:30-3:30 p.m.
Thesis: Coded Distributed Function Computation
Zoom meeting details:
ID: 843 7434 0998
Passcode: 562456
Congratulations to Prof. Nancy Stern!
PI of a 5-yr $3 million National Professional Development (NPD) grant from the US Department of Education. The grant will prepare 4 cohorts of teachers and school leaders in New York City high schools to support the academic and socio-emotional needs of multilingual learners.
Additionally her forthcoming publication is in press:
Stern, Nancy. 2022. Reflexivity, Role Conflicts, and the Meaning of Self Pronouns. Manuscrito. DOI: 10.1590/0100-6045.2022.V45N1.NS