The Department of Sociology had another successful year in the National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship Program. Elizabeth Martin was awarded a three-year graduate research fellowship by the NSF (Advisor: Rachel Dwyer). In addition, four of our students won prestigious Honorable Mentions in this highly competitive national program. These students are: Scott Duxbury (Advisors: Dana Haynie and David Melamed); Laura Frizzell (Advisor: Mike Vuolo); Jake Hays (Advisor: Kristi Williams) and Sadé Lindsay (Advisor: Mike Vuolo).

Additionally, Evelyn Gertz has been awarded a Project Launch Grant from the Global Religion Research Initiative to support her research on the resurgence of the Aramean identity in Israel (Advisor: Hollie Nyseth Brehm). Evelyn also won an NSF graduate research fellowship just last year in the 2016 competition.