The Graduate School is pleased to announce the 2022-2023 Endowed Fellowship Recipients
Congratulations to the recipients of a Graduate School Endowed Fellowship for this academic year!
LOUISE DOSDALL FELLOWSHIP
The Dosdall Fellowship supports women graduate students in any field of the natural or physical sciences who show exceptional promise for a successful career in research. Louise Dosdall entered the University of Minnesota in 1912 and completed her Ph.D. in 1922. An expert on mushrooms and ornamental plants, she taught plant pathology at the University of Minnesota for 41 years. She established the fellowship in her will.
Claire Anderson
Graduate Program: Bioproducts & Biosystems Science, Engineering and Management
Advisor: Jonathan Schilling
“Kick-starters for brown rot fungi: How substrate chemistry initiates brown rot decay”
Samantha Kennelly
Graduate Program: Medicinal Chemistry
Advisor: Daniel Harki
“Development of Didehydrocytidine Phosphoramidite Prodrugs as Novel Antiviral”
Rae Page
Graduate Program: Plant Pathology
Advisor: Brian Steffenson
“Genetics of Fusarium head blight resistance in barley and of rust resistance in the wild”
Hailey Shanovich
Graduate Program: Natural Resources Science and Management
Advisor: Brian Aukema
“From forest to field: developing pest management plans for a novel crop to the Midwest”
FRIEDA M. KUNZE FELLOWSHIP
The Kunze Fellowship supports doctoral students who conduct research in biochemistry, chemistry, or biomedical science.
Hina Durrani
Graduate Program: Integrated Biosciences, University of Minnesota Duluth
Advisor: Sara Zimmer
“Insight on the Consequences and Advantages of Metabolic Pathway Compartmentalization in Glycosomes”
HAROLD LEONARD MEMORIAL FELLOWSHIP IN FILM STUDY
The Leonard Memorial Fellowship supports graduate students who conduct study/research in film history, criticism, theory, or aesthetics. The fund was established by the will of Clara Lefkovits in honor of her son, Harold Leonard.
Kevin McKiernan
Graduate Program: Asian Literatures, Cultures, and Media
Advisor: Christine Marran
“Revolutionary Cinema in 1960s and 1970s Brazil and Japan”
Chuanhui Meng
Graduate Program: Asian Literatures, Cultures, and Media
Advisor: Jason McGrath
“Romantic Cinema: Transnational Cinematic Romanticism and Socialist Affect in China 1949-1966”
Emily Mitamura
Graduate Program: Political Science
Advisor: Robert Nichols
“Afterliving Mass Violence: Film, Plot, and Justice after the Cambodian Genocide”
Kirsten Smith
Graduate Program: French
Advisor: Christophe Wall-Romana
“Post-Québec: 21st Century Transnational and Transgenerational Québécois Cinema”
Alexis Zanghi
Graduate Program: Comparative Studies in Discourse and Society
Advisor: Tony C. Brown
“Ways of dwelling: Building exhibitions, housing documentaries, and social practices of film, 1971–”
TORSKE KLUBBEN FELLOWSHIP
The Torske Klubben Fellowship supports graduate students who have an interest in or connection to Norway and/or its culture. The Torske Klubben, founded in 1933, is a Minneapolis luncheon club of Norwegian heritage who is deeply interested in Norway and Norwegian-American history and relationships. The overarching goal of the fellowship program is to support future leaders.
Andrew Floeder
Graduate Program: Environmental Health
Advisor: Silvia Balbo
Martha Torstenson
Graduate Program: Ecology, Evolution and Behavior
Advisor: Allison Shaw
Hans Christian Wika
Graduate Program: Economics
Advisor: Mariacristina De Nardi
DR. WARREN & HENRIETTA WARWICK FELLOWSHIP
The Warwick Fellowship supports MD/PhD students in the biomedical sciences. Dr. Warwick was a pioneering pediatrician in the treatment of cystic fibrosis at the University of Minnesota.
Andrea Maxwell
Thesis Advisor: Anna Zilverstand