MSU’s College of Arts and Sciences honors graduate student award winners

MSU’s College of Arts and Sciences honors graduate student award winners

By Joseph Newell

STARKVILLE, Miss.— Mississippi State’s College of Arts and Sciences this spring recognized graduate students for their academic accomplishments and successes at an April ceremony in their honor in the Grisham Room of MSU’s Mitchell Memorial Library.  

“We hold this event to elevate graduate education in the College of Arts and Sciences and to recognize the wonderful graduate students in the departments,” said Kathleen Sherman Morris, assistant dean of academic affairs for the College of Arts and Sciences. “Each year I am blown away by the students we recognize. This year we had students who are publishing multiple papers as first authors, giving invited talks at national meetings and serving important roles in national or regional professional organizations while also teaching for the university and volunteering in outreach to K-12 students. They are a remarkable group, and I am so happy we get to celebrate them.”

The MSU students honored during the ceremony include:

-    Elise Adams, a current master’s student in the Department of Anthropology and Middle Eastern Cultures;

-    Zia Ahmed, a current doctoral student in the Department of Geosciences;

-    Matthew Carlo, a current doctoral student in the Department of Chemistry;

-    Deepali Dhruve, a current doctoral student in the Department of Psychology; 

-    Rebecca Fischer, a current master’s student in the Department of Classical and Modern Languages and Literatures;

-    Claire Geneser, a current doctoral student in the Department of Physics and Astronomy; 

-    Rabina Kumpakha, a current doctoral student in the Department of Biological Sciences;

-    John Alexander Nunnery, a current master’s student in the Department of Communication;

-    Brock Price, a current doctoral student in the Department of Mathematics and Statistics;

-    Deadra Ruffin, a current master’s student in the Department of Sociology; 

-    Nathan Smith, a current doctoral student in the Department of History; and

-    Adrian Tillman, a current doctoral student in the Department of Political Science and Public Administration.

MSU’s College of Arts and Sciences includes more than 5,000 students, 325 full-time faculty members, nine doctoral programs, 14 master’s programs, and 27 undergraduate academic majors offered in 14 departments. It also is home to the most diverse units for research and scholarly activities, including natural and physical sciences, social and behavioral sciences, and the humanities. For more details, visit www.cas.msstate.edu.

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