The Graduate School is pleased to announce that up to six outstanding doctoral students will be recognized with the Auburn University Graduate School’s Distinguished Dissertation Award.
The application process, selection criteria, and award categories are modeled after the Council of Graduate Schools/ProQuest Distinguished Dissertation Awards, so that selected award-winners from Auburn may also be nominated for these national awards at the appropriate time.
Winners of the award will be recognized at the Graduate School’s annual awards ceremony with a cash prize of $500 and a citation. Upon the recommendation of the Awards Committee, the Graduate School may nominate winners of the awards for the Council of Graduate Schools/ProQuest Distinguished Dissertation Awards.
Each college is invited to select and nominate up to three students (in each award category as appropriate) for the Graduate School awards. If a college nominates more than three students in any one category, the Graduate School will contact one of the unit’s associate deans (or another designee) to downselect the top three candidates.
The deadline for submission to the Graduate School is April 15th. If this date falls over a weekend or holiday, submissions are due by 8:00 am CT on the next business day.Even Years (i.e. 2024, 2026, 2028):
Odd Years (i.e. 2023, 2025, 2027):
For more information, contact Dr. Maria Witte in the Graduate School at wittemm@auburn.edu.
Past Recipients
| Year | Name | College |
| 2024 | Takhellambam Bijoychandra Singh | Engineering |
| Vitale Kyle Castellano | Engineering | |
| Chidinma Odili | Sciences and Mathematics | |
| Jagdeep Singh | Agriculture | |
| Akua Adu-Gyamfi | Education | |
| Courtney A. Brown | Human Sciences | |
| Erin M. Cooper | Human Sciences | |
| Yejia Guo | Human Sciences | |
| 2023 | Russell Allison | Liberal Arts |
| Suma Basak | Agriculture | |
| Emily Driessen | Sciences and Mathematics | |
| Joshua Flees | Agriculture | |
| Renlei Ji | Veterinary Medicine | |
| Hemendra Kumar | Agriculture | |
| Sindhu Ramesh | Pharmacy | |
| Aftab Siddique | Agriculture | |
| 2022 | Isuru Ariyarathna | Sciences and Mathematics |
| Haishun Du | Engineering | |
| Shuoyang Wang | Sciences and Mathematics | |
| Swagata Chakraborty | Human Sciences | |
| Jessica Norton | Human Sciences | |
| 2021 | Andrew Swartzer | Liberal Arts |
| Donald Lamb | Human Sciences | |
| Lauren Woodie | Human Sciences | |
| Michael Coogan | Agriculture | |
| Priscilla Ayine | Human Sciences | |
| Xiaoli Ma | Agriculture | |
| 2020 | AJ David Good | Liberal Arts |
| Courtney Haun | Liberal Arts | |
| Elizabeth Spitzer | Liberal Arts | |
| Erol Sozen | Human Sciences | |
| Shubbhi Taneja | Engineering | |
| Richard Cullum | Engineering | |
| 2019 | Mary Colvin | Liberal Arts |
| Brett Derbes | Liberal Arts | |
| Kamal Gosh | Agriculture | |
| Phillip Gunter | Agriculture | |
| Xu Rongting | Forestry, Wildlife and Environment | |
| Anna Tucker | Forestry, Wildlife and Environment | |
| 2018 | Alina Braun | Human Sciences |
| Austin Gurley | Engineering | |
| Brianna Christian | Engineering | |
| David Curtis | Human Sciences | |
| Marcos Daou | Education | |
| Shantanu Pradhan | Engineering | |
| 2017 | Justin Antos | Education |
| Lydia Ferguson | Liberal Arts | |
| Corey Markum | Liberal Arts | |
| Yusuf Celikbag | Forestry, Wildlife and Environment | |
| Rebecca Koch | Sciences and Mathematics | |
| Khondaker Shamsur Rahman | Veterinary Medicine | |
| 2016 | David Adams | Liberal Arts |
| Kim Gregson | Human Sciences | |
| Hans Saint-Eloi Cadely | Human Sciences | |
| Hasan Babaei | Engineering | |
| Xunfei Jiang | Engineering | |
| Fang Yu | Engineering | |
| 2015 | Chris Eklund | Liberal Arts |
| Justin Havird | Sciences and Mathematics | |
| Libby Jones | Liberal Arts | |
| Farruk Lutful Kabir | Veterinary Medicine | |
| Rui Malinowski | Forestry, Wildlife and Environment | |
| 2014 | Yingsong Huang | Engineering |
| Kailash Jajam | Engineering | |
| Mallory Lucier-Greer | Human Sciences | |
| Hema Ramsurn | Engineering | |
| 2013 | Kevin Kocot | Sciences and Mathematics |
| Chris Marble | Agriculture | |
| Elizabeth Ndontsa | Sciences and Mathematics | |
| 2012 | Jan Boronski | Sciences and Mathematics |
| Idris Cerkez | Engineering | |
| Lori Elmore-Staton | Human Sciences | |
| Samuel Logan | College of Education | |
| John Magnotti | Liberal Arts | |
| Hao Yu | Engineering | |
| 2011 | George Matusick | Forestry and Wildlife Sciences |
| Larissa Parsley | Biological Sciences | |
| Wei Ren | Forestry and Wildlife Sciences | |
| Amie Seidman | Liberal Arts | |
| 2010 | Min Carter | Business |
| Suna Eryigit | Human Sciences | |
| Mary Beth Harben | Human Sciences | |
| Hasan Kocer | Engineering | |
| Michael Tiemeyer | Sciences and Mathematics | |
| Ziliang Zong | Engineering |
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