It is our pleasure to announce the 2024 Chancellor’s Dissertation Medal recipients.
In Spring 2013, Chancellor Khosla collaborated with the Graduate and Professional Student Association to establish the Chancellor’s Dissertation Medal, a prestigious award recognizing exceptional doctoral research. Recipients of this award are chosen based upon the quality of academic research as determined by the impact of the research to the field and/or department; the insight, originality and creativity shown by the author; the effectiveness of the writing, clarity and organization of the thesis; and the soundness of the methodology and quality of the data (when applicable).
Up to seven awards are presented annually based upon a review of faculty committees in the School of Arts and Humanities; the School of Biological Sciences including Health Sciences; Jacobs School of Engineering; the School of Physical Sciences; the School of Social Sciences, including Rady School of Management and the School of Global Policy and Strategy; the Scripps Institution of Oceanography and the Herbert Wertheim School of Public Health and Human Longevity Science.
2024 Chancellor’s Dissertation Medal Awardees
- Herbert Wertheim School of Public Health & Human Longevity Science: Tuo Lin, Biostatistics and Bioinformatics
- Jacobs School of Engineering: Bojing (Blair) Jia, Bioinformatics and Systems Biology
- School of Biological Sciences: Amy Prichard, Molecular Biology
- School of Physical Sciences: Brian Kha Tran, Mathematics
- School of Social Sciences: Vijay Veerabadran, Cognitive Science
- Scripps Institution of Oceanography: Yuming Jin, Earth Sciences
Please join us in congratulating the awardees.
