{"id":17165,"date":"2014-11-20T11:20:59","date_gmt":"2014-11-20T18:20:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/?p=17165"},"modified":"2014-11-20T11:21:09","modified_gmt":"2014-11-20T18:21:09","slug":"graduate-school-announces-new-fellowship-recipients","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/?p=17165","title":{"rendered":"Graduate School announces new fellowship recipients"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/1398119_727415960620618_1408288635_o.jpg\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-17168\" src=\"http:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/1398119_727415960620618_1408288635_o-213x300.jpg\" alt=\"1398119_727415960620618_1408288635_o\" width=\"213\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a>Seven UCCS doctoral degree candidates\u00a0recently received a new Mentored Doctoral Fellowship for the 2014-15 academic year from the UCCS Graduate School for engaging in teaching, extra research activities, and professional development activities beyond the requirements for their degrees.<\/p>\n<p>The Mentored Doctoral Fellowship is a new program that highlights students performing exceptionally in their programs while conducting professional development activities beyond\u00a0 standard program requirements. The program is open to all UCCS doctoral students.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The names of students who received a $20,000 fellowship, their department, and college follow.<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Jason Ter Host, Educational Leadership, Research and Policy Department, College of Education<\/li>\n<li>Brenna Renn,\u00a0Psychology Department, College of Letters, Arts and Sciences<\/li>\n<li>Samantha John,\u00a0Psychology Department, College of Letters, Arts and Sciences<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>The names of students who received a $10,00 fellowship, their department and college follow.<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Thomas Amundson,\u00a0Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Department, College of Engineering and Applied Science<\/li>\n<li>Ryan Bosworth,\u00a0Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Department, College of Engineering and Applied Science<\/li>\n<li>Joshua Alcorn,\u00a0Electrical and Computer Engineering Department, College of Engineering and Applied Science<\/li>\n<li>Patrick Radigan,\u00a0Educational Leadership, Research and Policy Department, College of Education<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>In addition to their fellowships, recipients will be paired with a faculty mentor who will assist the student in meeting professional goals.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe students selected this year were engaged in teaching, extra research activities, and professional development activities beyond the requirements for their degree,\u201d Kelli Klebe, dean, Graduate School, said. \u201cThese are excellent students and the we\u2019re excited to provide them with support to meet their professional goals.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Graduate School works with six UCCS colleges to offer\u00a0more than\u00a020 master\u2019s and doctoral programs, including online, weekend and evening course options.\u00a0\u00a0Almost all\u00a0graduate faculty members have\u00a0terminal degrees\u00a0and many are working with\u00a0 partners such as NASA, the Olympic Training Committee and\u00a0the National Science Foundation.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>Seven UCCS doctoral degree candidates\u00a0recently received a new Mentored Doctoral Fellowship for the 2014-15 academic year from the UCCS Graduate School for engaging in teaching, extra research activities, and professional development activities beyond the requirements <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/?p=17165\" title=\"Graduate School announces new fellowship recipients\">(More)<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":19932,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17165","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/1398119_727415960620618_1408288635_o-213x300.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1mBpJ-4sR","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17165","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17165"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17165\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17174,"href":"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17165\/revisions\/17174"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/19932"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17165"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17165"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17165"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}