Dr. John Seitz, a graduate of Iowa State’s Ph.D. program in Rural, Agricultural, Technological, and Environmental History, received a 2021 Karas Award for Outstanding Dissertation. Every year, the Graduate College gives this accolade to two students with superior dissertations in rotating disciplines.
Dr. Amrit Venkatesh, a graduate of Iowa State’s doctoral program in chemistry, has won the Zaffarano Prize for Graduate Student Research.
After a year of studying COVID-19 in real time, four Iowa State University graduate students have been awarded for their efforts to combat the pandemic through research.
Four Iowa State University graduate students have been awarded for their commitment to supporting student learning throughout the COVID-19 pandemic.
Three recent Iowa State alumni received honorable mentions for this year's Karas Award for Outstanding Dissertation and Zaffarano Prize for Graduate Student Research.
The Karas Award for Outstanding Dissertation award recognizes students with superior research in four rotating disciplinary areas: Humanities and the Fine Arts, Mathematical and Physical Sciences and Engineering, Biological Sciences, and Social Sciences. This year, one alumna received an honorable mention for the award.
The Graduate College has awarded Dr. Ann Lii-Rosales with the Karas Award for Outstanding Dissertation.
Dr. Bowei Zhang, a Ph.D. graduate from Iowa State’s Department of Mechanical Engineering, is the recipient of the 2020 Zaffarano Prize. The Graduate College awards this prize annually to graduate students who show superior performance in publishing research in academic journals.
Dr. Trevor Nolan, a postdoctoral scholar in the Genetics, Development & Cell Biology Department at Iowa State, is the recipient of two academic awards from the Graduate College. He has won the 2019 Karas Award for Outstanding Dissertations, as well as the 2019 Zaffarano Prize for Graduate Student Research.
The Graduate College has awarded Patrick Heath, a Ph.D.
