Graduate School Achievement Awards
Andrea Pope
Innovation Award
Assessment and Measurement
Sarah Koth
Civic Engagement Award
Communication and Advocacy
Karen Weeks
Outstanding Dissertation Award
Doctor of Nursing Practice
Implementing a Discharge Navigator on Reducing 30-Day Readmissions for Heart Failure and Sepsis Populations, December 2019
Janet Hostetter
Outstanding Dissertation Award
Doctor of Musical Arts
Tone Production, Musicianship Training, Repertoire Development, Performance Practice: A Pedagogical Overview of Selected International Children’s Choirs, May 2019
![Chris Cohen](/grad/graduate-showcase/2020/_images/chris252bcohen.jpg)
Chris Cohen
Outstanding Thesis Award
Master of Fine Arts
WHITE NOISE, May 2019
![Lauren Jefferson](/grad/graduate-showcase/2020/_images/lauren-jefferson.jpg)
Lauren Jefferson
Outstanding Thesis Award Equity and Cultural Diversity
How Successful High School Boys Soccer Coaches Perceive and Develop Cultural Competency: A Grounded Theory Approach, May 2019
![Maddison Miles](/grad/graduate-showcase/2020/_images/miles.jpg)
Maddison Miles
Outstanding Thesis Award
Psychological Sciences
Pain-Related Fear: Metacognitive and Health Belief Predictors of Cogniphobia, May 2019
Three Minute Thesis Competition Awards
![Briana Craig](/grad/graduate-showcase/2020/_images/briana-craig.jpg)
Briana Craig
First Place - Three Minute Thesis
Psychological Sciences
Propensity Score Matching and Generalized Boosted Modeling in the Context of Model Misspecification
![Christine Verdream](/grad/graduate-showcase/2020/_images/3mt_verdream.jpg)
Christine Verdream
Second Place - Three Minute Thesis (and The People’s Choice Award)
Biology
Habitat Utilization and Impact of Flooding on James spinymussel (Parvaspina collina) Populations in Virginia Streams
![Alexander Brooks](/grad/graduate-showcase/2020/_images/alexander-brooks.jpg)
Alexander Brooks
Third Place - Three Minute Thesis
History
Under Cover of Lightness: How Mixed-Race Americans Navigated the Racial Codes of Antebellum America
![Ruth Bowers-Sword](/grad/graduate-showcase/2020/_images/bowers-sword.jpg)
Ruth Bowers-Sword
Third Place - Three Minute Thesis
Biology
Assessing hunting pressures and the population status of Preuss's red colobus, Piliocolobus preussi, and other primates in the Ebo-Makombe-Ndokbou forest, Cameroon
Graduate Student Association Impact Awards
![Amy Ross](/grad/graduate-showcase/2020/_images/img_5007-2.jpg)
Amy Ross
Student Impact Award
Sport and Recreation Leadership with a Concentration in Campus Recreation
![Program Impact Award](/grad/graduate-showcase/2020/_images/pa-pic-1.jpg)
Physician Assistant Program
![Shiree Harbick](/grad/graduate-showcase/2020/_images/shiree-harbick.jpg)
Shiree Harbik
Faculty Impact Award
Communication Sciences and Disorders