Brian Smith
S.J. & Jessie E. Quinney College of Natural Resources | Wildland Resources Department
Past Recipients of Doctoral Student Researcher of the Year Award
2023 Awardees
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Jie Ren
College of Engineering | Biological Engineering Department
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Julie Petersen
Emma Eccles Jones College of Education & Human Services | Psychology Department
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Matthew Barnett
College of Humanities and Social Sciences | Social Work and Anthropology Department
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Naveen Duhan
College of Agriculture and Applied Sciences | Plants, Soils, and Climate Department
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Nikolay Tkachenko
College of Science | Chemistry and Biochemistry Department
Jie Ren
College of Engineering | Biological Engineering Department
Julie Petersen
Emma Eccles Jones College of Education & Human Services | Psychology Department
Matthew Barnett
College of Humanities and Social Sciences | Social Work and Anthropology Department
Naveen Duhan
College of Agriculture and Applied Sciences | Plants, Soils, and Climate Department
Nikolay Tkachenko
College of Science | Chemistry and Biochemistry Department
2022 Awardees
Camille Wynn
Emma Eccles Jones College of Education & Human Services | Communicative Disorders and Deaf Education Department
David Dang
2022 Awardee | College of Agriculture and Applied Sciences | Nutrition, Dietetics, and Food Sciences Department
Emily Tarsa
S.J. & Jessie E. Quinney College of Natural Resources | Watershed Sciences Department
Jamal-Jared Alexander
College of Humanities and Social Sciences | English Department
Nikita Fedik
College of Science | Chemistry and Biochemistry Department
Prasanna Humagain
College of Engineering | Civil and Environmental Engineering Department
2021 Awardees
Irene Garousi-Nejad
College of Engineering | Civil and Evironmental Engineering
Leslie Forero
S.J. & Jessie E. Quinney College of Natural Resources | Wildland Resources
Max Roberts
College of Humanities and Social Sciences | Sociology, Social Work and Anthropology
Paul Kusuma
College of Agriculture and Applied Sciences | Plants, Soils, and Climate
Spencer Hudson
2021 Awardee | College of Science | Biology
Whitney Livingston
Emma Eccles Jones College of Education and Human Services | Psychology
2020 Awardees
Cana Uluak Itchuaqiyaq
College of Humanities and Social Sciences | English
Gavin Cotterill
S.J. &Jessie E. Quinney College of Natural Resources | Wildland Resources
Idowu Atoloye
College Agriculture and Applied Sciences | Plants, Soils, and Climate
Jennifer Krafft
2020 Awardee | Emma Eccles Jones College of Education and Human Services | Psychology
Tatiana Soboleva
College of Science | Chemistry and Biochemistry
Yi Hi
College of Engineering | Civil and Environmental Engineering
2019 Awardees
Bo Hu
College of Science | Chemistry and Biochemistry
Clarissa Ong
2019 Awardee | Emma Eccles Jones College of Education and Human Services | Psychology
Emily Wilkins
S.J. & Jessie E. Quinney College of Natural Resources | Environment and Society
Justine Britten
College of Agriculture and Applied Sciences | Animal, Dairy and Veterinary Sciences
Kristen Koci
College of Humanities and Social Sciences | Sociology, Social Work and Anthropolgy
Mohammad Shekaramiz
College of Engineering | Electrical and Computer Engineering
2018 Awardees
Alicia Ingersoll
College of Humanities and Social Sciences | Sociology, Social Work, and Anthropology
Apoorva Chauhan
College of Engineering | Computer Science
Boniface Fosu
College of Agriculture and Applied Sciences | Plants, Soils and Climate
Christine Rohal
S.J. & Jessie E. Quinney College of Natural Resources | Watershed Sciences
Eric Lee
2018 Awardee | Emma Eccles Jones College of Education and Human Services | Psychology
Nan Jiang
College of Science | Chemistry and Biochemistry
2017 Awardees
Allen Andersen
College of Science | Physics
Enjie Li
S.J. Jessie E. Quinney College of Natural Resources | Environment and Society
Min Yang
College of Agriculture and Applied Sciences | Animal, Dairy and Veterinary Sciences
Nathan Speirs
College of Engineering | Mechanical and Aerospace Engieering
Salif Mahamane
2017 Awardee | Emma Eccles Jones College of Education and Human Services | Psychology
Sun Young Jeon
College of Humanities and Social Sciences | Sociology, Social Work and Anthropology
2016 Awardees
Daniel Barandiaran
College of Agriculture and Applied Sciences | Plants, Soils and Climate
David Iles
S.J. & Jessie E. Quinney College of Natural Resources | Wildland Rsources
Emily Lund
Emma Eccles Jones College of Education and Human Services | Special Education and Rehabilitation
Lorin Neuman Lee
College of Science | Biology
Paul Jacobs
College of Humanities and Social Sciences | Sociology, Social Work and Anthropology
Troy Munro
College of Engineering | Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
2015 Awardees
| Awardee | College |
|---|---|
| Shasta Krueger | Caine College of the Arts |
| Fatih Ortakci | College of Agriculture and Applied Sciences |
| Lifu Xiao | College of Engineering |
| Andrew Burger | College of Humanities and Social Sciences |
| Stephen Tucker | Emma Eccles Jones College of Education and Human Services |
| Gareth Hopkins | College of Science |
2014 Awardees
| Awardee | College |
|---|---|
| Spencer Potter | Caine College of the Arts |
| Lindsay Cox | College of Agriculture and Applied Sciences |
| Jeff Harris | College of Engineering |
| Andrea Armstrong | College of Humanities and Social Sciences |
| Kate Morrison | Emma Eccles Jones College of Education and Human Services |
| *Timur Galeev | College of Science |
| Bridger Williams | Jon M. Hunstman School of Business |
| Andrew Kleinhesselink | S.J. and Jessie E. Quinney College of Natural Resources |
2013 Awardees
| Awardee | College |
|---|---|
| *Rodrigo Ferreira | S.J. and Jessie E. Quinney College of Natural Resources |
2012 Awardees
| Awardee | College |
|---|---|
| *Megan Mitchell | Caine College of the Arts |
2011 Awardees
| Awardee | College |
|---|---|
| *Joyce Mumah | College of Humanities and Social Sciences |
2010 Awardees
| Awardee | College |
|---|---|
| John R. Olson | S.J. and Jessie E. Quinney College of Natural Resources |
*University Graduate Researcher of the Year