2018 Council of Graduate Schools/ProQuest Distinguished Dissertation Award - Submissions due May 30

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We are soliciting submissions for the 2018 Council of Graduate Schools/ProQuest Distinguished Dissertation Award.  All submissions should be sent to Fellowships & Financial Services (uclafellowship@grad.ucla.edu) by 4pm, Wednesday, May 30, 2018.

 

Nominees should have completed dissertations representing original work that makes an unusually significant contribution to their disciplines.

 

Nominations: Each regular member institution of the Council of Graduate Schools [for UCLA, the Graduate Division] may nominate one person in the fields of Social Sciences and of Mathematics, Physical Sciences, & Engineering. The effective date of degree award, or the completion of doctoral degree requirements and dissertation, must fall in the period of July 1, 2016 to June 30, 2018, inclusive.

 

Award: The CGS/ProQuest Distinguished Dissertation Award, consisting of an honorarium of $2,000 and a certificate of recognition, will be presented at the Council of Graduate Schools Annual Meeting Awards Luncheon on December 6, 2018, in Washington, DC. Reasonable travel expenses of the recipients will be covered.

 

The following list, although not all-inclusive, illustrates the fields considered as Mathematics, Physical Sciences, and Engineering: mathematics, statistics, computer sciences, data processing, systems analysis, chemistry, earth sciences, physics, geology, meteorology, astronomy, metallurgy, geophysics, pharmaceutical chemistry; aeronautical, architectural, biomedical, ceramic, chemical, civil, and electrical engineering sciences; environmental health engineering; geological, mechanical, mining, nuclear, and petroleum engineering.

 

The following list, although not all-inclusive, illustrates the fields considered as Social Sciences: agricultural economics, geography, anthropology, archaeology, economics, education, sociology, government (political science), demography, and psychology. Please note that for purposes of this competition, history is classed within the humanities and is not a field of competition in this competition.

 

If the dissertation is multi- or interdisciplinary in nature, a significant portion of the work must be comprised by at least one of these fields.

 

Specifics about the format of the submissions are included in the attached.  The Graduate Division will nominate the finalist directly to CGS/ProQuest.

 

Please feel free to contact me if you have questions. 

 
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N. Chérie Francis, Ed.D., cfrancis@grad.ucla.edu

Fellowships & Financial Services

UCLA Graduate Division

1228 Murphy Hall / Campus Mailcode 144401

410 Charles E. Young Drive East

Los Angeles, CA 90095-1444

310-206-2557 / FAX 310-825-0017

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