Congratulations to:

Daniel Adkins – Co-Recipient of the Odum Award for Excellence.
 
Jonathan Daw - Awarded $1,000.00 by the Graduate School from the Graduate School Transportation Grant Fund.

Michele Easter - Co-Recipient of the Odum Award for Excellence.

Matt Ezzell - Co-recipient of the 2008 Stanford M. Lyman Memorial Dissertation Scholarship from the Mid-South Sociological Association. 

Raj Ghoshal – Received the E.K. Wilson Award.

Beth Latshaw - Awarded the Graduate School's Smith Research Grant for 2008-2009.  Received the 2009 Tanner Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching by Graduate Teaching Assistants.  She also received the Paul Hardin Dissertation Fellowship for 2009-2010. 

Hedy Lee - Awarded the Ford Foundation Diversity Pre-Doctoral Fellowship. 

Kyle Longest - Awarded $250.00 by the Graduate School from the Graduate School Transportation Grant Fund. He was also awarded Best Graduate Student Paper by the Sociology Education Section and the Children and Youth Section of the ASA for a paper entitled “Popularity Lost: Identity Status and Its Consequences in the Transition to Young Adulthood.”  He was awarded Best Graduate Student Paper by the Aging and the Life Course Section for his paper entitled "Integrating Identity Theory and the Life Course Perspective: The Case of Adolescent Religious Behavior."

Kim Manturuk - Received the Graduate School Impact Award.  The Impact Award recognizes and encourages graduate students whose research is making a difference to the state of North Carolina. 

Emily McKendry-Smith - Received the Religious Research Association Constant H. Jacquet Research Award and the Society for the Scientific Study of Religion Student Research Award.

Mairead Moloney - Received a predoctoral fellowship from the National Institute on Aging through the UNC Institute on Aging Carolina Program for Health and Aging Research.

Vanesa Ribas - Awarded a Graduate School Off-Campus Dissertation Research Fellowship for the fall 2009 semester.  She was also awarded a Graduate Summer Research Grant in the amount of $1500 by the Center for the Study of the American South.