Dissertation Year Program Award

DYP Award

The Dissertation Year Program (DYP) Award is intended for MFA or PhD students who expect to complete their degree program the year in which the award is received. Learn more online here.

2023 - 2024 Award Recipients

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Jennifer Rangel Ambriz	Tony Li	Alysha Toomey
Advisor(s): Dr. Mark Alber	Advisor(s): Dr. Heyrim Cho	Advisor(s): Dr. Weitao Chen
Area of research: Mathematical Biology Publications: Kumar, N., Tsai, K., Mim, M.S., Rangel Ambriz, J., Chen, W., Zartman, J.J., Alber, M. Balancing competing effects of tissue growth and cytoskeletal regulation during Drosophila wing disc development (under revision, https://doi.org/10.1101/2022.09.28.509971) Awards: Eugene Cota Robles Fellowship Award 2018-2020; Outstanding Teaching Award 2020; Vernon A. Kramer Memorial Service Award 2021 Official Service: UCR's Mathematics Department Recruitment Ambassador 2020-Present; COMAP Modeling Competition Advisor 2020-2022; SMB 2021 Judging Sub-Committee 2021; GSPM Mentor 2020-2021; Teaching Fellow 2020	Research area: Computational Biology and Mathematical Oncology Publication: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.immuno.2023.100022	Area of research: Mathematical Biology Awards: Inclusive Excellence Travel Award 2023; Outstanding Teaching Award 2022; Vernon A. Kramer Memorial Service Award 2021, 2022; Chancellor’s Distinguished Fellowship 2018 Official Service: UCR AMS Chapter Secretary 2021-2022; Recruitment Ambassador 2019-2023; Teaching Fellow 2020; GSMP Peer Mentor 2020-2021; TRIO Scholars Graduate Mentor 2021-2022; Undergraduate Research Mentor 2021-2023, Teaching Fellow 2020

2022 - 2023 Award Recipients

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James Alcala	Austin Hansen	Jacob Garcia	Tyler Pierce	Isaac Tate	Christian Williams
Advisor(s): Dr. Yat Tin Chow	Co-Advisor(s): Dr. Heyrim Cho, Dr. Mark Alber		Advisor(s): Dr. Vyjayanthi Chari	Advisor(s): Dr. Weitao Chen	Advisor(s): Dr. John Baez, Emeritus
Research Area: Optimization, Machine Learning, Computational Social Science Awards: Chancellor's Distinguished Fellowship, 2018; AWM Chapter Outreach Award, UCR AWM Chapter; UCR GSA Certificate of Sustainability, Dissertation Year Fellowship 2022-23 Official Service: Outreach Coordinator, UCR AWM Chapter, 2021-2022; Mentor, Chicano Link Peer Mentor Program, 2022-2023; President and Vice President, UCR Math Grad Student Association, 2019 - 2021	Research Area: Mathematical Biology, Mathematical Oncology Publications: “Mathematical modeling of therapeutic neural stem cell migration in mouse brain with and without brain tumors”, Gomez et al. 2022 Awards: Chancellor's Distinguished Fellowship, 2018, Junior Jones Fellowship 2020-21, Vernon Kramer Service Award 2022 Official Service: COMAP Team Advisor, California Calculus Learning Lab Mentor		Research Area: Representation theory of Lie algebras Awards: Distinguished Teaching Award 2020, Jones Fellowship 2020-21, Dissertation Year Fellowship 2022-23 Teaching Fellow: 2022, 2022		Research Area: Category Theory, Logic, and Type Theory Publications: Enriched Lawvere Theories for Operational Semantics, Williams and Baez, ACT 2019 Abstract Congruence Criteria for Weak Bisimilarity, Tsampas, et al, MFCS 2021 Native Type Theory, Williams and Stay ACT 2021 Awards: Chancellor's Distinguished Fellow, 2017 Service: UCR GSA Sustainability Liaison, 2019 UCR Math GSA President, 2019/2021

DYP Award - Previous Recipients

2021-2022

Jonathan Alcaraz

Jonathan Dugan

Michael McNulty
2020-2021

Therese-Marie Landry

Michael Pierce
2019-2020

Ethan Kowalenko