Gates Cambridge

Phillip Kieval, a second-year graduate student in philosophy at the University of Houston College of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences, has been named a recipient of the 2021 Gates Cambridge Scholarship, widely regarded as one of the most prestigious national fellowships. Kieval is the first UH student to receive the honor and is one of just 25 students chosen from 638 candidates across the country. An additional 55 international students will be selected to begin studying at the University of Cambridge in fall 2021.

https://stories.uh.edu/cambridge-feb-2021/index.html

Ford Foundation

Serrae Reed, a mechanical engineering senior at the Cullen College of Engineering, is at a bittersweet point in life. On one hand, she’ll be graduating this year and leaving behind her family and her University of Houston community — both of which supported her through thick and thin. On the other hand, she’s won one of the 60 prestigious 2018 Ford Foundation Predoctoral Fellowships and is on her way to Yale University to earn her Ph.D. in mechanical engineering and materials science.

https://www.egr.uh.edu/news/201804/uh-senior-wins-prestigious-ford-foundation-fellowship 

Fulbright

Carolann Madden holds an MA in English and Irish Studies from Boston College, an MFA in Poetry from San Diego State University, and is a Ph.D. candidate in Literature and Creative Writing at the University of Houston. During her Fulbright to NUI Galway, she will undertake archival research in the James Hardiman Library on folklore and folklore collectors in the West of Ireland.

https://www.fulbright.ie/custom_alumni/carolann-madden/

National Institutes of Health F31

Antoine Lebeaut, a graduate student in our clinical psychology program, has been awarded a three-year F31 fellowship from the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA). His project title is, “An Integrated Personalized Feedback Intervention for Hazardous Drinkers with Elevated Anxiety Sensitivity and Subclinical PTSD.”

Justin Shepherd, a graduate student in our clinical psychology program, has been awarded a three-year F31 fellowship from the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA). His project title is, “Pain-Related Anxiety and Smoking Lapse/Topography among African American Menthol Smokers with Chronic Low Back Pain.”

Maya Zegel, a graduate student in our clinical psychology program, has been awarded a three-year F31 fellowship from the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA). Her project title is, “Daily State-like Distress Tolerance and Alcohol Use Motivation among Hazardous Drinkers with Posttraumatic Stress Disorder.”

Jesse Walker, a graduate student in our clinical psychology program, has been awarded a three-year F31 fellowship from the National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities (NIMHD). His project title is, “Do discrimination and adversity drive the inflammatory basis of suicidal ideation in Black and Latinx young adults?”

Kluge Fellowship

As a young child, Zachary Turpin dreamed of being a magician, because they could pull a rabbit out of a hat and make objects disappear and reappear; so he thought. Well today, literary scholars are still reeling with amazement from the magical moment when Turpin pulled from the bowels of the Library of Congress, a Walt Whitman novel, lost for 165 years. Because of this discovery, along with his previous Walt Whitman findings, Turpin has been awarded the Kluge Fellowship to live in Washington D.C. for several months this summer and see what additional Walt Whitman lost works he can find in the Library of Congress.

 https://uh.edu/class/news/archive/2017/may/kluge-fellowship-turpin/