Dr. Russell and Melissa Bessette Award for Doctoral Student Excellence
The Dr. Russell and Mrs. Melissa Bessette Award for Doctoral Student Excellence is awarded annually to two first-year doctoral students with the purpose of providing supplemental financial support to the awarded doctoral student. For each recipient, the cash award can be distributed to the student in their first year of study. The award is to be used at the student’s discretion.
2023-2024 Award Recipients
Tess Collins in the Mathematical Modeling PhD program at RIT. I recently completed my master’s degree here at RIT, during which my research focused more on biomedical mathematics, and my final thesis was on predicting the flow of the tear film in the eye during a blink. I had intended to continue that research once I was accepted into the PhD program, but the discrete math classes I’ve taken have opened up such new and fascinating worlds of math that I found myself leaning more toward pure mathematics instead. |
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