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For Immediate Release:	August 4, 1998
Contact: Donnë Florence, 956-7522

Fellowships awarded to four UH graduate students The University of Hawai'i Graduate Division has selected four graduate students to receive dissertation-completion fellowships. The fellowships are awarded to top graduate students who have completed all requirements for their doctoral degrees except the dissertation. Candidates were recommended by their advisers and their fields of study; nominations were supported by additional letters from members of the students' dissertation committees or others who had worked closely with an applicant. A subcommittee of the Graduate Council reviewed applications and forwarded recommendations to the Graduate Division administrative office. Forty-two "ABD" (all but dissertation) students applied for the $16,000 fellowships, and they were an impressive group, according to Peter Garrod, associate dean of the Graduate Division. "If we had the money, I would have funded all forty-two," says Garrod. "They were that good." The fellowships will allow these four of the University's most promising graduate students to work full-time for the next year on their dissertation writing: David Atwill, "Muslim Yunnanese and the Panthay Rebellion, 1855­1873." Adviser: Harry Lamley, History. Alex Stephens, "Accretion in the Galactic Halo." Adviser: Ann Boesgaard, Astronomy. Yumiko Ohara, "A Sociophonetic Approach: Expressing Culture and Gender Through Voice Pitch." Adviser: Katsue Reynolds, East Asian Languages and Literatures. Joan Kuh, "Further Genetic Analysis of the Segregation Distorter Complex of Drosophila Melanogaster: Electron Microscopy Studies and Identification of Sequences Underlying the Function of Enhancer of Segregation Distortion, E(SD)." Adviser: Terrence Lyttle, Genetics.

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