IACS Students, Alena Aksenova and Rachael Herman, Win 2020 Graduate School Awards

IACS graduate students Rachael Herman of Ecology and Evolution and Alena Aksenova of Linguistics are both winners of the 2020 Graduate School Awards. The winners of these awards represent the very best of Stony Brook. The awards celebrate excellence and achievement in areas from teaching and research to leadership and service. 

 

Alena Aksenova has won the President’s Award for Excellence in Teaching by a Graduate Student. This award is granted to outstanding graduate student teachers and is open to full-time graduate student TAs or GAs who have completed at least one academic year of teaching. Winners of this award are presented with $1,000.

 

 

Rachael Herman has won the Faculty-Staff Dissertation Fellowship Award, which will assist her completing her work and research. The award is intended to assist a graduate student who has advanced to candidacy and whose research project requires fieldwork, archival work, or other research efforts requiring the student to be away from campus for an extended period. Herman will receive an award of $10,000.