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2014 Rackham Predoctoral Fellows

Civil and Environmental Engineering
March 18, 2014
CEE doctoral students Lauren Stadler and Kyle Anderson were each selected to receive a Rackham Predoctoral Fellowship.| Short Read

This fellowship supports outstanding doctoral students who have achieved candidacy and are actively working on dissertation research and writing. The Rackham website states: “We seek to support students working on dissertations that are unusually creative, ambitious and risk-taking.”

Stadler is an environmental engineering student; her advisor is Professor Nancy G. Love. Anderson is a civil engineering student; his advisor is Assistant Professor SangHyun Lee.

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IMAGE:  Lauren Stadler
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