Graduate Student Research Awards (GSRA) empower graduate students to advance their research and creative work. Through grants of up to $5,000, the program supports students’ research, scholarship, and creative activities, strengthens their grant-writing skills, and encourages meaningful faculty-student mentoring relationships.
The Graduate School is proud to recognize the graduate students who received awards in spring 2026. Their work advances the University of Tennessee, Knoxville’s mission to build a better future for the people of Tennessee and communities around the world.
Spring 2026 Awardees
- Richard Mensah Adonu
- PhD—Communication and Information
- Kazi Ahmed
- PhD—Electrical Engineering
- Kubra Genc Akyuz
- PhD—Psychology
- Mohammad Alam
- PhD—Nutrition
- Gracie Carter
- PhD—Plant, Soil, and Environmental Sciences
- Savanna Caylor
- MS—Geography
- Shuyu Chen
- PhD—Nutritional Sciences
- Emma Coco
- PhD—Psychology
- Laura Dixson
- PhD—Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
- Bethany Garland
- DVM/PhD—Veterinary Medicine/Comparative and Experimental Medicine
- Bailey Holder
- PhD—Microbiology
- Kriti Jain
- PhD—Psychology
- Tanmay Jalgaonkar
- MS—Biosystems Engineering
- Sung Wan Jee
- PhD—Communication and Information
- Allison Rhianna Jones
- PhD—Biomedical Engineering
- Matthew Knight
- PhD—Social Work
- Xueting Li
- PhD—Psychology
- Hunter Matthew Nelson
- PhD—Veterinary Medicine
- Eric Opoku
- PhD—Data Science and Engineering
- Ari Puentes
- PhD—Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
- Atik Yasir Rahman
- PhD—Electrical Engineering
- Maxwell Rulo
- PhD—Psychology
- Sahar Saadatvarnousefaderani
- PhD—Food Science
- Sara Shields
- PhD—Geology
- Cori Lyn Sweet
- PhD—Nutritional Sciences
- Lee Guan Tan
- PhD—Kinesiology and Sport Studies
- Jessica Tremblay
- PhD—Psychology
- Jessica Vidlund
- PhD—Comparative and Experimental Medicine
- Makhali Sh Voss
- PhD—Entomology and Plant Pathology
- Taylor Walkup
- PhD—Anthropology