EUGENE–Five University of Oregon doctoral degree candidates are recipients of 1999-2000 UO Doctoral Research Fellowships. Each award includes a $16,000 stipend and a UO tuition waiver.

Graduate students Dale Braden, chemistry; Sean C. Goodlett, history; Suzanne C. Fouty, geography; Patricia A. Halliday, philosophy; and Stephanie Rowe, comparative literature, are this year’s fellowship recipients. The fellowship stipends support exceptional, advanced doctoral degree candidates as they complete their research and write their dissertations.

The fellowship program, a collaborative program of the Graduate School and the Office of the Vice Provost for Research, is designed to support outstanding doctoral students and promote excellence in research at the University of Oregon. The funding begins in the 1999 summer or fall quarter and is available to recipients for up to 12 months.

Each year since the UO began the program in 1991, three to six UO doctoral degree candidates have received the doctoral research awards.

The fellowships are available to eligible doctoral degree candidates in all academic disciplines at the university. The recipients must be entering their final year at the UO. Each department nominates one candidate for the fellowship, and a subcommittee of the UO Graduate Council evaluates the applications, in consultation with the vice provost for research and dean of the Graduate School.

Braden, of Eugene, is studying chemistry with two separate dissertations, "Solvent Cage Effects: Identification of Solvent and Solute Characteristics Which Influence the Recombination Efficiency of Geminate Radicals" and "Elucidation of the Structure and Properties of 19-Electron Organometallic Complexes Using Density Functional Theory."

"Both projects are focused at developing a more fundamental understanding of molecular structure and reactivity and how they are influenced by the chemical environment," says Braden.

While at the UO, Braden has held graduate teaching fellowships in chemistry and he was a GAANN Fellow last year, an award partially based on need.

His master’s thesis at Portland State University involved research aimed at the design of an energy cell that would convert solar energy into electricity.

Fouty, of Eugene, will use her award to study stream channels in her dissertation entitled, "The Response of Stream Channels to Cattle and Beaver Dams in the Intermountain West." Her field work is being conducted for the U.S. Forest Service, the Forest Sciences Laboratory in Corvallis, the Bureau of Land Management and the Nature Conservancy.

"This work addresses the real live problems experienced by cattle ranchers," says Fouty.

While at the UO, Fouty has taught several geography classes as a graduate teaching fellow, and she has received summer support awards from the geography department to support her research.

Her master’s thesis, at the University of Arizona in Tucson, dealt with toxic waste disposal and ground water.

Goodlett, of Houston, Texas, is completing a dissertation about 18th-century French history, "Jean-Jacques Rousseau in Print: The Anglo-French Press Reception, 1750-1800."

Since arriving at the UO in 1993, Goodlett has held a graduate teaching fellowship as a professor’s assistant. He also has received a month-long research grant for study at the Huntington Library in San Marino, Calif. In addition, Goodlett has co-edited a journal, The 18th Century: A Current Bibliography, since 1996.

His master’s thesis, at Texas Tech University, dealt with William Shakespeare’s play "Titus and Andronicus."

In the future, he plans to pursue a position at a research and teaching institution.

Halliday, of Seattle, Wash., is working on a dissertation in the philosophy department, "Engaging Incest: The Ethics of an Epistemology."

She has held graduate teaching fellowships in philosophy and feminism from 1994 to 1997. She also is the current managing editor of Hypatia: A Journal of Feminist Philosophy, and she received a 1998-99 Jane Grant Dissertation Award from the Center for the Study of Women in Society.

She plans to teach philosophy and women’s studies at the college or university level upon completion of her doctoral work.

Rowe, of San Diego, Calif., is completing a dissertation, "What We Confusedly Call ‘Animals’: Deconstruction and the Zoology of Narrative," that links literature with animals.

Since 1997, Rowe has held graduate teaching fellowships in the Department of English and in the Humanities and the Comparative Literature programs. In addition, she received a UO Graduate Research Award in 1997-98.

She has presented work at four conferences since 1997, including the American Comparative Literature annual conference, the Pacific Ancient and Modern Language Association annual conference and the North American Society for the Study of Romanticism annual conference.

Rowe will pursue a university level research and teaching position when her dissertation is complete.

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