2021-2022 Research Fellowship Recipients
The following NYUAD students were awarded a Post-Graduation Research Fellowship, to take part in a year of full-time intensive and independent research from September 2021 - August 2022.
Senior students who meet the eligibility criteria are invited to submit a research proposal, outlining details of their intended research project, including anticipated research activities, a timeline, and specific milestones. This must be supported by a cover letter detailing the student’s interest and enthusiasm for a career in academia, as well as a recommendation letter from the supervising faculty.
| Student Name | Faculty Supervisor | Project |
|---|---|---|
| Nawal Aljaeedi | Olivia Cheung | The Configuration Effect of Musical Notation Reading |
| Lubnah Ansari | May Al-Dabbagh, Surabhi Sharma |
Love in the Time of Love-Jihad: Hindu-Muslim Marriages in India |
| Niccolò Acram Cappelletto | Robert Parthesius, Alia Yunis |
What Goes into a Unesco Nomination? Alternative Heritage Practices in Eritrea and UAE |
| Keziah Johnson | Olivia Cheung | The Impact and Influence of Technology Supported Pedagogy in Higher Education: NYUAD Case Study |
| Katharina Klaunig | Nancy Gleason | Class Participation of First-Year Students at NYUAD |
| Kacper Lecki | Andrea Macciò | Impact of Wandering Black Holes on Galaxy Formation: Implementation of Gravitational Recoil in the Nihao Project |
| Vince Nguyen | Heather Dewey-Hagborg, Joerg Blumtritt (funded by CITIES) |
Interfacing Low-Cost Air Quality Sensors with Apple Watch: a Self-Quantified Approach to Raising Awareness of Air Pollution |
| Keshana Ratnasingham | Joan Barcelo |
The Legacies of Exposure to In-Group Violence on Ethnic Reconciliation: Evidence from Sri Lanka |
| Oscar Sapkota | Piergiorgio Percipalle | The Role of Nuclear Myosin 1 in Regulating Mitochondrial Gene Expression and Neurogenesis |
| Sungmin Sohn | Ali Diabat | Optimization for Drone-Truck Combined Operations Routing Synchronization Problem |
| Thais Thomas | Fatiah D. Touray | Classroom Comfort?: An Examination of Student Responses to Faculty Racial and Ethnic Diversity |
| Yao Xu | Kinga Makovi | When the Overseas Chinese “Go Back to their Country”: Investigating Unequal Treatment Toward Returnees in Mainland China Amid the Pandemic |
Project Images
Post-Graduation Research Fellows share images from their 2021-2022 projects.
