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Torrieann Dooley-Kennedy, (top left), Curriculum & Instruction, and Mubin Tarannum, Nanoscale Science, each were selected for the Dean’s Distinguished Dissertation Award for 2020.
The award is presented each year by Graduate School Dean Thomas Reynolds to recognize outstanding research and scholarship by a doctoral student at UNC Charlotte.
Dooley-Kennedy’s dissertation, “ExperiencED Success: Does Mentoring Beginning Teachers Impact the Mentor,” explores the impacts mentoring has on the mentor in terms of quality of teaching and fulfillment as an educator. Tarannum’s research, “Development of Nanoparticle-Based Approaches for Treatment and Imaging of Pancreatic Cancer,” examines ways to reliably diagnose and treat one of the most deadly forms of pancreatic cancer.
The Dean’s Distinguished Dissertation Award includes a cash prize and plaque. Both Tarannum and Dooley-Kennedy will represent UNC Charlotte in the Council of Graduate School’s (CGS) CGS/ProQuest Distinguished Dissertation Competition in Washington D.C. The competition will be held at the CGS Annual Meeting later this year. The CGS winner will receive an honorarium of $2,000 and a certificate of citation.