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Academics and the Student Experience

Shanmugaraj Selected for Dietrich Teaching Honor Nisha Shanmugaraj (DC 2013, 2022) is the 2021 recipient of the Dietrich College Graduate Student Teaching Award. Shanmugaraj, a Ph.D. candidate in the rhetoric program in the Department of English, received this honor for her dedication to her students, pedagogical innovation and exemplary commitment to professional development as an educator and a scholar.

Two Dietrich Students Named Amazon Graduate Research Fellows Nil-Jana Akpinar and Natalia Lombardi de Oliveira of the Statistics & Data Science and Machine Learning departments join three CMU classmates as Amazon Graduate Research Fellows. The fellowship program supports research in automated reasoning, computer vision, robotics, language technology, machine learning, operations research and data science.

Nil-Jana Akpinar

Natalia Lombardi de Oliveira

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