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Aleyah Dawkins wins the 2023-2024 Dean’s Graduate Award for Excellence in Research

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Congratulations to Mathematical Sciences' Aleyah Dawkins for meriting the Dean's Graduate Award for Excellence in Research. Aleyah is in the final year of her mathematics Ph.D. program, working with Professors Geir Agnarsson and Rachel Kirsch in the field of combinatorics and graph theory. Her work has applications in computer networks and security, and cyber security. Aleyah has also been awarded an NSF postdoctoral fellowship which will fund her position as a research postdoc with Dr. Michael Young, at Carnegie Mellon University, starting in Fall 2024.

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