The CWU Graduate School proudly announces the co-recipients of the Dale and Mary Jo Comstock Distinguished Thesis award for 2021. 

Each student will earn $750 and their thesis will be nominated for the WAGS Regional Thesis competition in the fall.  The recipients are:

Morgan Rodriguez, (MS) Chemistry

Thesis title: “Selective Synthesis of Trans-fused Lactam-Lactones by Vicinal Difunctionalization of Readily Affordable Allylic Lactams”.

Thesis chair: Dr. Timothy Beng, Chemistry department

Henry Jennings, (MA) History

Thesis title: “Sport, Kul’turnost, and Physical Culture in the Khrushchev Era Soviet Union, 1953-1964”

Thesis chair: Dr. Roxanne Easley, History department

Please join us in congratulating these outstanding students and their faculty.