Incoming Geography graduate student Pamela Dalal is the recipient of a coveted Cota-Robles Fellowship which provides five years of financial support “to assist students from diverse backgrounds to successfully pursue and complete a graduate degree. This fellowship is awarded to students who have overcome significant obstacles to achieve a baccalaureate level degree, and whose economic, educational, or social background contributes to the intellectual diversity among the graduate student population.” The award is used “to release highly meritorious recipients from employment or loan obligations that might delay progress in graduate study and to place students interested in careers in academic teaching and research on a fast-track towards achieving their doctoral degree, thereby increasing the number of qualified candidates for faculty positions within the University of California.”
Pamela comes to us from the University of Tennessee where she received her BA in Geography and was a Research Assistant with the Geographic Information Science and Technology group at Oak Ridge National Laboratory. Her Cota-Robles Fellowship demonstrates UCSB’s confidence in Pam’s “abilities and promise of productive scholarship,” and the Geography Department is honored to have her on its team.
