Each year during the fall semester the Graduate Council Scholarship Committee solicits nominations for the Distinguished Master's Thesis Award. The award recognizes and rewards students for distinguished scholarship and research at the master's level.  The award was initiated in 1992.

Thesis Award Nomination Guidelines
 

* For more information about the other theses, please click HERE
The winning thesis is also submitted into the Midwestern Association of Graduate Schools annual thesis award competition.

PAST RECIPIENTS
Year	Recipient(s)	Department	Advisor	Title
1992-93	Rex Whitfield	Defense and Strategic Studies	Dr. William VanCleave	MISSILE PROLIFERATION IN THE 1990S
1993-94	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A
1994-95	Lisa Berger	Geography, Geology, and Planning	Dr. David Castillon	SCIENTIFICALLY BASED WATER RESOURCE MANAGEMENT AND ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY  PLANNING : BARRY/STONE COUNTIES, MISSOURI
1995-96	Kelly Carter	Psychology	Dr. Helen Schartz	EFFECTS OF PRETRAINING ON THE VISUAL DISCRIMINATION LEARNING PERFORMANCE OF 3-MONTH-OLD INFANTS
1996-97	Judith Laing Grable	Resource Planning	Dr. Johnson Elias	WATER QUALITY AND URBANIZATION : A MULTITEMPORAL STUDY OF THE PIERSON CREEK DRAINAGE BASIN, GREENE COUNTY, MISSOURI
1997-98	Jill Black	Resource Planning	Dr. David Castillon	WILSON'S CREEK, GREENE AND CHRISTIAN COUNTIES, MISSOURI : WATER QUALITY  MACROINVERTEBRATE INDICES, AND PLANNING IMPLICATIONS USING GIS, BASED ON  WATERSHED LANDUSE AND WATER CONTAMINATION HAZARDS
1998-99	Jennifer Cacka	Biology	Dr. John Havel	COMPETITION BETWEEN NATIVE AND EXOTIC DAPHNIA
1999-00	Kimberley Rey	Biology	Dr. Erwin Mantei	HEAVY METAL CONCENTRATIONS IN STREAM SEDIMENTS ADJACENT TO THE GREENFIELD SANITARY LANDFILL, DADE COUNTY, MISSOURI
2000-01	Jennifer Moody-Weis	Biology	Dr. John Heywood	POLLINATION LIMITATION TO REPRODUCTIVE SUCCESS IN THE MISSOURI EVENING PRIMROSE, OENOTHERA MACROCARPA (ONAGRACEAE)
2001-02	Kevin Murray*	Biology	Dr. Lynn Robbins	THE USE OF ULTRASONIC DETECTORS IN THE STUDY OF BAT COMMUNITIES
2002-03	Kyle Barrett	Biology	Dr. Alexander Waite	THE EFFECT OF SPATIAL SUBSIDES ON THE DIET DENSITY AND SPECIES RICHNESS OF INSULAR LIZARDS IN THE GULF OF CALIFORNIA
2003-04	Shem Unger	Biology	Dr. Alicia Mathis	SPERM PRODUCTION AND LARVAL DEVELOPMENT IN HELLBENDERS (CRYPTOBRANCHUS ALLEGANIENSIS ALLEGANIENSIS AND C.A. BISHOPI): A COMPARISON OF DECLINING AND STABLE POPULATIONS
2004-05	Brian Doak	Religious Studies	Dr. Victor Matthews	PATRIARCH AS TRICKSTER: THE SOCIAL AND LITERARY FUNCTION OF THE JACOB CYCLE IN GENESIS 25-33
2005-06	Nathan L. Windel	Biology	Dr. Alicia Mathis	BEHAVIORAL AND METABOLIC RESPONSES OF THE  SOUTHERN RED-BACKED SALAMANDER (PLETHODON SERRATUS) TO PREDATORY STIMULI: INFLUENCE OF BODY SIZE
2006-07	Govind Mundada	Physics, Astronomy, and Material Science	Dr. Kartik Ghosh	THE EFFECT OF NON MAGNETIC DOPING AND GROWTH TEMPERATURE ON THE MAGNETO-TRANSPORT PROPERTIES OF MAGENESE AND COBALT DOPED ZINC
2007-08	David Rice	Religious Studies	Dr. Martha Finch	HOW THE MISSOURI BAPTIST CONVENTION SHIFTED THEIR IDENTITY TO THE SOUTHERN BAPTIST CONVENTION'S NEW HEGEMONY

* Also won the Midwestern Association of Graduate Schools (MAGS) Distinguished Thesis Award