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PhD Student Research Competition

The PhD program proudly recognizes its students’ research achievements with recognition at both the Fox School’s Annual Awards Night as well as school-wide research forums.  These forums recognize the winners of both the Fox School’s annual research paper and dissertation competitions, and they afford top-tier PhD students the opportunity to present their research, receive awards and begin building their academic resumes.

In the Fox School’s PhD program, students who have received High Pass grades for their first or second year research papers are often invited to present their work in a school-wide forum, where they are given the opportunity to receive comments on their work, as well as receive awards based on these papers and possible monetary funding to continue their outstanding research.  PhD students who have recently defended their dissertation proposals are also provided with the opportunity to present their research, and recent graduates of the PhD program may compete for the honor of the Best Dissertation award.

Each concentration recommends one to two outstanding PhD students to present at this school-wide awards competition, where they are eligible to compete for these awards and receive further research or dissertation support.

PhD Student Research Competition Award Winners

2023 Recipients
AwardRecipients
First Year Poster Presentation WinnerXuting Jiang
Human Resource Management & Organizational Behavior
Second Year Poster Presentation WinnerMohammad Soltani-Nejad
Risk Management and Insurance
Third Year & Above “3MT” Presentation WinnerJingxuan Geng
Operations and Supply Chain Management
Third Year & Above “3MT” People’s Choice AwardJoseph Rilling
Statistics
Dissertation Proposal “3MT” Presentation Winner Vaidya Viswanathan Saunak
Marketing
Dissertation Proposal People’s Choice Award WinnerAnastasiia Agolli
Human Resource Management & Organizational Behavior
2022 Recipients
AwardRecipients
First & Second Year Poster Presentation WinnerKanghyun Cho
Management Information Systems
Third Year & Above “3MT” Presentation WinnerVaidya Viswanathan Saunak
Marketing
Third Year & Above “3MT” People’s Choice AwardNataliya Bredikhina
Tourism & Sport
Dissertation Proposal “3MT” Presentation Winner John Kim
Finance
Dissertation Proposal People’s Choice Award WinnerYiwen Gao
Management Information Systems
2021 Recipients
AwardRecipients
First Year Poster Presentation WinnerYu Kou
Marketing
Second Year Poster Presentation WinnerGuohou Shan
Management Information Systems
Third & Fourth Year “3MT” Presentation WinnerYufan Dong
Accounting
Third & Fourth Year “3MT” People’s Choice AwardJian Zhang
Risk Management and Insurance
Dissertation Proposal “3MT” Presentation Winner Steven Maex
Accounting
Dissertation Proposal People’s Choice Award WinnerSteven Maex
Accounting
2020 Recipients
AwardRecipients
First Year Poster Presentation WinnerMohammad Rahimi
Management Information Systems
Second Year Poster Presentation WinnerWenchu Li
Risk Management and Insurance
Third & Fourth Year “3MT” Presentation Winner (tie)Yuqi Han, Finance
Naimin Jing, Statistical Science
Dissertation Proposal “3MT” Presentation Winner (tie)Abdul-Nasah Soale, Statistical Science
Siliang Tong, Marketing
Dissertation Proposal People’s Choice Award WinnerJoseph Kim
Human Resource Management/Organizational Behavior
2019 Recipients
AwardRecipients
First & Second Year Poster Presentation WinnerHan Chen
Marketing
Third & Fourth Year “3MT” Presentation WinnerJingshu Luo
Risk Management and Insurance
Third & Fourth Year People’s Choice Award WinnerZeya He
Tourism & Sport
Dissertation Proposal “3MT” Presentation WinnerJung Kwon Kim
Strategic Management
Dissertation Proposal People’s Choice Award WinnerMichael Power
Statistical Science
Completed Dissertation WinnerXun Zhong
Finance
2018 Recipients
AwardRecipients
Completed DissertationSangsuk Yoon
Marketing and Supply Chain Management
Dissertation ProposalXun Zhong
Finance
Third/Fourth Year Research PaperXue Guo
Management Information Systems
Second Year Research PaperJingshu Luo
Risk Management and Insurance
First Year Research PaperSamayita Guha
Operations and Supply Chain Management
2017 Recipients
AwardRecipients
Completed DissertationLauren Spirko
Statistical Science
Chi Zhang
Finance
Dissertation ProposalYeil Kwon
Statistical Science
Third/Fourth Year Research PaperAaron Cheng
Management Information Systems
Second Year Research PaperXue Guo
Management Information Systems
First Year Research PaperSiddharth Bhattacharya
Management Information Systems
2016 Recipients
AwardRecipients
Completed DissertationKartik Ganju
Management Information Systems
Dissertation ProposalChi Zhang
Finance
Third/Fourth Year Research PaperZeda Li
Statistics
Second Year Research PaperAaron Cheng
Management Information Systems
First Year Research PaperXue Guo
Management Information Systems
Juan Zhang
Risk Management and Insurance

3MT Award Winners

2023 Winners
Spring 2023
PhD Student Winners
Soni Jha, Strategic Management*
Muktak Tripathi, Accounting*
 
*Represented the Fox School at the University-wide 3MT competition 
2022 Winners
Spring 2022
PhD Student Winner
Steven Maex, Accounting*
 
PhD Student Presenters
Mustafa Akben, Human Resource Management & Organizational Behavior
Yu Fang, Risk Management & Insurance
Samayita Guha, Operations and Supply Chain Management
Dan Luo, Finance
Ziyan Yin, Statistics
 
*Represented the Fox School at the University-wide 3MT competition 

Young Scholars Interdisciplinary Forum

The Young Scholars Interdisciplinary Forum (YSIF) is a biannual event open to current Fox School faculty and PhD students for seed funding grants to undertake novel interdisciplinary research projects. The purpose is to encourage interdisciplinary collaboration among faculty and PhD students. The traditional YSIF seed funding grants in the amount of $500 to $5,000, with an annual amount of $50,000, will be available for proposal submission groups seeking small or medium outside funding grants.

All Fox faculty and PhD students are encouraged to attend the Young Scholars Interdisciplinary Forum. Young Scholars takes place in both the fall and spring semesters.

PhD Communications Initiative

In partnership with the Business Communications Center at the Fox School, the PhD Student Communication Initiative (PCI) launched in 2019, which aims to improve the communication skills of PhD students across three dimensions: written, oral (presentation) and interpersonal. PCI evaluates PhD students’ communications skills and hosts workshops, classes, online trainings and professional resources to help students improve these skills. Activities include an assessment of written, interpersonal and presentation skills; two seven-week asynchronous courses are offered in both the fall and spring semesters; and various workshops, coaching sessions and tutoring opportunities are offered throughout the year.

Math Bootcamp

The PhD program requires a two-week foundational mathematics course in August for incoming PhD students before their first semester within the program. This non-credit course aims to prepare students for their subsequent methodology courses. Courses may be waived pending an examination. This introductory course does not count toward the overall 48-credit PhD curriculum.

3MT Presentations

In 2019, the Fox School has integrated a new format for research presentation called “Three Minute Thesis” (3MT) into its doctoral programs and grant-funding competitions, helping students and junior faculty members enhance their presentation and translational research skills. The competition, originally developed by the University of Queensland in Australia, seeks to help students communicate their research to a broader audience beyond their personal academic fields. As the name suggests, participants have three minutes and a single, static presentation slide to explain their research, from the theoretical concept to their results and findings. Temple University hosted its inaugural university-wide 3-Minute Thesis (3MT) competition in April 2021.

3MT Award Winners

Spring 2021

PhD Student Winner

  • Xinjie Ma, Accounting*

PhD Student Presenters

  • Siddharth Bhattacharya, Management Information Systems
  • Debashish Ghose, Marketing and Supply Chain Management
  • Naimin Jing, Statistical Science
  • Colin Lopez, Tourism & Sport
  • Balbinder Singh Gill, Finance

*Represented the Fox School at the University-wide 3MT competition 

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