2025 Research and Scholarship Symposia

Graduate Research Symposium 2025 Award Winners

Duquesne University's Office of Research and Innovation hosts an annual Graduate Research Symposium, showcasing the research and scholarship of DU grad students from all disciplines.

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Simon Silverman Phenomenology Center Award

• “Building Legal Dwelling: An Existential Analysis of the Phenomenon of Law.”
  • Thomas Gambino, under the direction of Dr. James Swindal PhD
  • McAnulty College and Graduate School of Liberal Arts - Philosophy

Simon Silverman Phenomenology Center Award - Honorable Mention

• “The Lived Experiences of Black Mothers of Children with Cerebral Palsy.”
  • Stephanie Hosley under the direction of Rebecca Kronk PhD ( Rick Zoucha PhD
  • School of Nursing - Nursing

Award winning posters will be made publicly available through Duquesne’s Institutional Repository, Duquesne Scholarship Collection. 

Phenomenology Center Award for Graduate Research

Description 

The Simon Silverman Phenomenology Center (SSPC) Award for Graduate Research recognizes excellence in phenomenological research.

Eligibility Criteria

Outstanding projects in any field of study that employ a phenomenological approach—which can be realist, transcendental, existential, hermeneutic—either to articulate the essential structure of a specific lived experience or to interpret a concept or problem in a phenomenological figure or topic will be considered.

Projects involving the intersection of phenomenology and pedagogy or phenomenology and clinical practice are also welcome.

Some weight will be given to projects that show the use of SSPC’s special collection and/or archival materials.

Award Amounts

Phenomenology Center Award for Graduate Research - $250

Honorable Mention - $100