Yulin Yang wins dissertation award

The winner of UB's 2023-2024 Outstanding PhD dissertation award is Dr. Yulin Yang for her dissertation “Chronic Pain and Social Relationships among midlife and Older Adults in the United States.” Yulin Yang was a graduate student in the Sociology Department and received her Ph.D. from UB in 2020. 

The Outstanding PhD Dissertation Award honors a truly outstanding dissertation researched and written by a UB doctoral student who has received a PhD within the past five years.

Yulin's dissertation will also be put forward as UB’s sole allowable nomination for the Northeastern Association of Graduate Schools (NAGS) 2023-24 Doctoral Dissertation Award. 

Congratulations Dr. Yulin Yang for her extraordinary work!