The Victor E. Thoren Graduate Student Research Fellowship is the oldest and most prestigious departmental award. Named in honor of the late Professor Victor E. Thoren (1935-1991) and endowed by family and friends, it is awarded by the faculty to an exceptional student near the conclusion of their graduate career. It carries a $1,000 stipend.

Professor Thoren received his Ph.D. in History and Philosophy of Science and Medicine at Indiana University in 1965 and served on the faculty from 1964-1991. He was the author of The Lord of Uraniborg: A Biography of Tycho Brahe (Cambridge, 1991).

Thoren Fellowship recipients:

• 2020 Ali Mirza
• 2019 Christopher ChoGlueck
• 2018 Samual Ketcham
• 2017 Ashley Inglehart
• 2015 Scott Hyslop
• 2014 Tawrin Baker, Klodian Coko
• 2013 Jun Otsuka
• 2012 Evan Ragland
• 2011 Cesare Pastorino
• 2010 Sean Valles
• 2009
• 2008 S. Brian Hood
• 2007 Melinda Fagan
• 2006
• 2005 Matthew Adamson
• 2004 Narisara Murray
• 2003 Mary Domski, Rasmus Winther
• 2002 Scott Tanona
• 2001 James M. Mattingly
• 2000 Paul Pojman
• 1999 H. Darrel Rutkin
• 1998 Elizabeth Green Musselman
• 1997 Brad D. Hume
• 1996 Judith Johns Schloegel
• 1995 Alice D. Dreger
• 1994 Karen A. Rader, William Tammone
• 1993 Peter J. Ramberg
• 1992 James E. Voekel