Alyssa Hohorst is a CLAS Outstanding PhD Student Distinction Fall 2025 award winner, which is an academic privilege demonstrating outstanding doctoral scholarship, research excellence, and professional contribution in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences (CLAS). The difference makes Hohorst one of the few doctoral scholars whose research reflects a high level of academic rigor, originality, and penetrativeness of their discipline.
The CLAS Outstanding PhD Student Distinction is issued every semester to doctoral students who have demonstrated a history of research, teaching and engagement excellence. The evaluation of the recipients is made by the nomination and review process which is based on the evaluation of the research quality, methodological strength, publication record and impact to the academic community.
The choice of Fall 2025 by Hohorst is based on the regularity of the performance in these criteria, which highlights her as a top doctoral scholar in CLAS. According to faculty reviewers, her research inquiry profundity, analytical precision, and solid congruence of theory and applied scholarship were cited.
The intellectual rigor and the applicability of the research developed by Alyssa Hohorst to the modern academic discussion are the key characteristics of this doctoral work. Her work is a critique of the literature available, but at the same time, she develops original approaches to her field of work that are important to her line of study. It was noted that her research design sounded methodologically and she could convert complex ideas into well-structured scholarly works.
Besides conducting research at dissertation level, Hohorst has presented an active scholarly profile in terms of participating in conferences, conducting joint research projects, and serving academics. Such undertakings augment her as a developing professional and the larger anticipations of a doctoral scholar in CLAS.
In addition to research, other areas of commitment to teaching and academic citizenship are also acknowledged by CLAS Outstanding PhD Student Distinction. Hohorst has also participated in the field of undergraduate and graduate learning, teaching, mentoring, and curriculum development. Faculty feedback reports that she is successful in being able to in still critical thinking, academic integrity, and inclusiveness in the learning process.
Her involvement in departmental and interdisciplinary activities is also indicative of professional maturity and resilience to postdoctoral or faculty-level duties.
The CLAS Outstanding PhD Student Distinction to fall 2025 is a professional and institutional award. Peer-reviewed excellence is indicated by the award and reinforces academic viability within the next career stage, such as postdoctoral research, faculty positions, or policy studies, or other sophisticated jobs in the industry.
In the case of CLAS, the differentiation enhances its philosophy of developing high-impact doctoral studies and rewarding scholars that support the academic standards and mission of the college in terms of research.
Going up to the end of her doctoral program, this award places Alyssa Hohorst at a high profile in the social sphere of academics and research. She has left a trail of attributes that can be attributed to influential scholarship such as intellectual prowess, professionalism, and long-term impact, so her efforts are worth following after Fall 2025.