PhD student Alex Fixler has been awarded a Provost’s Dissertation Completion Fellowship for the Summer 2025 term. The awarding of this fellowship is an acknowledgement of her academic and scholarly accomplishments and will provide her with dedicated time to focus full-time on finishing her dissertation and PhD degree by August 2025. The title of her dissertation is "Policies, Penalties, and Public Safety: Measuring the Impact of State Drug Laws on Arrest and Overdose Rates."