The Graduate Theological Union congratulates eighteen doctoral students who are recipients of Newhall Awards for the 2017-2018 academic year.
In 1987, the late GTU trustee Jane Newhall gave a generous gift to endow competitive awards for doctoral students to engage in collaborative teaching or research with faculty mentors, believing that such collaborative work would contribute to the professional development of the students. The classes and research interests of this year's awardees offer just a sampling of the innovative work happening throughout the GTU.
The 2017-18 Newhall Recipients are listed below, along with their faculty mentors and the course title or research topic each is pursuing:
| Student | Faculty | Research Topic or Course Title |
| Ineda P. Adesanya | Laurie Garrett-Cobbina | Black Church Spirituality: Contemplative Practices of the Black Church |
| Leslie Bowling-Dyer | Valerie Miles-Tribble | Class, Race, and the Church |
| Diandra Chretain | Uriah Kim | MA Research Methods |
| Heeyoung Chung | Anh Tran | Confucianism and Christianity |
| Michaela Eskew | Rossitza Schroeder | Religion and Art Meet the World |
| Jennifer Fernandez | Filipe Maia | Critical Engagement of Alterity: Recognizing and Embracing the Other |
| Yohana Junker | B. Lee & D. Zuber | Interdisciplinary Seminar |
| Andrew K. Lee | Arthur Holder | Medieval English Mystics |
| Justin Lipscomb | Purushottama Bilimoria | Reductionism |
| Daniel Moceri | Gabriella Lettini | Psychology & Meditation |
| Stephen Quarles | Jay E. Johnson | Foucault & Derrida: Mystics? |
| Stephen Quarles | Ruth Meyers | Liturgics |
| Eric Sias | LeAnn Snow Flesher | Using Biblical Languages |
| Eric Sias | Aaron Brody | Elementary Biblical Hebrew I |
| Eric Sias | Aaron Brody | Elementary Biblical Hebrew II |
| Justin Staller | Jim Lawrence | Exegeting the Apocalypse: Reading, Teaching, and Preaching from the Revelation of John |
| Cecilia Titizano | Eduardo Fernandez | Spirit/s and Pneumatology |
| Laura Jean Torgerson | B. Lee & D. Zuber | Interdisciplinary Seminar |
| Colette Walker | Devin Zuber | Swedenborg, Esotericism, and the Arts |
| Joshua Warfield | Jay E. Johnson | Queering the Reformation |
| I Sil Yoon | William O'Neill | Christian Social Ethics |