Doctoral candidate Fang-Ju Lin is the recipient of a Dean's Scholar Award, the most distinguished award that UIC offers to current graduate students. Awardees are considered the most promising, and most likely to make outstanding contributions to this institution and to their fields of learning. This Award, given to 20 students a year, carries a stipend of $20,600 plus a waiver of tuition-and-service fee. The combined value of the three components of the Dean’s Scholar Award for this year is more than  $33,500 for an Illinois resident and more than $45,500 for a non-resident.