Shane Moser, a doctoral student in Kansas University’s School of Business, is one of 16 recipients nationwide of a $20,000 dissertation fellowship from the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation.

The fellowships are awarded to current Ph.D. students who are engaged in the study of entrepreneurship at U.S. universities. A presentation ceremony was conducted Jan. 4 in New Orleans in conjunction with the American Economic Association’s annual meeting.

Moser was one of 101 applicants nationwide for a fellowship, considered a way to “recognize excellence among a select group of the nation’s future entrepreneurship scholars,” said Robert Strom, the foundation’s director of entrepreneurship research and policy at the foundation.

The title of Moser’s dissertation: “Does Diversity Among Co-Investing Venture Capital Firms Add Value for Entrepreneurial Companies?”