Graduate Student Grant Recipients

Graduate student research grants awarded in 2021

  • Anna Dobbins (School of Public Health), WASH Education Program with the Shaw Indigenous Community in Peru, $1,000
  • Trevor Faske (Ecology, Evolution, and Conservation Biology, College of Science), Cause and Consequence of Polyploidization Events of Photochemical Landscape in Costa Rica, $1,000
  • Shannon Hartmann (Political Science, College of Liberal Arts), Terrorism in the Philippines: Creating an Inclusive Dataset Through Archival Research, $2,000
  • Waleed Jami (Interdisciplinary Social Psychology Ph.D. Program), Capturing Populism: Concept, Measurement, and Application, $1,000
  • Christopher Knight (Political Science, College of Liberal Arts), Latrine Pilot Study with the Shaw Indigenous Community in Peru, $1,000
  • Jacob Mwanza (Master of Business Administration, College of Business), Combating Housing Deficit Through Construction Material Financing in Zambia, $2,000
  • Birendra Rana (Geography, College of Science), How Is Rural Development Affected in Nepal in the Context of Local Equity Shareholding (LES) for Small Hydropower Projects Implemented Since 2010, $2,000
  • Bailey Shepard (Journalism), International Development Aid: A View on the Ground During a Time of Critique, Guinea, West Africa, $1,000
  • Chanchanok Sudta (Ecology, Evolution, and Conservation Biology, College of Science), Effects of Habitat Conversion on Plant-arthropod Networks in Ecuador, $1,000
  • Eneko Tuduri (Basque Studies, College of Liberal Arts), Research in the Historical Archives of Iruña-Pamplona, Navarre, Basque Country, $1,980

Graduate student research grants awarded in 2020

  • Nerea Eizagirre (Basque Studies. Ph.D.), The Autonomy of Literature in Joseba Sarrionandias Oeuvre, Basque Country, Spain, $1,000
  • John Ostermiller (Anthropology Department, Ph.D.), Negotiations of Faith: Muslim Communities in Transitional Japan, $1,000
  • Keely Rodriquez (Biology Department lnterdisciplinary Ph.D.), Investigation of Immune Functions Promoting the Return of Panamanian Frogs from the Brink of Extinction, $1,000
  • Palistha Shrestha (Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Studies Master's) Field Study of Sequentially Coupled Moringo Oleifera Seed Extract Technology for Fluoride Removal, Ghana $1,000
  • Cassie Skipper (Anthropology Department, PhD.), Skeletal Phenotype Variation and Modern Human Evolution in Asia, Thailand and Japan, $1,000