Affiliated Research Fellowships

CURE Summer Research Fellows

Owen Brooks '28 2025 CURE Summer Research Fellow

Owen Brooks '28
Major: Economics
Mentor: Woan Foong Wong, Economics

Project: "Structural Realignment and Power Politics: The Economic Forces That Shaped US-Venezuelan Relations, 1880-1900"
2025 Recipient

Aaron Drummond '26 2025 CURE Summer Research Fellow

Aaron Drummond '26
Major: Environmental Studies
Mentor: Ellen Fitzpatrick, Social Sciences
Project: "Evaluating Ecologically-Oriented Soil Management Practices in Small-Scale and Urban Agriculture"
2025 Recipient

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Jack Schneiger '26
Major: Philosophy
Mentor: Daniela Vallega-Neu, Philosophy

Project: "Grave Decisions: Reading Sophocles' Antigone Through Heidegger and Derrida"
2025 Recipient

Megan Sebree '26 2025 CURE Summer Research Fellow

Megan Sebree '26
Major: Psychology
Mentor: Dare Baldwin, Psychology

Project: "Investigating the Impact of Executive Function on Preschoolers’ Causal Learning and Exploratory Play"
2025 Recipient

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Pathway to a Career Kickstart Fellows

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Andrew Acevedo '27
Major: Planning, Public Policy and Management
Mentor: Jose Melendez, Planning, Public Policy and Management

Project: Artificial Privilege (AP)
2025 Recipient

Infinity Hamilton 2025 Pathway to a Career KickStart Fellow

Infinity Hamilton '27
Major: Planning, Public Policy and Management
Mentor: Kelley Quinn, Planned Parenthood
Project: Does Sex Education Help to Prevent Teen Pregnancy?
2025 Recipient

Addison Jensen 2025 Pathway to a Career Kickstart Fellow

Addison Jensen '27
Major: Family and Human Services
Mentor: Emily Tanner-Smith, Prevention Science Institute

Project: Investigating high school graduate rates within Oregon and the U.S.
2025 Recipient

Ashauntene McNair Welch, 2025 Pathway to a Career Kickstart Fellow

Ashauntene McNair Welch '27
Major: Journalism: Public Relations
Project: The history and community impact of Jefferson High School's closure.
2025 Recipient

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Maya Miller '26
Major: Family and Human Services
Project: Exploring the field of higher education at Western Oregon State University.
2025 Recipient

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Ruth Mohr '27
Major: History
Project: How did the University of Oregon implement and react to the ADA laws when they were first passed?
2025 Recipient

Ashtin Neikes '27, 2025 Pathway to a Career Kickstart Fellow

Ashtin Neikes '28
Major: Architecture
Project: Renovation vs. New Construction: Evaluating Residential Architectural Value and Impact in Oregon
2025 Recipient

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Christian Sanchez '27
Major: Business Administration
Project: History of Mexican families who migrated to the U.S. and settled in Oregon.
2025 Recipient

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Sebastian Stowasser '27
Major: Marine Biology
Mentor: John Postlethwait, Biology

Project: Postlethwait Lab 
2025 Recipient

 

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Women in Science and Mathematics (WiSM) Summer Research Fellows

Yun Craddock '27 2025 Women in Science and Mathematics (WiSM) Summer Research Fellow

Yun Craddock '27
Major: Neuroscience
Mentor: Felix Deku, Neuroengineering Knight Campus

Project: "Crosstalk in Multilayer Amorphous-Silicon Carbide & Polyimide Neural Interface Devices"
2025 Recipient

Madeline Luu, WiSM Summer Research Fellowship

Madeline Luu '27
Major: Computer Science | Data Science
Mentor: Hans Dreyer, Human Physiology

Project: "Automated Pipeline Method for Serial Image Analysis of Muscle Biopsy Cross-Sections and Single Fibers"
2025 Recipient

Samantha Tan '27 2025 Women in Science and Mathematics (WiSM) Summer Research Fellow

Samantha Tan '27
Major: Neuroscience  | Data Science 
Mentor: Keat Ghee Ong, Bioengineering Knight Campus

Project: "Development and Design of a Wireless Embeddable Magnetoelastic Sensor for Real Time Monitoring of Cell Growth"
2025 Recipient

 

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