"Understanding How Microbes Pick Their Partners" MAJOR: Biology MENTOR: Professor Karen Guillemin
Corinthia Brown '24
"Analyzing Ligand Specificity to Recreate Evolutionary Phylogenetic Tree for TLR4; Creating a Drop-in Cassette” MAJOR: Biology MENTOR: Professor Mike Harms
Eliza Lawrence '24
"Mapping Landslides in SE Alaska using Planet Imagery" MAJOR: Earth Science & Spacial Data Science MENTOR: Professor Josh Roering
Kyla Schmitt '25
"Exploring the impact of estuarine conditions on native eelgrass in the Coos Estuary" MAJOR: Environmental Science MENTOR: Professor Dave Sutherland
Harman Singh '24
"The Importance of Highly Granular Calorimetry in Reconstructing Jets with Electromagnetic Energy at Linear Colliders” MAJOR: Physics MENTOR: Professor James Brau
Lucy Wesson '24
"Weaving Peace: How Women's Fibers-Based Cooperatives Contribute to Empowerment and Development in Post-Genocide Rwanda” MAJOR: Global Studies MENTOR: Dr. Will Johnson
rECIPIENTS OF 2022
Zoey Bailey '24
"Effects of burn history and Bromus tectorum density on seedbank composition in the North Great Basin"
MAJOR: Environmental Science
MENTOR: Professor Lauren Hallett
Leah Blankenship '23
"Functional and Anatomical Properties of Cck+ Cells in the Medial Habenula"
MAJOR: Neuroscience & Psychology
MENTOR: Professor Emily Sylwestrak
Siri Chotechuang '23
"The Role of Language Planning in Speech and Breathing Coordination"
MAJOR: Communication Disorders and Sciences
MENTOR: Professor Melissa Redford
Mary Krebs '22
"Oocyte Meiotic Cell Division: Cortical Stiffness versus Cortical Contractility"
MAJOR: Biology & Piano Performance
MENTOR: Professor Bruce Bowerman
Chester Mantel '23
"Composite Dark Matter Detection Through Magnetic Dipole Interactions"
MAJOR: Physics
MENTOR: Professor Graham Kribs
Olivia Wilkinson '23
"How Drugs Influenced the Musical Landscape of the 1960s"
MAJOR: History & Folklore
MENTOR: Professor Steven Beda
Recipients of 2021
Mashal Rahmati Copperman - 2022 -
"Community Composition Shifts in Plant Growth Promoting Rhizobacteria Along a Lead (Pb) Gradient"
MAJOR: Environmental Science
MENTOR: Professor Brendan Bohannan
Isabelle Cullen - 2022 -
"Active Olfactomotor Responses in Head Fixed Mice"
MAJOR: Neuroscience
MENTOR: Professor Matt Smear
Nathan Malamud - 2022 -
"Simulating Dead-End State Distributions for Microbial Metabolism"
MAJOR: MACS (Math and Computer Science)
MENTOR: Professor Stilianos Louca
Audra McNamee - 2022 -
"An innovative neuroscience outreach effort using comics"
MAJOR: MACS (Math and Computer Science)
MENTOR: Professor Luca Mazzucato
Ashia Wilson - 2023 -
"Methane Emissions in Hydropower Reservoirs"
MAJOR: Environmental Studies
MENTOR: Professor Alaí Reyes-Santos
Recipients of 2020
Anastasia Browning - 2021 -
"Leveraging Message Framing and Goal Orientations to Strengthen Well-Being and Bolster Intentions to Follow Social Distancing Protocols During the COVID-19 Pandemic"
MAJOR: Psychology
MENTOR: Professor Elliot Berkman
Noa Cohen - 2021 -
"Reducing Smoking through Transcranial Alternating Current Stimulation"
MAJOR: Biological Anthropology
MENTOR: Professor Michael Posner
Myles Nelson - 2021 -
"Reducing Metabolic Cost of Level Ground Walking Using a Semi-Active Variable Stiffness Foot Prosthesis"
MAJOR: Human Physiology
MENTOR: Professor Mike Hahn
Deanna Plunkett - 2021 -
"Adult inflammation increases microglia after neonatal inflammation in respiratory control regions"
MAJOR: Biological Anthropology
MENTOR: Professor Adrianne Huxtable
Jude Stone - 2021 -
"Racial Influence on Transgender Hate Crime Verdicts"
MAJOR: Political Science
MENTOR: Professor Alison Gash
Recipients of 2019
Takoko Iwashita - 2020 -
"Reducing the negative impact of emotion on memory"
MAJOR: Psychology
MENTOR: Professor Dasa Zeithamova
Matt Kafker - 2020 -
"Computational modeling of bacterial dynamics in spatially structured environments"
MAJOR: Physics & Math
MENTOR: Professor Tristan Ursell
Emmalyn Leonard - 2021 -
"Determining the role of pulvinar in visual attention control"
MAJOR: Biology
MENTOR: Professor Cris Niell
Calvin Penkauskas - 2020 -
"Resolving conflict between oak conservation and organic hazelnut production"
MAJOR: Biology
MENTOR: Professor Lauren Hallett
Amy Shannon - 2021 -
"Alutiiq use of birds at Rice Ridge (49–KOD–363), Kodiak Island"
MAJOR: Anthropology
MENTOR: Professor Madonna Moss
Recipients of 2018
Konrad Bailey - 2020 -
"Neural and behavioral assays for studying predictive coding in the mouse brain"
MAJOR: Psychology
MENTOR: Professor Santiago Jaramillo
Fountane Chan - 2019 -
"Deciphering the role of Argonaute protein, PRG-1, in spermatocyte specific, heat-stress induced DNA damage"
MAJOR: General Science
MENTOR: Professor Diana Libuda
Connor Lane - 2019 -
"Parallel evolution of floral diversity in the bush monkeyflower"
MAJOR: Biology
MENTOR: Professor Matt Streisfeld
Michelle Lo - 2019 -
"Power dynamics in group settings of mathematics classrooms"
MAJOR: Mathematics
MENTOR: Professor Jennifer Ruef
Madelyn Scott - 2019 -
"Optimization of deposition techniques for film production and analysis"
