2025 Graduate Research Grant Recipients
Emmanuel Alagbe, Purdue University
Alagbe, a doctoral student at Purdue University, will use funds from the award to present his research at the 16th International Symposium on Digestive Physiology of Pigs, Lake Geneva, Wisconsin.
Sarah Brickman, University of California, Davis
Brickman, a doctoral student at the University of California, Davis, will use funds from the award to present her research at the 80th Soil and Water Conservation Society International Annual Conference in Costa Mesa, California.
William Brooks, George Mason University
Brooks, graduate student at George Mason University, will use funds from the award to conduct field research in Malaysian Borneo, where he will study the impacts of logging on forest birds.
Curtis Cathcart, Marshall University
Cathcart, graduate student at Marshall University, will use funds from the award to support his dissertation research into factors supporting teacher longevity.
Andrew Couch, The University of Alabama in Huntsville
Couch, graduate student researcher at Stanford University, will use funds from the award to support and present research on AI decision support for radiology.
Richard Garcia, Louisiana State University
Garcia, a Ph.D. candidate at Louisiana State University will use funds from the award to present his microRNA research at International Conference on Arabidopsis Research 2025 in Gent, Belgium.
Madeline Hale, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Hale, graduate student at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, will use the funds from the award to present her research at the Alzheimer’s Association International Conference in Toronto, Canada.
Mingqiang Han, Kansas State University
Han, graduate student at Kansas State University, will use funds from the award to support his research on enhancing wireless underground sensor networks (WUSNs) for agricultural applications.
Michaelia Jonas, Kennesaw State University
Jonas, graduate student at Kennesaw State University use funds from the award to minimize the wait time between patient's appointment and check in at Dunwoody Pediatrics.
Tanuj Kumar, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Kumar, graduate research assistant at University of Wisconsin-Madison, will use funds from the award to support research at the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities to study infrared light absorption in low absorptivity materials.
Natacha Mally, Pennsylvania State University
Mally, graduate teaching assistant at Pennsylvania State University, will use funds from the award to support data collection for her dissertation on inclusive second language teaching methods.
Peyton McCain, Florida Southern College
McCain, graduate student at University of Delaware, will use funds from the award to support a research project considering the effects of dams on the movements of diadromous fishes in the Mid-Atlantic United States.
Cathlin Noonan, Texas State University
Noonan, graduate student at Texas State University, will use funds from the award to present on the poetry of Michael Field at the 2025 Midwest Victorian Studies Association conference at Purdue University in Fort Wayne, Indiana.
Ehsan Nozohouri, Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center
Nozohouri, Ph.D. candidate and research assistant at Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center, will use funds from the award to attend the Drug Delivery to the Brain: Emerging Modalities conference in Keystone, Colorado.
Gwen Olivier, Texas State University
Olivier, Ph.D. student at Texas State University, will use funds from the award to support her geoarchaeological research in central New Mexico where she will research how the paleoenvironment affected the distribution of archaeological sites over a 14,000-year timeframe.
Tochukwu Onyebum, Kansas State University
Onyebum, graduate research assistant at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, will use funds from the award to present at the European Geophysical Union conference in Vienna, Austria.
Kofi Kusi Owusu - Ansah, University of Wyoming
Owusu-Ansah, a doctoral student and graduate assistant at the University of Arizona, will use funds from the award to conduct and support his fieldwork in Ghana, where he will examine the impact of foreign direct investment in renewable energy on job creation and skills development in rural communities.
Marjan Ramezan, Texas Tech University
Ramezan, a Ph.D. candidate at Texas Tech University, will use funds from the award to present at the International Alzheimer's Disease Gordon Research Conference in Ventura, California.
Sahil Sasidharan, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Sasidharan, doctoral student at University of Wisconsin-Madison will use funds from the award to support dissertation fieldwork in Delhi, India where he studies the emergence of digitally-mediated urbanization processes.
Jennifer Smith-Mayo, University of Maine
Smith-Mayo, graduate assistant at University of Maine, will use funds from the award to present at the 2025 Conference on Communication and Environment (COCE) in Hobart, Tasmania, Australia.