Original Work Award and Travel Award Recipients
The Original Work Award (OWA) supports research and creative work. It is intended to fund direct, project-related expenses such as travel, lodging, materials, and equipment related to research.
The Travel Award (TA) supports travel to present original work, including research and creative works. The Travel Award is intended to enhance graduate education through participation in seminars, workshops, and conferences.
2025 Spring Original Work Award (OWA) Recipients
| Name | Degree Program | Title of Proposal |
|---|---|---|
| Sonali Jha | Ph.D. in Media Arts and Studies | Comprehensive care model for Human Trafficking Survivors: A Qualitative Inquiry with Ecological and Social Justice Framework |
| Hannah Brockstein | Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology | Helping Students with Emotional and Behavioral Problems Succeed: Evaluation of the Beacon-Remote Program |
| Tatiana Olin | M.S. in Geological Sciences | A palynological reconstruction of Late Pleistocene ecology in West Virginia and its implications for the initial settlement of Eastern North America |
| Noor Maireda | M.S. in Biological Sciences | Estimating Borneo Flat-headed Frog (Barbourula kalimantanensis) Potential Distribution Using Mechanistic Niche Modeling |
| Emily Glatt | Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology | Unpacking the Pathways to Peer Rejection: Examining Forms and Functions of Aggression in Preschoolers with Elevated Inattention and Hyperactivity/Impulsivity |
| Zawar Hussain | Ph.D. in Environmental and Plant Biology | Climate-Induced Migration as Adaptation: Evidence from Climate Migrants in Bangladesh |
| Allan K'oyoo | M.S. in Geography | Disaster Risk Governance in Transition: How Institutional Responses Shape Flood Risk in Nairobi’s Informal Settlements |
| Terry Plant-Collins | Chemistry Double Master's with Leipzig University | Defect Engineering in the Mechanochemical Synthesis of Metal Organic Frameworks |
| Ross Starke | M.S. Geological Sciences | Improving Streams Impacted by Acid Mine Drainage Using a System of Slow-Release Hydrogen Peroxide and Calcium Oxide |
| Umair Ahmad | Ph.D. in Biological Sciences | Investigating the role of wildfires in shaping host-parasite dynamics in lizards |
| Amy Strieter | Ph.D. in English | How is the Morpho, How is the Quetzal?: Poems Exploring Wildlife and Landscape in Monteverde After Twenty Years of Change |
| Jordan Zdinak | Ph.D. in History | Violence and Memory: Lynching in the Midwestern United States |
| Fitrat Ullah | Ph.D. in Environmental and Plant Biology | Functional Characterization of Five Novel rice Transcription Factors candidate for Plant Cell Wall Biosynthesis and Remodeling |
| Caroline Murphy | M.A.A Visual Arts Management and M.F.A. Graphic Design | The Athens Quilt Trail |
| Sunita Bati | Ph.D. in Plant Biology | Evaluating tree regeneration responses to adaptive silvicultural strategies in central hardwood forest ecosystems |
| Bodrul Islam | M.A. in Geography | Creating Ethnic Space in Two Urban Neighborhoods: Bangladeshi Immigrants in Buffalo, New York and Detroit, Michigan |
2024 Fall Original Work Award (OWA) Recipients
| Name | Degree Program | Title of Proposal |
|---|---|---|
| Ahmad Ghauri | Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science | Validating the Use of Flight Simulator Data for Machine Learning in Aviation Safety |
| Cody Billock | Ph.D. in History | ‘Huế & the Global Vietnamese Civil War’ |
| Deborah Amesaki | Ph.D in Chemistry | Fragment Screening against T-box Riboswitch Antiterminator |
| Lasantha Sendanayake | Ph.D. in Chemistry | Application of the FlAsH-Estrogen Receptor alpha (FlAsH-ER) assay in a high throughput to screen estrogenic ligands |
| Lucy Osborne | M.F.A in Painting and Drawing | To Wonder Where We Go |
| Madison Carson | M.F.A. in Ceramics | The Place Between Dreams |
| Numair Qadri | M.F.A in Sculpture And Expanded Practices | Saffron Fields |
| Papa Kojo Yamoah | MM in Music History and Literature | Historicizing Brass Band in Ghana: An Inquiry into Brass Band Groups in Cape Coast |
| Riley Sombathy | Ph.D. in Biological Sciences | The domestic turkey (Meleagris gallopavo) as a model to test tissue-level bone adaptation for simulated evolutionary change in body size and growth rate. |
| Rosie Wong | M.S. in Journalism | Translating Ideas into Sounds: Music in Movies |
| Shamsuddeen Bello | M.S. in Geography | Promises and Realities of Smart City in Africa: Abuja Centenary Economic City |
| Zachary Tayler | Ph.D. in History | Normalization of Diplomatic Relations of the United States and the Socialist Republic of Vietnam, 1975-1995 |
2025 Spring Travel Award Recipients
| Name | Conference Title |
|---|---|
| Lenny Massiel Cauich Maldonado | International Communication Association Annual Conference -Activism Theory, Activist Practice: Bridging Boundaries Between Researching and Doing Activism |
| Noor Al-Hashemi | American College of Medical Genetics Annual Clinical Genetics Meeting |
| ChanHoon Park | American Counseling Association Conference & Expo 2025 |
| Adnan Khan | AMPP Annual Conference + Expo 2025 |
| Oluwaseun Blessing Adegbite | AMERICA CHEMICAL SOCIETY (ACS) SPRING 2025 |
| Taylor Rezeppa | International Conference on Eating Disorders (ICED) 2025 |
| Ariel Cevallos | LASA2025: Poner el cuerpo en Latinx América |
| Naomi Hill | International Conference on Eating Disorders |
| Carolina Herrera Céspedes | EURA 2025 ANNUAL CONFERENCE |
| Lingjun Xu | AMPP Annual Conference + Expo 2025 |
| Ifeoluwatobi Abiodun Odunsi | Central States Communication Association Conference |
| Zhuldyz Zhigulina | Association for Materials Protection and Performance (AMPP) Conference |
| Keegan Webb | 104th Annual Meeting of the American Society of Mammalogists |
| Fitrat Ullah | 2025 International Conference on Plant Cell Wall Biology |
| Mallory Boring | International Conference on Virginia Woolf |
| Zawar Hussain | 2025 International Conference on Plant Cell Wall Biology |
| Raghad Al-Khazaji | 2025 AERA Annual Meeting |
| Sinthia Silvi | AAG Annual Meeting 2025 |
| Damilola Abigael Ayorinde | 2025 International Conference on Plant Cell Wall Biology |
| Zachary Tayler | Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations |
| Favour Bawa | AMPP Annual Conference + Expo 2025 |
| Rayna Batool | 2nd Annual Orality & Literacy Conference at Geneva College |
| Ghulam Yaseen | NeMLA |
| Allan K'oyoo | 2025 American Association of Geographers Annual Meeting |
| Mohsin Ali Nasir | 2025 International Conference on Plant Cell Wall Biology |