2023 Graduate Research Grant Recipients

Sabrina Rahman Archie, Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center

Archie, a Ph. D. Candidate at Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center will use funds from the award to support her dissertation research on potential health risks associated with  electronic cigarette exposure.

Elisabeth Cuerrier-Richer, Texas State University

Cuerrier-Richer, a Ph. D. student at Texas State University, will use funds from the award to support her dissertation research in Latin America where she will study Hispanic cranial variation.

Lacy Dolan, Mississippi State University

Dolan, a graduate assistant at Mississippi State University, will use funds from the award to support data collection from the National Museum of Natural History for her dissertation research on factors influencing the recolonization of black bears in Mississippi.

Emma Erwin, University of Maine

Erwin, a graduate student at University of Maine, will use funds from the award to support geophysics and glaciology research in Denali National Park, Alaska during the summer 2023 field season.

Shreyas Gaikwad, Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center

Gaikwad, a Ph. D. candidate at Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center, will use the award to support his research in the development of "Bioprinted Tumor Models" as tools for personalized cancer therapy screening.

Mario Jackson, North Carolina State University

Jackson, a doctoral student and research and teaching assistant at North Carolina State University, will use funds from the award to support his early dissertation research work and participation at the American Educational Research Association annual convention in Chicago, Illinois.

Ashley Jellison, University of Louisiana at Monroe

Jellison, a graduate student at the University of Louisiana Monroe, will use funds from the award to support research into Colorado state prison inmate programs and their effects on recidivism.

Arjun Kafle, Texas Tech University

Kafle, a graduate assistant at the Department of Plant and Soil Science, Texas Tech University, will use funds from the award to support research expenses as well as to present findings at the 2023 ASA, CSSA, and SSSA International Annual Meeting in St. Louis, Missouri.

Elizabeth L. Leclerc, University of Maine

Leclerc, a graduate student at University of Maine, will use funds from the award to support archaeological and historical research in the Lambayeque Valley of Peru where she is studying the effects of Spanish colonization on indigenous resilience to El Niño.

Aubree Marshall, Michigan State University

Marshall, a graduate student at Michigan State University, will use the funds from the award to support a bioarcheological excavation experience in Belize where she will be studying the ancient Maya population located at the site of Marco Gonzalez.

Hong-My Nguyen, Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center

Nguyen, a Ph. D. student at Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center, will use funds from the award to attend AACR 2023.

Donovan Nichols, The University of Toledo

Nichols, a doctoral teaching assistant at The University of Toledo, will use funds from the award to present at the 2023 ACPA Annual Convention in New Orleans, LA.

Aine Norris, Old Dominion University

Norris, a doctoral student at Old Dominion University, will use funds from the award to support research in Baraboo, Wisconsin, where she will collect corpus data about the lexicon of American circus.

Dylan O'Hara, University of Maine

O'Hara, a Chase Distinguished Research Fellow at the University of Maine, will use funds from the award to go on a research trip to historical archives in Boston, Massachusetts.

Mariam Oladejo, Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center

Oladejo, a graduate student at Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center, will use funds from the award to support her research into the role of cancer stem cells on the progression of hepatocellular cancer.

Kartik Kumar Rajagopalan, Texas A&M University

Rajagopalan, a graduate research assistant at Texas A&M University, will use funds from the award to present at ACS Fall 2023 in San Francisco, CA.

Alexandra C. Sheldon, University of Texas at San Antonio

Sheldon, a Ph. D. student in the Anthropology department at the University of Texas at San Antonio, will use funds from the award to study the population density and group demographics of white-handed gibbons (Hylobates lar) living in Thailand.

Brannon Smithwick, University of Southern California

Smithwick, a graduate student at University of Southern California, will use funds from the award to support heritage conservation thesis field research in Tennessee where she will study the architectural significance of the state’s Rosenwald Schools.

Natasha Strydhorst Unsworth, Texas Tech University

Unsworth, a doctoral candidate and research assistant at Texas Tech University, will use funds from the award to support a focus group study on individuals' perceptions of science communication in which uncertainty is emphasized—and in which it is not.

Xinwen Zhang, University of Texas at Arlington

Zhang, a graduate student at the University of Texas at Arlington, will use funds from the award to support research on sentence processing, which is designed to investigate and uncover how second language learners effectively use different sources of information during their comprehension, and what factor(s) cause differences between first language and second language sentence comprehension.