The Vice President for Research is pleased to announce the 2023-2024 recipients of the SPARC Graduate Research Grant. These 25 graduate students from 17 academic departments worked with faculty advisors to prepare and submit competitive proposals, earning valuable grant-writing experience, as well as funds to support their research and scholarly projects.

 

2023-2024 SPARC Graduate Research Grant Recipients

Recipient Name	Degree Program
Maxwell Akonde	Epidemiology
Fahmida Akter	Health Promotion, Education, and Behavior
Taylor Berrier	Communication Sciences and Disorders
Morgan Boncyk	Health Promotion, Education, and Behavior
Larissa Daniels-Hill	Anthropology
Yuwei Geng	Mathematics
David Horovitz	Biomedical Sciences
Shan Hu	Chemistry
Kaitlen Hubbard	Criminology and Criminal Justice
Freda (Ally) Hucek	Health Promotion, Education, and Behavior
Nikita Kirkise	Biological Sciences
Graham McLaughlin	Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
Shawn McNally	Social Work
Ritwik Nag	Electrical Engineering
Emily Owens Pickle	Epidemiology
Daniel Perez	Electrical Engineering
Dawson Petersen	Linguistics
Katelyn Rygel	Biological Sciences
Pradeep Sahu	Exercise Science
Volodymyr Shablenko	Physics
Zachary Stryker	Pharmaceutical Sciences
Julia van de Sandt	Business Administration
Sarah Wilson	Linguistics
Courtney Wright	Biomedical Sciences
Xuan Yang	Psychology