Findings Staff Report | March 15, 2021
The 2020-2021 University Research Council Graduate Student Stipend and Research Cost for Faculty-Student Collaboration Funding Program has concluded another successful application and funding cycle.
A total of 95 graduate students applied over the four URC areas: Arts & Humanities, Behavioral and Social Sciences, Life Sciences and Physical Sciences & Engineering.
Faculty review teams were assembled for each area and identified the awardees for this summer. The graduate student winners and their programs are:
Arts & Humanities
Debanjali Banerjee, Architecture & Interior Design
Bryce Bullins, English
Cara Dees, English
Sarah Imran, Political Science
Lily Meyer, English
Kelsey Mello, Women's, Gender and Sexuality Studies
Taraneh Wilkinson, Philosophy
Behavioral and Social Sciences
Lisa Gies, Psychology
Emily Devlin, Psychology
Hema Prabhu, Psychology
Dalia Mazen Abdulkader, Communication Sciences and Disorders
Danielle McLaughlin, Political Science
Elana Abelson, Psychology
Life Sciences
Maxwell Winkeljohn, Biological Sciences
Evan Reeder, Division of Pharmaceutical Sciences
Essraa Khalil, Chemistry
Nabil Siddiqui, Division of Pharmaceutical Sciences
Shindu Chamakkalayil Thomas, Division of Pharmaceutical Sciences
Daniel Berning, Biological Sciences
Physical Sciences & Engineering
Kabir Rishi, Chemical and Materials Engineering
Jacob Orkwis, Chemical and Environmental Engineering
Rajkumar Merugu, Chemistry
Caroline Williams, Chemistry
Mohammad Nazmus Sadat, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Tianyu Zhang, Chemical and Environmental Engineering
We would like to thank all of the applicants and faculty reviewers who made this program successful again this year. This program runs annually with applications accepted in the fall.
Details on this and other Office of Research internal funding programs are available at the Office of Research website.