2017 – 2018 OVPR Fellows
Graduate students had three minutes to explain their research and scholarly projects for the Vice President for Research Fellowship 3 Minute Challenge.
Fourteen students were chosen and invited to become the 2017-18 VPR Fellowship cohort. Fellows will receive $4,000 in scholarship and travel support as well as opportunities for professional development workshops, mentorship, leadership and engagement opportunities over the next academic year.
Micah Battson, College of Health and Human Sciences
3 Minute Presentation: Microbes: Friend or Foe? Linking the Gut Microbiota to Heart Disease
Whitney Beck, Graduate Degree Program in Ecology
3 Minute Presentation: Predicting Algal Blooms to Protect Drinking Water, Fish, and Recreation
Allison Cleymaet, College of Veterinary Medicine and Biomedical Sciences
3 Minute Presentation: Shedding Light on the Opioid Epidemic
Kristen Fedak, College of Veterinary Medicine and Biomedical Sciences
3 Minute Presentation: How Clean is Clean Enough?
Zachary Fox, Scott College of Engineering
3 Minute Presentation: Biochemical Noise: Transforming Obstacles into Opportunities
Hannah Hausman, College of Natural Sciences
3 Minute Presentation: Beyond the Ivory Tower: Memory Researchers Need to Focus on Real Students
Jakob Lindaas, Scott College of Engineering
3 Minute Presentation: Holy Smokes! Reactive nitrogen in wildfire smoke
Michelle Mann, College of Natural Science
3 Minute Presentation: Harnessing the Power of Plasma for Clean Water: Improved antibacterial materials for separations
David Markman, College of Veterinary Medicine and Biomedical Sciences
3 Minute Presentation: Discovering a Trojan Horse Full of Plague
Lisa Mason, College of Agricultural Sciences
3 Minute Presentation: To Bee or Not to Bee: An Urban Ecology Question
Grey Monroe, Graduate Degree Program in Ecology
3 Minute Presentation: Using Nature to Nurture: Uncovering the Evolution of Drought Tolerance in Wild Plants
Nikki Seymour, Warner College of Natural Resources
3 Minute Presentation: Sharing the Strain: Slip History of the Atacama Fault System, northern Chile
Mallory Shields, College of Veterinary Medicine and Biomedical Sciences
3 Minute Presentation: It Runs in the Family: Modeling Neuromuscular Disease in Fruit Flies
Rachel West, College of Veterinary Medicine and Biomedical Sciences
3 Minute Presentation: Rethinking Oncogenes