2024 - 2025 VPR Fellows

  • Chika Winnifred Agha, doctoral candidate
    Walter Scott College of Engineering; Civil and Environmental Engineering
    Project: “Early-Career Engineers’ Experience with Equity and Ethics in Workplace”
  • Lamya Alsubaie, doctoral candidate
    College of Health and Human Sciences; Occupational Therapy
    Project: “Exploring the Role of Culture in Cognitive Rehabilitation”
  • Taylor Bacon, doctoral candidate
    College of Agricultural Sciences; Soil and Crop Sciences
    Project: “Sharing Sunlight: Ecological Impacts of Co-Locating Regenerative Livestock Grazing and Solar Energy Generation”
  • Somayeh Baghersad, doctoral candidate
    Walter Scott College of Engineering; Biomedical Engineering
    Project: “Sustainable Biopolymers as the Future of Hemocompatible Medical Device Engineering”
  • Lauren Buisker, doctoral candidate
    College of Liberal Arts; Communication Studies
    Project: “Rhetoric of Sexual Violence”
  • Meghan Cosgrove, doctoral candidate
    College of Liberal Arts; Communication Studies
    Project: “Connected Through Community: An Engaged Approach to Justice-involved Community Reentry”
  • Carolyn Coyle, doctoral candidate
    Warner College of Natural Resources; Fish, Wildlife, and Conservation Biology
    Project: “Songbirds as Pollinators: Mapping Bird-Flower Interactions for North American Passerines”
  • Jebrail Dempsey, doctoral candidate
    College of Veterinary Medicine and Biomedical Sciences; Microbiology, Immunology and Pathology
    Project: “Investigating Community Transmission Dynamics of Plasmodium falciparum in a West African Cohort Study”
  • Alina Galyon, doctoral candidate
    College of Natural Resources; Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
    Project: “Damage Control at the Extremes: Playing with Fire without Getting Burned”
  • Elena Lian, doctoral candidate
    College of Veterinary Medicine and Biomedical Sciences; Microbiology, Immunology and Pathology
    Project: “Evaluating a New Biomarker for Mycobacterium Abscessus Infection”
  • Diana Lowe, doctoral candidate
    College of Veterinary Medicine and Biomedical Sciences; Cell and Molecular Biology
    Project: “When Proteins Join the “Dark Side”: the Prion Disease Paradox and an American Wildlife Epidemic Gone Global”
  • Dani Lustig, doctoral candidate
    College of Natural Sciences; Chemistry
    Project: “United in Discovery: The push for Carbon Neutrality through Collaborative and Interdisciplinary Research”
  • Laura Moore, doctoral candidate
    College of Agricultural Sciences; Soil and Crop Sciences
    Project: “Microbial Architects: Exploring the Microbial Contributions to Mineral-Associated Organic Matter Storage Across Grazing Regimes”
  • Kylie Pearce, doctoral candidate
    College of Natural Sciences; Chemistry
    Project: “Investigating the Permeation of Cryoprotectant Molecules into Plant Cells”
  • Megan Podolinsky, doctoral candidate
    Warner College of Natural Resources; Ecosystem Science and Sustainability
    Project: “Assessing Surface Water Dynamics in Depressional Wetlands of the US High Plains and Beyond”
  • Anjali Tiwari, doctoral candidate
    College of Health and Human Sciences; Health and Exercise Science
    Project: “Fluctuations in Cognitive Processing Speed Predict Vascular Cognitive Impairment After Stroke”