2019 VPRI Undergraduate Fellowship Recipients
UROP is pleased to announce the recipients of the 2019 VPRI Undergraduate Fellowship. For more information about the program visit the VPRI Fellowship website.
Kayla Walker
Major: Linguistics
Faculty Mentor: Melissa Baese-Berk
Project Title: The Role of Semantic Predictability in Adaptation to Non-Native Speech
Abbey Ward
Major: Communication Disorders and Sciences
Faculty Mentor: Stephanie De Anda
Project Title: Language Dominance in Bilingual Spanish-English Children
Arden Saravis
Major: International Studies & Mathematics
Faculty Mentor: Clare Evans
Project Title: The Correlation Between Stigma Stemming from HIV and Antiretroviral Packaging: Design Recommendations for Introducing Discrete Packaging for Adolescents in Kenya
Konrad Bailey
Major: Psychology
Faculty Mentor: Santiago Jaramillo
Project Title: Neural and behavioral assays for studying predictive coding in the mouse brain
Byron Lee
Major: Human Physiology and Biology
Faculty Mentor: Ashley Walker
Project Title: Robo4 Project
Jacob Evarts
Major: Computer and Information Science
Faculty Mentor: David Garcia
Project Title: Identifying New RNA-regulating Prions in Yeast
Anna Kulawiec
Major: Biology
Faculty Mentor: Eric Selker
Project Title: Differentiation between PRC2 and H3K27 Methylation in Repression
Nora Kearns
Major: Human Physiology
Faculty Mentor: Elinor Sullivan
Project Title: The Influence of Maternal Fatty Acids and in Utero Inflammation on Child Behavior
Dagny Daniel
Major: Cultural Anthropology
Faculty Mentor: Ana-Maurine Lara
Project Title:Navigating the Intersections of Political and Sexual Identity: Ethnographic Interviews among Queer Muslims in Oregon
Sabrina Raqueno-Angel
Major: Human Physiology
Faculty Mentor: John Halliwill
Project Title: The Effect of pH on Histamine Release
George Deardorff
Major: Biology
Faculty Mentor: Scott Stewart
Project Title: Characterizing the role of Dach during bony ray branching in the zebrafish caudal fin skeleton
Hayli Brown
Major: Linguistics, Japanese
Faculty Mentor: Kaori Idemaru
Project Title: Acoustic Sources of Accent in Second Language Japanese Speech
Kara Krnacik
Major: Economics
Faculty Mentor: Edward Rubin and Melissa Graboyes
Project Title: The Effects of Abstinence-Only Funding on Teen Pregnancy and STD Rates
Adeline Fecker
Major: Biology
Faculty Mentor: Philip Washbourne
Project Title:The Influence of Sensory Systems in Social Behavior of Zebrafish
Nolan Rudolph
Major: Computer Science
Faculty Mentor: Ramakrishnan Durairajan
Project Title: New Capabilities for Self-Driving Networks
Chaney Hart
Major: Biology
Faculty Mentor: Eric Selker
Project Title: Dissecting The Role Cohesin Plays in Influencing the Structure of the Genome in Neurospora crassa