Winter 2019 Mini-grant Recipients
UROP is pleased to announce the recipients of the winter 2019 Mini-grant Awards. For more information about the recipients and their projects visit the Mini-grant website.
Elizabeth Baach
Major: Environmental Science Faculty Mentor: Lauren Hallett
Project Title: Nitrogen Composition in Native and Invasive Plants in Relation to Ant Mounds in Serpentine Grasslands
Payton Bruni
Major: Journalism Faculty Mentor: Peter Laufer
Project Title: Press Freedom in Oman
Adie Fecker
Major: Biology Faculty Mentor: Phillip Washbourne
Project Title: Sensory Conditions Important for Social Orienting in Zebrafish
Takako Iwashita
Major: Psychology Faculty Mentor: Dasa Zeithamova Demircan
Project Title: How the Effects of Negative Emotions on Associative Memory Change Over Time
Bry Moore
Major: Political Science Faculty Mentor: Dan Tichenor
Project Title: Seeking Insite: Harm Reduction and Humanizing Drug Use
Calvin Penkauskas
Major: Biology and Environmental Science Faculty Mentor: Lauren Hallett
Project Title: Resolving conflict between oak conservation and organic hazelnut production
Jaycie Schenone
Major: Journalism Faculty Mentor: Ed Madison
Project Title: Out of Bounds
Michael Silver
Major: Finance Faculty Mentor: Kate Harmon
Project Title: Social Isolation: Which aspects of Social Media are at Fault?
Kayla Thomet
Major: Public Relations Faculty Mentor: Dean Mundy
Project Title: Communicating Change: A study of current and proposed communication strategies for prompting individual behavior towards ocean conservation
Sierra Webster
Major: Journalism Faculty Mentor: Lori Shontz
Project Title: Sports Media and the Seattle Storm