Provost Undergraduate Research Funds awarded to 26 OHIO students

The Ohio University Provost Undergraduate Research Fund (PURF) award program provided 26 students with a total of $29,353 in funding for their original research, scholarship and creative work during the fall semester.

The Provost Undergraduate Research Fund awards are administered by OHIO's Research Division. Students may request up to $1,500 per proposal.

Provost Undergraduate Research Fund recipients and their proposals

Samuel Coletta Bates (Honors Tutorial College (HTC) Film; mentor: Justin Daering) received $1,500 for Vicarious.

Nivi Chawda (HTC Art + Design; HTC Women, Gender and Sexuality Studies; mentor: Stuart Gair) received $662 for The Spinning Wheel: A symbol of creative resistance and self-liberation of Indian women.

Isabel (Bel) Crawford (Art + Design; mentor: Jonathan Rhea) received $1,500 for Blizzard: An immersive study of Visual Snow Syndrome.

Margaret Edwards (Art + Design; mentor: Melissa Haviland) received $838 for The Land is Timeless.

Ian Fitzgerald (Art + Design; mentor: Stuart Gair) received $508 for Home By Dinner.

Quinn Hanna (Art + Design; mentor: April Felipe) received $1,474 for Pulling Threads.

Elyse Hensley (Environmental and Plant Biology; mentor: Sarah Wyatt) received $1,500 for The Role of KFB in Plant Gravitropism.

Samantha Holdaway (HTC Environmental Studies; mentor: Kelly Johnson) received $628 for Carbon Cycling in a Novel Restored Wetland.

Joshua Irwin (Art + Design; mentor: David LaPalombara) received $1,500 for Comic Caricatures.

Ariel Lee (Biological Sciences; mentor: Darlene Berryman) received $1,500 for Longitudinal Assessment of Frailty and Biomarkers in bGH Transgenic Mice.

Greyson Lelux (Art + Design; mentor: Cassidy Brauner) received $1,010 for Between Frames.

Taylor Orcutt (HTC Journalism; mentor: Victoria LaPoe) received $392 for Press Coverage of Congressional Testimonies by Indiginous Women: A thematic analysis.

Catherine Perez-Strohmeyer (Art + Design; mentor: David LaPalombara) received $771 for A Look In: Chronicling lesbian love.

Sean Pierce (HTC Environmental Studies; mentor: Yeong-Hyun Kim) received $1,500 for The Gentrification Effects of Urban Greening in the East Side of Cleveland.

Ivy Posey (HTC Theater; mentor: Matthew Cornish) received $1,450 for Victor Built a Body: A new, trans play.

Ellie Sabatino (Art + Design; mentor: Jonathan Rhea) received $1,043 for “Really Good Brew” Coffee (RGBCoffee).

Chloe Sampson (Art + Design; mentor: Duane McDiarmid) received $884 for Rewilding.

Emma Sielski (Biomedical Sciences; mentor: Fabian Benencia) received $1,500 for Effects of Type Two Diabetes Mellitus Drugs on Ovarian Cancer Cell Metabolism and Viability.

Addie Smith (Art + Design; mentor: Basil Masri Zada) received $1,240 for Weighted Paths.

Nathan Smith (Environmental and Plant Biology; mentor: Sarah Wyatt) received $1,500 for Sphingomonas sanguinis: Microgravity adaptations and plant growth promoting traits.

Benjamin Stiadle (Biomedical Sciences; mentor: Craig S. Nunemaker) received $1,500 for Evaluating the Effects of Paracrine Hormones on Glucose Sensing in Islets Conditioned to Hyperglycemia.

Margot Swartz (Art + Design; mentor: April Felipe) received $826 for Exploring the Art and Science of Crystalline Pottery.

Zelda Thayer-Hansen (HTC Art + Design; mentor: Kate Hampel) received $1,252 for Frock Logic.

Katherine Tuttle (Art + Design; mentor: Melissa Haviland) received $851 for On My Mind/In My Head.

Kira Walkylchik (Art + Design; mentor: David LaPalombara) received $1,254 for Finding Home.

Mary Winer (Art + Design; mentor: JP Rhea) received $769 for Concords in Creatives.