OHIO students awarded Provost Undergraduate Research Funds

The Ohio University Provost Undergraduate Research Fund (PURF) award program provided 29 students with a total of $36,359 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

• Leo Arkus (Art + Design; mentor: Melissa Haviland) received $1,002 for "The Reclamation Garden."
• Erin Baumann (Art + Design; mentor: Stuart Gair) received $1,369 for "Made to Gather."
• Grace Beidel (Biomedical Sciences; mentor: Fabian Benencia) received $1,500 for "Metformin as a Modulator of Macrophage Responses to Breast Cancer Factors."
• Cleo Bonnell (Art + Design; mentor: Julie Dummermuth) received $1,336 for "Nothing to Worry About."
• Naomi Bowlby (Art + Design; mentor: Tom Bartel) received $1,222 for "Set Your Old Heart Free."
• Grace Brierley (Art + Design; mentor: David LaPalombra) received $1,200 for "Estranged Familiar."
• Sarah Campbell (Sociology & Anthropology; mentor: Matthew Rosen) received $1,500 for "Written by Hyunjin: K-Pop Fandom and Identity Formation."
• Zoe Duncan (Art + Design; mentor: Mary Kate Hurley) received $1,500 for "Crafting Identity: Medievalism in 20th Century Irish Art."
• Genevive Ehmann (Biomedical Sciences; mentor: Craig Nunemaker) received $1,483 for "Histological Immune Cell Analysis Following Type 1 Diabetes Experimental Compound Treatment."
• Maeve Felleroff (Art + Design; mentor: Angela Sprunger) received $1,450 for "Animal."
• Nevada Fish (Art + Design; mentor: Matthew Presutti) received $267 for "Homage to Homemakers."
• Jada Fox (Art + Design; mentor: Stuart Gair) received $1,161 for "Mourning Dove."
• Zeke Fried (Art + Design; mentor: Kate Hampel) received $1,499 for "Streamulacrum: Entities and Archetypes."
• Kennedy Haney (Art + Design; mentor: Stuart Gair) received $954 for "The Womb."
• Anabel Hernandez (Graphic Design; mentor: Sandra Harris) received $605 for "Expansion and Propositions to the LA Metro Rail."
• Kylie Houghton (Art + Design; mentor: Stuart Gair) received $1,189 for "Load."
• Gabrielle Lao (Art + Design; mentor: David LaPalombra) received $1,423 for "Honoring the Vast."
• Alissa Luchianova (Biomedical Sciences; mentor: Fabian Benencia) received $1,500 for "Targeting Retinoic Acid-inducible Gene I (RIG-I) with a Small Molecule as a Novel Therapeutic Strategy for Ovarian Cancer."
• Rheanna Maziarz (Art + Design; mentor: David LaPalombra) received $1,100 for "What We Leave Behind: Rituals of Belonging and Exclusion."
• Kelli McGee (Art + Design; mentor: David LaPalombra) received $1,188 for "Majoring in Motherhood."
• Sullivan Potter (Art + Design; mentor: David LaPalombra) received $1,450 for "Just Another Redneck, Taken by the American Dream."
• Libby Regas (Art + Design; mentor: Melissa Haviland) received $1,200 for "The Impossibility of Experiencing the Same."
• Helen Roche (Art + Design; mentor: Jennie Klein) received $1,336 for "Walking Project."
• Elizabeth Russo (Theater; mentor: David Russell) received $811 for "Frankie's Guide to Casual Folk Magic: An HTC Thesis."
• Elizabeth “Biz” Savitski (Biological Sciences; mentor: Kelly Williams) received $1,500 for "Examining the Relationship between Habitat Structure, Composition, Temperature, and Overwintering Grassland Bird Species."
• Alyssa Sheets (Art + Design; mentor: David LaPalombra) received $1,336 for "Face Values."
• Emma Sielski (Biomedical Sciences; mentor: Fabian Benencia) received $1,500 for "Inflammatory Profile of Mouse Ovarian Cancer Tumors upon Combinatorial Treatment with Metformin and an Oncolytic Virus."
• Madison Timms (Art + Design; mentor: Melissa Haviland) received $1,385 for "Disruptions."
• Julia Zeigler (Art + Design; mentor: Julie Dummermuth) received $1,393 for "Between Forgetting and Becoming."