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Various areas
Ronit Gandhi, Emmanuel Lopez, Alexander Muenster, Lexus Root, Michael Sanders, Spencer Schmidt, and Sawyer Smith are among students in the first cohort of STEM CONNECT scholars.
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English
Matt Cohen and Ken Price earned a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities for their project "Walt Whitman Archive Infrastructure Revitalization".
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Center for Great Plains Studies
Mikal Eckstrom and Richard Edwards earned a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities for their project "Staking their Claim: Black Homesteaders and the Promise of Land in the Great Plains".
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Chemistry
Joseph Yesselman's project "Locking HIV-1 RNA Elements into Well-defined Tertiary Structures by Rational Automated Design" received funding from the University of Michigan.
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Computer Science
Marilyn Wolf's project "SHF: Small: System-level Design of Attack-resistant Safety-critical Systems" received funding from the National Science Foundation.
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Sociology
Taylor Bugh, Angelica Guerrero, Olivia Ingle, Ryan Kaufman, Han Bao Le, Jordan Malzer, Lora McGraw, Caleb Nigrin, Carley Peterson, Catherine Raczyk, Daniel Schaefer, Elise Tetrick, Alejandra Vasquez-Gutierrez, and Amy Yanagida were inducted into Alpha Kappa Delta, the international honor society for sociology.
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History
Amy Burnett earned a Guggenheim Fellowship to support work on her research project, The Religious Republic of Letters: Correspondence Networks in Reformation Germany.
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Global studies, political science
Cameron Azimi earned a Boren scholarship for the Eurasian Regional Language Program in Tajikistan to study Persian.
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Global studies, geography
Andrew Neill earned a Boren scholarship for the Flagship Language Initiative to learn Turkish in Azerbaijan.
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Communication studies
Justin Kirk was elected to the National Forensic Association Lincoln-Douglas Debate Committee.
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Communication studies
Jordan Johnson was awarded the Outstanding New Coach Award from the American Forensics Association’s National Speech Tournament.
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Anthropology
Raymond Hames was named to the National Academy of Sciences.
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Sociology
Jolene Smyth will be an associate editor for Public Opinion Quarterly starting July 1.
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Various areas
Jiantao Guo, Omera Matoo, Rupal Mehta, Helen Raikes, Andrzej Rajca, and Wendy Smith received new or additional funding for research projects.
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