Kansas State University

OURCI selects spring 2022 grant awardees

Submitted by OURCI Office

The Office of Undergraduate Research and Creative Inquiry has awarded OURCI Research/Creative Activity grants for the spring 2022 semester to the following students.

College of Agriculture

• Sara Hene, animal sciences and industry, with faculty mentor Michael Chao.

College of Architecture, Planning & Design

• Kylee Odell, architecture, with faculty mentor Melinda Cro.

College of Arts and Sciences

• Emma Blackwood, fisheries, wildlife and conservation biology, with faculty mentor Alice Boyle.
• Charlotte Bloede, printmaking, with faculty mentor Jason Scuilla.
• Ariana Brancato, strategic communications and Spanish, with faculty mentor Rebecca Bender.
• Christina Funk,  statistics and data science, with faculty mentor Gregory Newmark.
• William Graham, biology and Spanish, with faculty mentor Rebecca Bender.
• Christopher Hartley, psychology, with faculty mentor Laura Brannon.
• Kori Howe, biology, with faculty mentor Loretta Johnson.
• Isabella Hubbell, modern languages and psychology, with faculty mentor Lester Loschky.
• Daniel Hubin, chemistry, with faculty mentor Christopher Aakeroy.
• Durga Jambunathan, psychology, with faculty mentor Donald Saucier.
• Regan Konz, microbiology, with faculty mentor Charles Rice.
• Caleb Kutz, biology and pre-medicine, with faculty mentor Jocelyn McDonald.
• Samira Laytimi, medical biochemistry, with faculty mentor Kathrin Schrick.
• Aidan Nelson, cultural anthropology and creative writing, with faculty mentor Trevor Durbin.
• Udochi Otuonye, chemistry and pre-medicine, with faculty mentor Tendai Gadzikwa.
• Will Sydzyik, biology, with faculty mentor Stephanie Shames.
• Lexe West, psychology; faculty mentor Kimberly Kirkpatrick.
• Nathalie Wright, fisheries, wildlife and conservation biology, with faculty mentor Alice Boyle.

Carl R. Ice College of Engineering

• Nathan Bradley, electrical and computer engineering, with faculty mentor Jungkwun Kim.
• Tegan Brandt, biomedical engineering, with faculty mentor David Thompson.
• Sophia Braynock, biomedical engineering, with faculty mentor Steven Warren.
• Peyton Christian, biomedical engineering, with faculty mentor Steven Warren.
• Bradie Frizzell, biomedical engineering, with faculty mentor Steven Warren.
• Lauren Salee, biomedical engineering, with faculty mentor Steven Warren.
• Cecilia Schmitz, electrical engineering, with faculty mentor David Thompson.
• Kelsey Warren, biomedical engineering, with faculty mentor Laura Brannon.

College of Health and Human Sciences

• Averie Brown, kinesiology, with faculty mentor Katie Heinrich.
• Logan Hurla, kinesiology and integrative physiology, with faculty mentor Thomas Barstow.
• Kendra Marstall, kinesiology, with faculty mentor Gina Besenyi.
• Elizabeth Rogers, kinesiology and integrative physiology, with faculty mentor Katie Heinrich.
• Torian Simpson, kinesiology and integrative physiology; faculty mentor Brad Behnke.

College of Architecture, Planning & Design and College of Arts and Sciences

• Matthew Murphy, architecture and modern languages, with faculty mentor Melinda Cro.

Congratulations to the student awardees. Thank you to the faculty mentors who help support students through their undergraduate research experience.

Application deadlines for the fall 2022 OURCI Research/Creative Activity and Travel/Conference grants will be in October. The Office of Undergraduate Research and Creative Inquiry is committed to supporting all research and creative inquiry experiences. Research and/or creative inquiry is broadly defined to include any faculty-mentored scholarly or creative project or undertaking, whether disciplinary or interdisciplinary, pure or applied, theoretical or practical. All undergraduate students from the Manhattan, Salina and K-State Global campuses in good academic standing and from any major are invited to apply.

Find more information about the Office of Undergraduate Research and Creative Inquiry or the OURCI Research/Creative Inquiry and Travel/Conference grants.