51ĀŅĀ×

51ĀŅĀ× has announced the awardees for the 2024/25 51ĀŅĀ× Research Committee (OURC)/Baker Fund spring cycle.

The OURC/Baker Fund program provides support for research, scholarship and creative activity at 51ĀŅĀ×. The program supports projects that range in scope from initial stages to those that are near completion, with funding requests of up to $15,000.

Funding for this program is provided by the Office of the Vice President for Research and Creative Activity and an endowment from 1926 College of Arts and Sciences graduate Edwin L. Kennedy and his wife, Ruth, a 1930 graduate of the Patton College of Education.

The OURC/Baker Fund received a total of 28 proposals for a total funding request of $365,965. The committee selected 11 recipients for the spring cycle, totaling $128,749 in funding.

OURC/Baker Fund Awardees and their projects

• Rebecca Snell, Environmental and Plant Biology, College of Arts and Sciences
  ā€œReconstructing Regeneration and Recruitment Patterns in Oak and Hickory- A Dendrochronological Approachā€
  Amount Funded: $4,381
• Patrick Oā€™Connor, Biomedical Sciences, Heritage College of Osteopathic Medicine
  ā€œRescuing Late Cretaceous Fossils in the Western Desert of Egyptā€
  Amount Funded: $12,125
• Smoki Musaraj, Sociology and Anthropology, College of Arts and Sciences
  ā€œMediterranean Dreaming: Tourism Massification and Urban Transformation in Maritime Citiesā€
  Amount Funded: $15,000
• Sarah Wyatt, Environmental and Plant Biology, College of Arts and Sciences
  ā€œPlant Gravity Perception (Reexamining the Starch-Statolith Hypothesis)ā€
  Amount Funded: $12,660
• Steven Evans, Psychology, College of Arts and Sciences
  ā€œBridging Science & Practice in Schools: Integrating Beacon and DRCOā€
  Amount Funded: $15,000
• Cassidy Brauner, Art + Design, Chaddock + Morrow College of Fine Arts
  ā€œLooking Up, Looking Back: Relationships with Photography, Outer Space and Humanityā€™
  Amount Funded: $15,000
• Nikolaos Panagopoulos, Marketing, College of Business
  ā€œDoes Sales Matter to Wall Street?ā€
  Amount Funded: $14,380
• Timothy Anderson, Geography, College of Arts and Sciences
  ā€œImmigrant Entrepreneurs: The Flusche Brothers and Organized German Catholic Settlement in the United States, 1872-1930ā€
  Amount Funded: $10,054
• Daniel Karney and Bethany Lemont, Economics, College of Arts and Sciences
  ā€œThe Effects of Air Pollution on Graft Failure and Transplant Recipient Mortalityā€
  Amount Funded: $4,350
• Paschal Younge and Vladimir Marchenkov, Music and Interdisciplinary Arts, Chaddock + Morrow College of Fine Arts
  ā€œGhanaian Music Mythology Collectionā€
  Amount Funded: $15,000