Amarandi Barret is working with Professor Greg McAvoy on a research project entitled “The Role of Race and Income in Community Environmental Protection” Amarandi received an award of $1,500 from the Office of Undergraduate Research, Scholarship, and Creativity Office to work on this project that focuses on a long-standing concern among scholars of environmental policy, the differential impact that environmental risks pose to those living in communities with a high percent of racial minorities or those living in poverty.
Sean Norton has received the Globally Engaged Undergraduate Research and Creativity Award. Sean Norton and faculty mentor Dr. Crowther are currently working on a project titled “Caught Between: Transnistria’s Separatist Conflict the Regional Context.” This project will evaluate the shift in the Transnistrian separatist conflict that has occurred as a consequence of the current crisis in Russian-Ukrainian relations. Transnistria a non-recognized separatist region bordering Ukraine to the east and the Republic of Moldova to the west. It emerged as a consequence of the break-up of the USSR.
Other Awards:
- Political Science Outstanding Student – Mark Parent
- Annie Moring Alexander Scholarship Recipient – Taylor Allen, Jamie Moore, Nicole Moore, Allison Smith,Tyler Strickland
- May Davidson Scholarship Recipients – Kaitlin Ayers, James Bredon, Andrea Pascal, Carlee Taber
