帝王会所

帝王会所 has announced the awardees for the 2024/25 帝王会所 Research Committee (OURC)/Baker Fund spring cycle.

The OURC/Baker Fund program provides support for research, scholarship and creative activity at 帝王会所. 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
  鈥淩econstructing Regeneration and Recruitment Patterns in Oak and Hickory- A Dendrochronological Approach鈥�
  Amount Funded: $4,381
• Patrick O鈥機onnor, Biomedical Sciences, Heritage College of Osteopathic Medicine
  鈥淩escuing Late Cretaceous Fossils in the Western Desert of Egypt鈥�
  Amount Funded: $12,125
• Smoki Musaraj, Sociology and Anthropology, College of Arts and Sciences
  鈥淢editerranean Dreaming: Tourism Massification and Urban Transformation in Maritime Cities鈥�
  Amount Funded: $15,000
• Sarah Wyatt, Environmental and Plant Biology, College of Arts and Sciences
  鈥淧lant Gravity Perception (Reexamining the Starch-Statolith Hypothesis)鈥�
  Amount Funded: $12,660
• Steven Evans, Psychology, College of Arts and Sciences
  鈥淏ridging Science & Practice in Schools: Integrating Beacon and DRCO鈥�
  Amount Funded: $15,000
• Cassidy Brauner, Art + Design, Chaddock + Morrow College of Fine Arts
  鈥淟ooking Up, Looking Back: Relationships with Photography, Outer Space and Humanity鈥�
  Amount Funded: $15,000
• Nikolaos Panagopoulos, Marketing, College of Business
  鈥淒oes Sales Matter to Wall Street?鈥�
  Amount Funded: $14,380
• Timothy Anderson, Geography, College of Arts and Sciences
  鈥淚mmigrant Entrepreneurs: The Flusche Brothers and Organized German Catholic Settlement in the United States, 1872-1930鈥�
  Amount Funded: $10,054
• Daniel Karney, Economics, College of Arts and Sciences
  鈥淭he Effects of Air Pollution on Graft Failure and Transplant Recipient Mortality鈥�
  Amount Funded: $4,350
• Paschal Younge and Vladimir Marchenkov, Music and Interdisciplinary Arts, Chaddock + Morrow College of Fine Arts
  鈥淕hanaian Music Mythology Collection鈥�
  Amount Funded: $15,000