Summer 2014 Carter Travel Award Recipients

The Herbert E. Carter Travel Award Program was established in honor of Dr. Herbert E. Carter, founding director of the GIDPs and is representative of his spirit and passion for interdisciplinary scholarship and research in higher education. The award provides up to $600 per year to GIDP students at The University of Arizona for domestic or international travel. Competition for these funds was very high and we received many innovative abstracts. The applications and abstracts reviewed by the Graduate Interdisciplinary Programs Advisory Council (GIDPAC) from stellar GIDP students make a strong statement to the significance of interdisciplinary scholarship and research at The University of Arizona.

Daniel Charbonneau, Ph.D. Candidate, Entomology & Insect Science GIDP
Experimental Biology, Cairns, Australia

Why are there “lazy” ants? How worker inactivity can arise
Authors: D. Charbonneau1, N. Hillis2, K. Kierstead2, M. Akorli2, A. Dornhaus2

Michele Hine, Ph.D. Candidate, Applied Mathematics GIDP
World Congress of Biomechanics, Boston, MA

Mixed Porohyperelastic Transport Finite Element Model with Chemically-Driven Growth
Authors: M. Hine, J. Harper, B. Simon, J. Vande Geest

Marja-Liisa Mailend, Ph.D. Candidate, Cognitive Science GIDP Minor
The International Conference on Language Production, Geneva, Swizerland

Phoenetic Similarity effects in masked priming
Authors: Marja‐Liisa Mailend, Edwin Maas, & Kenneth I. Forster

Sarah MacNamee, Ph.D. Candidate, Neuroscience GIDP
Glia in Health and Disease Meeting, Cold Spring Harbor, NY

Fruit flies have non-neuronal brain cells that respond to neuronal signaling
Authors: SE MacNamee, LP Tolbert, LA Oland

Kristen Michelson, Ph. D. Candidate, Second Language Acquisition & Teaching GIDP
AILA World Congress 2014, Brisbane, Australi

Fostering new literacies through global simulation in intermediate French        
Author: Kristen Michelson

Chad L. Yost, Ph.D. Student, Global Change GIDP Minor
9th International Meeting on Phytolith Research, Brussels, Belgium

Investigating the effects of the Mount Toba super-eruption (~75 ka) in East Africa: an integrative approach using phytoliths and other biological and geological proxies.
Authors: Chad L. Yost1, Lily J. Jackson1, Andrew S. Cohen1, Jeffery R. Stone2
1Department of Geosciences, University of Arizona, 2Department of Earth and Environmental Systems, Indiana State University