Carter Travel Award Recipients

Below are recipients of the Carter Travel Award for Fiscal Year 2025 Sessions 1, 2, and 3, for a total of 50 awards worth nearly $30,000. To learn more about the recipients and their research, visit the links below:

Session 3 (travel between May-September 2025)

• Anh Dang, Second Language Acquisition & Teaching (SLAT GIDP), International Writing Across the Curriculum Conference, July 16-19, 202
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• Bernard Cassie, SLAT GIDP, Computer Assisted Language Instruction Consortium, May 27-31, 2025
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• Brian Toner, Applied Mathematics GIDP, International Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine (ISMRM) 2025 Meeting, May 10-15, 2025
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• Britnee Johnston, American Indian Studies (AIS GIDP), 2025 Freedom and Justice Summer Conference, July 31-August 2, 2025
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• Danielle DiFranco, Cancer Biology, (CBIO GIDP), The Protein Society Annual Symposium 2025, June 25-29, 2025
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• Helena Escalera, SLAT GIDP, 6th Phonetics and Phonology in Europe, June 26-27, 2025
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• Issam Rian, SLAT GIDP, Computer Assisted Language Instruction Consortium, May 27-31, 2025
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• Jeaho Lim, Genetics GIDP, Cold Spring Harbor Meeting: Mechanisms of Metabolic Signaling, May 13-17, 2025
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• Jean Dill, Neuroscience GIDP, Int'l Motoneuron Society Conference 2025, July 8-11, 2025
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• Jiayi Wang, Applied Intercultural Arts Research (AIAR GIDP), International Society for the Philosophy of Music, June 2-7, 2025
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• Kayla Miller, CBIO GIDP, American Aging Association, May 11-14, 2025
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• Lincoln Bain IV, SLAT GIDP, American Association of Teachers of Spanish and Portuguese (AATSP), June 26-29, 2025
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• Nena Choi, SLAT GIDP, Second Language Research Forum, September 25-28, 2025
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• Pablo Aran, Ecosystem Genomics GIDP, Ecological Society of America, 110th Annual Meeting, August 8-15, 2025
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• Sajedeh Hosseini, Roshan GIDP, Tenth Biennial Convention of the Association for the Study of Persianate, August 12-16, 2025
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• Sheila Whitman, Applied Mathematics GIDP, 3rd World Congress on Artificial Intelligence in Materials and Manufacturing, June 15-19, 2025
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• Sijia Liao, Statistics & Data Science GIDP, 2025 Joint Statistics Meetings, August 2-7, 2025
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• Talitha Neesham-McTiernan, Global Change GIDP, AgriVoltaics World Conference 2025, July 1-3, 2025
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• Woody March-Steinman, Applied Math GIDP, National Institute for Theory and Mathematics in Biology MathBio Convergence Conference, August 11-14, 2025
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Session 2 (travel between February-May 2025)

• Anni Peng, Applied Intercultural Arts Research (AIAR GIDP), 2025 Desert Skies Symposium for Research in Music Learning and Teaching, Phoenix, AZ
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• Ateh Zinkeng, Cancer Biology (CBIO GIDP), Digestive Disease Week, San Diego, CA
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• Crystal Morales, Cancer Biology (CBIO GIDP), American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Chicago, IL
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• Dilan Erteber, American Indian Studies (AIS GIDP), 12th World Congress of the International American Studies Association, Ankara, Turkey
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• Dilara Avci, Second Language Acquisition & Teaching (SLAT GIDP), American Association for Applied Linguistics Annual Conference, Denver, CO
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• Ergul Susamci, Genetics (GENE GIDP), 66th Annual Drosophila Research Conference, San Diego, CA
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• Gabby Wen Zhiyu, Applied Intercultural Arts Research (AIAR GIDP), Ohio University Global Arts International Symposium, Athens, Ohio
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• Gia Del Pino, Social, Cultural & Critical Theory (SCCT GIDP), Imagined Futures Conference, Philadelphia, PA
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• Giulia Negretto, Second Language Acquisition & Teaching (SLAT GIDP), American Association for Applied Linguistics, Denver, CO
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• Hongni Gou, Second Language Acquisition & Teaching (SLAT GIDP), American Association for Applied Linguistics, Denver, CO
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• Jiayi Wang, Applied Intercultural Arts Research (AIAR GIDP), 2025 Desert Skies Symposium for Research in Music Learning and Teaching, Phoenix, AZ
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• Kate Shea, Second Language Acquisition & Teaching (SLAT GIDP), American Association of Applied Linguistics, Denver, CO
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• Keila Espinoza, Physiological Sciences (PS GIDP), FEBS Special Meeting on Sphingolipid Biology: Breaking Boundaries, and the 13th International Ceramide Conference, Varna, Bulgaria
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• Lenee Shrestha, Physiological Sciences (PS GIDP), American Physiological Society, Baltimore, MD
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• Mourad Abdennebi, Second Language Acquisition & Teaching (SLAT GIDP), American Association for Applied Linguistics, Denver, CO
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• Mukaddes Coban Postaci, Second Language Acquisition & Teaching (SLAT GIDP), American Association for Applied Linguistics, Denver, CO
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• Onur Ural Burns, Second Language Acquisition & Teaching (SLAT GIDP), American Association for Applied Linguistics, Denver, CO
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• Sara Matsumura, Second Language Acquisition & Teaching (SLAT GIDP), American Association for Applied Linguistics, Denver, CO
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• Taylor Doherty, Social, Cultural, & Critical Theory (SCCT GIDP), Latin American Studies Association, San Francisco, CA
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• Uloma Beauty Elvis-Offiah, Cancer Biology (CBIO GIDP), American Association for Cancer Research Annual Meeting, Chicago, IL
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• Wei Xu, Second Language Acquisition & Teaching (SLAT GIDP), Conference on College Composition and Communication, Baltimore, MD
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• Yulia Mikheeva, Second Language Acquisition & Teaching (SLAT GIDP), 28th Annual Conference of the National Council of Less Commonly Taught Languages, Chicago, IL
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Session 1 (travel between October and December 2024)

• Charles Bradley - Entomology & Insect Science (EIS) - Phoenix, AZ
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• Asya Gorlova - Second Language Acquisition & Teaching (SLAT) - Philadelphia, PA
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• Angus Leydic - Second Language Acquisition & Teaching (SLAT) - Philadelphia, PA
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• Cody Melcher - Statistics & Data Science (SDS) - Seattle, WA
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• Kelsy Nilles - Neuroscience - Chicago, IL
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• Adrian Pena - Neuroscience - Chicago, IL
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• Pin-Ru Su - Social, Cultural & Critical Theory (SCCT) - Minneapolis, MN
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• Marium Yousuf - Applied Mathematics - Chicago, IL
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• Jing Xia - Applied Intercultural Arts Research (AIAR) - Houston, TX
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Below are all recipients of the Carter Travel Award for FY 22-23. To learn more about the recipients, their travel, and their research, visit the links below:

Session 1

• Davide Bergamaschi - Entomology & Insect Science GIDP
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• Nicole Crevar - Social, Cultural, & Critical Theory GIDP
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• Gitanjali (Gita) Gnandesikan - Cognitive Science GIDP
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• Savanna Weninger - Physiological Sciences GIDP
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• David Williams - Cancer Biology GIDP
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• Zihan Zhu - Statistics & Data Science GIDP
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Session 2

• Sydney Beckmann - American Indian Studies GIDP
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• Jake Dean - Social, Cultural, & Critical Theory GIDP
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• Caleb Dewey - Cognitive Science GIDP
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• Fatima Jebahi - Cognitive Science GIDP
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• Abigail Schwarz - Neuroscience GIDP
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• Susana Sepulveda - Social, Cultural, & Critical Theory GIDP
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• Reva Mariah ShieldChief - American Indian Studies GIDP
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• Yunjia Yang - Applied Intercultural Arts Research GIDP
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Session 3

• Dilan Erteber - American Indian Studies GIDP
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• Federico Fabbri - Second Language Acquisition & Teaching GIDP
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• Rachel Floyd - Second Language Acquisition & Teaching GIDP
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• Analeigh Horton - Second Language Acquisition & Teaching GIDP
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• Giulia Negretto - Second Language Acquisition & Teaching GIDP
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• Marie Tanaka - Social, Cultural, & Critical Theory GIDP
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• Wei Xu - Second Language Acquisition & Teaching GIDP
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Session 4

• Kathryn Kennedy - Physiological Sciences GIDP
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• Nicholas Molinary - Social, Cultural, & Critical Theory GIDP
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• Felipe Polk - Physiological Science GIDP
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• Brian Toner - Applied Mathematics GIDP
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Archive Recipients (Fall 2005 - Fall 2019)