Twenty-two students in numerous Graduate Interdisciplinary Programs (GIDPs) were awarded the Herbert E. Carter travel award this Spring 2025. These students will travel to conferences across the country and to other parts of the world between February and May 2025 to present their cutting-edge, highly relevant research. Their dedication and drive to tackle real-world problems gives us hope to address the grand challenges we face.
Below are the Spring 2025 awardees, their respective GIDPs, and the conferences where they will present their research:
Anni Peng, Applied Intercultural Arts Research (AIAR GIDP), 2025 Desert Skies Symposium for Research in Music Learning and Teaching, Phoenix, Arizona
Ateh Zinkeng, Cancer Biology (CBIO GIDP), Digestive Disease Week, San Diego, California
Crystal Morales, Cancer Biology (CBIO GIDP), American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Chicago, Illinois
Dilan Erteber, American Indian Studies (AIS GIDP), 12th World Congress of the International American Studies Association, Turkey
Dilara Avci, Second Language Acquisition & Teaching (SLAT GIDP), American Association for Applied Linguistics Annual Conference, Denver, Colorado
Ergul Susamci, Genetics (GENE GIDP), 66th Annual Drosophila Research Conference, San Diego, California
Gabby Wen Zhiyu, Applied Intercultural Arts Research (AIAR GIDP), Ohio University Global Arts International Symposium, Athens, Ohio
Gia Del Pino, Social, Cultural & Critical Theory (SCCT GIDP), Imagined Futures Conference, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Giulia Negretto, Second Language Acquisition & Teaching (SLAT GIDP), American Association for Applied Linguistics, Denver, Colorado
Hongni Gou, Second Language Acquisition & Teaching (SLAT GIDP), American Association for Applied Linguistics, Denver, Colorado
Jiayi Wang, Applied Intercultural Arts Research (AIAR GIDP), 2025 Desert Skies Symposium for Research in Music Learning and Teaching, Phoenix, Arizona
Kate Shea, Second Language Acquisition & Teaching (SLAT GIDP), American Association of Applied Linguistics, Denver, Colorado
Keila Espinoza, Physiological Sciences (PS GIDP), FEBS Special Meeting on Sphingolipid Biology: Breaking Boundaries, and the 13th International Ceramide Conference, Varna, Bulgaria
Lenee Shrestha, Physiological Sciences (PS GIDP), American Physiological Society, Baltimore, Maryland
Mourad Abdennebi, Second Language Acquisition & Teaching (SLAT GIDP), American Association for Applied Linguistics, Denver, Colorado
Mukaddes Coban Postaci, Second Language Acquisition & Teaching (SLAT GIDP), American Association for Applied Linguistics, Denver, Colorado
Onur Ural Burns, Second Language Acquisition & Teaching (SLAT GIDP), American Association for Applied Linguistics, Denver, Colorado
Sara Matsumura, Second Language Acquisition & Teaching (SLAT GIDP), American Association for Applied Linguistics, Denver, Colorado
Taylor Doherty, Social, Cultural, & Critical Theory (SCCT GIDP), Latin American Studies Association, San Francisco, California
Uloma Beauty Elvis-Offiah, Cancer Biology (CBIO GIDP), American Association for Cancer Research Annual Meeting, Chicago, Illinois
Wei Xu, Second Language Acquisition & Teaching (SLAT GIDP), Conference on College Composition and Communication, Baltimore, Maryland
Yulia Mikheeva, Second Language Acquisition & Teaching (SLAT GIDP), 28th Annual Conference of the National Council of Less Commonly Taught Languages, Chicago, Illinois