Fall 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.

Diana Catalina Ardila, M.S. Student, Biomedical Engineering GIDP
Biomedical Engineering Society Annual Conference, San Antonio, TX

CELL PROLIFERATION AND INFILTRATION IN ELECTROSPUN NON-SYNTHETIC BIOPOLYMER-BASED SCAFFOLDS FOR TISSUE ENGINEERING APPLICATIONS
Diana Catalina Ardila1, Ehab Tamimi2,3, Andrea Acuña3, Tom Doetschman4,5, Jonathan Vande Geest1,2,3,4
1Department of Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering, The University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ 85721;2Graduate Interdisciplinary Program in Biomedical Engineering, The University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ 85721; 3Department of Biomedical Engineering, The University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ 85721; 4BIO5 Institute for Biocollaborative Research, The University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ 85721,5Department of Cellular and Molecular Medicine, The University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ 85724.

Cathy Carbonell, Ph.D. Candidate, Cognitive Science GIDP Minor
Psychonomics Society 55th Annual Meeting. Long Beach, CA

Individual Differences in the Adaptive Use of Auditory Information
Authors: Kathy “Nico” Carbonell & Andrew J. Lotto

Jessica R. Gamboa, Ph.D. Candidate, Biomedical Engineering GIDP
Biomedical Engineering Society 2014 Annual Meeting, San Antonio, TX

Physiological Characterization of the Total Artificial Heart
Presenting Author: Jessica R. Gamboa

Vishwas Gowda,Ph.D. Candidate, Entomology & Insect Science GIDP
Entomological Society of America 62nd Annual Meeting. Portland, OR

Comparative analysis of brain and brain component size in different honeybee species
Authors: Vishwas Gowda1, and Wulfila Gronenberg2
1 Graduate Interdisciplinary Program in Entomology and Insect Science, Department of Entomology and Insect Science, University of Arizona, Tucson AZ 85721, USA
2 Department of Neuroscience, University of Arizona, Tucson AZ 85721, USA

Gareth (Gary) Trubl, Ph.D. Student, Global Change GIDP Minor
American Geophysical Union (AGU), San Francisco, C

Exploring Viral Mediated Carbon Cycling in Thawing Permafrost Mocrobial Communities
Authors: Gareth Trubl, Natalie Solonenko, Mario Moreno, Matthew B. Sullivan, & Virginia I. Rich

Michael Valdez, Ph.D. Candidate, Biomedical Engineering GIDP
Biomedical Engineering Society 2014 Annual Conference, San Antonio, TX

 

Enhanced Delivery and Imaging of Neurotherapeutics via US, MRI, SPECT and Acoustically Activated
Authors: Michael Valdez, Eriko Yoshimaru, Shelby Yuan, Amanda Halawani, Pier Ingram, Terry Matsunaga,Russell Witte, Lars Furenlid, Ted Trouard

Gabriella Wolff, Ph.D. Student, Neuoroscience GIDP
Society for Neuroscience Annual Meeting, Washington, DC