CONWAY, Ark. (March 20, 2017) –
Hendrix College awarded $134.062.66 in Odyssey grants to 40 hands-on learning projects
As of February 2017, the
Committee on Engaged Learning has awarded $3,657.974.57 in Odyssey grants to
Hendrix students and faculty since the Odyssey Program’s inception in 2005.
Read the full project
descriptions here.
February 2017 Odyssey grant recipients & their projects
include:
- Lyle Alford – A Journey
of Faith and Service in Lourdes (Special Projects)
- Iad Alhallak and Alexis
Krone –A Kinetic Analysis of the Formation of Supported Lipid Bilayers through
Variation in Salt and Lipid Concentration (Undergraduate Research)
- Roshaneh Ali – New
Beginnings: Working with the International Rescue Committee (Service to the
World)
- Braxton Anderson – Characterizing
the Tumor Microenvironment of Thyroid Cancer Using DropSeq (Undergraduate
Research)
- Kathryn Bolt – Dance
Therapy at Eastern State Hospital (Professional & Leadership Development)
- Leah Crenshaw – College
Staffer at Ozark Mission Project (Service to the World)
- Grace Featherston – Understanding
Our Planet One Aerosol at a Time: Quantification of Biomass Burning Aerosols (Undergraduate
Research)
- Jessica Frazier-Emerson –Ozark
Mission Project (Service to the World)
- Logan French – Investigating
the Genomes of Two Oral Disease Causing Viruses: Human Herpesvirus and
Coxcackievirus (Undergraduate Research)
- Emma Gaither – Don't stop
the Bee-at: The Effect of Noise Interference on Waggle Dance Communication (Undergraduate
Research)
- Hagan Griffith – The
Experience of a Lifetime: Costa Rica Style (Special Projects)
- Geneva Hill – Volunteering
for Italy's Sex Trafficked and Homeless (Service to the World)
- Callahan Hirrel – Development
and Implementation of a Functional Programming Language for Teaching Discrete
Mathematics Courses (Undergraduate Research)
- Anna Holmes – Development
of CARDSTOCK, a Card Game Simulation Engine (Undergraduate Research)
- Jessica Hunter – Analysis
of Contortrostatin in Copperhead (Agkistrodon contortrix) venom (Undergraduate
Research)
- Jacob Idec – Computational
Myrmecology: Using Agent-Based Modeling and Custom Video Analysis to
Investigate Division of Labor in the Ant Pheidole dentate (Undergraduate
Research)
- Ian Jenkins – Investigating
Molecular Mechanism of Thyroid Cancer Using Novel Cellular Models (Undergraduate
Research)
-
Jonathan Jenkins – Oh,
The Places You'll Go with Science! Education at the Burn Camp (Special Projects & Service to the World)
- Michael Kramer – Nano-Engineering:
Design and Synthesis of an Effective Molecular Receptor for Fullerenes (Undergraduate
Research)
- Erika Levy –Behavioral
Compensation, Long-term Behavioral Plasticity, and Neuroanatomical Remodeling
in Majors of the Ant Pheidole dentate (Undergraduate Research)
- Justin Lockhart – All
Tangled Up: Alzheimer's Research with the University of Texas (Professional
& Leadership Development)
- Amber Melcher and Ploy
Freebairn – Behavioral Studies in the Locomotion of Caenorhabditis elegans (Undergraduate
Research)
- Kathleen Mowery and
Delaney Wells – Understanding Rwanda: Culture, Education, Development (Global
Awareness)
- Bosco Ndemeye – A
Bidirectional Programming Environment for Creating and Editing Vector Graphics (Undergraduate
Research)
- Alexis Pace – Dominican
Republic (Global Awareness)
- Eugene Pegues – Development
of a Reusable Colorimetric Surface Tethered Polydiacetylene (Undergraduate
Research)
- Lauren Petrisin – Cape Town:
Leadership, Service and Culture (Special Projects)
- Heather Prowse – A Unique
Perspective: How CDC Controls Tuberculosis (Special Projects)
- Lexus Raney – Foraging
for Drugs: A Novel Model of Drug Addiction in Animals (Undergraduate Research)
- Reynol Rodriquez and
Sierra Hubbard – Insect Biodiversity in Sky Islands of Arkansas (Undergraduate
Research)
- Mary Rose Siebenmorgen – Rediscovering
My Family's European Roots (Global Awareness)
- Bridget Umble – Team Eire
and the Women's Lacrosse World Games (Special Projects)
- Garrett Wolf – Internship
at Faulkner County Juvenile Court System (Professional & Leadership
Development)
- Margaret Young – Identity
and Gender in the Scottish Highland Games (Global Awareness)
- Benjamin Zamzow and Sarah
Neiman – Internship: Children's Eternal Rainforest (Professional &
Leadership Development)
- Dr. Julie Gunderson – Design
and Construction of a Fluorescence Microscope (Undergraduate Research)
-
Dr. David Hales – Proline
Under the Influence: The Effect of Neighboring Amino Acids on the
Conformational Flexibility of Proline (Undergraduate Research)
- Dr. Michael Miyawaki – What
is Your Race? Examining Part-Latino Racial Identity (Undergraduate Research)
- Dr. Damon Spayde – Experimental
Nuclear Physics at Hendrix College (Undergraduate Research)
About Hendrix College
Hendrix College is a private
liberal arts college in Conway, Arkansas. Founded in 1876 and affiliated with
the United Methodist Church since 1884, Hendrix is featured in Colleges That Change Lives:
40 Schools That Will Change the Way You Think about Colleges and is nationally recognized in numerous college guides,
lists, and rankings for academic quality, community, innovation, and value. For
more information, visit www.hendrix.edu.