2023-2024 ASSURE Fellows
Monica Allen
Psychology and Native American Studies
Mentor: Leola Paquin, PhD
Project: Safeguarding the Wellness and the Journey to Heal Native America
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Logan Ballou
Linguistics
Mentor: Rosa Vallejos, PhD
Project: The interaction between attention and language in the Amazon
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Cameron Mroz
Biology and Chemistry
Mentor: William Garver, PhD
Project: Genotype phenotype analysis of CRISPR Cas-9 modified human haploid fibroblasts for LDL-derived lipids
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Celina Eberle
Biology
Mentor: Lisa Barrow, PhD
Project: Invasion genomics of introduced bullfrogs (Rana catesbeiana) of New Mexico
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Shaleena Flores
International Studies & Economics
Mentor: Matias Fontenla
Project: Nonprofit & NGO Experience with University and 3rd-Party Research Partnerships
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Andrew Gibson
Astrophysics
Mentor: Dinesh Loomba, PhD
Project: Detector Development and Analysis in the Search for the Migdal Effect
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Murphy John
Applied Mathematics and Statistics
Mentor: Yan Lin, PhD
Project: Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever Dynamics in Arizona
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Cheyenne Levy
Speech and Hearing Sciences
Mentor: Phyllis Palmer, PhD
Project: Normative Data on Infant Swallowing
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Francine Lopez
Sociology
Mentor: Noah Painter-Davis, PhD
Project: Communicating Across Political Divides to Improve Public Safety
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Janna Martinez
Environmental Science
Mentor: Becky Bixby, PhD
Project: Effects of Channel Structure and Suspended Sediments in Light Penetration in the Rio Grande
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Aldo Morelli
Mathematics, concentration in pure math
Mentor: Maxim Zinchenko, PhD
Project: Utilizing Analytic Function Theory to Analyze Operator Eigenvalues
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Ashley Olson
Biology
Mentor: Mubarak Hussain Syed, PhD
Project: Effect of post mitotic knockdown of E93 on neuron morphology in Drosophila
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Jennifer Patterson
Environmental Science
Mentor: Adrian Brearley, PhD
Project: Legacy Uranium Contamination from the Jackpile Mine at The Pueblo of Laguna
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Mikayla Ranspot
Earth and Planetary Sciences
Mentor: Seth Newsome, PhD
Project: Using carbon and nitrogen isotope analysis of baleen to examine nutritional stress in gray whales (Eschrichtius robustus) in the northeast Pacific Ocean.
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Benjamin Rodriguez
Earth and Planetary Sciences
Mentor: Karl Karlstrom, PhD
Project: 40Ar/39Ar detrital sanidine geochronology and bedrock incision investigation of paleo-river terraces on the Jemez River at Soda Dam
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John San Nicolas
Religious Studies and Philosophy
Mentor: Richard Wood, PhD and Frank Yates, PhD
Project: On Earth as it is in Heaven: Current Trends and Challenges in Political Theology
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Earth and Planetary Sciences
Mentor: Adrian Brearley, PhD
Project: Uranium & Heavy Metal Content at Red Water Pond Road Community
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Jordyn Suber
International Studies and Linguistics
Mentor: David Prior, PhD
Project: What is a “Reconstruction”?
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Ariadna Torres
Ecology, Evolution, and Organismal Biology
Mentor: Lisa Barrow, PhD
Project: Dynamics of Amphibian Pathogen Detection Using Museum Specimens
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Biology
Mentor: Joe Cook, PhD
Project: Exploring Host-Parasite Co-evolutionary Processes in Central Asian Mammals through DNA Barcoding and Systematic Biology"
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