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    ISF Provides funds to over 20 Students for travel, conferences and small research grants

    May 17, 2023

    The Institute for a Sustainable Future is pleased to announce the recipients of the Spring 2023 ISF travel and research grants.  Recipients were chosen based on the quality of their research and alignment to the mission of ISF.  Purdue’s Institute for a Sustainable Future promotes collaborative research that advances understanding of persistent global sustainability challenges as outlined in the UN Sustainable Development Goals. 

     

    In total, ISF awarded travel and research grants to 23 graduate students, providing approximately $16,000 in support to Purdue graduate students presenting at major conferences in their fields and/or to subsidize cost of conducting research related to sustainability.  The range of topics varied widely from predicting storm surge hydrodynamics to an analysis of the U.S. salad mixes market environmental footprint to pipeline integrity management through machine learning based modeling. A full list of the awardees, their advisors, departments and research titles are listed below. 

     

    ISF expects to reopen this opportunity in Fall 2023. Students of faculty currently involved with the institute receive priority consideration.  To learn more about the Institute, review our website here. To become an affiliate, apply here.

     

    Student

    ISF Faculty Mentor

    Program

    Presentation/project title

    Mohammad Ahmadi Gharehtoragh

    David Johnson

    Industrial Engineering

    Surrogate models to predict storm surge hydrodynamics over evolving landscapes and climate forcings

    Erangi Heenkenda

    Andrew DeWoody

    FNR

    Cryptic and rapid speciation due to isolation and drift in an endangered pupfish

    Les Warren

    Tomas Hook

    Forestry and Natural Resources

    Isotopic analysis of alewife, Alosa pseudoharengus, otoliths to determine early life habitat utilization and growth in Lake Michigan

    Utkuhan Genc

    David Johnson

    School of Industrial Engineering

    A System Dynamics Model for Simulating Rebound Effects Induced by Energy Savings with Re-spending Scenarios

    Abhimanyu Raj Shekhar

    Shweta Singh

    Agricultural & Biological Engineering

    Reverse logistics of critical elements derived from electric vehicle lithium-ion batteries

    Seho Kim

    James Garrison

    Aeronautics and Astronautics

    Satellite Constellation Design Of Multi-Frequency Soop-R Missions For Land Remote Sensing

    Alex Fields

    Tomas Hook

    Forestry and Natural Resources

    Spatially and temporally heterogeneous trends in chlorophyll-a in Lake Superior from 2014-2018

    Maria Camila Ulloa

    Ariana Torres

    Horticulture and Landscape Architecture

    Characterizing The U.S. Salad Mixes Market Environmental Footprint Claims

    Andrew Mularo

    Ximena Bernal & Andrew DeWoody

    Biological Sciences

    Selection on hearing modulates taxon diversification within a putative species complex

    Kathryn Dix

    Zhao Ma

    Forestry and Natural Resources

    Building or Burning Bridges: Collaboration across Knowledge systems and Wildfire Management in the Bolivian lowlands

    Kenneth Burnell

    Ellen Wells

    Occupational & Environmental Health- HHS

    Evaluating Exposure Hazards in Historical Collections and Museum Environment

    Kendrick Hardaway

    Hua Cai

    Environmental & Ecological Engineering

    1) Assessment of Environmental Impacts for Autonomous Vehicle Data Management; 2) Environmental Impacts of Residential Relocation in the Autonomous Vehicle Era

    Vasisht Varsh Sridhar

    Jennifer Freeman

    Health Sciences (Toxicology)

    Understanding The Toxicological Profiles Of Dicamba And Glyphosate To Evaluate The Effect Of Roundup Xtend On Zebrafish (Danio Rerio) Embryo-Larval Model.

    Hongbo Lu

    Nusrat Jung

    Civil Engineering

    Real-Time TVOC Monitoring with a Photoionization Detector and a Proton Transfer Reaction Mass Spectrometer During Building Disinfection Events

    Jeon, Jong Yoon

    Andrew DeWoody

    Department of Forestry and Natural Resources

    The use of genomic diversity as a key conservation metric: an example using mammalian whole-genome resequencing data

    Satya Sundar Patra

    Brandon Boor

    Civil Engineering

    New Insights on Indoor New Particle Formation in Residential Buildings

    Sydney Stradtman

    Jennifer Freeman

    Health Sciences

    The kisspeptin system in the developing zebrafish and differential gene alterations following two exposure periods to the agricultural herbicide atrazine

    Jordan Cross

    Brandon Boor & Nusrat Jung

    EEE

    Coupling an Olfaction Chamber with Proton Transfer Reaction Mass Spectrometry for Evaluating Human Response to Scented Product Emissions

    Katherine Pivaral

    Linda Prokopy

    Horticulture and Landscape Architecture

    Emerging markets for diversifying agriculture: Case studies in the U.S. Corn Belt

    Kayla Young

    Leigh Raymond

    Political Science, Ecological Sciences and Engineering (ESE)

    Ain’t no power like the power of the youth? The effect of youth climate activists on public opinion and policy preferences about climate change

    Xiaoyue Zhang

    Chengcheng Tao

    School of Construction Management

    Machine learning-based risk model for pipeline integrity management

    Junyi Duan

    Chengcheng Tao

    Construction Management Technology

    Computational investigation of the flood impact on bridge infrastructures in the Great Lakes region

    Isabelle Staph

    Stuart Carton

    Forestry of Natural Resources

    Public participation in restoration, remediation, and revitalization framework in the Grand Calumet River Area of Concern

     

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