Student Profiles

Carolyn “Carrie” Drake, a PhD student in Professor Runnoe’s group, was awarded a three-year NASA FINESST graduate research fellowship for her project titled “Foundations of LISA EM Follow-up Strategies.” Congratulations Carolyn!… Read More

Adam Cummings, a PhD student in Professor Haglund’s group, has received funding from a recently approved NSF EAGER grant for his proposed research on the dynamical Casimir effect. Congratulations  Adam!… Read More

Jackson Bentley, a PhD student in Professor Haglund’s group, has received a graduate fellowship from the Department of Energy for 2024-2025. He will conduct his dissertation research on strongly correlated materials as photovoltaics at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory. Congratulations Jackson!… Read More

Eugenia Zavaleta, a 6th-year Anthropology student, took part in the Latin American Studies Association conference at the Pontificia Universidad Javeriana in Bogota, Colombia. She participated in the panel titled “Reparations, Resistance, and Reimagining Just Futures in the Americas” and presented a paper titled “Living in Denial and Invalidation: The… Read More

Third-year Anthropology student Hannah Thorpe’s book review is now in the Journal of Interreligious Studies for “Homegrown Hate: Why White Nationalists and Militant Islamists Are Waging War Against the United States” by Sara Kamali. Congratulations Hannah!… Read More

JP Rojas, a 2nd year Anthropology student, led the first field season of the Proyecto Arqueológico del Municipio de Corn Island (PAMCI) in Nicaragua as the principal investigator (PI). The season involved surveys of archaeological sites on Big Corn Island and Little Corn Island, collaboration on documenting… Read More

Katie McCormack, a 6th-year Anthropology student, had her community outreach and research on ancient oral microbiomes from Peruvian ancient individuals featured in the June edition of the Evolution@Vanderbilt newsletter. McCormack was also featured in the June 4th edition of the Southern Standard newspaper for her work… Read More

Sylvia Cheever, a fifth-year Anthropology student, utilized her Evolutionary Studies Pilot Grant of $4750 in late May to launch her dissertation research. Her research focuses on testing mercury concentration in bone samples from Santa Barbara in collaboration with the METAL lab at ASU. Additionally, she has been invited… Read More

Nathan Blum, an MFA candidate in fiction, has published his book “Starting Over” on Ploughshares. He is also an Iowa Review Award finalist and teaches creative writing while serving as an advisory editor at Nashville Review. Congratulations Nathan!… Read More

Kumari Devarajan is a second-year MFA student in fiction from Washington DC. They were recently selected as a fellow for the Summer Workshop: Lambda Literary Writers Retreat for Emerging LGBTQ Voices. Congratulations Kumari!… Read More