URSA announces Spring 2024 Travel Award recipients
The Office of Undergraduate Research and Scholarly Activity congratulates undergraduate students who received a Spring 2024 Travel Award to actively participate in a gathering of their professional peers this semester.
Vivian Palmer (Physics)
Mentor: Peter Delamere
Conference of Undergraduate Women in Physics (Stanford, California)
"Juno Magnetometer Investigation into Standing Alfvén Waves in the Jovian Plasma Sheet
in the Dawn to Midnight Sector"
Group: Marcelo Ketzler-Lopez (Accounting), Shaina Atcherian (Applied Business), Elise
Wood (One Health), Aiyana Fragoso (Business Administration)Mentor: Jillian Bjornstad
Business & Leadership Student Conference (Las Vegas, Nevada)
"Yukon Harmony Veterinary Clinic Business Proposal"
Isabelle Nicolier (Biological Sciences)
Mentor: Jessica Glass
50th Annual Meeting of the American Fisheries Society- Alaska Chapter (Seward, Alaska)
"Population Structure of Pacific Herring in The Bering Sea and Gulf of Alaska"
Group: Paradise Porter, Daniel Kahle, Gavin Brennan, Gavi Ximenez, Chel Boue, Julia
Lockwood, Noah Morgan
Mentors: Chisato Murakami and David Henry
19th Annual Alaska Association of Teachers of Japanese Alaska Speech Contest (Anchorage,
Alaska)
URSA Travel Awards are available on a rolling basis throughout the year and support individual students up to $2,000 or a group of students up to $4,000 who plan to actively participate in a conference, competition, immersive program, performance, workshop, or other type of meeting or congregation of the student's peers/professionals in their respective field. Students with accepted participation to an event are encouraged to apply. Visit the Travel Award webpage for more information.
Contact the URSA office for more information on how to apply: uaf-ursa@alaska.edu | 907-450-8772.