2026
Name | Department | Project |
| Dr. Ashley Adams | Biology | Deep Soil as a Biodiversity Refuge and Driver of Ecosystem Resilience |
| Dr. Chi-Wei Chen | Biology | Developing a dNTP Assay to Advance an NIH R15 Proposal on Ovarian Cancer |
| Dr. Mohammad Javidian | Computer Science | RiverCam AI: Real-Time River Discharge Estimation from Surface Imagery for Flood Resilience |
| Caleb Johnson | English | Money Game: A Novel |
| Dr. Ina Kim | Anthropology | Book Project–Detecting the Unnatural: Data, Bodies, and Ecological Imaginaries in Post-Nuclear Japan |
| Dr. Hannah LeClair | English | Renovated Landscapes: Victorian Realism after the Picturesque |
| Dr. Yeganeh Madadi | Computer Science | Development and Study of an Innovative Humanoid Teaching Assistant Robot to Enhance Undergraduate Learning |
| Dr. Doris Morgan Rueda | History | Juan Crow Juvenile Justice: Doing Time in the Arizona Borderlands, 1907-1967 |
| Dr. Kelly Renwick | Interdisciplinary Studies | Improving Food Security and Health Outcomes among the Latine Population in Rural NC through a Food Navigator Program |
| Dr. Brittany Roberts | English | Becoming-With: Ecological Ethics and the More-Than-Human Worlds of Russian and American Horror |
| Dr. Cassidy Sandoval | Psychology | Mind, Body, and Bump: Exploring Perinatal Body Image and Eating Behaviors |
| Dr. Sidonia Serafini | English | Print Commons: Black Writing and Cultivating in the Presses of Tuskegee and Hampton Institutes, 1892-1916 |
| Dr. Cody Taylor | Government and Justice Studies | Low Income Community Representation on Community Development Finance Institution Boards |
| Dr. Kirstin Waldkoenig | Philosophy and Religion | Reframing the Individual: Vulnerability, Sexual Violence, and Social Vitality |
| Dr. Karlee Westrem | Mathematical Sciences | Combinatorial Relations of Specht Module Dimensions |
| Dr. Stephen White | Psychology | Evaluating Phytochemicals for Anxiolytic and/or Antidepressant Effects |
| Dr. Zhiyuan Yao | Geography and Planning | Rural EV Charging Accessibility Through Data-Driven Optimization |
2025
| Name | Department | Project |
| Dr. Mohammed Adjieteh | Mathematical Sciences | Quantile Least Squares for Robust-Efficient Fitting and Validation of Loss Models |
| Dr. Nancy Asen | Chemistry and Fermentation Sciences | Structure-function Relationship and Application of Oilseed Protein Isolates or Concentrates Derived from Fermentation-assisted Extraction |
| Dr. Brooke Burrows | Psychology | Bridging and Bonding during Hurricane Helene: The Influence of Politics, Religion, and Social Class on Disaster Relief Efforts |
| Dr. Annu Daftuar | Interdisciplinary Studies | A Critical Reading of Transnational Adoption Laws in India |
| Dr. Cara Fiore | Biology | Developing a Biological Oceanography NSF Proposal |
| Dr. Seth Grooms | Anthropology | The Lumbee River Archaeology Project (LRAP) |
| Dr. Thomas Gross | Psychology | Connecting Prevention-focused Measurement and Educator Social/Emotional/Behavioral Data-use Training Scholarship |
| Dr. Peaches Hash | English | Teaching Arts-Based Research Book Proposal |
| Dr. Anna Holleman | Sociology | Religion as a Source of Support and Struggle for LGBTQ Family Formation |
| Dr. Yeganeh Madadi | Computer Science | Humanoid Robots Powered by Large Language Models to Enhance Communication with Autistic Children |
| Dr. Brad Phillis | History | Descended Equally from Royal Seed: Crusade and the Counts of Flanders, 1071-1204 |
| Dr. Christoph Schmitz | Languages, Literatures, and Cultures | Peter Weiss & Dietmar Dath |
| Dr. Nazia Sharmin | Computer Science | Modeling Adversary Intentions in Network Security: A Framework for Proactive Threat Detection and Defense |
| Dr. Rashmi Singh | Mathematical Sciences | Impact of Professional Development on Math Story Framework in Elementary Prospective Teachers' Lesson Design |
| Dr. Elizabeth Trudeau | Sociology | Providing Services for Male Survivors |
| Dr. Adelya Urmanche | Psychology | Girls Just Want to Have Fun(ding) |
| Dr. Hui Wang | Geography and Planning | Resilience and Resistance of Riparian Vegetation to Drought: Insights from the Upper Tennessee River Basin |
| Dr. Zhiyuan Yao | Geography and Planning | Assessing Public Transit Transfer Performance Using GTFS and Ridership Data in Boone, NC |
2024
| Name | Department | Project |
| Dr. John Brooks | Government and Justice Studies | Presidential Communications and Agency Rule-Making |
| Dr. Ruth Carmi | Sociology | Intersectionality, the Israeli-Palestinian Prolonged Conflict, and the Israeli Welfare State |
| Dr. Mac-Jane Crayton | Government and Justice Studies | Research Manuscript Writing on Voluntarism & Development of Proposals for Russell Sage Foundation/Carnegie Corporation Initiative |
| Dr. Vanessa Evans | English | “Other Languages, Other Landscapes, Other Stories”: Reading Resurgence in the Contemporary Indigenous Novel |
| Dr. Mark Hills | Computer Science | A Formal Approach to Safer, More Understandable Programs |
| Dr. Christopher Marier | Government and Justice Studies | ADPD Evaluation |
| Dr. Matthew Meier | Psychology | Cognitive and Personality Correlates of Mind Wandering |
| Dr. Savannah Murray | English | The Dam Fighters: Commons Environmental Rhetoric and Activism |
| Christine Quattro | Geography and Planning | In Harm's Way: Residential Zoning Classifications and Environmental Injustice |
| Dr. Stephanie Tsakeu Mazan | Languages, Literatures, and Cultures | Saartjie Baartman, Pocahontas, Anne Frank. Mémoires racisées ? Une lecture de 53 cm de Bessora. |
| Dr. Juhee Woo | Sociology | Understanding Black Women's Smoking Behaviors through Local Contexts in the U.S. |
2023
| Name | Department | Project |
| Dr. Ashley Adams | Biology | A Trait-based Framework for Understanding Plant Responses to Altered Precipitation Regimes |
| Dr. Michael Eng | Philosophy and Religion | “Sounds of Subjection: Black Thinking’s Maternal Call in Fred Moten’s Heideggerian Poetics” |
| Dr. Tinghao Feng | Computer Science | A Semi-Intelligent Approach for Epileptic Seizures Detection Using EEG Brain Signals |
| Dr. Robert Freeland | Sociology | Cultural Misperceptions and the Gender Wage Gap |
| Dr. Mohammad Ali Javidian | Computer Science | Performance Debugging in Software Systems through the Lens of Causality |
| Dr. Hye-Sung Kim | Government and Justice Studies | Developing Proposals for the Korea Foundation's Policy-Oriented Research Program Grant and NSF Security and Preparedness (SAP) Grant |
| Dr. Paul Lucas | Government and Justice Studies | Measuring the Successful Operation of Veterans Treatment Courts Through Their Adherence to the 10 Key Components: An Exploratory Examination |
| Dr. Jessica Martell | Interdisciplinary Studies | Greenwashing and the Global Pastoral |
| Dr. Raja Rahim | History | Our Ball, Our Game: The Central Intercollegiate Athletic Assocation and the History of Black College Basketball in the United States, 1912-1992 |
| Dr. Kelly Renwick | Interdisciplinary Studies | Food Insecurity and Health Inequity among the Latinx Community in the North Carolina High Country |
| Dr. Todd Stincic | Biology | Sex Differences in Energy Balance |
| Dr. Peter Thompson | Government and Justice Studies | Armed Conflict and Maternal Health Outcomes in Africa: A Geospatial Analysis |
| Dr. Xiaofei Tu | Languages, Literatures, and Cultures | Book Manuscript "Women’s Autobiographies and 20th Century Chinese Revolution (1921-1949)" |
| Dr. Matthew Wright | Sociology | Intergenerational Relationships Among Older Cohabitors |
2022
| Name | Department | Project |
| Dr. Dylan Blackston | Interdisciplinary Studies | Trans*plantations of Life: How Capital Makes and Changes Kinds (Book Project) |
| Dr. Allison Fredette | History | Tumult and Temptation: Love and Divorce in Postbellum Western North Carolina |
| Dr. Jon Gordon | Sociology | Vigilant: Violence and Community Transformation in Medellín, Colombia. |
| Dr. Kinji Ito | Languages, Literatures, and Cultures | Translating Overlooked Literary Works |
| Dr. Marc Kissel | Anthropology | Funding for Writing "Biological Anthropology-the Basics" |
| Dr. Johnnie Lotesta | Sociology | Rightward in the Rustbelt: Political Parties, Policy, and the Crisis of Representation |
| Dr. Bethany Mannon | English | I Grew Up in the Church: The Activist Rhetoric of Contemporary Evangelical Women |
| Dr. Nii Okine | Mathematical Sciences | Ratemaking in a Changing Environment |
| Dr. Roshani Silwal | Physics and Astronomy | Finalize the X-ray Irradiation Setup and Perform Spectroscopic Measurements at the NIST Electron Beam Ion Trap Facility |
| Dr. Kyle Stevens | English | Against Bodies: Cinema, Identity, and Inner Voice in the Age of Headphones |
| Dr. Juhee Woo | Sociology | Examining the "African American Smoking Paradox" Through a Local Context in North Carolina |
| Dr. Stephanie Yep | Philosophy and Religion | Hagiographical Innovation and Aniconism in the Work of Majid Majidi |
2021
| Name | Department | Project |
| Dr. Rachel Bleich | Biology | NIH Proposal on Upper GI Microbiome |
| Dr. Jeff Carter | Government and Justice Studies | The Politics of Hawks and Doves |
| Dr. Megen Culpepper | Chemistry and Fermentation Sciences | Proposal Development for an NIH R15 AREA award |
| Dr. Adrienne Erazo | Languages, Literatures, and Cultures | Traumatized Identities in Transit: Central American Migration in Contemporary Latin American and Latinx Cultural Production |
| Dr. Sarah Evans | Geological and Environmental Sciences | Can’t Take the Heat? Modeling Thawing Permafrost Landscapes in the Warming Arctic |
| Dr. Cameron Gokee | Anthropology | Bandafassi Regional Archaeological Project: Current Research & Future Funding |
| Dr. Cuong Mai | Philosophy and Religion | The Earth, the Waters, and the Souls of Dead Humans: The Terrain of Local Power in Traditional Vietnam (ca. 1300-1800) |
| Dr. Clarice Moran | English | Next Level Grammar for a Digital Age Book Project |
| Dr. Elizabeth Perego | History | War-Torn Algeria as Woman: Gendered Representations of Conflict and Islam on the Verge of 9/11 |
| Dr. Andrew Polonsky | Computer Science | Hi-TEQ: Higher Theories of Program EQuivalence |
| Dr. Paul Sebastian | Languages, Literatures, and Cultures | Appalachian State University-University of Salamanca Virtual Conversation Exchange |
| Dr. Julie Shepherd-Powell | Interdisciplinary Studies | Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion in the Global Roots of Appalachian Mountain Dance |
| Dr. Song Shu | Geography and Planning | Monitoring Snow Accumulation in Appalachian Mountains with Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) and NASA Satellite Observations |
| Dr. Roshani Silwal | Physics and Astronomy | Study the Effects of X-ray Irradiation on Biological Cells and Apply for External Funding to Build an Ion Trap |
| Dr. Christian Wallen | Chemistry and Fermentation Sciences | Synthesis of Catalysts for Removal of Hydrogen Sulfide from Natural Gas |
2020
| Name | Department | Project |
| Dr. Felicia Arriaga | Sociology | The ‘Unintended’ Consequences of Crimmigration : ICE, Local Law Enforcement, and Justice in a New Destination Community |
| Dr. Cole Edwards | Geological and Environmental Sciences | Writing an NSF Grant That Questions the Widely Held Notion That Anoxia Was the Main Driver of the Late Devonian Mass Extinction |
| Dr. Allison Fredette | History | "Murdering Laura Foster: Violence, Gender, and Memory in Appalachian North Carolina" |
| Dr. Christopher Holden | Psychology | The Effects of Socioeconomic Stressors on Relationship Functioning |
| Dr. Heather Ondercin | Government and Justice Studies | Politicized Identities and the Partisan Gender Gap |
| Dr. Johnathan Sugg | Geography and Planning | Visual communication and the cartography of climate change |
2019
| Name | Department | Project |
| Dr. Emanuele Alves | Chemistry and Fermentation Sciences | Development and Validation of a Stir Bar Sorptive Extraction Method for Analysis of Mitragynine and Its Derivatives in Kratom Beverages |
| Dr. Kara Dempsey | Geography and Planning | The Political Geography of International Forced Migration |
| Dr. Belinda Walzer | English | The Right Time: Human Rights, Temporality, Rhetoric |
2018
| Name | Department | Project |
| Dr. Darci Gardner | Languages, Literatures, and Cultures | How Fictions Exploit Cognitive Biases |
| Dr. Jennifer Geib | Biology | App State as an REU Site: Research on Species Interactions in the Southern Appalachians |
| Dr. Cameron Gokee | Anthropology | Undocumented Migration Project: Art Installation and Co-Edited Volume |
| Dr. Mary Kinkel | Biology | Analysis of Gut Motility Disorders Using a Novel Model |
| Dr. Ellen Lamont | Sociology | The Mating Game: Courtship in an Era of Gender Upheaval |
| Dr. Scott Relyea | History | Learning to Be Colonial: ‘Effective Occupation’ and Early Twentieth Century Chinese Settlement of Eastern Tibet |
| Dr. Hasthika Rupasinghe | Mathematical Sciences | A New Regularization and Variable Selection Estimator - HRLR |
| Dr. Kyle Stevens | English | Editing The Oxford Handbook of Film Studies |
| Dr. Lasanthi Watagoda | Mathematical Sciences | A New Regularization and Variable Selection Estimator - HRLR |
| Dr. Dieter Weber | Chemistry and Fermentation Sciences | Weber Research Lab Summer Experience in Organic Synthesis |
| Dr. Twila Wingrove | Psychology | Evaluations of Sexual Consent in Sexual Assault Trials |
2017
| Name | Department |
| Dr. Maryam Ahmed | Biology |
| Dr. Andrew Bellemer | Biology |
| Dr. Sushmita Chatterjee | Interdisciplinary Studies |
| Dr. Jeff Colby | Geography and Planning |
| Dr. Megen Culpepper | Chemistry and Fermentation Sciences |
| Dr. Jill Ehnenn | English |
| Dr. Rick Elmore | Philosophy and Religion |
| Dr. Amy Galloway | Psychology |
| Dr. Kim Hall | Philosophy and Religion |
| Dr. Davis Hankins | Philosophy and Religion |
| Dr. Andrew Heckert | Geological and Environmental Sciences |
| Dr. Sarah Beth Hopton | English |
| Dr. John Paul Jameson | Psychology |
| Dr. Brad Johnson | Physics and Astronomy |
| Dr. Mary Kinkel | Biology |
| Dr. Cathy Marcum | Government and Justice Studies |
| Dr. Scott Marshall | Geological and Environmental Sciences |
| Dr. Courtney McGahee | Physics and Astronomy |
| Dr. Jessica Mitchell | Geography and Planning |
| Dr. Kevin Mullinix | Government and Justice Studies |
| Dr. Robert Norris | Government and Justice Studies |
| Dr. Michael Opata | Biology |
| Carla Ramsdell | Physics and Astronomy |
| Dr. Nicholas Shaw | Chemistry and Fermentation Sciences |
| Dr. Stef Shuster | Sociology |
| Dr. Stephen Sommer | Chemistry and Fermentation Sciences |
| Dr. Benji Souza | Languages, Literatures, and Cultures |
| Dr. Maggie Sugg | Geography and Planning |
| Dr. Jason White | History |
| Dr. Lauren Woods | Chemistry and Fermentation Sciences |
2016
| Name | Department |
| Dr. Gabriele Casale | Geological and Environmental Sciences |
| Dr. Brooke Christian | Chemistry and Fermentation Sciences |
| Dr. Cuong Mai | Philosophy and Religion |
| Dr. Elizabeth Shay | Geography and Planning |
| Dr. Andrew Smith | Psychology |
| Dr. Alice Wright | Anthropology |