Past Graduate Recipients: Summer Research Funding Program
Jan 17, 2025
2025 Award Recipients
Independent Research Projects
- Victoria Andrews, PhD Candidate in History of Art & Architecture, “Entangled Landscapes: An Ecocritical Examination of Buddhist Space in Ladakh”
- Kai Tei-Yi Blatt, Master’s of Landscape Architecture Candidate, Graduate School of Design, “On The Abstraction of Water: Mapping the Construction of Crisis”
- Caroline Brodeur, Master’s of Urban Planning, Graduate School of Design, “On The Abstraction of Water: Mapping the Construction of Crisis”
- Genevieve Dally-Watkins, PhD Candidate in History of Science, “Nuclear Legacies & Environmental Futures in Central Asia and Beyond”
- John Eason, PhD Candidate in Sociology, “A City Under Steam: Environmental Racism and the Political Economy of Toxic Facilities”
- Joseph Kennedy, Doctor of Design Candidate, Graduate School of Design, “Perennial Projects: Biodegradable Seed Pods for Ecosystem Restoration”
- Kendra McLaughlin, PhD Candidate in Film & Visual Studies, “Dissertation Fieldwork in the Tamshiyacu-Tahuayo Communal Regional Conservation Area, Peru”
- Khadidja Ngom, PhD Candidate in Public Policy, “The Effects of Transmission Constraints on Renewable Energy Generation and Economic Welfare”
- Arundhati Prasad, Master’s of Design Studies Candidate, Graduate School of Design, “Ot mineichuvo, CarNic: Towards A Zero-Waste CarNic”
- Yunyi Qian, Master’s in Landscape Architecture, Graduate School of Design, “Wine Win-Transforming Agricultural Methods and Preserving Terroir for Climate-Resilient Vineyards”
- Shweta Ranpura, Doctor of Design Candidate, Graduate School of Design, “Adapting Architectural Practices: Navigating Uncertainties and Climate Risk in the Built Environment”
- Tyler White, Master’s in Design Studies Candidate, Graduate School of Design, “
Redevelopment Ecologies” - Yuan Zhang, Master’s in Landscape Architecture Candidate, Graduate School of Design, “Farmer Livelihood and Agroforestry: Quantifying Social Aspects of Nature-Based Strategy in Yunnan”
2024 Award Recipients
Independent Research Projects
- Juan Fernandez Gonzalez, Master’s of Architecture Candidate, Graduate School of Design, “Sustainable Renovations of Louis Kahn’s Buildings”
- Eduarda Lira da Silva Nabuco de Araujo, PhD candidate in African and African American Studies, and History, “Ancestral Futures: Ecologies of the Sacred in Afro-Brazilian Spiritualities”
- Yunzhi Liu, Master of Arts, Regional Studies East Asia, “Havoc or Harmony: the Past and Future of Whales in Japan”
- Matthew Lukacz Przemyslaw, PhD., History of Science, “Deciding about Nature in the Age of Algorithms: Technopolitics of Biodiversity Conservation in the EU”
- Maria Begona Peiro Salvador, Doctor of Design Candidate, Graduate School of Design, “Planned Relocation as a Last Resort Strategy in the Face of Climate Change”
- Nicholas Rhodes, Master of Architecture Candidate, Graduate School of Design, “Planting Roots: Cross-Cultural Perceptions of Contemporary Straw-Based Construction”
- Makio Yamamoto, Master of Landscape Architecture and Master of Urban Planning Candidate, Graduate School of Design, “Taking(s) on the Mississippi”