Ray Travel Award Winners
2022 - 2023 Academic Year
Funding Period #1 (Conference occurring July - September)
Ryan Wagner – School of Environment and Natural Resources
Daniel Ma – Civil, Environmental and Geodetic Engineering
Bhumi Patel – Department of Dance
Faiz Nisar Khan – Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering
Ellia La – Food Science & Technology
Brittany Fischer – Veterinary Preventive Medicine
Keira Hambrick – English
Valentina Pita Grisanti – Nutrition
Manisha Nagpal – Educational Psychology
Funding Period #2 (Conference occurring October - December)
Megan Co – Biomedical Engineering
Alissa Geisse – Evolution, Ecology, and Organismal Biology
Chelsea Gilbert – Educational Studies
Cemantha Lane – Biomedical Engineering
Siyu Liu – Public Policy and Management
Sheila Martin – Teaching and Learning
Larissa Mulder – Ethnomusicology
Morgan Oates – Speech and Hearing Science
Kenneth Poland – Public Policy and Management
Lenin Rodriguez Betancourth – Horticulture and Crop Science
Kyle Sozanski – Evolution, Ecology, and Organismal Biology
Nina Tang – Biomedical Engineering
Sydney Townsend – Biomedical Sciences
Funding Period #3 (Conference occurring Janaury - March)
Funding Period #4 (conferences occuring April - June)
2021 - 2022 Academic Year
Funding Period #1 (Conference occurring July - September)
Lokaditya Ryali – Mechanical Engineering
Funding Period #2 (Conference occurring October - December)
Danielle Boyle – The Department of Neuroscience
Tamara McCarty – Department of Dance
Alexandra Tuggle – Anthropology
Lena Stevens – College of Public Health
Elizabeth Jergens – Chemical Engineering
Jessica Rivera – HESA
Megan Espana – College of Social Work
Simone Downie – Department of Design
Sarah Scott – Entomology
Dongjoon Kim – Chemical Engineering
Astrid Zuckerman – Psychology
Kendall King – Entomology
Funding Period #3 (Conference occurring Janaury - March)
Natalia Sletova – Second Language Acqiusition
Emily Bumpus – Educational Studies
Wonseok Lee – Ethnomusicology
Wei William Zhou – Chinese Linguistics
Bethany Martens – Multilingual Language Education
Yifan Li – History of Art
Drew Arbogast – Anthropology
Pinak Mohapatra – Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering
Bethany Frick – Speech and Hearing Science
Ashby Goldstein – School of Music
Quianna Simpson – Department of Dance
Dhwani Parikh – Special Education
Kevin Fisher – School of Environment and Natural Resources
Carrie Anne Thomas – Teaching & Learning
Sandeep Joy – Department of Physics
Charu Jain – Department of Chemistry
Yu Ling Chen – Special Education
Emily Rabung – Environment and Natural Resources
Jessica Cristina Lemos Motta – Animal Sciences
Funding Period #4 (conferences occuring April - June)
Robert Williams – History
Lindsey Rowe – Language, Education, and Society
Nate Stewart – Educational Studies
Nicholas Deems – Neuroscience
Jennifer Janovick – Food Science and Technology
Renee Bowling – HESA
Fenfen Tang – Food Science and Technology
Elana Schettini – Department of Psychology
Semanti Mukhopadhyay – Materials Science and Engineering
Annelise Madison – Department of Psychology
Christopher Holt – Department of Speech and Hearing Science
Julia Mazzarella – School of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences
Anthony Palmiscno – Department of Spanish & Portuguese
Eric McChesney – Educational Studies
Kameron Rinehart – Agricultural Communication, Education, and Leaders
Jacob Kopcienski – Musicology
Rebecca Cepeda – Higher Education and Student Affairs
Coralia Balasca – Sociology
Chiebuka Egwuonwu – Engineering Education
Colby Gregg – Agricultural Education, Communication, and Leaders
Vyom Thakker – Chemical Engineering
Ho-Chieh Lin – STEM Education
2020 - 2021 Academic Year
Funding Period #1 (Conference occurring July - September)
Funding Period #2 (Conference occurring October - December)
Selasi Attipoe – College of Public Health
Zenan Zhou – Fisher College of Business
Dylan Ricke – College of Food, Agricultural, and Environmental Science
Sarah Haines – College of Engineering
Funding Period #3 (Conference occurring Janaury - March)
Kimberley Scott – College of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences
Eunice Uhm – College of Arts & Sciences
Xinyue Lu – College of Education and Human Ecology
Revati Dewal – College of Arts & Sciences
Funding Period #4 (conferences occuring April - June)
Jingyi Zhu – Foreign, Second, Multilingual Language Education
Lisa Combs – Higher Education and Student Affairs
Chelsea Gilbert – Educational Studies: Higher Education & Student Affairs
2019 - 2020 Academic Year
Funding Period #1 (Conference occurring July - September)
Nithya Sivashankar- Education & Human Ecology
Hector Iglesias Pascaul- Arts & Sciences
Tyler MacDonald- Arts & Sciences
Tsung-Hsin Lee- Arts & Sciences
Melisa Diaz- Arts & Sciences
Stephanie Ray- Arts & Sciences
Nathan Nordstedt- Arts & Sciences
Aubrey Neumann- Arts & Sciences
Kaylee South- College of Food, Agricultural, and Environmental Sciences
Funding Period #2 (Conference occurring October - December)
Gayle Garcia- Education & Human Ecology
Ehsan Estiri- Arts & Sciences
Caroline Koncz- Arts & Sciences
Sarah Light- Neuroscience
Jennifer Perkins- Arts & Sciences
Elizabeth Stone- Neuroscience
Kendra Dickinson- Arts & Sciences
Madison Sabatelli- Arts & Sciences
Emilio Mateo- Arts & Sciences
Laura Maguire- Engineering
Emily Hill- Medicine
Funding Period #3 (Conference occurring Janaury - March)
Davianna Green - Arts & Sciences (Dance)
Ying-Ting Chiu - Education and Human Ecology (Language, Education and Society)
Katerine Ramirez - Food, Agricultural, and Environmental Sciences (Agricultural, Environmental, and Development Economics)
Nithya Sivashankar - Education and Human Ecology (Teaching and Learning)
Nicki Pukos - Medicine (Neuroscience)
Minseok Choi - Education and Human Ecology (Language, Education and Society)
Gina Gerardo - Arts & Sciences (Clinical Psychology)
Tamara Roose - Education and Human Ecology (Teaching and Learning)
Sarah Anderson - Health and Rehabilitation Sciences
Jackie Ridley - Education and Human Ecology (Foreign, Second and Multilingual Language Education)
Aviva Philipp-Muller - Arts & Sciences (Psychology)
Sharon Scott -Engineering (Environmental Engineering)
Funding Period #4 (conferences occuring April - June)
Angela Acosta- Spanish & Portuguese
Lian Arzbecker- Speech & Hearing Science
Brieanne Beaujolais- Social Work
Rebecca Czaja- Environment & Natural Resources
Leanna DeJong- Environment & Natural Resources
Megan Espana- Social Work
Tania Espinales Correa- Spanish & Portuguese
Philip Gould- Environment & Natural Resources
Emma Lagan- Anthropology
Leah May- Human Nutrition
Tina Nguyen- Psychology
Somin Park- Teaching & Learning Administration
Prashant Serai- Computer Science & Engineering
Shuo (Selena) Wang- Psychology
Kathryn Williamson- Food Science & Technology
2018 - 2019 Academic Year
Funding Period #1 (Conference occurring July - September)
Brieanne Beaujolais - Social Work
Coleen Thompson - Evolution and Ecology
Thelma Velez - Environmental Social Science
Brianna Johnson - Dance
Nguyen Tram - Biomedical Engineering
Kara Braunreiter - Molecular Genetics
Adrienne Oehlers - Theatre
Funding Period #2 (Conference occurring October - December)
Zeynep Aydogdu - Comparative Studies
Brittney Butler - Epidemiology
Riley DeBacker - Speach and Hearing Sciences
Mario DeGrandis - Chinese Literature
Laurene Glimois - French and Italian
Jess Holler - Comparative Studies
Emily Justus - Entomology
Jendall King - Entomology
Chase Moore - Educational Studies
Chris Riley - Entomology
Amanda Smith - Comparative + Veterinary Sciences
Tiffnay Steele - Higher Education
Katherine Turo - Entomology
Funding Period #3 (Conference occurring January - March)
Yesenia Alvarez Padilla- Social Work
Rachel Bican - Health and Rehabilitation Sciences
Shelby Coen - Counselor Education
Katherine D'Amico - Translational Plant Science
Mario De Grandis - Chinese Literature
Julie Faieta - Health and Rehabilitation Services
Healther Glon - Evolution, Ecology, and Organismal Biology
Julia Mazzarella - Health and Rehabilitation Services
Chelsey Nieman - Environmental and Natural Resources
Eleanor Paynter - Comparative Studies
Alanna Radlo-Dzur - History of Art
Ilana Seager van Dyk - Clinical Psychology
Madison Bowling - Kinesiology
Brittney Keller-Hamilton - Epidemiology
Paula Lado - Evolution, Ecology, and Organismal Biology
Katherine Lakstins - Biomedical Engineering
Michele Patak-Pietrafesa - Social Work
Christopher Pierce - Physics
Joanne Vakil - STEM Education
Funding Period #4 (Conference Occurring April - June)
Laura Allen - English
Ziv Bell - Clinical Psychology
Rachel Bican - Health and Rehabilitation Services
Kevin Blum - Biomedical Engineering
Emma Cobb - Comparative Studies
Chrisse Edmunds - Sociology
Bethany Frick - Speech and Hearing Sciences
Pooja Gangras - Molecular Genetics
Evolution, Ecology, and Organismal Biology
Kara Hooser - Political Science
Eswar Kandaswamy - Periodontics
Mijoo Kim - Kinesiology
Nicole King - Teaching and Learning
Julia Mazzarella - Health and Rehabilitation Sciences
Samantha McCabe - Environmental Sciences Graduate Program
Lauren Muscott - Political Science
Samantha Powers - Nerosciences Graduate Program
Conor Rosenblatt - Environment and Natural Resources
Sarah Stork - Comparative STudies
Rodney Tollerson - Microbiology
Thelma Velez - Environmental Social Sciences
Ryan Vogel - Environment and Natural Resources