2025–2026 Recipients of Graduate Student Research Funding
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Graduate student research funding supports faculty-supervised doctoral student research activities, particularly field-based work on global poverty and economic development in middle- and low-income countries.
| Name | School/Department | Project | Thematic Area |
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| Juan Torres Alarcon | Department of Economics | The Market for Deference | 
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| Stephanie Caddell | Department of Oceans | Community Voices: The Story of the Galapagos Marine Reserve | 
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| Eliza Ennis | Department of Health Policy | Identifying the causal impact of contraceptive access on health outcomes in Colombia | 
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| Naiyu Jiang | Department of Political Science | AI and Democratic Responsiveness in Emerging Democracies: A Field Experiment in Malaysia |
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| Ameze Belo-Osagie | Department of Political Science | Bullets, Bribes, & Ballots : Malpractice in Nigerian Elections | 
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| Maggie Poulos | Emmett Interdisciplinary Program in Environment and Resources (E-IPER) | Exploring Women-Led Coastal Conservation and Livelihoods: Gendered Resource Access through Kenya’s Beach Management Units |
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| Kylie Wadkowski | School of Sustainability | Predicting Bofedal Stability Across the Andes through Integrated Socio-Environmental Modeling |
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