Grantees

Scholar Grantees, August 2022

Scholar Grantees, October 2021

Dr. Paul Block – Applying Climate Science and Economic Tools to Advance Water Resource Management

Dr. S. Thomas Megeath – The Role of Environment in the Formation of Stars

Dr. Kimberly D. Shea – Exploring the use of the Comprehensive Palliative Assessment for using Telehealth at Home (CPATH) guide to assess patients with serious illness in Chile

Dr. Nicholas Galitzki – Calibration and Collaboration for Cosmology in Chile

Student Grantees, 2021 (NB: all projects were deferred to 2022 due to COVID; some people were also selected, but were unable to defer, as below):

Megan Baker: Insight on Collaborative Cross-Institutional Curricular Partnerships

Dominic Bednar: Modeling spatial disparities of residential efficiency, energy poverty, and firewood use

Adolfo Carvalho: Studying Planet Formation with Machine Learning

Maya Greenhill: Ecosystem stability and resilience: quantifying positive feedback loops

Joshua Henkin: Phytochemistry and Ethnobotany of Archaeological Residues from el Norte Grande de Chile

Emmaleah Jones: Analysis of the Impact of Urban Morphology & Planning on the Disaster-Resilience of Cities

Clayton Oppenhuizen: Entangled Opposition: Media and Opposition to the Dictatorship in Chile, 1973-1989.

Santiago Vargas: Graphene to create robust, efficient Dye-Sensitized Solar Cells

Robert Serrano: Dynamics and Fate of Black Hole Populations in Rotating Star Clusters.

*Selected, but unable to defer:

Elena Pojman: From Policy to Society: How Government Policy Shapes Social Bias towards Migrants in Chile

Annie Savaria-Watson: Glacial Geographies & Climate Change Resilience

Em Calhoun: Phytoplankton Changes of Freshwater and Marine Microbiomes in Chilean Patagonian Fjords

Aislyn Keyes: Fishery social networks and adaptive management outcomes in Chile

 

Student Grantees, 2020 (NB: all projects were cancelled due to COVID)

Alec Armon: Thinking Outside the Tank: Expert Knowledge Meets Poverty Reduction in Chile

Alexandra Machetanz: Syrian Refugee Resettlement in Chile

Hannah Hampson: Hydroclimate Model Optimization in Three Distinct Chilean Climates

Jesse Freedman: Nueva Canción: The Soundtrack of Chilean Exile in East Germany

Jessica Schwalb: Palestinian-Chilean Political Organizing

Justin Montague: Physician Training Models: Analyzing Physician Response to Childhood Obesity in Chile

Kevin Ryan: Environmental Impacts of Land-based Salmon Aquaculture Facilities in Southern Chile

Michael Harding: The Politics of Social Memory: Transitional Justice in Chile

Rachel Charow: Optimizing Solar Farm Site Selection Using Remote Sensing Technology

Sage Gilbert: Mapuche Landscapes and Poetics

Sebastian Munoz: Hydrograph Separation in the Chilean Andes

Sonia Urquidi: Learning to Improve: Creating a Culture of Evidence-Based Improvement in Chilean Schools

Student Grantees, 2019

Kai Parker: When the Water Rises: Probabilistic Tsunami Hazard Assessment for Chile’s Coastlines

Genevieve de Kervor: Genetic and Environmental Control od Developmental Transitions: Regulation of Lin28 during Xenopus Metamorphosis

Josselyn Barahona: The Effects of N-acetylcysteine on the Inflammatory Response of Alzheimer’s Disease Induced by Amyloid β-Peptide Oligomers

Christina Bosch: Social Equity Through Inclusive Education: What Teachers in Chile Can Teach the Americas

Karie Brown-Tess: Co-Creation in Chilean Mathematics Teacher Training

Kelsey Chatlosh: Afro-Chilean Women Asserting Black Pasts, Presents, and Futures in Chile

Alice Hill: Anticipating central Chilean water stress due to new mining development

Susan Massar: Cattle in the Trees: Silvopastoral Systems in Chilean Patagonia

Page McClean: Conectividades: The Histories and Futures of Chile’s Southern Highway

Natasha Reifenberg: Exploring Shifting Attitudes and Strategies Towards Gender-based Violence in Chile

Christopher Ruybal: Assessing Trends in Chilean Groundwater Storage Using the GRACE Satellites

Lauren Wiesebron: Dynamic trophic linkages between forage fish and zooplankton in Northern Chilean Patagonia

Andrew Xia: Modeling Fare Evasion in the Santiago Bus Network

 

Student Grantees, 2018

Kate Cullen: Chilean Glaciers and the Hazard Their Retreat Poses

Danielle Barefoot: Archiving Chilean History with Numerous Institutions and Networking

Amanda Farthing:http: Can Community Solar Initiatives Make an Impact?

Caroline White-Nockleby: Examining Water Scarcity in Chile’s Atacama Desert through an Interdisciplinary Lens

Maaike Tiersma: Dynamics of mussel aquaculture in the oceanographic and economic context of southern Chile

Samuel Steakley: Sustainable Electrical Infrastructure in Chile

Emma Gleeman: The Impact of Volcanic Eruptions on Coigüe Trees

Talia Anderson: Tree Rings, Climatic Change, and Water Resource Availability in the Altiplano Plateau of the Central Andes

Christina Azahar: Noisy Women, Imagined Spaces: Gender, Mobility, and Sound in Chile’s Popular Music Scenes

Amie Campos: Land, Maps, and State Formation in Chile’s Southern Frontera 1883-1929

Carly Peltier: Glaciers of Southern Chile as Archives of Past Climate

Michael Rush: Hydrologic Modeling in the Chilean Patagonia

 

Student Grantees, 2017

Nellie Triedman: Adolescent obesity, wellbeing, and mental health in Santiago, Chile

Enmanuel Almonte: Development of Computer Vision Capabilities for Assistive Robotic Applications

Lauren Antosz: SRH Education and Skill Building Programs in Cerro Navia, Santiago

Leif Castren: Plant community resilience after Volcán Chaitén: radical growth in disturbed soil

Catherine Brix: Transformative Reinscriptions: Traumatic Memories and Testimony in Chile

Sara Gonzalez: The people and the sea: Towards sustainable management of Chilean kelp forests

Amanda Harris: The Changing Maternal Healthcare Landscape and the Aymara Female Perspective

Jamie Kent: Analyzing Educational Infrastructure for Developing Technical Talent in Chile

Eric Nucci: Marine Energy: Investigation of Innovations for the Minimization of Environmental Impacts

Katharina-Victoria Perez-Hammerle: Mapping Chile’s Endangered Andean Deer-Using GPS and Remote Sensing Imagery

Michelle Stearn: Fueling Cooperation: Linking and mapping the disparate producers of alternative fuels