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Unique Undergraduate Opportunities
Since its pilot offerings in Summer 2013, the program has awarded 156 undergraduate fellowships to support work on 131 faculty-led projects across the curriculum.
Highlights from the past several years of the program
2024
Projects and researchers
| Projects | Faculty Researchers | Student Researchers |
|---|---|---|
| Aquatic Entomology and Stream Ecology | Carri LeRoy | Sylvia Leeb-Haigh |
| Archaeological Database Creation: The West Cemetery at Isthmia | Ulrike Krotscheck | Merlin Kelsay |
| EDURange: Applying AI to Help Struggling Student | Richard Weiss | Dee Dee Hyde |
| Growing Indigo: Depth of Color | Susan Pavel | Sabina Ahmed |
| Invasive Species Detection and Quantification on the Olympic Peninsula via Remote Sensing | Jonathan Batchelor | Stevi Barrio |
| Liberation Education in the Age of Mass Incarceration | Eirik Steinhoff | Arien Wolf |
| Managing a Sentinel Landscapes Farmers’ Market Stand: Partnership with the SW WA Food Hub and the DuPont Farmers’ Market | Sarah Williams | Reginald Arberry |
| Marine Ecophysiology | Erik Thuesen | Jacob Church & Allie Quick |
| Ocean Acidification and Shell Mineralization: Scanning Electron Microscopy Analysis of Culturally Significant Molluscs for Coastal Tribes | Pauline Yu | Ruby Young |
| Smarty Plants: Using High Performance Computation to Sequence Novel Plant mRNA | Paul Pham | Rain Hutcheon |
2023
Projects and researchers
| Projects | Faculty Researchers | Student Researchers |
|---|---|---|
| The West Cemetery at Isthmia: Creating an Archaeological Database | Ulrike Krotscheck | William Lobato |
| Summer invertebrate development: surveying the reproductive progress of shellfish at the Evergreen Shellfish Garden | Pauline Yu | Sorrel Gristle |
| Decarceral Studies: critical literacy + critical numeracy in the age of hyperincarceration | Eirik Steinhoff | Emery Parrish |
| Seeding a Sustainable Campus Food System: Comparative Field Trials | Steve Scheuerell, Sarah Williams | Ezra Geselle |
| Blood - the Water of Life: a Cultural, Scientific, Artistic Study | Hirsh Diamant | Veronica Harris |
| Ecophysiology of Marine Invertebrates | Erik Thuesen | Malena Reyes |
| Tree water-use, water-stress and sapling growth in Temperate Rainforests | Dylan Fischer | Seth Townsend |
| South Sound Housing Policies, Social Reproduction and Solidarity Economics | Savvina Chowdhury | Jaina Nehm |
| Creating a hint tool for students I cybersecurity exercises | Richard Weiss | Riley Bell |
| Movement Roots | Jehrin Alexandria | Stephanie Kamau |
2022
Projects and researchers
| Projects | Faculty Researchers | Student Researchers |
|---|---|---|
| Hydrogen Peroxide Dynamics in Puget Sound | Robin Bond | Connor Bailey |
| The prevalence of state boredom in dogs and cats | Mike Paros | Hunter Stenovitch |
| Laozi and the Guardian of the Pass; a new translation of Chinese classics | Hirsh DIamant | Joshua Reed-Doyle |
| Summer Research in Field Ornithology and Bioacoustics | Alison Styring | Marilyn Kulper |
| Organic Tomato and Winter Cabbage Field Trial: Yield, Sensory Assessment, and Disease Resistance | Sarah Williams, Steve Schuerell, Angelos Katsanis | Sarah Dyer |
| Assessing the Conservation Status of the Endangered Old Growth Specklebelly Liche, Pseudocyphellaria rainierensis | Lalita Calabria | Stephen Sharrett |
| Race, Class, Gender and Housing Policy | Savvina Chowdhury | Grace Mclarty |
| Research in Cybersecurity Education | Richard Weiss | Emma O'Leary |
| Sense of Place / Sense of Belonging | Evan Blackwell | Sage Sorensen |
| Setting the seeds: oysters at the Evergreen Shellfish Garden to support curriculum and community | Pauline Yu | Kasey Tollefson |
2021
Projects and researchers
| Projects | Faculty Researchers | Student Researchers |
|---|---|---|
| Genomic Data Mining of Arrow Worm Biochemistry | Erik Thuesen | Ada Vinson |
| Digital/Haptic/Domestic: Supporting Tactile Learning Online | Julia Heineccius | Allen Burgess |
| Understanding Community through Qualitative Research & Documentary Filmmaking | Suree Towfighnia | Berghan Decock |
| Oral Stereotypic Behavior in Dairy Cattle | Mike Paros | D. Aurora Oceguera |
| Being Human: Human Development Recommendations from Traditional Culture | Hirsh Diamant | Danish Harris |
| Study of Organic Farming Practices/Food & Agriculture | Martha Rosemeyer, Steve Schuerell, and Sarah Williams | Ethan Bucher |
| The EDURange Project | Richard Weiss | JunBo Park |
| Olympia Oyster Restoration at the Evergreen Beach: Feasibility Study, Proposal Development, and Shellfish Husbandry | Pauline Yu | Kaitlin Tea |
| Evergreen in Context: An Archives Project | Nancy Koppelman | Ryan Richter |
| Stream Ecology Research with Field Work at Area Volcanos | Carri LeRoy | Marisa Fisher |
| Understanding Community through Qualitative Research & Documentary Filmmaking | Maria Isabel Morales | Victoria Early |