The Institute for a Sustainable Future is pleased to announce the recipients of the Fall 2023 ISF travel and research grants. Recipients were chosen based on the quality of their research and alignment to the mission of ISF. Purdue’s Institute for a Sustainable Future promotes collaborative research that advances understanding of persistent global sustainability challenges as outlined in the UN Sustainable Development Goals.
In total, ISF awarded 8 travel and research grants, providing a total of $6,300 in support to Purdue graduate students presenting at major conferences in their fields and/or to subsidize cost of conducting research related to sustainability. The range of topics varied widely from examining sustainability transitions in indigenous communities to evaluating electric scooter share systems, to water quality sampling. A full list of the awardees, their advisors, departments and research titles are listed below.
ISF will continue to support graduate students and post-docs with travel and research grants during the Spring 2024 semester. The application portal for Spring 2024 travel and research grants opened on January 8, 2024. Projects or presentations occurring between January 1, 2024-June 30, 2024 are eligible for consideration. Students must have support from an ISF faculty affiliate to be eligible. Priority will be given to projects emphasizing sustainability research, as defined by the UN Sustainable Development Goals, and relevance to ISF initiatives, as well as those who have not received travel or research grants from ISF in recent semesters. To learn more about ISF travel and research grants, and other student resources through ISF, please visit our website.
| Student | ISF Mentor | Department | Project Title |
| Juan Manuel Arevalo Viveros | Laura Zanotti | Anthropology | Sustainability transitions from economic organizations of the Misak indigenous community |
| Hazem Abdelhady | Cary Troy | Civil Engineering | Automated Shoreline Change Quantification from High-Resolution Multispectral Satellite Images: Development and Applications |
| Fangyuan Li | David Johnson | School of Industrial Engineering | Evaluating a Pre-Disaster Relocation Plan in Coastal Louisiana via High-Resolution Agent-Based Simulation |
| Sayan Mukherjee | Yunyue Elita Li | Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences | Groundwater Level Monitoring using Attenuation in Train-induced Seismic Vibration |
| Kush Paliwal | Rao S. Govindaraju | Civil Engineering | Role of Para Fluvial Processes on Downstream Transport of eDNA in Lotic Environments. |
| Noah Rudko | Jane Frankenberger | Agricultural and Biological Engineering | Water quality sampling provides insight into nutrients sources and pathways in an agricultural watershed in the Midwestern USA |
| Zhuoli Yin | Hua Cai | School of Industrial Engineering | Towards sustainable electric scooter share system: A deep reinforcement learning based model for charging and rebalancing |
| Krista Susseth Zapata Barrientos | Yichao Rui | Agronomy | Effects of ecological intensification on soil health and soybean production in organic grain systems in the Upper Midwest |