The Institute for a Sustainable Future is excited to announce the Spring 2024 ISF travel and research grant recipients. 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.
During Spring 2024, ISF awarded 20 travel and research grants to students in 13 different departments. These grants aid graduate students in presenting at major conferences for their fields and/or subsidize costs associated with conducting their research relating to sustainability. Topics range widely from evaluating electric vehicles to tropical cyclone predictability to management of invasive plants. A full list of the awardees, their mentors, departments and Projects are included in the table below.
ISF will continue to support graduate students and post-docs with travel and research grants during the Fall 2024 semester. The application portal for Fall 2024 travel and research grants will open on August 19, 2024. Projects or presentations occurring between July 1, 2024-December 31, 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 |
| Marwa Ali | Wendy Beauvais | Comparative Pathobiology | Bridging the data gap: advancing prey-predator models with AI-enhanced simulations |
| Juan Manuel Arevalo Viveros | Laura Zanotti | Anthropology | Sustainability transitions from economic organizations of the Misak indigenous community: a literature review |
| Alejandra Armesto | Maria Marshall | Agriculture Economics | IFAMA 2024 Student Case Competition |
| Rui Bai | Mirian Velay-Lizancos | Civil Engineering | CO2 removal potential and self-cleaning ability of TiO2-based cationic molecular emulsion surface treatment on concrete pavements |
| Karen Ivanna Carrillo Siller | Maria Marshall | Agriculture Economics | IFAMA 2024 Student Case Competition |
| Gaia Cervini | Konstantina Gkritza | Civil Engineering | Exploring the Relationship between Temperature and Electric Vehicle Adoption in the United States |
| Karthikeyan Subbiaha Nadar Chelladurai | Jennifer Freeman | Health Sciences | Gene-Environment Interaction between SORL1 Variant and the Environmental Toxicant Atrazine in Alzheimer’s Disease Pathology |
| Fionna Fahey | Andrew Flachs | Anthropology | Pilot Study: Seed Activism, Practices, and Futures |
| Jhordanne Jones | Daniel Chavas | Earth, Atmospheric, Planetary Sciences | Observed and Modeled Trends in Subseasonal-to-Seasonal Tropical Cyclone Predictability |
| Yiming Liu | Hua Cai | Environmental and Ecological Engineering | Evaluating the environmental impacts of historical oil spill incidents in North America from the life cycle perspective |
| Jose Alfredo Oceguenda Sanches | Daniel Chavas | Earth, Atmospheric, Planetary Sciences | What Drives Variability in Tropical Cyclone Landfall Patterns in the Eastern North Pacific? Environmental Drivers and Implications |
| Ana Maria Ospina Larrea | Ximena E. Bernal | Biological Science | Effect of traffic noise and artificial light at night on mating |
| Kush Paliwal | Rao S. Govindaraju | Civil Engineering | Laboratory experiment on fate and transport of eDNA on clean and loaded streambeds |
| Maria Teresa Panigua Aranda | Zhao Ma | Forestry and Natural Resources | Various forms of trust in facilitating collective action for managing invasive plants |
| Katherine Pivaral | Linda Prokopy | Horticulture and Landscape Architecture | IFAMA 2024 Student Case Competition |
| Isabelle Staph | Stuart Carlton | Forestry and Natural Resources | Community perceptions of restoration, remediation, and revitalization in Great Lakes Areas of Concern |
| Camila Ulloa | Ariana Torres | Horticulture and Landscape Architecture | IFAMA 2024 Student Case Competition |
| Les Warren | Tomas Hook | Forestry and Natural Resources | Genetic evidence of panmixia amongst Lake Michigan alewife, Alosa pseduoharengus |
| Kenny Chandra Wijaya | Konstantina Gkritza | Civil Engineering | Public Charging Preferences for Long Distance Electric Vehicle Travel: A Stated Choice Experiment Among Experienced and non-Experienced Users |
| Shichen Wu | Chongli Yuan | Chemical Engineering | Developmental PFOA exposure induced elevated risks of Alzheimer’s diseases and related dementia |