Travel Award Recipients

View recipients of the Honors Undergraduate Research Program Travel Award and summaries of their travel experiences.

Name, Major: Abigail Martin, Psychology
Conference: 57th Annual Convention for the Association for Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies
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Name, Major: Alexandria Speak, Animal and Dairy Science
Conference: 2023 Equine Science Society Symposium
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Name, Major: Julie Anne Miller, Psychology
Conference: 2023 Society for Personality Assessment Convention
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Name, Major: MacKenzie Paul, Psychology
Conference: APS’s International Convention of Psychological Science
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Name, Major: Rachel Adair, Business Economics
Conference: 2023 National Communication Association Annual Convention
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Name, Major: Surabhi Gupta, Wildlife, Fisheries & Aquaculture
Conference: GeoSym 2023: Spatiality & Sustainability Symposium
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Name, Major: Tanner Marlow, Agronomy
Conference: Undergraduate ACTC Conference
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Name, Major: Alyssa Williams, Biochemistry
Conference: Annual Meeting of the Association for Psychological Science
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Name, Major: Amelia Driggers, Biological Engineering
Conference: Gerontological Society of America
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Name, Major: Bailey Whitmore, Psychology
Conference: Association for Psychological Science convention
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Name, Major: Julie Anne Miller, Psychology
Conference: Annual Meeting of the Association for Psychological Science
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Name, Major: Mary Marshall Waller, Biological Sciences
Conference: American Public Health Association Annual Meeting & Expo
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Name, Major: Mckenna Alden, Geoscience
Conference: American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting 2022
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Name, Major: Yuliya Gluhova, Anthropology and Middle Eastern Cultures
Conference: American Anthropological Association Annual Conference, Baltimore, MD
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Name, Major: Danielle Leclercq, Architecture
Conference: The Unbuilt Crosby Arboretum Exhibition at Octagon Museum, Washington, D.C.
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Name, Major: Emily Tingle, Sociology & Political Science
Conference: South Eastern Undergraduate Sociology Symposium, Atlanta, GA
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Name, Major: Kaylee Bundy, Biological Engineering
Conference: Southern Biomedical Engineering Conference, New Orleans, LA
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Name, Major: LeAnn Ward, Biological Engineering
Conference: Mississippi Academy of Sciences Annual Meeting, Biloxi, MS
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Name, Major: Nada Abdel-Aziz, Architecture
Conference: The Unbuilt Crosby Arboretum Exhibition at Octagon Museum, Washington, D.C.
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Name, Major: Ryan Cobb, Aerospace Engineering
Conference: AAS Guidance, Navigation, and Control Conference, Breckenridge, CO
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Name, Major: Sydney Wicks, Psychology
Conference: The Society for Personality & Social Psychology Annual Conference, New Orleans, LA
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Name, Major: Andi Durham, Psychology
Conference: Association for Psychological Science, Washington, D.C.
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Name, Major: Anna Rourke, Biological Engineering
Conference: Biomedical Engineering Society Annual Conference, Philadelphia, PA
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Name, Major: Brady Kruse, Computer Science
Conference: Southern Regional Honors Council Conference, Memphis, TN
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Name, Major: Brady Kruse, Computer Science
Conference: National Conference for Undergraduate Research, Kennesaw, GA
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Name, Major: Charmaine Beluso, Computer Science
Conference: The Sixth National Workshop for REU Research in Networking, Monterey, CA
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Name, Major: Georgiana Swan, Political Science and Psychology
Conference: Popular Culture Association Conference, Washington, D.C.
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Name, Major: Jacob Easley, Mechanical Engineering
Conference: Nuclear Emerging Technologies in Space, Richland, WA
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Name, Major: Jaylan Sears, Biological Sciences
Conference: Society of Toxicology 58th Annual Meeting & ToxExpo, Baltimore, MD
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Name, Major: Kaylee Bundy, Biological Engineering
Conference: Biomedical Engineering Society Annual Conference, Philadelphia, PA
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Name, Major: Khalil Markham, Computer Engineering
Conference: PPIA Carnegie Mellon University Public Service Weekend Conference, Washington, D.C.
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Name, Major: Mariah Warner, Criminology
Conference: Southern Regional Honors Council Conference, Memphis, TN

Name, Major: Mary Frances Segars, Biological Engineering
Conference: Biomedical Engineering Society Annual Conference, Philadelphia, PA
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Name, Major: Mayukh Datta, Chemical Engineering
Conference: Harvard Project for Asian and International Relations, Cambridge, MA
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Name, Major: William Calderon, Chemical Engineering
Conference: Popular Culture Association Conference, Washington, D.C.

Name, Major: Aaron Albee, Microbiology
Conference: Mississippi Academy of Sciences Conference, Hattiesburg, MS
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Name, Major: Allison "AlliGrace" Story, Psychology
Conference: Southeastern Psychological Association (SEPA) Annual Meeting, Charleston, SC
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Name, Major: Emily McCabe, Agricultural and Biological Engineering
Conference: Biomedical Engineering Society Annual Meeting, Atlanta, GA
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Name, Major: Feifei Zeng, International Business
Conference: The Global Governance Forum at Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey
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Name, Major: Hannah Hardwick, Kinesiology
Conference: North American Federation of Adapted Physical Activity, Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR
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Name, Major: Isabella Durham, Wildlife, Fisheries, and Aquaculture
Conference: British Ecological Society, Ghent, Belgium
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Name, Major: Joy Cariño, English
Conference: 2018 National Conference for Undergraduate Research (NCUR), Edmond, OK
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Name, Major: Lily Hebert, Psychology and English
Conference: Southeastern Psychological Association (SEPA) Annual Meeting, Charleston, SC
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Name, Major: Maleen Jayanath Kidiwela Appuhamillage Don, Geosciences
Conference: American Geophysical Union, Washington, D.C.
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Name, Major: Marisa Laudadio, Political Science
Conference: 2018 National Conference for Undergraduate Research (NCUR), Edmond, OK
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Name, Major: Mark Lewis, Biochemistry
Conference: 44th Annual Conference of the International Embryo Technology, Bangkok, Thailand
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Name, Major: Martin McCandless, Aerospace Engineering
Conference: Aerospace Medical Association 89th Annual Scientific Meeting, Dallas, TX
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Name, Major: Mayukh Datta, Chemical Engineering
Conference: AIChE National Conference, Pittsburgh, PA
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Name, Major: Mayukh Datta, Chemical Engineering
Conference: AIChE Southeast Regional Conference, Baton Rouge, LA
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Name, Major: Meghan Brino, Biological Sciences
Conference: University of Zagreb (UNIZG), Croatia
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Name, Major: Noah van Hartesveldt, Geoscience
Conference: European Coral Reef Symposium, University of Oxford, UK
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Name, Major: Phong Ly, Civil Engineering
Conference: 2018 National Conference for Undergraduate Research (NCUR), Edmond, OK
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Name, Major: Rachel Booth, Psychology
Conference: The Stanford Research Conference 2018, Stanford, CA
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Name, Major: Rachel Booth, Psychology
Conference: Association of Psychological Sciences, San Francisco, CA
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Name, Major: Rachel Booth, Psychology
Conference: Psychonomics Conference, New Orleans, LA
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Name, Major: Rachel Booth, Psychology
Conference: 2018 National Conference for Undergraduate Research (NCUR), Edmond, OK
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Name, Major: Samuel Lucas, Chemical Engineering
Conference: 2018 National Conference for Undergraduate Research (NCUR), Edmond, OK
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Name, Major: Sarah Darrow, Computer Science
Conference: 3rd Annual ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human Robot, Chicago, IL
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Name, Major: William Bell, Aerospace Engineering
Conference: AIAA NEXT GEN Technical Symposium, Huntsville, AL
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Name, Major: Jackson Coole, Biomedical Engineering
Conference: National Conference on Undergraduate Research, Memphis, TN
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Name, Major: John Hunt, Biomedical Engineering
Conference: Biophysical Society 61st Annual Meeting, New Orleans, LA
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Name, Major: Lucia Lang, Aerospace Engineering (Aeronautics)
Conference: Association for Core texts and Courses Student Conference, Irvine, CA
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Name, Major: Richard Leonard, III, Mechanical Engineering and Mathematics
Conference: National Conference on Undergraduate Research, Memphis, TN
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Name, Major: Shaquela Hargrove, Psychology
Conference: Southeastern Psychological Association (SEPA), Atlanta, GA
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Name, Major: Wellesley Dittmar, Biological Engineering
Conference: 2017 Equine Science Symposium, Minnesota
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Name, Major: William B. Leonard, Industrial Engineering
Conference: National Conference on Undergraduate Research 2017, Memphis, TN
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Name, Major: Zachary Henry, Architecture
Conference: Building Technology Educator’s Society 2017 Conference, Des Moines, IA
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Name, Major: Alexander Ward, Philosophy
Conference: National Council on Undergraduate Research, Asheville, NC

Name, Major: Amanda Harper, Biochemistry
Conference: Southeastern Society of Parasitologists Annual Meeting, Fort Mill, SC
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Name, Major: Anna Barr, Architecture
Conference: 2016 AASHE Conference & Expo, Baltimore, MD

Name, Major: Audrey Alexander, Psychology
Conference: Southeastern Psychological Association (SEPA), New Orleans, LA
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Name, Major: Kaitlyn May, Educational Psychology
Conference: Mid-South Educational Research Association (MSERA), Mobile, AL
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Name, Major: Kris Madsen, Physics
Conference: APS April Meeting, Salt Lake City, UT

Name, Major: Mark Lewis, Biochemistry
Conference: 2016 Joint Annual Meeting (JAM), Salt Lake City, UT

Name, Major: Robert Buntyn, Biological Sciences
Conference: Society of Toxicology 55th Annual Meeting & ToxExpo, New Orleans, LA

Name, Major: Shaquela Hargrove, Psychology
Conference: Southeastern Psychological Association (SEPA), New Orleans, LA
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Name, Major: Amari Kimble, Physical Education, Kinesiology
Conference: Southeast American College of Sports Medicine 2015 Meeting, Jacksonville, FL

Name, Major: Anne Marie Kovach, Biological Engineering
Conference: Society for Biomaterials Annual Conference, Charlotte, NC

Name, Major: Anne Marie Kovach, Biological Engineering
Conference: BioMedical Engineering Society Annual 2015 Meeting, Tampa, FL

Name, Major: Christopher Collins, Mechanical Engineering
Conference: Human-Robot Interaction 2015, Portland, OR

Name, Major: Destini Smith, Psychology
Conference: Society of Southeastern Social Psychologists 37th Meeting, Winston-Salem, NC

Name, Major: Dexter Duckworth, Computer Engineering
Conference: Human-Robot Interaction 2015, Portland, OR

Name, Major: Erin Wilson, Biochemistry
Conference: Weed Science Society of America, San Juan, Puerto Rico

Name, Major: Feifei Zeng, International Business
Conference: Industry Hub, Silicon Valley, CA

Name, Major: Jenna Kilgore, Psychology
Conference: ABCT 49th Annual Convention, Chicago, IL

Name, Major: Kris Madsen, Physics
Conference: Division of Nuclear Physics Fall Meeting, Santa Fe, NM

Name, Major: Lien Van Geel, English
Conference: Fourth Annual Undergraduate Classics Conference, Knoxville, TN

Name, Major: Lucas Ferguson, Microbiology
Conference: American Society of Virology 34th Annual Meeting, London, Ontario, Canada

Name, Major: Richard Leonard, III, Mathematics
Conference: American Mathematical Society Joint Mathematics Meeting, Seattle, WA