Eight doctoral and master’s degree candidates have been selected for the academic year 2024-25 Graduate Student Research Fund Award.
The Graduate Student Research Fund is a competitive, cross-disciplinary award that provides up to $1,000 to doctoral, PhD, and master's degree students conducting independent research or pursuing an artistic endeavor that advances their disciplinary field and/or professional goals.
This award is sponsored by the Office of Research and Fellowships at Simmons University.
2024 Graduate Student Conference Fund Recipients
- Abigail Smith (Dual Degree Master’s Candidate, Library and Information Science and History), "African Student Grants Sought": An examination of Kenyan international students at West Virginian HBCUs
- Aidan Bryant (Master’s Candidate, Library and Information Science), Art Books as a Visual Repository: Creating Art Through Libraries
- Alyn Gamble (PhD Candidate, Library and Information Science), "A Great Place to Meet”: Oral Histories of Sexual and Gender Minority Members of a Twelve-Step Program Clubhouse
- Juniper Duncan (Master’s Candidate, Library and Information Science), How Choral Musicians Create: The Music Information Behaviours of A Domain and Skill-Specific Community of Practice
- Kameron Mendes (PhD Candidate, Social Work), Examining how theories of suicide are being utilized to explain the association between suicide and intimate partner violence: a systematic narrative review.
- Kathleen Flynn (Master’s Candidate, Public Health), Closing the Blood Pressure Racial Gap: A Public Health Approach to Reducing Hypertension in the Black Population on Cape Cod, Massachusetts
- Lillian Sosa (PhD Candidate, Health Profession Education), Exploring the Use of Population Descriptors in Genetic Counseling Supervision
- Sam Geheran (Master’s Candidate, Public Health), Health and Housing for Somerville Seniors