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Recent independent research projects include:
• “Indigenous Resilience, Adaptation, and Community Solidarity in the Face of Climate Change”
• “Rethinking Redevelopment: New Urbanism, Neoliberalism, and Sustainable Urban Design in Cleveland, Ohio”
• “Changing Carbon Allocation to Nuts and Woody Tissue in an Experimental Hazelnut Orchard”
• “Interrogating the ‘And’: A Study of Environmentalism and Disability”
• “Exploring Japanese Local Food Systems through the Lens of Organic Rice Farming”
• “A Comparison of Soil Carbon Estimates Based on Different Sampling Techniques in a Forest and Meadow in Northeast Ohio”
• “Constructing Alternate Futures: Speculative Fiction within the Environmental Justice Movement”
• “Tree Planting to Promote Carbon Sequestration in Recently Abandoned Farm Fields on the 91ֱ�� College Campus”

2017-18 Awards

• Kieran Minor ’19 Truman Scholarship and Davis ‘Projects for Peace’ Award
• Emily Stanford ’18 Watson Fellowship
• Brian Rubin ‘18 and Benjamin Steger ‘18 were awarded Launch U’s second place prize of $10,000 for their startup Virtu.Academy, an online music lessons service that connects 91ֱ�� Conservatory students to middle and high school students across the state of Ohio.
• Tessa Emmer ’11, (ES/ECON double major), along with her business partners Catherine O’Hare ’11 (BIOL), and Avery Resor received LaunchU’s first place award of $20,000 for their venture Salt Point Seaweed in the 2018 LaunchU pitch competition. The company sells high-quality nutritional seaweed sustainably harvested by hand in northern California. The three are committed to using their business as a force for environmental protection, community development, and food system transformation.

2016-17 Awards

• Lindsey Brubaker ’19, Critical Language Scholarship, Japan
• Marie Lilly ‘17, Fulbright ETA, Colombia
• Brendan Nuse ‘17, Shansi Fellowship, Shanxi, Taigu, China
• Hyacinth Parker ‘17, Shansi Fellowship, Yogyakarta, Indonesia
• Paulus Van Horne ‘17, Watson Fellowship