University Research Council Awardees
2024-25 URC Awardees
Dawn Apgar
College of Arts & Sciences
“Licensure of Social Workers Engaged in Community Organization, Policy Practice, and
Administration: Conceptual and Empirical Analyses.”
Santiago Castiello-Gutierrez
College of Human Development Culture and Media
“Diversity, Faith, and Inclusion: An In-depth Investigation into the Academic and
Social Landscape of International Students in Catholic Higher Education Institutions.”
Mark Couch
College of Arts and Sciences
“Is the Mind Just a Physical Mechanism like a Computer?”
Nicolas Dahan
College of Stillman School of Business
“Critically Examining Corporate Political Strategy as Practice”
Jessica Dimka
College of Arts and Sciences
“Patient Perspectives on Delayed Care During the COVID-19 Pandemic”
Muhammad Farooq
College of Arts and Sciences
“Necrospace and literature: The (Un)Making of Undesirable Bodies in the Af-Pak Frontier”
Patrick Fisher
College of Arts and Sciences
“Generational Polarization and the Shaping of the American Political Landscape.”
Xuefeng Jiang
College of Arts and Sciences
“Doubly Enhanced Raman Spectroscopy Nanoprobe for Single Molecules Forensic Analysis”
Melissa Meade
College of Human Development, Culture, and Media
“In the Shadow of “King Coal”: Media, Memory, Identity, and Culture in the Post-Industrial
Pennsylvania Anthracite Region.”
Wyatt Murphy
College of Arts and Sciences
“Synthesis and Characterization of Ir(III) Complexes with One Cyclometalating Ligand
and Two Dative Ligands”
Kathleen Nagle
College of Health & Medical Sciences
“English Language Learners’ Perspectives on Accent Modification”
Nathan Oates
College of Arts & Science
“Watermark, a novel”
Reihaneh Safavisohi
College of Arts and Sciences
“Roles of Extracellular Vesicles in Understanding Colorectal Cancer Progression and
Biomarker Detection”
Brandon Valeriano
School of Diplomacy and International Relations
“Crisis and Competition at the Space-Cyber Nexus”