Congratulations to 2005 Collaborative Inquiry Grant awardees

The Undergraduate Research and Collaborative Scholarship Program has awarded 20 Collaborative Inquiry Grants to undergraduates for spring 2005.

The students plan to work on a diverse array of projects with faculty collaborators, in departments across campus. They will present reports on their work at the Bush Grant Program's Inquiry at a UST poster session at the end of this semester. Students and faculty will receive stipends from university matching funds associated with the Bush Grant Program to support their work.

The student awardees and their advisers are:

• Mark Bussey -- adviser Chris Kachian, music
• Christina Bye -- adviser Kathy Olson, biochemistry
• Nicole Duxbury -- adviser Adam Kay, biology
• Matthew Gogola -- adviser Shersten Johnson, music
• Anna Hoefs -- adviser Carol Bruess, communication studies
• Ingrid Johnsen -- adviser Greg Robinson-Riegler, psychology
• Margaret Kendall and Craig Hill -- adviser Kevin Theissen, geology
• Lisa LoMurray -- adviser Marv Davidov, journalism and justice and peace studies
• Rachel Lundeen -- adviser Tony Borgerding, chemistry
• Susan Pribyl, John Schwerkoske, and Jay Vlaminck -- adviser Tom Ippoliti, chemistry
• Adam Rennaker -- adviser Patrick Jarvis, quantitative methods and computer science
• Natalie Stork and Kaija Wilson -- adviser Tony Steyermark, biology
• Dan Voshell -- adviser John Spry, economics
• Ben Werner, Cory Tranby, and Robert Kennedy -- adviser Tom Sturm, quantitative methods and computer science

For more information on Undergraduate Research and Collaborative Scholarship programs, see the URCS Web site.