UW-River Falls Foundation Announces $64,000 in Support of Student and Faculty Grants

UW-River Falls Foundation Board Chairman Jeff McCardle announced grant awards to faculty who submitted proposals for consideration and summer stipend awards for students for students conducting on-campus research this summer.

Faculty grant proposals were evaluated on how support would improve the quality of education students receive, improve teaching performance, enhance research, advance the stature of the university, college, and department, expand the faculty member's body of knowledge, add to the faculty-student experience, and assist in developing community-university partnerships and collaborations. The following faculty received grants:

Support for student summer research will provide the opportunity for students to be engaged in projects that apply their learned analytical and creative tools to a genuine problem, design a way to answer it, and defend their answers before their peers and faculty. The following Students will receive summer stipends:

Katherine Phalen - Somerset, WI
Abstract Title: The Synthesis of meta-Chloro- and meta-Bromo- Analogs of Capsaicin: Potential New Analgesic Agents

Brooke Shepherd - LaCrosse, WI
Abstract Title: Reviewing for Exams: Do Crossword Puzzles help in the Success of Student Learning?

Nathan Wilber - River Falls, WI
Abstract Title: Diverse Workforce Acceptance on Western Wisconsin Dairy Farms and Communities

Britanny Brenner - Ellsworth, WI
Abstract Title: Synthesis of halogenated N-acylated aromatic amines and capsaicin receptor antagonist.

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