Congrats to our Sure Award Winners

Congratulations to winners of the UHP SURE Award for this semester! Students who win the Sigelman Undergraduate Research Enhancement Award use the funds to further their own research.

Victoria Luckenbaugh will be writing about the socioeconomic and political influence of Iranian immigrants to the US based on quantitative research from the Census and other sources as well as interviews with Iranian-Americans across the country. Torie has studied Persian here at GW and in Tajikistan and her work is being advised by Pardis Minuchehr, director of GW’s Persian program.

Eileen Emerson is working on a thesis with Kim Gross from SMPA on local and national media coverage in print and television during the protests in Baltimore following the death in custody of Freddie Gray. This grew from her interest as a freshmen from the rural South in policy communication in the media and inspired by coverage of racialized protests since the rise of the BlackLivesMatter movement.
Congratulations to our winners. We’ll be following up with them later in the year to check in on their research! If you are pursuing independent research and would be interested in applying for funding, watch out for the SURE Award announcements in the Newsflash next fall!