Cosmos Scholars Awards Recipients—2017
Name |
School |
Topic |
| Zachary Batz | Georgetown University | Latitudinal variation in amino acid metabolism during diapause in Aedes albopictus |
| Beverley Catlett | Georgetown University | Bloom: A Study in the Life and Works of the World's Leading Literary Critic |
| Andrew Cuff ***** | Catholic University of America | The Search for Baldwin of Bossu's Sentence Commentary |
| Christopher DeLorenzo | Georgetown University | Coca Substitution and Popular Response in the Yungas of La Paz, Bolivia, 1920-1988 |
| Danielle Gilbert | George Washington University | The Causes and Consequences of Extractive Kidnapping |
| Phillip Goodling | University of Maryland, College Park | Seismo-Acoustic Observation of Flow Velocity, Turbulent Intensity, and Cavitation in a Bedrock River |
| Jon Paul Heyne | Catholic University of America | The Franciscans of the Holy Land: Religion and Politics of the Mediterranean in the Age of Queen Sancia |
| Abigail Holekamp | Georgetown University | Informing Revolutions: Transmissions of History and Production of Knowledge in Russia and France 1892-1932 |
| Jangai Jap | George Washington University | Building National Unity through Power-sharing: A Subnational Study of Burma |
| Ruby Johnson | George Washington University | Privatizing Welfare: Mormon Women and Utah's New Deal Alternative |
| Advait Jukar ** | George Mason University | Three million years of change in large mammal communities from the Indian Subcontinent |
| Chase LaDue | George Mason University | Understanding musth in captive and wild Asian elephants: Implications for in-situ and ex-situ conservation strategies |
| Camille Lombard-Banek | George Washington University | Uncovering the Proteomic Mechanisms of Metabolite-induced Cell Fate Changes in the Frog Embryo |
| Alex Macartney | Georgetown University | Red Armies and the Global Revolution |
| John Manubay * | George Washington University | How top-predators capture their prey: Ecological and functional specialization in army ants |
| Sirak Mekonen | Howard University | Terahertz Spectroscopy for Characterization of Metamaterials and Atomic Layered 2D Materials |
| Erika Portero | George Washington University | Deciphering Chemical Chirality during Embryonic Cell Fate Commitment |
| Austin Powell | Catholic University of America | Constructing Religious Authority through Letters in Late Medieval Italy |
| Alexa Price | George Washington University | 'Nostalgia, Heroism, and British Conceptions of the Historical Sailor at the Turn of the Nineteenth Century' |
| Tricia Rowlison | University of Maryland, College Park | The sperm centrosome: a potential source of infertility in endangered wild cat species. |
| Deepali Sengupta *** | University of Maryland, College Park | Rejuvenating the Aging Brain with Estrogen |
| Alexandra Stark | Georgetown University | Logics of Intervention: the United States and Saudi Arabia in the North Yemen (YAR) Civil War, 1962-1970 |
| Eleanor Stoltzfus **** | University of Maryland, College Park | New Womanhood and the Bauhaus: The Avant-Garde Photography of Lucia Moholy |
| Benjamin Young | George Washington University | North and South Korean involvement in sub-Saharan Africa |
| Cory Young | Georgetown University | South by North: Cotton Country Migrations during the Age of Gradual Abolition, 1780-1830 |
* Henry H. Work Science Award
** Max and Vera Britton Environmental Science Award
*** J.K. McLaughlin Award in Biomedical Science
**** Gerson Nordlinger Award in the Arts
***** Joan Challinor Award for Overall Excellence