URSA announces 2023-2024 Mentor Award recipients
The Office of Undergraduate Research and Scholarly Activity congratulates the following individuals who received an URSA 2023-2024 Mentor Award.
Sasha Bitzer
Assistant Professor of Printmaking & Painting
Student: Reily Dixon
Project Title: Cognitive Cryogenics: Visual Metaphors for Human-Environment Relationships
Jaunelle Celaire
Professor of Voice & Music Department Chair
(L-R): Dario Martin, Olivia Buzby, Grace Farrell, Alexia Devine, Steven Anderson, Jaunelle
Celaire, Mariana Beks, Ellie Martinson, Luci McWilliams
Project Title: º£½ÇÂÛ̳ North Star Borough School District Music Outreach with UAF Music Department
Erica Ebert
Fisheries, Graduate Student
Student: Amelia Knavel
Project Title: Analysis of Stable Isotopes in the Fourhorn Sculpin to Determine Foraging and Habitat
Strategies
Florian Hofmann
Research Assistant Professor, Geophysical Institute
Students: Cori Patchkofsky (L), Ada Causey (R)
Project Title: Developing Techniques to Date Young Volcanics in Alaska
Claudia Ihl

Professor of Biology, NW Campus

Students: Lynette Adams & Janet Adams
Project Title: Muskox Winter Foraging in Changing Snow Conditions near Nome
Ana Medina
Fisheries, Graduate Student
Student: Nivedita Menon
Project Title: Determining Life History Attributes of Rainbow Smelt in the Nearshore Waters of the
Beaufort Sea