URSA announces Fall 2024 Travel Award recipients
The Office of Undergraduate Research and Scholarly Activity congratulates the following undergraduate students who received a Fall 2024 Travel Award to actively participate in a gathering of their professional peers this semester.
Daniela Barrera Guevara
Major: Geoscience
Paper Presentation: A new juvenile bonebed of chasmosaurine ceratopsids from the Upper Campanian Cerro
del Pueblo Formation, Coahuila, Mexico: affiliation to the Pentaceratops-lineage of
southern Laramidial
Society of Vertebrate Paleontology Annual Meeting (Minneapolis, Minnesota)
Mentored by Patrick Druckenmiller
Xochitl Muñoz
Major: Geoscience
Paper Presentation: A comparatively large-bodied, high-latitude therian from the Upper Cretaceous (Campanian)
Prince Creek Formation of northern ÀÖ»¢Ö±²¥ (USA)
Society of Vertebrate Paleontology Annual Meeting (Minneapolis, Minnesota)
Mentored by Patrick Druckenmiller
Cole Osowski
Major: Political Science
Student Conference on U.S. Affairs ( West Point Military Academy, Orange County, New
York)
Mentored by Brandon Boylan
Tane Timling
Major: Digital Journalism
Presentation: 3D Printing Terrain Maps for Science Communication
American Geophysical Union- 2024 Annual Meeting (Washington, D.C. )
Mentored by Erin Trochim
URSA Travel Awards are available on a rolling basis throughout the year and support students who plan to actively participate in a conference, competition, immersive program, performance, workshop, or other type of meeting or congregation of the student's peers/professionals in their respective field. Students with accepted participation to an event are encouraged to apply.
Contact the URSA office for more information on how to apply: uaf-ursa@alaska.edu | 907-450-8772.