The CIAS Mini-Grant Program provides funding for graduate students to conduct research and outreach projects over the course of a single summer. In 2023, 11 graduate students will receive funding to conduct the research and outreach projects listed below. Recipients will learn how to manage a grant, participate in leadership activities and present their findings to their peers. Visit our site next fall to learn what they discovered, and apply for research support for summer 2024 when the Call for Proposals is released in spring.
Rurality as Relations: Organizational networks, multispecies interactions, and place-based knowledge in north central Montana’s changing socio-ecological landscape
Student researcher: John Canfield, Department of Sociology
Faculty advisor: Katherine Curtis, Department of Sociology
Geographies of Food Excess and Access: Visualizing Dane County foodscapes
Student researcher: Delaney Gobster, Nelson Institute for Environmental Studies
Faculty advisor: Holly Gibbs, Department of Geography and the Nelson Institute for Environmental Studies
Pressures and incentives for cranberry management practices
Student researcher: Celeste Huff, Department of Entomology
Faculty advisor: Shawn Steffan, Department of Entomology
The political ecology of climate-smart agriculture
Student researcher: Laura Lawler, Department of Geography
Faculty advisor: Matt Turner, Department of Geography
Examining the effects of increased water prices to agricultural producers in the Colorado River basin
Student researcher: Ben Lebowitz, Department of Agricultural and Applied Economics
Faculty advisor: Charles Nicholson, Department of Agricultural and Applied Economics
Growing Resistance: An analysis of Montreal’s urban agriculture
Student researcher: Tristian Lee, Department of Community and Environmental Sociology
Faculty advisor: Nan Enstad, Department of Community and Environmental Sociology
Evaluation of flowering cover crops to support wild pollinators in Wisconsin
Student researcher: Eliza Pessereau, Department of Entomology
Faculty advisor: Claudio Gratton, Department of Entomology
Managing inter-row spacing and nitrogen fertility in dual-use Kernza intermediate wheatgrass (Thinopyrum intermedium) to sustain grain yield over time
Student researcher: Erica Shoenberger, Department of Agronomy and Department of Soil Science
Faculty advisor: Valentin Picasso, Department of Agronomy
Genetic diversity of mastitis-associated bacterial isolates from stable flies in Wisconsin dairy barns
Student researcher: Andrew Sommer, Department of Bacteriology
Faculty advisor: Kerri Coon, Department of Bacteriology
Aerial mapping of ammonia emissions from rotationally grazed dairy pastures
Student researcher: Doee Yang, Department of Biological Systems Engineering
Faculty advisor: Neslihan Akdeniz, Department of Biological Systems Engineering
Ventilation design for calf barns
Student researcher: Yoonhong Yi, Department of Biological Systems Engineering
Faculty advisor: Neslihan Akdeniz, Department of Biological Systems Engineering