Cosmos Scholars Awards Recipients—2016
Name |
School |
Topic |
| Danielle Adams | University of Maryland, College Park | Scent of a male: social status, hormones, and scent in greater spear-nosed bats |
| Chelsea Berry | Georgetown University | Poisoned Relations: Medicine, Sorcery, and Poison Trials in the Greater Caribbean, 1690-1850 |
| Matthew Bias | The George Washington University | Daily Life in Poznan during the Radicalization of Nationalism |
| Gregory Brew | Georgetown University | Mandarins, Paladins and Pahlavis: Anglo-American Modernization and the Dual Integration of Oil in Iran, 1925-1963 |
| Grace Capshaw | University of Maryland, College Park | Hearing without ears: A structural basis for extratympanic hearing in lungless salamanders |
| Tanya Catignani | George Mason University | Geospatial Analysis of the Ancient Maya Wetland Agricultural Fields of Northern Belize |
| Julie Chamberlain | The George Washington University | A Saint for Our Times': Mother Teresa, U.S. Healthcare, and the Humanitarian Ethic |
| Sam Choi | The George Washington University | Ultra High-Sensitivity Peptide Identification for Neurodegenerative Disease Research |
| Kristen Craven | George Mason University | Utilizing Western Blot to Assess the Effects of Tau and Zinc in a Transgenic Mouse |
| Kate Dannies | Georgetown University | Harem to Homefront: Ottoman Women in World War I |
| Laurence Dumouchel* | The George Washington University | The environments of the earliest Australopithecus |
| Andrey Gornostaev***** | Georgetown University | Peasants 'on the Move': Illegal Migration in Eighteenth-Century Russia |
| Margaret Harrington | University of Maryland, College Park | Picturing Devotion in Four Dutch Golden Age Huiskerken |
| Kelsey Kim**** | George Mason University | Material in the Immaterial World: Material Culture and the Realization of Utopia in Communities of Shakers, Mormons, and Oneida Perfectionists |
| Alicia Korol** | George Mason University | Improving the precision of our Chesapeake Bay watershed estimates of floodplain nitrogen removal |
| Grant Lewis | George Mason University | Effects of Small Business Regulation on Firm-Level Outcomes |
| John Maurer***** | Georgetown University | An Era of Negotiation: The Strategic Arms Limitation Talks, 1969-1972 |
| Andrew Moore | The George Washington University | Before the Morrison: the evolution of sauropod dinosaurs in the Middle and early Late Jurassic |
| Caroline Neely*** | George Mason University | The effects of dietary copper and zinc on NMDA-receptor expression: Implications for fear associative learning impairment and post-traumatic stress disorder |
| Jackson Perry | Georgetown University | Baron Ferdinand von Mueller's Scientific Network of Eucalyptus Enthusiasts |
| Jonathan Reeves* | The George Washington University | The evolution of hominin land-use: An environmental approach to Pleistocene stone tool |
| Adele Roland | George Mason University | Impact of ambient sound on minke whale habitat use and energy budgets. |
| Serajus Salaheen | University of Maryland, College Park | Natural phenolic antimicrobials from berry byproducts replacing synthetic antibiotics in farm animal production |
| Brian Schilder | The George Washington University | The Evolution of Adult Neurogenesis Across Primates |
* 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