Cosmos Scholars Awards Recipients—2021
Name |
School |
Topic |
| Sultan Alamer | The George Washington University | Minorities without Majorities: Nation-Building and Sectarianism in the Arabian Peninsula |
| Sarah A. Alobaid | George Mason University | Measuring Gene Expression by using RNA-Seq |
| Victoria R. Broadus ***** | Georgetown University | Deciphering "Vissungos" in Diamantina, Brazil |
| Mary DePascale | University of Maryland, College Park | Promoting Children's Early Mathematical and Statistical Understanding through Parent-Child Math Games |
| Matthew T. Gabay | The Catholic University of America | Music Printing in Nuremberg during the Long Seventeenth Century: The Endter Printing Dynasty |
| Yuan Gao | Georgetown University | White Gold in the Oases: Cotton, Economy, and Environment on China and Russia's Eurasian frontier, 1877- 1917 |
| Kelsey A. Hauser | The George Washington University | Through thick and skin: Defining the antifungal roles of cutaneous granulocytes in the face of amphibian declines |
| Christopher Hossack ****** | The George Washington University | Using Lanthanide Luminescence to Design Better Quantum Computers |
| Savannah Kounelis-Wuillaume **** | Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences | Determining the role of astrocyte-specific chemokine |
| Debbie K. Ledezma | The George Washington University | Interstitial photothermal therapy as a novel strategy to treat neuroblastoma |
| Daniel Levy | University of Maryland, College Park | Investigating the scalability and bioactivity of induced pluripotent stem cell-derived extracellular vesicles as a regenerative medicine therapeutic. |
| Shican Li | Georgetown University | How a Flagellated Pathogen Survives in the Viscoelastic Host Mucus |
| Yaprak Ozakman | The George Washington University | Deciphering How Host Immune Response Shapes Mycobacterial Evolution |
| Leena Pade | University of Maryland, College Park | Uncovering signaling involved in neural development using mass spectrometry |
| Dylan A. Proctor | Georgetown University | Livestock and Dead Meat: Africa in the Global Dissemination of the Foot-and-Mouth Disease Virus, XIX-XX Centuries |
| Pooja Sharma * | The Catholic University of America | Deciphering molecular details of breast cancer cell growth and drug resistance |
| Matthew Timmerman | American University | Archival Analysis of British Foreign Office Material from the 1960s |
| Nicole Y. Wagner *** | Georgetown University | Exploring the Depths of Antarctic Lake Untersee |
| Samantha R. White | American University | Learning to Choose: investigating the role of corticostriatal circuits in learning and decision making |
| Abbey R. Yatsko | The George Washington University | If a tree rots in the forest: Linking deadwood decay to greenhouse gas emissions |
| Gamze Yavuzer ** | University of Maryland, College Park | Legal Pluralism in Family Law: Muslim and Christian Families in Seventeenth-Century Istanbul |
* Joseph McLaughlin Meritorious Award in Biomedical Science
** Joan Ridder Challinor Meritorious Award for Overall Excellence
*** Max and Vera Britton Meritorious Award in Environmental Science
**** Henry H. Work Meritorious Award in Science
***** Gerson Nordlinger Meritorious Award in the Arts
****** Neilom Foundation Meritorious Award in Technology and Society