UROP Update January 2025
The second request-for-proposals resulted in three student and five equipment proposals.
Proposals were reviewed with three student and four equipment proposals funded, totaling $72,988.
Student projects funded:
- Preventing Childhood Obesity – Are Children Physically Active at Daycare?
- Student: Hayden Tinker
- Faculty: Dr. Yung-Ju ‘Ruth’ Chen
- Affiliation: Minot State University.
- The City of Bismarck Sewage Sludge as Agriculture Fertilizer
- Student: Carl Tjernlund,
- Faculty: Dr. Marko Davinic
- Affiliation: Bismarck State University
- Unraveling the phytochemistry, biological, and pharmacological activities of plants native to North Dakota
- Student: Carl Askin
- Faculty: Dr. Jinasena Hewage, Dr. Samanthika Hettiarachchi
- Affiliation: Dickinson State University
Equipment projects funded:
- Accelerometers, Dr. Yung-Ju ‘Ruth’ Chen, Kinesiology, Department of Science, Minot State University
- Sonication for Science, Genevieve Kahrilas, PhD, School of Science and Health Sciences, Chemistry
- Organic Carbon in Wetland and Lake Sediments: Informing Agricultural Practices and Mitigating Climate Change, Dr. Michelle Abshire, Science Department, Valley City State University
- Plant the Moon, Joseph L. Pettit, Rachel Schomaker, Biology, Minot State University
A third round is currently open and proposals are encouraged.
