Category: WARF

WARF-Funded Student Profile: Finn Shepherd

Finn's dissertation explores how English contact and language are received differently in two online communities.

Marianna Krumrine

Marianna studies how hip-hop and other types of music shape national identity and ideas of belonging in contemporary France.

Will French

Will's scholarship focuses on the school experiences of queer youth, trans youth, and youth of color.

Tanuj Kumar

Tanuj specializes in engineering the interaction between light and optical materials and devices.

Mireya Pimentel

Mireya’s research focuses on immunology in Down syndrome and CD18 expression.

Carlos A. Huang-Zhu

Carlos is a PhD candidate whose research informs biomedical applications and chemical production. His doctoral research uses molecular dynamics simulations to model interactions between inorganic nanoparticles and model biological membranes.

Oluwatobi (Tobi) Idowu

Tobi’s research interests include African popular culture, digital media, and global Black literatures.

Sarah Tolbert

Sarah’s PhD research focuses on how to increase local communities’ capacity for forest conservation in the DRC.

Charles Smith

Charles is a PhD student in the joint PhD program in Finance and Economics at the Wisconsin School of Business whose research lies at the intersection of finance and industrial organization.

Elise Chavez

Elise works on experiments using data from the Compact Muon Solenoid (CMS) detector in the Large Hadron Collider, probing the laws of physics to find the interesting and unexpected.