Faculty Travel Grant Awardees
Faculty travel awards are granted based on impact to the research area as well as potential to secure future funding from external sources.
Spring 2026 Awardees
| Applicant First Name | Applicant Last Name | College | Department | Conference or Group Name | Travel Destination |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Fabio | Capra Ribeiro | COAD | Architecture | International Conference on Urban Affairs | Chicago, IL |
| William | Ma | COAD | Art | Association of Asian Studies | Vancouver, BC, Canada |
| Fabiana | Trindade de Silva | COAD | Landscape Architecture | CELA 2026 Annual Conference | Cincinnati, OH |
| Soo Jeong | Jo | COAD | Architecture | The 12th International Conference on Indoor Air Quality, Ventilation & Energy Conservation in Buildings | Los Angeles, CA |
| Yongcheol | Lee | COE | Construction Management | International Conference on Computing in Civil Engineering (i3CE 2026) | Incheon, South Korea |
| Flavia-Ioana | Patrascu | COE | Construction Management | ASCE's 2026 Transportation Conference | Detroit, MI |
| Yoonhwa | Jung | COE | Construction Management | ASCE International Conference on Computing in Civil Engineering | Seoul, South Korea |
| Chad | Seifried | CHSE | Kinesiology | World Association for Sport Management | Cape Town, South Africa |
| Christopher | Hill | CHSE | Kinesiology | Society for Neural Control of Movement 2026 Annual Meeting |
Kobe, Japan |
| Hailey | Parry | CHSE | Kinesiology | Imaging Cell Dynamics |
Catalonia, Spain |
| Nicholas | Fears | CHSE | Kinesology | International Society for Autism Research Annual Meeting |
Prague, Bohemia, Czech Republic |
| Lauren | Coats | CHSS | English | Maps in American LIterature: 15th-21st C |
Lyon, France |
| Danbi | Choe | CHSS | Psychology | American Educational Research Association |
Los Angeles, CA |
| Christian | Fernandez-Palacios | CHSS | World Languages, Literatures & Cultures | 2025 Latin American Studies Association International Congress, Republic and Revolution |
Paris, France |
| David | Nee | CHSS | English | Asian Shakespeare Association Conference |
Hong Kong, China |
| Lin | He | CMDA | Music | Violin/Chamber Recital and Masterclass at the College of Music Mahidol University |
Nakhon Pathom, Thailand |
| Jordan | Dowell | COS | Biological Sciences | Fungal Genetics |
Pacific Grove, CA |
| Seungyub | Han | COB | Economics | ASSA 2026 Annual Meeting |
Philadelphia, PA |
| Maria Paola | Ugalde Araya | COB | Economics | AEFP 51st Annual Conference: Sustaining Education Research and Evidence in a Turbulent Era |
Chicago, IL |
| JeongHyun Janice | Lee | Mass Comm | Mass Communication | 2026 KACA Conference |
Honolulu, HI |
| Rachel | Peng | Mass Comm | Digital Advertising Area | American Academy of Advertising 2026 Annual Conference |
Austin, TX |
Fall 2025 Awardees
| Applicant First Name | Applicant Last Name | College | Department | Conference or Group Name | Travel Destination |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wendy | McLain | CHSE | Library & Information Science | RIMPA Live | 2025 | Melbourne, Australia |
| Paul | Soto | CHSS | Psychology | Southeastern Association for Behavior Analysis | Richmond, Virginia |
| Jeanne | Donaldson | CHSS | Psychology | Southeastern Association for Behavior Analysis | Richmond, Virginia |
| Christopher | Trapani | MDA | Music | NOW! Festival 2025 / Theater und Philharmonie Essen (Germany) | Essen, Germany |
| Monique | Domingo | COB | Management | Coordinator for the Administrator Consortium at SMA | Greensville, SC |
| Sibei | Xia | COAG | Textiles, Apparel Design & Merchandising | International Textile and Apparel Association Annual Annual Conference (ITAA) | St. Louis, Missouri |
| Chuanlun | Liu | COAG | Textiles, Apparel Design & Merchandising | International Textile and Apparel Association Annual Annual Conference (ITAA) | St. Louis, Missouri |
| Farzaneh | Oghazian | CA&D | Architecture | IASS (International Association for Shell and Spatial Structures) | Mexico City, Mexico |
| Wan-Chun | Su | CHSE | Kinesiology | fNIRS in Action: Real-World Methods for Autism Researchers | Boston, MA |
| Jaclyn | Hadfield | CHSE | Kinesiology | Global Observatory for Gender Equality & Sport | Lausanne, Switzerland |
| Kristina | Shiroma | CHSE | Library & Information Sciences | Association for Library and Information Science Education (ALISE) Annual Conference | Kansas City, Missouri |
| Ashley | Mack | CHSS | Communication Studies | National Women’s Studies Association | San Juan, Puerto Rico |
| Bryan | McCann | CHSS | Communication Studies | National Communication Association Annual Convention | Denver, CO |
| Kalling | Heck | CHSS | English | World Picture Conference | Amsterdam, the Netherlands |
| Joyce | Jackson | CHSS | Geography & Anthropology | International Longevity Summit Africa--2025 | KwaZula-Natal (near Durban) and Johannesburg, South Africa |
| Michael | Ardoline | CHSS | Philosophy | COMET: Continental Metaphysics Workshop | Nijmegen, Netherlands |
| Alejandro | Cortazar | CHSS | World Languages, Literatures & Cultures | 30 Coloquio Internacional de Literatura Mexicana e Hispanoamericana | Hermisillo, Sonora, MEXICO |
| Rafael | Orozco | CHSS | World Languages, Literatures & Cultures | New Ways of Analyzing Variation: Sociolinguistics, Conflict, Justice and Peace | Ann Arbor, Michigan |
| Alan | Sikes | MD&A | Theatre | American Society for Theatre Research | Denver, CO |
| Naohiro | Kato | COS | Biological Sciences | ASCB EMBO Meeting CELL BIO 25 | Philadelphia/PA |
| Roger | Laine | COS | Biological Sciences | Society for Glycobiology Annual Meeting | San Diego, CA |
| Sviatoslav | Baranets | COS | Chemistry | The 76th Southeastern and 81st Southwest Joint Regional Meeting of the American Chemical Society | Orlando, FL |
| Brandon | Shuck | COS | Geology & Geophysics | 2025 Fall American Geophysical Union | New Orleans, Louisiana |
| Jianwei | Wang | COS | Geology & Geophysics | 2025 American Geophysical Union (AGU) | New Orleans, Louisiana |
| Tracy | Quirk | CC&E | Oceanography & Coastal Sciences | Coastal Estuarine Research Federation Biennial Conference | Richmond, Virginia |
| Qiankun | Zhou | COB | Economics | The Annual Meeting of the Midwest Econometrics Group (MEG) | Urbana, IL |
| Thomas | Greckhamer | COB | Management | Strategic Management Society Annual Conference | San Francisco, CA |
| Asha | Winfield | Mass Comm | Mass Communication | National Communication Association | Denver, Colorado |
| Ruth | Moon Mari | Mass Comm | Mass Communication | Future of Journalism 2025 | Cardiff, UK |