Gainesville, FL (11/12/19) –The University of Florida International Center (UFIC) is pleased to announce the recipients of the Research Abroad for Doctoral Students (RADs). All RADs recipients will be recognized during the annual International Education Week reception on Monday, November 18 at 5:30 PM at the UF Keene Faculty Center.
The RADs program provides support to doctoral candidates in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) disciplines to conduct an extended period of their dissertation research at a foreign laboratory or field-site. The Research Abroad for Doctoral Students initiative represents a collaborative effort of the University of Florida International Center, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, Graduate School and Office of the Provost. The RAD program aims to prepare doctoral students to compete and become leaders in an increasingly global research environment, and build and strengthen relationships between research groups at the University of Florida and foreign institutions.
During the 2019-2020 program year, the following 14 doctoral candidates will receive funding to complete their doctoral research:
Scott Cinel
Doctoral student in Biology, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences
Faculty Advisor: Dr. Akito Kawahara, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences
Proposed Research and Location: Examining how predation risk affects the stress neurophysiology and neural development of an agricultural pest moth, the corn earworm: Panama
Liselotte de Wit
Doctoral student in Clinical and Health Psychology, College of Public Health and Health Professions
Faculty Advisor: Dr. Glenn Smith, Clinical and Health Psychology, College of Public Health and Health Professions
Proposed Research and Location: Assessing whether or not procedural memory remains spared in the early stages of Alzheimer’s disease across transnational cohorts: Netherlands
Jamie Fuller
Doctoral Student in Anthropology, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences
Faculty Advisor: Dr. Abdoulaye Kane, Anthropology, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences
Proposed Research and Location: Ethnographically investigating the meanings and motives attached to remittance sending among the 'left behind' families of Senegalese migrant women: Senegal
Qingming Huang
Doctoral Student in Political Science, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences
Faculty Advisor: Dr. Benjamin Smith, Political Science, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences
Proposed Research and Location: Examining the resiliency of Communism in East Asia: South Korea
Treenate Jiranantasak
Doctoral Student in Infectious Diseases and Immunology, College of Veterinary Medicine
Faculty Advisor: Dr. Apichai Tuanyok, Infectious Diseases and Immunology, College of Veterinary Medicine
Proposed Research and Location: Estimating the seroprevalence of melioidosis in pigs by using standard indirect hemagglutination assay (IHA) and novel enzyme-link immunosorbent assay (ELISA) to detect antibodies toward B. pseudomallei and identify risk factors associated with seropositivity to B. pseudomallei infection in intensive pig farming in Thailand: Thailand
Hui Jean Kok
Doctoral Student in Applied Physiology & Kinesiology, College of Health and Human Performance
Faculty Advisor: Dr. Elizabeth Barton, Applied Physiology & Kinesiology, College of Health and Human Performance
Proposed Research and Location: Investigating if increased IGF-I in muscle contributes to both muscle and bone remodeling during disuse and reloaded conditions: Canada
Kimberly Ledger
Doctoral Student in Wildlife Ecology and Conservation, Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences
Faculty Advisor: Dr. Samantha Wisely, Wildlife Ecology and Conservation, Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences
Proposed Research and Location: Integrating approaches from landscape and community ecology to understand how land use and defaunation contribute to tick abundance and diversity, and how that translates to prevalence of significant human and livestock tick-borne diseases: South Africa
Kathrine McNamara
Doctoral Student in Environmental and Global Health, College Public Health and Health Professions
Faculty Advisor: Dr. Sarah McKune, Environmental and Global Health, College Public Health and Health Professions
Proposed Research and Location: Examining health outcomes by exploring evolving gender systems in relation to environmental change in Ecuador: Ecuador
Oswaldo Medina-Ramirez
Doctoral Student in Anthropology, College of Liberal Arts & Sciences
Faculty Advisor: Dr. Jeffrey Johnson, Anthropology, College of Liberal Arts & Sciences
Proposed Research and Location: Exploring water governance practices in the context of sensitive tropical landscapes: Costa Rica
Licino Nunes de Miranda
Doctoral Student in History, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences
Faculty Advisor: Dr. Jeffrey D. Needell, History, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences
Proposed Research and Location: Examining the abolitionist movement in Ceará, Brazil: Brazil
Mirela Silva
Doctoral Student in Electrical and Computer Engineering, Herbert Wertheim College of Engineering
Faculty Advisor: Dr. Daniela Oliveira, Electrical and Computer Engineering, Herbert Wertheim College of Engineering
Proposed Research and Location: Aiming to develop an understanding of how domestic abusers use technology, and how ethnicity and race shape abusers and victims’ online actions: Brazil
Benjamin D. Smith
Doctoral Student in Anthropology, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences
Faculty Advisor: Dr. Steven A. Brandt, Anthropology, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences
Proposed Research and Location: Exploring the archaeology of hunter-gatherer stone economies in the Horn of Africa during the earlier part of the Late Pleistocene, ~130,000-50,000 years ago: Ethiopia
Jeeye Song
Doctoral Student in Political Science, College of Liberal Arts & Sciences
Faculty Advisor: Dr. Aida Hozic, Political Science, College of Liberal Arts & Sciences
Proposed Research and Location: Exploring how countries joined the treaty system through East Asian cases where the concept of sovereignty did not exist until the mid-19th century: Republic of Korea
Sarah Staub
Doctoral Student in Anthropology, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences
Faculty Advisor: Dr. Adrienne Strong, Anthropology, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences
Proposed Research and Location: Investigating the growing movement of the promotion of Artemisia for malaria treatment and prevention as a lens to explore the global trends of medical pluralism, the medicalization of herbal medicines, and the re-emergence of multiple healing systems that have begun to erode the hegemony of biomedicine: Benin