This year's Bobet Fellowship winners showcase a group of diverse and ambitious endeavors, including creative teaching, faculty research, faculty/student travel, a science summer camp, and collaborative faculty/student projects.
William J. Farge, S.J., Ph.D., Languages and Cultures
Project title: A Christian Samurai: The Trials of Baba Bunko
Mark Gossiaux, Ph.D., Philosophy
Project title: A Critical Edition of Three Questions From James of Viterbo's Quaestiones De Divinis Praedicamentis
Sanjog Rupakheti, Ph.D., History
Project title: Making of A Himalayan Kingdom: Caste, Genealogy and Law in Nepal
Rian Thum, Ph.D., History
Project title: Lost Connections between Uyghurs and Muslim Chinese
Karen Rosenbecker, Ph.D., Classical Studies
Project title: Reading Obesity in Greek Literature
Amelia Neuberger, Ph.D., Chemistry
(includes an undergraduate researcher funded through the Bobet Fellowship)
Project title: LOYNO's Summer STEAM Experience
Clifton J. Stephenson, Ph.D., Chemistry
(includes an undergraduate researcher funded through the Bobet Fellowship)
Project title: Formation and Study of the Interactions of Rhodamine-Based Sensors
Christine L. Heinecke, Ph.D., Chemistry
(includes an undergraduate researcher funded through the Bobet Fellowship)
Project title: Synthesis of Novel Water-Soluble Ligand Protected Gold Nanoclusters
Timothy Welsh, Ph.D., English
(includes an undergraduate researcher funded through the Bobet Fellowship)
Project title: The International Games and Literary Theory Conference
Christopher Schaberg, Ph.D., English
(includes an undergraduate researcher funded through the Bobet Fellowship)
Project title: Object Lessons
Hillary Eklund, Ph.D., English
(includes an undergraduate researcher funded through the Bobet Fellowship)
Project title: Ben Jonson's Masque of Queens
Laura Murphy, Ph.D., English
(includes an undergraduate researcher funded through the Bobet Fellowship)
Project title: Modern African Writing Series
Adil Khan, Ph.D., Religious Studies
Project title: Islamic Education in Egypt
Aimee K. Thomas, Ph.D., Biological Sciences
Project title: BioInquiry: A First-Year Experiential Learning Course
Kimberlee S. Mix, Ph.D., Biological Sciences
Project title: BioInquiry of Arthritis: Development of a New First-Year Biology Course