Three Weinberg undergraduates recognized with Fletcher Awards

Three undergraduate students in Weinberg College have been presented with Fletcher Awards from Northwestern’s Office of Undergraduate Research.

Elizabeth Dudley ’24, Elena Housteau ’24, and Sophia Huang ’25 each received a $250 prize, funded by the Fletcher Family Foundation, for outstanding work in research.

For Dudley and Housteau, this recognizes their work with respective Summer Undergraduate Research Grants (SURG). Both received $4,000 support to do an independent academic or creative project, in all fields of study, under faculty supervision. Dudley’s project examines temporal and budget dynamics in education crowdfunding. Housteau’s explores differences in the connectivity of brain networks in normally-aging and Parkinson’s disease subjects.

Huang’s award acknowledges her excellence in the Undergraduate Research Assistant Program (URAP), which pays student research assistants to work with a faculty mentor on their research project to provide research-related skills. Mentored by Gregory Phillips II, her project is titled “Intersectional Approaches to Population-Level Health Research: Role of HIV Risk and Mental Health in Alcohol Use Disparities among Diverse Sexual Minority Youth.”

“These programs…provide transformative opportunities and, when given these opportunities, the Fletcher Award winners show what is possible.”

– Peter Civetta, Director, Office of Undergraduate Research

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