The Forum on Education Abroad Undergraduate Research Awards
The Forum on Education Abroad, an Abroad View Sponsor, is an association that serves the international education field. It organizes the annual Undergraduate Research Awards Competition, which showcases the most rigorous and significant undergraduate research that occurs as part of education abroad programs. Independent research represents one of the highest achievements of undergraduate student learning. Completing serious, high-quality research requires critical thinking, analysis, and creativity. Award projects encompass a wide variety of academic fields, demonstrating that international learning informs many academic and professional fields.
Awards: Each year, two students are selected to receive a Forum Undergraduate Research Awards. The winners are invited to attend the Forum Conference at no cost and present a summary of their research and international experience at a special session.
Research papers by the winners are also published in a special issue of Frontiers: The Interdisciplinary Journal of Study Abroad. In addition, select nominees are invited to submit research papers to this issue.
2007 Winners
Brittany Murlas (University of California Berkeley; University of California Education Abroad Programs, Ghana): Mother Tongue Literacy in Ghana: A Sociolinguistic Approach
Lauren Gersbach (Butler University; The School for Field Studies/Centre for Rainforest Studies, Queensland, Australia): Resistance vs. Resilience: Alternative Mechanisms to Survive Severe Cyclones in Mabi Type 5b Rainforest Tree Species of North Queensland, Australia
2006 Winners
Hannah Arem (Cornell University; Institute for Study Abroad - Butler University, Buenos Aires): The Faces of Globalization
Demetri Blanas (Columbia University; School for International Training Kedougou and Dakar, Senegal): Primary Health Care in Kedougou, Senegal
Jason Nossiter (University of California, Santa Barbara; Science Po, Paris): France says ‘Non’: Elites, Publics and the Defeat of the EU Constitutional Treaty
2005 Winners
Emily Kanstroom (Brown University, Sciences Po, Paris): Justifying Torture: Explaining Democratic States’ Noncompliance With International Humanitarian Law
Colin Smith (Brigham Young University; East London, South Africa): Telling Stories: Past and Present Heroes; Rainbow Nation’s Ubuntu: Discovering Distinctness as a Spectrum Through South African Literature
Heather Craig (The School for International Training): Shifting Roles of Lake Victoria's Women Fisherfolk
2004 Winners
Heidi Boutros (University of Texas; Chennai, India): Bonded Slavery in India and Methods of Intervention
Brian Hoyer (Middlebury College;School for International Training, Uganda): Nipe Nikupe: Dependency, Reciprocity, and Paradoxes of Food Aid in Lugufu Refugee Camp Kigoma, Tanzania
Kevin McAdam (Boston College; Kent State University, Geneva): The Human Right to Water: Market Allocations in a World of Scarcity