Hendrix students get projects funds

The Committee of Engaged Learning at Hendrix College announced recently that $50,367 was awarded from its Odyssey Program to fund 12 student projects.

The study topics range from cowboy culture in the American southwest to cemeteries in New York City.

Since 2005, the Committee on Engaged Learning has awarded $4,616,297.71 in competitive Odyssey grants to support 1,446 projects by Hendrix students and faculty members.

The 12 winning projects are:

■ Grace Bryant, The Exploration of Different Cultures and Medicine in Merida, Spain.

■ Emilie Cassar and Kyle Bounds, Exploring Cultural and Environmental Differences in Emergency Medicine in Costa Rica.

■ Sophie O’Reilly and Ben Blankenship, Writing Under the Mother Tree: Creative Writing, Ecology, and Scotland.

■ Elise Ormonde and Rachel McGhee, Ecuador: Buen Vivir.

■ Katie Pratt, Tristan Becker Hoerschelmann and Shelby Burrow, Tenderfootin’ Out West: Exploring Cowboy Cultures Past and Present in the American Southwest.

■ Jayla King, Intern: Campaign Fellow for Dr. Chris Jones, Arkansas Gubernatorial Race.

■ Mohannad Al-Hindi and Joseph Lara, Impact of Natural Disasters on Ecotourism in Puerto Rico.

■ Ellen Alston, Building Bridges through Service-Learning: A Service to the World Project in Puerto Rico.

■ Maxine Payne, Transforming the current art complex garden into a beneficial, native pollinating garden.

■ Robin Salinger, An Exploration of the American Cemetery.

■ Mark Goadrich, Solving Real-world Problems with Tools from Mathematics and Computer Science: The COMAP International Contest in Mathematical Modeling.

■ Ann Wright, 2022 Conference for Undergraduate Women in Physics.