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The team includes staff, graduate students, and faculty from 45
different departments.
They range in age from 20 to 64.
Their athletic backgrounds vary widely. Among them you’ll find:
- a walker who will “(with few exceptions) break into a run only
if being chased by a large carnivore”
- a runner participating in her first organized race
- 8 people who will be completing their first ever half marathon
- 7 experienced full marathoners
- 2 dedicated ultra-marathoners
- several triathletes
- former NCAA soccer players, rowers, gymnasts and cross-country
runners.
The team includes:
- a cancer survivor
- a walker with two artificial hips
- a self-described “adult onset athlete” who started running at
age 59
- a runner with a chronic kidney ailment who believes “that
running/walking a marathon or half-marathon is possible for anyone
with the right mindset and perseverance”
- a Chinese language scholar who says “language learning is almost
as fun as running, except that it doesn’t build your calf muscles”
- a former inner-city high school teacher
- a former U.S. Congressional page
- a MacArther Fellowship winner
- two sisters
- and a bona fide “rocket scientist.”
The variety and significance of the team members’ research reflects
the kind of vital work fellowship dollars support. Problems they’re
solving and topics they’re exploring include:
- Alternative energy
- American political behavior and voting patterns
- Capital markets and tax policy
- Cardiovascular disease risk in single mothers
- Connections between genetic mutations in protein and cancer
- Designing medical devices
- Developing devices to monitor climate change in snow-covered
areas
- Development of hearing during infancy
- Evolution of galaxies
- Forest conservation and habitat protection
- Formation of new plant species
- Freshwater resource management
- Health administration
- HIV transmission in Kenyan women
- Human-computer interaction
- Immune function in cancer patients receiving stem cell
transplants
- Impact of media on social change movements
- Improving drug safety
- Improving quality of life for cancer survivors
- Improving transportation systems
- In-stream tidal turbines for the Puget Sound
- Labor economics
- Magnetism and semi-conductors
- Patterns of inequality in work and family life
- Pharmacy delivery systems
- Prevention of diseases caused by environmental factors
- Prevention of youth violence
- Prospects for biodiversity in the face of climate change
- Religious nationalism in the Middle East
- Role of NGOs in security policy
- Sleep regulation at the molecular level
- Sociolinguistics (dialect variation and change)
- Student identity construction through language use
- Supplying growing energy demands through nanotechnology
- Using new findings in molecular biology and biochemistry to
improve health care
- Using plants to clean up the environment
- Using shock wave therapy to treat musculoskeletal conditions
- Victorian literature
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