CURL’s $1500 Research Fellowships can be used to support a wide range of research outcomes. Learn about a few of our Fellows’ past projects… Then apply for your own!
Ally Karabu
Ally explored how the LAPSSET project—the Lamu Port-South Sudan-Ethiopia Transport Corridor project, which aims to complete Kenya’s second transport corridor—impacts local communities. She focused closely on its structural and power imbalances and the overt and covert barriers local grassroots organizations face when advocating against it.
Noah Hendricks-Polack
Noah’s research asks the question: what can implicit learning tell us about problem solving and consciousness? Although most people might consider explicit learning to be the dominant way we gain knowledge about the world, a large body of research has emphasized the importance of implicit learning in several domains. Noah’s project investigated whether the development of explicit awareness of patterns relates to general cognitive traits, such as meta-cognition.
Yasser Ridwan
Yasser’s project explored the intricate relationship between climate change and the Canadian economy. Yasser gathered information from a variety of sources, including the Canadian Disaster Database (CDD) and the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) database. He gathered feedback from Q&As and social media to determine the most effective ways to communicate and mobilize his findings.
Babette Norton & Ocarina Zheng
Babette and Ocarina explored the effects of multimedia and traditional study methods on hiragana memorization in beginner Japanese language learning.