The Lumen Advisory Committee has announced Elon University’s 2024 Lumen Scholar winners. Lumen Prize winners are granted $20,000 to support their mentored research and creative projects over the next two years.
“The competitive level was extraordinary this year and these winners deserve admiration for the creativity, thoroughness, and potential impact their proposals represent,” Mike Carigan, director of the Lumen Prize, wrote.
There are 15 prize winners for the 2024 Lumen Scholarship:
Lillian Argabrite - Biology
Mentors: Tonya Train and Eryn Bernardy
Studying: The Impact of the Cystic Fibrosis Microenvironment on Pathogenic Bacterial Interactions.
Jo Bogart - Creative Writing and Classical Studies
Mentors: Margaret Chapman and Kristina Meinking
Studying: Dux Femina Facti: Feminist Translation and Re-Vision of Vergil’s Aeneid.
Rony Dahdal - Computer Science
Mentor: Ryan Mattfeld
Studying: Contactless and Diagnostic Multi-Target Vital Sign Detection Using LiDAR and Deep Learning.
Kelly Donovan - Applied Mathematics
Mentor: Nicholas Bussberg
Studying: Novel Deep-Sea Coral Imputation Methods: Mathematically Filling in Missing Data to Further Coral Conservation.
Mira Fitch - Political Science
Mentor: Jessica Carew
Studying: Judicial Partisan Influence on Juvenile Transfer: A County-Level Analysis in North Carolina.
Kelsey Golden - Art History and History
Mentors: Evan Gatti and Lynn Huber
Studying: New Crusaders, Old Problems: Interrogating the Use of Medieval Imagery in Contemporary Contexts.
Madeline Hewgley - Political Science
Mentor: Dillon Bono-Lunn
Studying: An Exploration of the Pattern of Policy Diffusion and Subsequent Proliferation of Second Amendment Preservation Acts at the State Level.
Jacob Karty - Engineering
Mentor: Jonathan Su
Studying: Lensfree Holographic Imaging and Machine Learning to Protect Freshwater Resources.
Niara Legette - Public Health
Mentors: Yanica Faustin
Studying: Shades of Health; Colorism, Albinism and Maternal Health Inequities.
Rebecca Lovasco - Psychology
Mentor: Kristina Krasich
Studying: Unraveling Neurocognitive Biases in Depression and Anxiety: An EEG Study on Reinforcement Learning and Conscious Visual Perception.
Mallory Otten - Public Health
Mentor: Rena Zito
Studying: When Gender Matters: The Impact of Attractiveness and Sexual Orientation on Perceptions of Male and Female Intimate Partner Violence Perpetrators.
Natalie Peeples - Psychology
Mentor: Maureen Vandermaas-Peeler
Studying: Early Childhood Well-Being as it is Expressed through Outdoor Play: A Cultural Comparison between Denmark and the U.S.
Grace Rasmussen - Public Health
Mentor: Scott Morrison
Studying: Reviving Dewey, Froebel and Montessori: Two National Studies on Progressive Education and School Gardens.
Lila Snodgrass - Dance Performance and Choreography
Mentor: Nancy Scherich
Studying: Knot Theory and Parallel Process in Mathematics and Dance.
Athena Vizuete - History
Mentor: Amanda Kleintop
Studying: Enslaved Labor to Black Free Wage Labor in Postbellum North Carolina.