Fulbright US Student Program Edition
Ivan de La Grange is the recipient of the Fulbright US Student Research award. With the support from Universitas Katolik Indonesia Atma Jaya, Ivan is conducting a research entitled “A Study of the Removal of Pesticide Residue in Agricultural Produce Using Moringa Oleifera Seed.” Ivan, who graduated from New Jersey City University, will test fruits and.. Read More.
Jonathan McLeod is a PhD student at the University of Arizona who receives the Fulbright Student Research award for his project “Traditional Livelihood and Forest Use among the Tabun Tribe in West Papua, Indonesia.” Supported by Universitas Negeri Papua, Jonathan hopes that the result of his project could provide the local and provincial governments with.. Read More.
Katherine Lauck, who goes by “Cat”, is a recipient of the 2016 US Fulbright Student Research grant. She arrived in January to start her research project “The Effects of Trapping on Habitat Use across the Avian Community of Gunung Nyiut Preserve.” Through her study, she hopes to quantify the effects of trapping pressure on a.. Read More.
Rachel Thompson is a PhD student in Social Anthropology at Harvard University. Jakarta’s notorious flooding has intrigued her to conduct research entitled “Jakarta: The Socio-Ecology of a Flood-Prone Metropolis” under the Fulbright Student Research grant. She tries to understand the environmental history of Jakarta region and studies the localized survival strategies of people affected by.. Read More.
Stephanie O’Gara holds a bachelor of science degree in Mechanical Engineering from Columbia University. She stays in Indonesia for 3 months studying Bahasa Indonesia in Yogyakarta then starts her research project on “Indonesian Biomass Waste as Renewable Energy” supported by US Fulbright Student Research grant. Through her research, she wants to identify favorable biomass waste.. Read More.
Walker DePuy is a PhD candidate in Integrative Conservation and Anthropology at the University of Georgia, Athens. He arrived in Indonesia in December for a research project “An Ethnographic Description of Conservation and Community Engagement in Berau, East Kalimantan.” With the project, Walker will work to provide baseline datasets of area life and landscape histories.. Read More.
