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Akane (Grace) Shirota
The Kathleen Ames/OSU Endowment Scholar
OSU, College of Engineering, Mechanical and Robotics
Research Interest: Working on human-robot interactions and the direct benefits of robots in the workplace or at home to help in manufacturing, production, and at home.
Michelle Turney
The Barbara Giesy/OHSU Nursing Endowment Scholar
OHSU, School of Nursing
Research Interest: Michelle has a degree in Nurse Midwifery from OHSU. Her PhD research addresses fetal malposition and labor biomechanics with the goal of improving labor outcomes and reducing invasive interventions.
Trent VanHawkins
The Lynne and David Bangsund Scholar
OSU, College of Science, Statistics
Research Interest: The intersection of statistics, environment, and public health to combine experience in bioinformatics and epidemiology with understanding spatiotemporal phenomena.
Siddarth Viswanathan
The Ann and Ron Emmerson/OSU Endowment Scholar
OSU, College of Engineering, Robotics
Research Interest: Sidd plans to improve the adaptability and intelligence of robot teams by combining machine learning techniques and robotics concepts to give robots decision-making capabilities.
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Laura Young
The Kirby and Carl Dyess/OHSU Endowment Scholar
OHSU, School of Medicine, Biomedical Sciences
Research Interest: Laura is interested in identifying previously unknown genetic alterations in-utero and developing in-utero treatments for mutations that cause disease.