Six Ivan Allen College students won President's Undergraduate Research Award (PURA) for Fall 2010.

Samer Ead (Computational Media): “Mermaids Research”

Jennifer Gergely (Computational Media): “Examining the New Space Opera and its Evolution Over the Past Twenty Years”

John O’Brien (Public Policy): “Characterizing Privatization Trends within U.S. State Parks”

Amira Pettus (Science, Technology, and Culture): “The Milk of Human Corruption: Liconsa and the Persistence of Childhood Malnutrition in Mexico”

Nicole Turner (Science, Technology, and Culture): “Dynamic Families: Lesbian Kinship in the Social, Cultural, and Legal Context”

Kate Wharton (Economics): “Assessing the Economic Component of Internal Migration and Forced Displacement in Colombia”