Assistant professor Adriana Uscanga standing outside among trees.

Asst. Prof. Adriana Uscanga

RISE Cycle:
Fall 2025
Department, College, Campus:

Forest Resources | CFANS, Twin Cities

Student & Major:

Atlas Lawrence | Environmental Geography

Project Title:

Tracking vegetation and green space change over time in urban social-ecological systems

Amelia Lindsey and Anna Worden standing in lab, smiling.

Asst. Prof. Amelia Lindsey

RISE Cycle:
Fall 2025
Department, College, Campus:

Entomology | CFANS, Twin Cities

Student & Major:

Anna Worden | Plant Science

Project Title:

Understanding the molecular biology of asexual reproduction

Fernanda Furlan and Goncalves Dias smiling outside.

Asst. Prof. Fernanda F G Dias

RISE Cycle:
Fall 2025
Department, College, Campus:

Food Science and Nutrition | CFANS, Twin Cities

Student & Major:

Scarlet Valarezo | Food Science

Project Title:

Sustainable oilseeds for food applications: holistic characterization of lipid profile and oxidation stability in winter camelina and pennycress oils

Portrait of Asst. Prof. Madelaine Cahuas

Asst. Prof. Madelaine Cahuas

RISE Cycle:
Fall 2025
Department, College, Campus:

Geography, Environment & Society | CLA, Twin Cities

Student & Major:

Alma Quiroz | Sociology of Law, Criminology and Justice; Spanish

Project Title:

Right to Remain: Housing Access and Displacement of Latinx School Families in the Twin Cities

Portrait of Voua (Bob) Yang and Hooi Ling Soh outside on the mall in front of Northrop.

Asst. Prof. Hooi Ling Soh

RISE Cycle:
Fall 2025
Department, College, Campus:

Institute of Linguistics | CLA, Twin Cities

Student & Major:

Voua (Bob) Yang | Speech-Language-Hearing Sciences

Project Title:

A Linguistic Study of Discourse Particles in Hmong Dialects

Jansen Smith and Joseph Kunze at a computer, smiling.

Asst. Prof. Jansen Smith

RISE Cycle:
Fall 2025
Department, College, Campus:

Earth and Environmental Sciences | Swenson College of Science and Engineering, Duluth

Student & Major:

Joseph Kunze | Earth and Environmental Sciences

Project Title:

Paleoecology of Cretaceous Mollusks in Montana

Ganesh Vasan and Tristen Rothrum standing in a lab.

Asst. Prof. Ganesh Vasan

RISE Cycle:
Fall 2025
Department, College, Campus:

Neuroscience | Medical School, Twin Cities

Student & Major:

Tristen Rothrum | Neuroscience

Project Title:

Illuminating the Depths: Directed Protein Evolution of red-shifted FRET-Opsin GEVIs for Multipopulation Voltage Recording of the brain