USD Undergraduate Rani Kumar Recipient of the SFS Distinguished Student Researcher Award

USD Undergraduate Rani Kumar Recipient of the SFS Distinguished Student Researcher Award

The School for Field Studies (SFS) presented its Distinguished Student Researcher Award to six of its alumni, including USD undergraduate Rani Kumar, in recognition of the exceptional environmental research they conducted while studying abroad during the spring semester of 2015.

The aim of Kumar’s research project with advisor Professor Lisa DePaoli, Amazonian Migration Patterns: Causes and Consequences of Andean Settlement in the Community of Pillcopata, Peru, was to construct a historical timeline of Andean settlement in the community and to chronicle the migratory experience. Kumar’s work revealed valuable historical details on settlement patterns that provide a sound foundation for the development of the political ecology research agenda at the Center.

Contact:

Office Of Undergraduate Research
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