Four IPE Majors Receive Summer Research Grants

The IPE Program is pleased to announce that four of our majors have received grants to conduct research in Summer 2014.

Parker Raup received a fellowship from the IPE Textbook Fund to conduct research in Tanzania. His project is titled "Migration and Monetization: An Ethnographic Study of the Rural Maasai in Northern Tanzania."

Megan Davis received a fellowship from the Nicholas Vasilius IPE Endowment Fund to do research in Bangladesh. Her project is titled "A Study of the Impact of Participation in the Grameen Bank Microcredit Program on Perceived Empowerment of Female Borrowers."

Melanie Mazza received a UPS Summer Research Grant to do research in Nicaragua. Her project is titled "Shining a Light on Information Accessibility and Prices Paid along the Nicaraguan Coffee Commodity Chain."

Dan Thorson received a UPS Summer Research Grant to do research in Hong Kong. His project is titled "The Effects of Public Policy on Upward Mobility Through Entrepreneurship."

Congratulations to all four!