#  Announcing the Summer 2024 Undergraduate Summer Travel Grant Recipients 

 





August 21, 2024

 

 

 The Center for African Studies is pleased to announce the recipients of this year’s [Undergraduate Summer Travel Grants](/undergraduate-student-funding) for research, internships, study abroad, or special projects that take place in Africa. This year, twelve students were awarded funding, totaling $53,000. Award amounts ranged from $1,200 - $7,500.

 Students were also awarded funding to participate in two CAS-sponsored internship programs this year:[The Maru-A-Pula Internship Program](/undergraduate-student-maru-pula-summer-program) (Botswana) and [The Art School Africa Internship Program](/art-school-africa-internship-program) (South Africa and Zimbabwe). To learn more about these programs, click the corresponding links above.

 Applications for our 2025 Summer Undergraduate Travel Grants and Summer Internship Programs open on December 1, 2024 and close February 15, 2025. [Learn more and apply](/undergraduate-student-summer-grants).

 **Undergraduate Summer Travel Grant Recipients**

 **Marley Dias | Harvard College ‘26**   
**Concentration:** Sociology/African & African American Studies   
**Project:** *Art School Africa Internship Program*   
**Location:** South Africa and Zimbabwe

 **Nico Dominguez Carrero | Harvard College ‘25**   
**Concentration:** Environmental Science and Public Policy   
**Project:** *A Mixed-Methods Characterization of Climate-Health Resilience among Malagasy Fishers*   
**Location:** Madagascar

 **Max Fan | Harvard College ‘26**   
**Concentration:** English/Mathematics   
**Project:** *Maru-A-Pula Internship Program*   
**Location:** Botswana

 **Eden Getahun | Harvard College ‘25**   
**Concentration:** Social Studies   
**Project:** *Art School Africa Internship Program*   
**Location:** South Africa and Zimbabwe

 **Joi Gonzales | Harvard College ‘25**   
**Concentration:** Molecular and Cellular Biology   
**Project:** *South African National Bioinformatics Institute Research Internship*   
**Location:** South Africa

 **Dariana Gonzalez-Aguilar | Harvard College ‘25**   
**Concentration:** Integrative Biology   
**Project:** *Investigating the Relationship Between Bais and Anuran Biodiversity in the Congo Basin Rainforest*   
**Location:** Congo

 **Nika Rudenko | Harvard College ‘25**   
**Concentration:** Integrative Biology/Psychology   
**Project:** *Maru-A-Pula Internship Program*   
**Location:** Botswana

 **Daniella Saforo | Harvard College ‘25**   
**Concentration:** Government   
**Project:** *The Political Economy of Education: A Comparative Study of Ghana and Sierra Leone*   
**Location:** Ghana and Sierra Leone

 **Humaid Saleem | Harvard College ‘26**   
**Concentration:** Mathematics   
**Project:** *Maru-A-Pula Internship Program*   
**Location:** Botswana

 **Victor Seco Roopnaraine | Harvard College ‘26**   
**Concentration:** Mathematics   
**Project:** *Maru-A-Pula Internship Program*   
**Location:** Botswana

 **Summer Smentek | Harvard College ‘25**   
**Concentration:** Integrative Biology   
**Project:** *Drivers of Human-Carnivore Conflict in Northern Laikipia County, Kenya*   
**Location:** Kenya

 **Nehir Toklu | Harvard College ‘25**   
**Concentration:** Integrative Biology   
**Project:** *Analyzing Animal Influences on Plant Diversity through Intermediate Disturbance Hypothesis*   
**Location:** Congo



 

 

 



 

 

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