 |  SFS Alumna Lauren Gersbach (Fall '06, Center for Rainforest Studies, Australia) was awarded a 2007 Forum Undergraduate Research Award for her paper Resistance vs. Resilience: Alternative Mechanisms to Survive Severe Cyclones in Mabi Type 5b Rainforest Tree Species of North Queensland, Australia. Her research was conducted as her independent project during the last month of her SFS semester. Read her interview and project description.About the award:
The Forum on Education Abroad, an association that serves the international education field, organizes the annual Undergraduate Research Awards Competition to showcase the most rigorous and significant undergraduate research that occurs as part of education abroad programs. Each year, two students are selected to receive this award, and are invited to attend the Forum Conference at no cost and present a summary of their research and international experience at a special session. Research papers by the winners are also published in a special issue of Frontiers: The Interdisciplinary Journal of Study Abroad.
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