Indy Hurt was awarded one of three highly sought after Center for Nanotechnology in Society Graduate Research Fellowships for 2008/2009. Center for Nanotechnology in Society fellows are awarded $30,000 for living expenses, GSHIP health insurance, and in-state tuition and fees. Based on her strong academic achievement, display of intellectual curiosity, and ability to generate a map in a nanosecond; Indy has been selected to work closely with Dr Barbara Herr Harthorn. For more information about the center, visit their website:
Barbara Herr Harthorn, Principal Investigator and Director of the Nanoscale Science and Engineering Center: Center for Nanotechnology in Society (CNS) at University of California at Santa Barbara, is also Associate Professor of Women’s Studies, and Co-Director of the Center for Global Studies in the Institute for Social, Behavioral and Economic Research. Her research examines the social production of health inequality, and in particular looks at the intersections of gender, ethnicity/race, and transnational migration in health and health risk perception. Her current work examines technological risk perception among diverse US and comparative UK populations ).
Indy is interested in agent based modeling of infectious disease. Her research examines the spatial distribution of perceived risk perceptions with respect to the transmission of tuberculosis.
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