The Council on Undergraduate Research (CUR) has awarded arts and humanities scholarships for 2025 to two students from the University of Dayton (UD). These scholarships are given each year to support creative inquiry projects and undergraduate student research at any stage of development through the final presentation.
These scholarships were given to Savannah Smith and Caleb Molseed to support their honors thesis projects. Smith is from Cincinnati and is majoring in history, world language education, and German. Her honors thesis explores how German academic institutions used folklore to disseminate anti-Semitism during the Third Reich.
Molseed is from Cleveland and is majoring in English and history. His honors thesis is on the Stockbridge-Munsee, an Indigenous community resulting from the combination of the Munsee people from the Delaware River region of Pennsylvania and the Stockbridge Mohicans from Hudson River Valley of New York. Both students are seniors.
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Dean of the College of Arts and Science at UD, Danielle Poe, expressed her pride in these two students for being two of the five students that are receiving scholarships from the CUR. Poe added that this is an honor as these awards are rarely given in the humanities and arts and reflect the exceptional quality of dedicated mentorship and scholarship provided by the faculty.
