March 19, 2024
Sunnie Rucker-Chang Wins U.S. Russia Foundation Grant
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Congratulations to Mershon Center affiliate Sunnie Rucker-Chang (DSEELC, AAAS, CSEEES) who was awarded a grant in the amount of $113,318 from the US Russia Foundation to support the project “Capacity and Equity Building in Russian Studies,” a national undergraduate research program that is part of the Howard University undergraduate Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies Think Tank ecosystem, a collaboration among faculty from Howard University (Amarilis Lugo de Fabritz and Kelly Knickmeier Cummings), University of Miami (Krista Goff), and The Ohio State University (Sunnie Rucker-Chang).