ALT Graphic reads: Congratualtions 2026 Institutional Access Small Grant Program Winners

ALT Some of the winners are as followed: \nDaeun Kim (Human Development and Family Studies)\nAdvisor: Dr. Desiree Qin and Dr. Yijie Wang\nTitle: Transactional Ethnic-Racial Socialization in Korean American Immigrant Families in the Midwest\n\nEmmanuel Ankomahene (History)\nAdvisor: Dr. Michelle Moyd\nTitle: Living on the Iron Horse: Railway Infrastructure, Labor Mobility, Industrial, Gender and\nEthnic Identities in Ghana, 1898-1980\n\nJordan Parker (Criminal Justice)\nAdvisor: Dr. Julie Krupa\nTitle: Going Beyond the Crime Data: A Qualitative Examination of Programmatic Outcomes for Participants in Community-Based Violence Interventions

ALT Other winners included: \nYousef Khajavigodellou (Geography)\nAdvisor: Dr. Jiaguo Qi\nTitle: Mapping Global Transboundary Rivers Water Bankruptcy\n\nYun Zou (History)\nAdvisor: Dr. Aminda Smith\nTitle: Whose Reservoir: Gender, Nature, and the Making of a Maoist State

ALT A stone sign for Michigan State University with a large 'S' on brickwork, surrounded by green trees & white stars. Below, text: 'a school that's known to all' with scattered green stars on a white background.

ALT A photo of Kexin Cui.

ALT A quote from the story reads: As more systems that we use in our daily life move online, people with disabilities are being asked to navigate spaces where exploitation is real and rising.... Building safer systems and providing targeted support for this population online is something we should be talking about a lot more.\u201D

ALT A quote from one of the stories from Dr. Emily Jensen reads: \u201CDisability is a difference, but it\u2019s also a community and a culture, and a really beautiful one at that. I think it\u2019s helpful for all of us to be more inclusive, to learn more about this culture and to work through some of our own implicit biases so that we can continue to drive systemic change.\u201D

ALT A photo of Cooper Maher.

ALT A quote from the story reads: What I hope to do with my research of disability and cyber crime is to illuminate what some of those next steps might be, to help better protect and serve folks with disabilities, to mitigate risk of cyber victimization, and to better respond to it from the criminal justice system side as well.\u201D

ALT A photo of Daniel Young