See present and past recipients of our Magellan Awards:
- Magellan Scholar
- Magallen by Design
- Magellan Journey
- Mini-Grants
- Apprentice (for Capstone Researchers)
- Explorer (for Maxcy Researchers)
- Galen (for Galen Health Fellows)
- Guarantee (for TRiO Researchers)
- Navigator (for Preston Researchers)
- Rhodos Maker (for Rhodos Fellows)
- Sustainable Magellan (for Green Quad and Green Scholar Researchers)
Student | Award |
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Zhanae Chandler, Senior Business Administration, USC Columbia |
Magellan Scholar, Spring 2026 How Does Early-Life Household Routines Influence Academic Success in Higher Education? Mentor: Vareva Evans-Harris, TRIO, USC Columbia |
Breyonna Spires, Capstone, Senior Biological Sciences, USC Columbia |
Magellan Apprentice, Fall 2025 Does Elevation Affect Fructose-1,6-bisphosphatase Variation Among Colias meadii Populations? Mentors: Carol Boggs, Earth, Ocean, and Environment, USC Columbia, Blair Stokes, Biological Sciences, USC Columbia |
Jillian Abell, Senior Art History, Art Studio, USC Columbia Meghan Guidici, Junior Art History, History, USC Columbia Emanuel Moreno, Senior Biological Sciences, Music, USC Columbia |
Magellan Scholar, Spring 2025 Addressing and Amending Conundrums within Collections Management at McKissick Museum Mentor: Lana Burgess, Visual Art and Design, USC Columbia |
Luke Aldridge, Senior History, USC Aiken |
Magellan Scholar, Spring 2025 Vietnam Veterans Oral History Project: Wartime Expectations, Realities, and Reflections Mentor: Sarah King, History, USC Aiken |
Jacqueline Bald, Capstone, Senior Marine Science, Computer Science, USC Columbia |
Magellan Scholar, Spring 2025 Removal of Lithium from Contaminated Water Sources Using Low-Cost Waste Materials Mentor: Lesley Joseph , Civil and Environmental Engineering, USC Columbia |
Benjamin Beall, Capstone, Junior Chemical Engineering, USC Columbia |
Magellan Scholar, Spring 2025 AMPD Buffer-Mediated Synthesis of GelMA for Enhanced 3D Printability Mentor: Nader Taheri-Quazvini , Chemical Engineering, USC Columbia |
Morgan Begler, Senior Public Health, USC Columbia |
Magellan Scholar, Spring 2025 Relations between Adverse Childhood Experiences and Risk for Sexual Revictimization during Military Service Mentor: Jennifer Fillo, Health Promotion Education and Behavior, USC Columbia |
Stella Beilharz, Capstone, Junior Biological Sciences, USC Columbia |
Magellan Scholar, Spring 2025 Identifying Cellular Proteins on a Novel Long Non-Coding RNA that Contribute to Uncontrolled Leukemic Cell Division Mentor: David Reisman, Biological Sciences, USC Columbia |
Chesley Blake, Honors, Junior Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Medical Humanities, USC Columbia |
Magellan Scholar, Spring 2025 Discovering Drug-Like Compounds by Targeting Protein Interactions Using a Yeast-3-Hybrid System Mentor: Douglas Pittman, Drug Discovery and Biomedical Sciences, USC Columbia |
Kavan Bojappa, Honors, Junior Mechanical Engineering, Computer Science, USC Columbia |
Magellan Scholar, Spring 2025 Particle Swarm Optimization for Autonomous Rendezvous Control of a Multi-Agent System Mentor: Junsoo Lee, Mechanical Engineering, USC Columbia |
Daniel Burnett, Honors, Senior Public Health, Biological Sciences, USC Columbia |
Magellan Scholar, Spring 2025 Analysis of Variant RAD51D Interactions with the Paraspeckle Proteins Mentor: Douglas Pittman, Drug Discovery and Biomedical Sciences, USC Columbia |
Alexandra Childs, Honors, Junior Biological Sciences, USC Columbia |
Magellan Scholar, Spring 2025 Testing biochemical hypotheses concerning a purple-white polymorphism in Penstemon whippleanus Mentor: Carolyn Wessinger, Biological Sciences, USC Columbia |
Kathryn Cushman, Junior Early Childhood Education, USC Columbia |
Magellan Scholar, Spring 2025 Exploring co-occurring DLD and ADHD and its impact on negative emotion frequency and word learning: A comparative study Mentors: Suzanne Adlof, Communication Sciences and Disorders, USC Columbia, Taylor Berrier, Communication Sciences and Disorders, USC Columbia |
Lorelai Davis, Capstone, Freshman Pharmacy, USC Columbia |
Magellan Scholar, Spring 2025 Pharmacy Engagement in the Vaccines for Children Program Mentor: Nicole Hair, Health Services Policy and Management, USC Columbia |
Mason Davis, Capstone, Senior Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, USC Columbia |
Magellan Scholar, Spring 2025 Elucidating the Interactome of E. coli BolA Protein in Fe-S biosynthesis Mentors: Wayne Outten, Chemistry and Biochemistry, USC Columbia, Dexter Reasons, Chemistry and Biochemistry, USC Columbia |
Sarai Deese, Honors, Senior Interdisciplinary Studies, USC Columbia Zoe Rogers, Capstone, Junior Psychology, Counselor Education, USC Columbia |
Magellan Scholar, Spring 2025 Assessment of Implementation Principles across Intervention Settings for Reciprocal Imitation Training (RIT) in South Carolina Mentor: Sarah Edmunds, Psychology, USC Columbia |
Mallory Gedeon, Honors, Junior Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Business Administration, USC Columbia |
Magellan Scholar, Spring 2025 Menstrual Symptom Severity in Black/African American Women Participating in a Nutrition Intervention Mentor: John Bernhart, Health Promotion Education and Behavior, USC Columbia |
Christian Geils, Honors, Senior Biological Sciences, USC Columbia |
Magellan Scholar, Spring 2025 Kolmogorov-Arnold Networks for Explainable Molecular Property Prediction Mentors: Christopher Sutton, Chemistry and Biochemistry, USC Columbia, Sophya Garashchuk, Chemistry and Biochemistry, USC Columbia |
Jasmine Glover, Honors, Junior Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Psychology, USC Columbia Victoria Beato, Honors, Junior Biological Sciences, USC Columbia |
Magellan Scholar, Spring 2025 Bacterial Toxins for Delivering Artificial Transcription Factors into Immune Cells Mentor: Nicholas Truex, Chemistry and Biochemistry, USC Columbia |
Alyssa Godfrey, Honors, Sophomore Biology, USC Aiken Emory Owens, Honors, Junior Biology, USC Aiken Quinn Schreiber, Honors, Sophomore Biology, USC Aiken |
Magellan Scholar, Spring 2025 Use of Trail Cameras to Determine How Predators are Accessing Bluebird Nesting Boxes Mentor: Michelle Vieyra, Biology/Geology, USC Aiken |
Jenna Graham, Capstone, Junior Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Neuroscience, USC Columbia |
Magellan Scholar, Spring 2025 Analyzing the role of receptor tyrosine kinase signaling in fat-to-ovary communication using Drosophila melanogaster Mentor: Alissa Armstrong, Biological Sciences, USC Columbia |
Ansley Herron, Junior Chemical Engineering, Business Administration, USC Columbia Seth Gould, Honors, Junior Biomedical Engineering, USC Columbia |
Magellan Scholar, Spring 2025 Exploring Endothelial Regeneration and Vascular Repair After Inflammatory Lung Injury-Resubmission Mentor: Colin Evans, Cell Biology and Anatomy, USC School of Medicine - Columbia |
Kevin Johnson, Senior Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Applied Computing, USC Columbia |
Magellan Scholar, Spring 2025 Developing the Methods to Identify Aberrant Glycosylation in Proteins from Triple Negative Breast Cancer Cells in Blood Samples Mentors: John Lavigne, Chemistry and Biochemistry, USC Columbia, James Boyt, Chemistry and Biochemistry, USC Columbia |
Margaret Johnson, Honors, Senior Neuroscience, Dance, USC Columbia |
Magellan Scholar, Spring 2025 Do I know you? Brain responses to familiar and AI-generated faces Mentor: Caitlin Hudac, Psychology, USC Columbia |
Avery Kearse, Junior Psychology, Child Advocacy Studies, USC Upstate |
Magellan Scholar, Spring 2025 Speak up or stay silent: How gender and abuse type shape college students’ reactions to intimate partner violence Mentor: Kenneth Barideaux, Psychology, USC Upstate |