Congratulations to junior Manon Nitta, whose poster presentation at the WSU Undergraduate Research and Creative Projects Conference was recognized by the Academy of Scholars. She received a $250 Barnes and Noble gift card for her work. Nitta received an Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program grant to research the history of prosthetics in Germany. She spent the winter semester as a participant in the Junior Year in Munich program, using the grant support to travel to museums and archives in Berlin and Dresden and to conduct research in Munich. She will develop her poster, "Reconciling the Functional with the Aesthetic: The Body and the Machine," into her senior Honors thesis under the direction of faculty mentor Lisabeth Hock, associate professor of German. Nitta plans to pursue a career as a physician assistant in rehabilitative medicine when she graduates in 2019.

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