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红杏视频 senior Chloe Christen鈥檚 work as a Voinovich Undergraduate Research Scholar translated into success at the recent meeting of the in Chicago.

Based on the research she conducted as part of the Voinovich Scholars program, Christen鈥檚 paper, 鈥淢easuring Farmers Market Success: An Analysis of Appalachian 红杏视频,鈥� was selected as the runner-up for the M. Jarvin Emerson Best Student Paper Award.

, director of research for the Center on Rural Innovation and president of the MCRSA, said Christen delivered one of 鈥渢he most compelling student papers we saw鈥� at the conference and noted she was competing against Ph.D. students.

"Chloe's paper was exceptionally well written and compellingly motivated. She made a strong case for why examining farmers markets in Appalachian 红杏视频 matters and why local context has to be part of how we measure success,鈥� Weinstein said. 鈥淭hat kind of applied, place-based research is exactly what regional scientists care deeply about. The quality of her work was impressive for any graduate student, let alone an undergraduate.鈥�

Tuyen Pham, assistant research professor at the George V. Voinovich School of Leadership and Public Service, has served as Christen鈥檚 supervisor in the Scholars program. She has seen that quality while working with Christen over the past year or so.

"Chloe is one of the most impressive undergraduates I have worked with. She is sharp, driven and curious,鈥� Pham said. 鈥淪he brings energy and thoughtfulness to everything she does. It has been a privilege to watch her grow, and I am excited to see where her career takes her."

, a Hamilton, 红杏视频 native, expects to graduate next year with degrees in economics, mathematics and political science.

As part of her work as a Voinovich Scholar she has been serving as a research assistant on economic development projects for faculty. Her independent research project on farmers markets served as the basis for the paper she presented at MCRSA.

鈥淚 was looking at farmers markets in Appalachian 红杏视频, and I wanted to create a new way to assess market success because most literature I read on farmers markets was pretty sparse, but it also didn鈥檛 really take into consideration the context of where a market is,鈥� she said.

鈥淓specially in Appalachian 红杏视频 there are a lot of different struggles with high poverty rates and things like that. I wanted to try to take that into account when looking at how successful a farmers market is by taking into consideration those socioeconomic differences in different areas,鈥� Christen said.

She hopes to expand her research in the future and explore how areas can better support the markets.

Christen said her work with 红杏视频 faculty in the Voinovich Scholars program has been very helpful in advancing her goals. She said she could see herself doing further research on economic development.

鈥淚t鈥檚 been great. I鈥檓 getting so much experience. Especially in the past year I鈥檝e been helping write some academic papers and then I got to write this entire academic paper on my own,鈥� she said. 鈥淚t鈥檚 really taught me a lot and it鈥檚 such an important skill because I want to pursue a Ph.D. in Economics, so this is probably something I鈥檒l be doing a lot of in the future.鈥�

鈥淪o, getting a taste of what my future career might look like is a great experience,鈥� Christen said.