For many students, the call of the open road often remains just that, a call. But for fourth-year College students Margaret Montague and Abigail Lee, the dream of a cross-country road trip became a reality this summer.
Last spring, Montague and Lee were awarded the Ingrassia Family Echols Scholars Research Grant, which provides funding for students to conduct a research project in a field of their interest.
Typically recipients are students who put the research funding toward their fourth-year capstone project
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