Josie Rimkus, a fourth year SHS Undergraduate, was awarded an Autumn 2026 Undergraduate Research Scholarship (URS) for completing her Honors Research Thesis entitled “Sociocultural influences on disfluency behavior in natural spontaneous conversations.” URS is a competitive funding mechanism through the College of Arts and Sciences at Ohio State in recognition of excellent research proposals. Josie’s research project is a part of a larger research program in the Speech Perception & Acoustics Lab directed by Drs. Fox & Jacewicz; she presented portions of her ongoing acoustic study at the 2026 Denman Undergraduate Research Forum at Ohio State, and at the joint meeting of the Acoustical Society of America/Acoustical Society of Japan in Honolulu, HI, 2025. Congratulations, Josie!