Eva Stephani has received the 2007-2008 Flint Hills Undergraduate Research Award to work on the Alaska University Transportation Center (AUTC) Preservation of the Alaska Highway project. Among the ten awardees, Eva placed third in the Flint Hill symposium competition. Eva presented her work on ground ice cryostructure at the 2007 American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) conference in Anchorage, she received the Quaternary Research Center travel grant to present her work on the basal ice of glaciers at the 2007 American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting in San Francisco and recently received the Center for Research Services undergraduate travel grant to present her work on the AUTC Preservation of the Alaska Highway project at the Canadian Geophysical Union Conference in Banff. She was also one of Professor Daniel Fortier's co-authors at the 2007 Canadian Quaternary Association Conference in Ottawa, and at the First Permafrost Young Researchers Network workshop in St-Petersburg. Eva also has a paper in press about her work on the AUTC Preservation of the Alaska Highway project for the 2008 Ninth International Conference on Permafrost.