Students from several departments applied for funding to attend conferences to present research, compete in academic competitions, and purchase supplies to complete research. The current semester of faculty sponsors, the students, and the title of the projects are listed by department below.
Spring 2024 Awards
Art & Art History Department
Faculty Sponsor: Carole Garmon
Student: Winston Heron – Daydreams and Interconnected Stories
Biological Sciences Department
Faculty Sponsor: Swati Agrawal
Student: Michael Combs – Counteracting Antibiotic Resistance in Bacillus Bacteria with Phage Therapy
Student: Andrew Cooper – Characterization of Endolysins from Bacillus thuringiensis Phages for potential Biotechnological Applications
Faculty Sponsor: Dianne Baker
Student: Willa Clore – The generational effect of temperature differences on sex differentiation in Danio rerio
Faculty Sponsor: Theresa Grana
Student: Alegria Bautista – Advances in Worm DNA Sequencing
Faculty Sponsor: Bradley Lamphere
Student: Edmund Shanahan – Amphibian Habitat Ecology
Faculty Sponsor: Lynn Lewis
Student: Aisling Berrios – Antiviral Effects of Lithium Chloride on NDV in BHK-21 Cells
Faculty Sponsor: Ginny Morriss
Student: Delaney Baratka – The Impact of pvr on Muscle Phenotypes in Drosophila Melanogaster
Student: Arshpreet Brar – The application of DNAzymes on the CTG repeat expansion of Myotonic Dystrophy Type 1
Student: Madeline Brunt – Knockdown of Pvr and its Relation to DMl Muscle Wasting in Drosophila
Student: John Conrad Tan – Effect of Plasma Irisin Supplementation on DNT1 in Exercised and NonExercised Flies
Student: Ashlyn Rauch – Time Course for Adult Onset Myotonic Dystrophy in Drosophila melanogaster
Student: Kayla Rodriguez – Assessing progression of muscle phenotypes in an adultonset model of myotonic dystrophy in Drosophila melanogaster
Faculty Sponsor: Deborah O’Dell
Student: Natalie Baca – The Role of GSK-3b in Alzheimer’s Disease
Student: Kristy Ann Bagley and Mikyas Telahun – Microglial Inflammation in Alzheimers
Student: Hannah Stottlemyer – Changes of TOB in Response to Chronic Social Stress
Faculty Sponsor: Laura Sipe
Student: Abigail Glenn – Examining the therapeutic efficacy of chemotherapy in combination with methionine restriction in breast cancer cells.
Faculty Sponsor: Parrish Waters
Student: Hudson McNerny – Social isolation affects central orexin and hedonic drive in mice.
Student: Marina Roshdy – The influence of wheel running exercise on aggression and dominance in mice
Chemistry & Physics Department
Faculty Sponsor: Janet Asper
Student: Willow Candage – Development of Chemistry Labs for Visually impaired students
Computer Science Department
Faculty Sponsor: Stephen Davies
Student: Harmony Peura – The Interaction between Heterogeneous Voting Strategies and Dynamic Vote-seeking campaigns: An Agent-based Model
Economics Department
Faculty Sponsor: Amrita Dhar
Students: Nickolas Remish – Issues in Political Economy Conference
History & American Studies Department
Faculty Sponsor: Krystyn Moon
Students: Daniel Childers – Chinese Food Proliferation in the 19th century
Modern Languages & Literatures Department
Faculty Sponsor: Maria Laura Bocaz Leiva
Students: Norah Walsh and Rebecca Cruz Briones – Gender Lost in Translation. Towards a New Translation of Gender in Hell Has no Limits by José Donoso”.
Political Science & International Affairs Department
Faculty Sponsor: Melissa Martinez
Students: Abigail Tank – Democracy and organized crime: The case of Brazil
Psychological Science Department
Faculty Sponsor: Dave Kolar
Students: Emma Hadley, Jordan Lyons, Scott McDonald, Mitchell Freitag and Ainsley Logar – Purchasing Behavior: Effect of Greenwashing, Social Norms, and Public vs. Private Shopping
Faculty Sponsor: Marcus Leppanen
Students: Eliana Black, Ada Moses, Hannah Shipp – Presentation at the Eastern Psychological Association Conference
Faculty Sponsor: Miriam Liss
Students: Rob Oehler, Sarah Baliff, Skyler Revutin, Ann Camp and Cate Kelly – Student presentations at the Eastern Psychological Assoc. Conference
Student: Rob Oehler – Selfdiagnosis, attachment to diagnosis, social media exposure, and clinical implications.
Students: 24 PSYC 491-492 students – Student Research Presentation for the Virginia Assoc. for Psychological Science
Faculty Sponsor: Erin Palmwood
Student: Noel Shenk – The Impact of Experiencing Relationship Trauma on Beginning New Romantic Relationships
Students: Noel Shenk, Alexandra Mills, Shelby Shifflett and Ameer Abdel-Muhsin, Emily Granger – Conflict Avoidance Moderates the Impact of Internalizing Symptoms on Post-Breakup Distress
Faculty Sponsor: Hilary Stebbins
Students: Alexandra Tingen, Sofia Taylor, Dayton Keffer and Valeria Duque – The Role of Chronotype, Social Jet Lag, and Chronic Sleep Reduction in Academic Procrastination
Theatre and Dance Department
Faculty Sponsor: Gregg Stull
Students: 17 THEA 435 students – Creating Identity in the Theatrical Space
Previous Awarded Grants:
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2023 | FALL | SPRING | SUMMER |
2022 | FALL | SPRING | SUMMER |
2021 | FALL | SPRING | |
2020 | SPRING | ||
2019 | FALL | SPRING | SUMMER |
2018 | FALL | SPRING | SUMMER |
2017 | FALL | SPRING | SUMMER |