Research at Salisbury University
Student Research
Salisbury University promotes and supports student scholarly research activities
and creative work across all academic disciplines. These endeavors are integral
to the teaching and learning experience as they provide opportunities for
students to become closely affiliated with a faculty mentor and to develop
skills and knowledge that will enable them to reach their academic and career
goals. The experiences of working closely with colleagues in a research group
help students gain needed experience and discipline as they become
professionals.
Click a link at the right for more information about student
research opportunities at SU.
Student Research
Award Spotlight
Graduate Research and Presentation (RAP) Grant Program
The Office of Graduate Studies and Research is pleased to announce the winners
of the newly-formed Graduate Research and Presentation Grants to the following
students:
- Stephen Giarratano:
"Assessing the Environmental Impact of Dietary Protein Choices
Through Ecological Footprint Accounting" ($500)
- Alexandra Guerrierio:
"Creating Exigency in Students toward Writing: How Workpace
Writing can Benefit WAC" ($500)
- Melissa
Perry:"Service Learning in
the Composition Class: Creating Courses that Shape Our
Students and Our Communities"
($500)
- Amy Reese:
"Temperature as a Cellular
Stress of Chinook Salmon Embryo Cells" ($500)
- Elizabeth
Rentz: "Species Diversity
and the Succession of Dung Beetles to Horse Dung on Assateague
Island" ($500)
- Kyle J.
Ward: "Temporal Hierarchy
of Membrame Restructuring during Cold Acclimation in Fish"
($500)
- Kyle
Wilhite: "Sexual Selection
in the Spring Peeper: Female mate choice in response to
variation in male cell properties and mixed signals" ($500)
- Chad
Willey: "BK Channels in
the Larvae (Caterpillars) of the Tobacco Hornworm (Manduca
Sexta)" ($500)
Environmental Studies Major Jessica Johnson
As the latest recipient of the Environmental Protection
Agency’s (EPA) 2011 Greater Research Opportunity Fellowship,
environmental studies major Jessica Johnson will have a rare
chance to study alongside some of the most knowledgeable
environmental scientists in the United States.
Jessica Johnson
Johnson, a junior from Silver Spring, MD became interested in
environmental issues while attending Montgomery Blair high
School, where she joined the Student Conservation Association.
Additionally, she volunteered with the U.S. Forest Service and
the Maryland Park Service and continued her service after high
school as an AmeriCorps member. Environmental classes at SU
sparked Johnson’s interest in conservation policy and the EPA’s
role in maintaining safe ecosystems.
“I’m hoping my experience with the EPA will teach me to do
field work and give me more of a hands-on idea of how our
actions impact the natural balance of the world,” said Johnson.
Following graduation, she hopes to join the Peace Corps
before attending graduate school, eventually working for the EPA
or U.S. Forest Service.
Only 30 of these awards are given each year, worth $42,700
each. The fellowships provide students with college funding for
their junior and senior years, as well as paid internships at
EPA facilities during the summer between those years.
Johnson is the third environmental studies major at SU to
receive the honor of this prestigious award.
USARA Award Recipients - Spring
2012
- Sarah Blondeaux($400) Oxidative Stress Responses in
Caenorhabditis Elegans with Reduced mrck-1 Expression
-
Carolyn Hayden ($400) The Effects of Caffeine on the Immediate Post-Concussion
Assessment and Cognitive Testing (ImPACT) Test
- Michelle Herrera ($400.00) Analysis of the
Nordihydroguaiaretic Acid in Larrea Tridentata by way of
Citizen Science
- Bridget O'Connell ($400) The Effects of Caffeine on
the Immediate Post-Concussion Assessment and Cognitive
Testing (ImPACT) Test
- Nicholas Pompa ($400) Fusing Parallel Regression
Results for Chromatographic Calibration
- Stephen Rigoulot ($400) Oxidative Stress Responses in
Caenorhabditis Elegans with Reduced mrck-1 Expression
- Kimberley Russell ($364) Multi-year Comparison of the
Wicomico Creekwatchers Water Quality Monitoring Program Data
- Ayson Stafford ($138) Presentation of Threat
Orientations and the Systematic Processing of Threat
Messages
- Sarah Wwilliams ($138) Presentation of Threat
Orientations and the Systematic Processing of Threat
Messages
USARA Award Recipients - Fall
2011
- Jamison Douglas ($500) Viewing Localized Deforestation Trends in the
Brazilian Amazon Through the Lens of an Econometricia
-
Courtney Loftus ($500) The Effects on Performance Bracelets in Strength, Power,
Endurance, Flexibility, and Balance in Collegiate Athletes
- Bradley Macpherson ($464.00) Gas station morphology on Virginia’s Eastern
Shore
- Kelly Meehan ($500) Synthesis and Reactivity of a Model Complex for Alpha-Ketoglutarate-Dependent
Mononuclear Nonheme Iron (II) Halogenase Enzyme
- Anjoli Elizabeth Rowe ($500) The Effectiveness of Applied Behavioral Analysis
on Individuals with Autism Spectrum Disorder
- Alex Sens ($500) Intramolecular Cyclization Reactions Induced by
Nucleophillic Addition Creating 1, 3-dihydroisobenzofurans
- Alexandra Yanus ($500) The Design and Synthesis of a New Type of Ligand
containing both Cp and A-frame Functionalities
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