Students Receive Summer Research Fellowships
Nine University of Scranton undergraduate students were awarded President’s Fellowships for Summer Research for 2023.The University of Scranton granted nine undergraduate students President’s Fellowships for Summer Research for 2023. The fellowships, administered by the Provost Office, offer each student the chance to partner with a faculty mentor to complete a research project during the summer. Each project was proposed and designed by the student and their faculty mentor.
The following is a list of the students who were awarded 2023 summer research fellowships, their projects and faculty mentors.
Stephen J. Butler, Telford, researched "The effect of social isolation on rates of addiction and neurochemistry in Camponotus floridanus" with faculty mentor Marc Seid, Ph.D., professor of biology.
Caitlin J. Doughton, Throop, researched "The Effects of Alkaloid Sequestration on Poison Frog Metabolism" with faculty mentor Vincent Farallo, Ph.D., assistant professor of biology,
Emma N. Hughes, Scranton, researched "The Effect of Predator Cues on the Physiology of P. cinereus" with faculty mentor Vincent Farallo, Ph.D., assistant professor of biology,
Jacob G. Mohring, East Stroudsburg, researched "Irisin-Hormones and their role in Parkinson’s Disease" with faculty mentor Joseph Brague, Ph.D., assistant professor of biology,
Samantha F. Pickering, Hunlock Creek, researched "Bat Species Richness and Activity in Northeast Pennsylvania at Lackawanna State Park" with faculty mentor Gary Kwiecinski, Ph.D., professor of biology.
Dominick J. Spera, Mount Laurel, New Jersey, researched "Characterization of Thiols on the Glycolytic Enzyme Enolase as a Regulatory Switch Sensitive to Metabolic Stress" with faculty mentor Timothy Foley, Ph.D., professor of chemistry.
Nicholas J. Tomassoni, Eynon, researched "The Effects of Recombinant Erythropoietin on Synaptogenesis in Camponotus floridanus " with faculty mentor Marc Seid, Ph.D., professor of biology.
Shelby A. Traver, Sweet Valley, researched "The Pandemic Within a Pandemic: Assessing the Impact of Covid-19 on Non-Profit Serving Women in Northeastern Pennsylvania" with faculty mentor JoyAnna Hopper, Ph.D., associate professor of politcal science.
Miriam M. Vandewater, Souderton, researched "The Effects of Rising Temperature in Pheidole dentata" with faculty mentor Marc Seid, Ph.D., professor of biology.
