Undergraduate Summer Research Fellows Announced
The University of Scranton’s President’s Fellowship for Summer Research is a program that pairs undergraduate students with faculty mentors, working together to complete research projects.Work is underway by seven University of Scranton undergraduate students who are working closely this summer with faculty mentors to complete research projects.
The seven students are recipients of the President’s Fellowship for Summer Research, a program administered by the Provost Office and designed to foster undergraduate research and hands-on learning through faculty-mentored projects. Each project is driven by the student who takes ownership in developing and refining their research.
The following list includes 2025 summer research fellows, their projects and faculty mentors:
Ronald Prislupski, a finance major from Pittston, “Does Trading Hour Extension Increase Information Content? The Natural Experiment from Hong Kong,” with faculty mentor Jinghan Cai, Ph.D., associate professor of economics, finance and international business;
Sarah Lyons, a nursing major from Moosic, “Exploring Emotional Intelligence Qualities Among a Sample of Bedside Nurses,” with faculty mentor Mary Jane DiMattio, Ph.D., professor and chair of the Nursing Department;
Alexa Martinez, a biochemistry, cell and molecular biology major from Walden, New York, “Understanding the Variation in Prevalence and Transmission of Wolbachia Bacteria in Insect Host Populations Over Time,” with faculty mentor Michael Hague, Ph.D., assistant professor of biology;
Therese Shimkus, a history and English major from Scranton, “Free Will, Sin and the Saints: The Problem of Heavenly Freedom,” with faculty mentor Christopher Hauser, Ph.D., assistant professor of biology;
Matthew Jasienski, a biochemistry, cell and molecular biology major from Duryea, “Hydroxypropyl Cellulose Functionalized Hollow Gold-Silver Nanoshells as Environmental Sensors for Organic Pollutants,” with faculty mentor Riddhiman Medhi, Ph.D., assistant professor of chemistry;
Daniel Cerra, a mathematics major from Suffern, New York, “Lurching Forward with Historical Proofs,” with faculty mentor Kenneth Monks, Ph.D., professor of mathematics;
Alyssa Cosklo, a biology major from Fell Township, “Investigating Morphological Plasticity in the Bacterial Genes Henricella Pelagia,” with faculty mentor Amelia Randich, Ph.D., assistant professor of biology.
