News 2024: Spring 2024 winners of Office of Undergraduate Research awards announced

Undergraduate students have been recognized and awarded for their outstanding research projects

The Office of Undergraduate Research (OUR) recently announced the award recipients and their faculty mentors. The awards are given to student researchers to fund their proposals for research projects alongside a faculty supervisor. The OUR works with students who aim to solve problems, make discoveries, and interact with research faculty outside the classroom.

Spring recipients are: 

Joshua Bernardin – Chemistry and Biochemistry

Supervisor: Shuowei Cai

Title: Inhibition Effects of Blueberries on Monoamine Oxidase A

Veronica Bock – Bioengineering

Supervisor: Tracie Ferreira

Title: Generating a Zebrafish with GFP Expression in the Heart

Josiah Cassidy – Mechanical Engineering

Supervisor: Banafsheh Seyed-Aghazadeh

Title: Fluid-Structure Interaction of Flexible Thin Sheet

Mary Goodrow – Bioengineering

Supervisor: Tracie Ferreira

Title: Examining the Effect of Vitamin D on Melanoma

Erica Leventhal – Nursing

Supervisor: MaryElizabeth Vieira

Title: Physical Activity Interventions in Middle-Aged Sedentary Women and Cardiovascular Disease

Chelsea E. Martinez – Nursing

Supervisor: Kristin Sethares

Title: Perceived Barriers to Medication Adherence in Latinos with Hypertension Using the World Health Organization Multidimensional Adherence Model

Brent Mello – Biology

Supervisor: Michael Sheriff

Title: Invasive Species and Their Effect on Relative Abundance of Native Species in the Wild

Mehul Puri – Bioengineering

Supervisor: Milana Vasudev

Title: Suicide Vectors for allelic exchange in Cellulophaga Lytica

Faith Unwin – Sociology

Supervisor: Lisa Maya Knauer

Title: The Impacts Green Spaces Have on Mental and Physical Health: Buttonwood Park and Riverside Park