The Fall 2024 round of the Student Scholarly and Creative Activities Grant will fund nine proposals totaling nearly $8,000.
These proposals were recommended for funding by members of the Scholarly and Creative Activity Committee and ultimately approved for funding by Provost Scott Furlong.
Winners include:
- Artificial DNA Aging and Protection Study
Student: Cameron Bashaw
Faculty Mentor: Kestutis Bendinskas, Chemistry - Assessment of Transfection Efficacy and Cytotoxicity of Lipid-Like Ionic Liquids for Gene Delivery
Student: Janayah Tolbert
Faculty Mentor: Arsalan Mirjafari, Chemistry - Using point counts, acoustic monitoring, and banding to track Northern Saw-whet Owls migration at Rice Creek Field Station
Student: Shaylynn Schumacher
Faculty Mentor: Daniel Baldassare, Biological Sciences - Multilingual Repeated Free Recall
Student: Sage Garcia
Faculty Mentor: Theo Rhodes and Yuheon Seo, Psychological Sciences - Molecular Identification of Wild Yeast Isolates For Intraspecies Comparison of Antifungal Resistance
Student: Barnaby Hurst
Faculty Mentor: Katie Fisher, Biological Sciences - Tetraarylphosphonium-Based Task-Specific Ionic Liquids with Exceptional Thermal Stability
Student: Muhammad Musozoda
Faculty Mentor: Arsalan Mirjafari, Chemistry - Cyclopropanated Lipid-like Ionic Liquids for Energy Demanding Applications
Student: Christopher Butch
Faculty Mentor: Arsalan Mirjafari, Chemistry - Cortisol Analysis and Receptor Genotyping in the Oswego Student Meditation Study
Student: Devon Seale
Faculty Mentor: Kestutis Bendinskas, Chemistry - Supporting Children Visiting Jail and The Department of Social Services Through Books
Student: Emma Wood
Faculty Mentor: Roseli Rojo, Modern Languages and Literatures
For more information on these and other funding opportunities to support scholarly and creative activities, visit the Office of Research and Sponsored Program's Internal Grants website.