Current Projects
With the guidance of their Faculty Mentors, students work on research projects in a wide range of areas, including the social sciences, the natural sciences, and arts and humanities.
Seminars are held in the beginning and end of the program (June – August) to provide students with even more opportunities to learn and grow through networking, sharing their experiences, and learning about their colleagues’ areas of interest. Guest speakers also participate in the seminars to present topics of interest to the student researchers. These activities offer students a unique, educational and professional experience that will help them attain their academic and professional goals in the future.
SURF 2023 Projects
The Charger Blog – News Releases
07/17/23: Nutrition Sciences Major Discusses Summer Research, Burnout, and Balance
6/20/23: Practice Makes Perfect: Introduction to my SURF Laboratory
6/14/23: Nutrition Sciences Major Prepares for Hands-On Summer Research Experience
5/4/23: Students Look Forward to Participating in Faculty-Mentored Research This Summer
Congratulations to SURF 2023 Fellows!
We are pleased to announce the SURF 2023 student researchers and their faculty mentors:
SURF Fellow | Project Title | Mentor(s) |
Bryan Cadavos | Investigation of the Toxicity of Methylamine Salts on Mammalian Cells | Chong Qiu, Shue Wang |
Justin Caron | Effects of Mechanical Compression on Collective Cell migration | Shue Wang |
Joshua Christensen | Application of Particle Correlated Raman Spectroscopy (PCRS) for the forensic Examination of Soils | Brooke Kammrath |
Gianna Cologna | Synthesis of a Library of Dibenzo-Azocine-Diones for General High-Throughput Screening | Pier Cirillo |
Asher Duke | Comic Books and Transmedia: A Historic Relationship | Dianne Russo |
Riley Eagleson | Differentiation of Biological Sex by Color Coding (ULW) Latent Fingerprint Images | Josep Fossoul |
Nox Garner | Predictors of Eating Disorders in a Novel Sample of College Students in the Northeast: A Cross-Sectional Analysis | Alvin Tran |
Beatrice Glaviano | The Estimated Concentration of Microplastics in Humans Due to the Consumption of (Dicentrarchus labrax) & Black Sea Bass (Centropristis striata) | Jean-Paul Simjouw, Christian Conroy |
Hayat Khan | Developing Polydopamine-Coated Glycogen Nanoparticles for Cancer Therapy | Sun Hao |
| Kaylee Salazar | Literature in the Age of the Internet and Algorithms: An Autoethnographic Study of TikTok’s Online Book Community | Mary Isbell |
Justine Valentino | Investigation of Borrelia burgdorferi in Gynecological Cancer Tissues | Eva Sapi |
| Cody Velikaneye | Biodegradation of Plastic Using Bacterial Biofilm | Gu Huan |
| Lily Walsh | Role of Family Violence in Childhood on Criminal Thinking Styles in Adulthood | W. Amory Carr |