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HUNTINGTON, W.Va. – The Marshall University Research Corporation has announced the winners of the Summer 2023 and Fall 2023 Undergraduate Creative Discovery and Research Awards and the Fall 2023 and Spring 2024 John Marshall Scholars Award program.

The 14 awardees of the Summer 2023 Undergraduate Creative Discovery and Research Awards will receive a $4,000 stipend and the participating faculty member will receive $1,000. The four awardees for Fall 2023 will receive a $1,750 stipend and mentors will receive $750.

The program is open to qualifying students in the College of Science, College of Business, College of Liberal Arts, College of Arts and Media, College of Education and Professional Development, College of Engineering and Computer Sciences, College of Health Professions and the Honors College.

Summer 2023 awardees are:

Al-Qawasmi, Hamzeh (CECS) — Electrospinning and Filament Construction for Bone Scaffold Fabrication: An Assessment of Effectiveness, Producibility, and Practicality

Blizzard, Jacob (Honors) — Using Mass Spectrometry to Determine the Presence and Function of Antimicrobial Proteins in Tardigrades

Clark, Trace (COS) — Using Antioxidant Assays and Electron Paramagnetic Resonance Spectroscopy to Determine the Defensive Role of Antioxidants in Tardigrades

Combs, Claire (COS) — Studying behavior and cardiometabolic changes in adolescent-age vaping mice.

Ellison, Jaden (COLA) — 4rtificial: Recoll3cting A B1onic Life

Kushner, Dawn (CAM) — Against the Odds [Working Title]

Law, Rebecca (CAM) — Singing the News: Music as Journalism in America

Lee, Jacob (CECS) — Optical and Transport Property Investigations on Multi-Layer Metal-Oxide Thin Films for Thermal Protection Applications

Mitchell, Hunter (COS) — Synthesis Expansion and Limitations of Pyridoimidazolium Cation Formation using Vilsmeier Hack Reagent

Perdue, Olivia (COB) — Supporting Art and Design Students in the Personal Branding Process as a Non-Art Major

Perkins, Kate (COS) — Systematic analysis of adverse conditions using bioluminescent Serratia marcescens

Riley, Alice (COS) — Determining How Diet-Induced Obesity Accelerates Disease Progression in Blood Cancers

Thacker, Callie (CAM) — The Stitch of a Quilt on a Barn in Appalachia

Williamson, Julia (COEPD) — Supporting Childhood Grief using Children’s Literature

Fall 2023:

Andrew-Vaughan, Olivia (Honors) — Diving into the Archives: Processing Histories of Marshall University

Martin Hidalgo, Alejandro (Lexi) (COLA) — Dietary effects on aggressive behavior

Perry, Colby (CECS) — Active Title: Immersive VR Active Shooting Training vs Traditional Training

Waite, Jasmine (COLA) – Just a Little

The four total awardees of the John Marshall Scholars Award Program will each receive a semester-long, four-course reassigned time commitment to pursue original creative work, scholarship or research. Since its inception, the John Marshall Scholar program has supported the creative discovery and research work of faculty members from the College of Science, College of Business, College of Liberal Arts, College of Arts and Media, College of Education and Professional Development, College of Engineering and Computer Sciences, College of Health Professions and the Library.

Fall 2023 Awardees are:

Gratchev, Slav (COLA) — Teaching Foreign Languages Through Virtual Synchronous: The New Development in Teaching Methodology in Today’s World

Puppo, Pamela (COS) — Plants foraged by alfalfa leafcutter bees for nest construction and brood provision

Spring 2024 Awardees Are:

Canady, Brittany (COLA) — Preparing the Healthcare Workforce to Provide High-Quality Chronic Pain Treatment

Cyphert, Holly (COS) — The interplay of bile acids and the microbiota in metabolic disease

For more information about the research awards or upcoming proposals, visit www.marshall.edu/murc.

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