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2022 Stetson Undergraduate Research Experience Grant Awards

Congratulations to our 2022 SURE Grant winners, we commend your effort!

Yahia Adla, mentored by Michael King, The Effects of Spilanthol on Behavioral Responses to Salty Taste.

Chloe DeYoung, mentored by Dr. Jean Smith, Analyzing the function of Fus1 during cell fusion in Saccharomyces cerevisiae,” 

Brandon Evans, mentored by Dr. Cynthia Bennington, Effects of competition and fire suppression on the growth of two sandhill understory plants, Aristida stricta and Pityopsis graminifolia

Molly James, mentored Dr. Jason Evans, The Potential Effectiveness of Vertical Rain Gardens in the Mitigation of Stormwater Runoff and Pollution.

Andrea R. Mingo, mentored by Dr. Danielle Lindner, Food Allergies, Anxiety, and Disordered Eating

Lauren Radesi, mentored by Dr. Michael Eskenazi, An Exploration of the Effectiveness of Virtual Reality Nature Based Therapy

Tom Sussan, mentored by Dr. Corie Charpentier,  Examining the comparison of substrate location for eastern oyster Crassostrea virginica spat settlement and the effect of boat wake on settlement in the Mosquito Lagoon, Florida.

Grayson Taber, mentored by Dr. Holley Lynch, Imaging Early Developmental Stages of Butterfly, Vanessa cardui

Kaira Thevenin, mentored by Dr. Kristine Dye, Exploration of Merkel Cell Polyomavirus Small Tumor Antigen Localization in Transformation and Tumorigenesis

Nicole Verdecia, mentored by Dr. Corie Charpentier, Quantifying the Diversity and Settlement Rate of Organisms Along a Living Shoreline in Mosquito Lagoon

Catherine Kraft, mentored by Dr. Leander Seah, Speaking of Dictators: Stalin’s Soviet Union, Mao’s China, and the Language of Personality Cults

Alexa McDonough, mentored by Dr. William Nylen, Legacies of War: Argentina’s Catholic Church During the Dirty War and Beyond

Lily Paternoster, mentored by Dr. Ekaterina Kudryavtseva, Uneasy: Commodification of Jean-Michel Basquiat 

Osmara Rodriguez, mentored by Dr. Emily Mieras, Domesticity in Nineteenth Century Suburbia; Ideal vs. Reality

Dylaney Sabino, Dr. Nathan Wolek, Investigating The Daisy Patch Using Max Gen~

Mario Saponaro, mentored by Luca Molnar, Living in a State of Mind

Madison Skelton, mentored by Dr. Sarah Cramer, How do agricultural and food practices and identity interact with one another within Mayan culture?

Nicole Steiniger, mentored by Dr. Terence Farrell,  Do pygmy rattlesnakes exhibit behavioral fevers in response to infection by a fungal pathogen?

Katie Wedderstrand, mentored by Dr. Kimberly Reiter, The Bone Wars as a Study of Paleontological Growth in Western America