The College of Science is proud to announce that 41 science students – a record number – have received summer undergraduate research awards that will provide the opportunity and funding to pursue their research ambitions.
Undergraduate research often plays an instrumental role in developing student-faculty relationships that help students learn and grow beyond the scope of the classroom. For many OSU students, these awards provide the financial leverage to work in the field they are passionate about without being constrained to jobs that simply pay the bills.
The Summer Undergraduate Research Experience (SURE) award is available to all science students who meet the academic requirements. Participants are paid for 11 weeks of full-time research, or 440 hours, for a maximum of $5060. Awardees also receive an additional $500 for research expenses, including travel costs, materials or equipment rental.
This is also the second year that the Department of Integrative Biology offered the Alexei Lubchenco Menge Fellowship, which was awarded to Lily Miksell to support her research examining the interactions of dominant foundation species in Oregon rocky intertidal communities under the guidance of integrative biology professor Sally Hacker. The fellowship was established in memory of Alexei Lubchenco Menge, who died at age 27 in 2005. The award seeks to help one student each year within the department who exemplifies the deep love of the ocean that Lubchenco Menge personified.
SURE science awards are made possible by generous donations of College of Science alumni, faculty and supporters.
The COVID-19 pandemic has led to come changes in the SURE science program in 2020. Due to COVID-19 restrictions limiting access to laboratory space at Oregon State University, the deadline for completing SURE scholar research projects was extended to May 2021. Some students have projects that can be done entirely remotely and will complete and present their findings by the end of the summer. Some of the students below are able to work on their projects in OSU labs this summer, following OSU and Oregon Health Authority safety guidelines. For the majority of this year's awardees, the extended timeframe will allow them an opportunity to continue their research safely throughout the school year while gaining research experience.
SURE Science Scholars
Juan Altamira | Chemistry | Vince Remcho
Analysis of Explosive Compounds via Paper Microfluidic Device
Roy Anderson | Biology | Bruce Menge
Examining the Effects of Upwelling Intensity and Recruitment Limitation on Successional Trajectories in the California Current Large Marine Ecosystem
Thao Mi Anthony | BioHealth Sciences | Kyriakos Stylianou
Implication of Metal Organic Framework with Nanoparticle Composites to Deliver Medication
John Barnes | Biology | Felipe Barreto
Quantity and Quality of DNA extracted from dry vs. alcohol preserved samples of China rockfish
Elizaveta ‘Leeza’ Bliznyuk | BioHealth Sciences | Dylan Nelson
Targeting Mycobacterium abscessus pre-existing biofilms
Madeline Bloom | Chemistry | Claudia Maier
Microchip-MS Optimization of Oxylipins Analysis as a Biomarker for Cardiovascular Disease
Elizabeth Brennan | Microbiology | Stephen Giovannoni
Plankton Need Their Vitamins: Vitamin B1 Excretion by Marine Synechecoccus
Russell Campbell | Zoology | Robert Mason
Integrative Biology Collections Management
Dustin Campbell | Zoology | Robert Mason
Sexual Dimorphic growth of Harderian glands in Thamnophis sirtalis
Emily Gemmill | Biochemistry & Molecular Biology | Weihong Qiu
Keeping up with the kinesins: analyzing regulatory proteins and their effects on the motility of KlpA, a kinesin-14 motor protein
Jessica Giulietti | Biology | Patrick Chappell
Exploring regulation of osteosarcoma in vitro: Mechanisms of RANKL production by autocrine neuropeptides
Dylan Gregory | Biology | Virginia Weis
Using the Split Luciferase Complementation Assay to Identify Protein-Protein Interactions In Cnidarian-Algal Symbiosis
Joshua Griffis | Biochemistry & Molecular Biology | Richard Cooley
Optimized Phosphoserine tRNA Selection
Shelby Hansen | Biology | Brittany Poirson
How is a young mussel's life affected by coastal water conditions?
Joshua Havelind | Biology | Francis Chan
Effect of rising temperature in the ocean on Dungeness Crabs
Toren Ikea-Mario | Biochemistry & Molecular Biology | Tory Hagen
Glutathiones effect on Mitochondrial Decay
Rohal Kakepoto | Physics | Janet Tate
Hall Measurements of TiO2 Polymorphs
Rony Koluda | Chemistry | Claudia Maier
Low Dose Radiation Effect on Myelination -Associated Proteins in Mice
Chapman Kuykendall | Biochemistry & Molecular Biology | Colin Johnson
Characterizing the Biophysical Interactions between Dysferlin C2A and the H3 Helix of Syntaxin-4
Dustin Campbell | Biochemistry & Molecular Biology | Massimo Bionaz
In vivo-in vitro dose-effect response of bovine liver to rumen-protected fatty acids: implementation of a nutrigenomic approach in dairy cows
Jessica Li | Chemistry | Jan Stevens
The effects of xanthohumol on gut microbial metabolism
Maya Livni | Biochemistry & Molecular Biology | Maude David
Unraveling the impact of the gut microbiota metabolites on intestinal sensory neuronal cells and how EECs transduce signals to the brain by forming a synapse with the vagus nerve
Ruben Lopez | BioHealth Sciences | Bo Sun
Quantifying ECM Remodeling by Invasive Tumors
Christopher Markgraf | Biochemistry & Molecular Biology | Susanne Brander
Immortalization and Validation of Inland Silverside Cardiomyocytes, Hepatocytes, and Osteoblasts
Saki Nakai | Mathematics | Vrushali Bokil
Mathematical Modeling of Bipolar Disorder
Hunter Nelson | Physics | Tuan Pham
Blowup of Reaction Diffusion Equations
Jacob North | Biochemistry |Victor Hsu
Elucidating binding features of drug targets to Farnesoid X receptor by unsupervised machine learning of molecular dynamics trajectories
Sarah Olson | Microbiology | Frederick Colwell
Investigating Changes in the Microbiome of North Creek
Reina Paez | Biochemistry & Molecular Biology | Lia Danelishvili
Identifying and Purifying Non-Tuberculosis Mycobacterial Surface Antigens for the Purpose of Inducing Trained Immune Responses in Macrophages
Aneila Parra | Biology | Jiraporn Lueangsakulthai and David Dallas
Premature vs. Term Infant Milk Protein Digestome
Jacob Rauenhorst | Chemistry | Kathy Magnusson
Effects of ibuprofen on NMDA receptor expression and contribution
Alan Schultz | Physics |Hoewoon Kim
The Linearized Navier-Stokes Equations Solved on the Sphere by Fourier Transform Method
Rhea Sellitto | Biology | James Rivers
Evaluating the nutritional landscape for wild bees in managed conifer forests
Anna Sung |BioHealth Sciences| Maria Franco
Role of Redox Signaling in Development and Growth of Tumors of the Nervous System
Savannah Taggard | Biology | Molly Burke
The evolution of RoundUp resistance in the yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae
Jessica Waymire | Physics | Matt Graham
Hyperspectral Fluorescence Imaging of Twisted Bilayer Graphene
Kaytlin Wearne | Biochemistry & Molecular Biology | Kenton Hokanson
The Effects of hsp90 on p2x7 on Human ALS Neurons
Devin Wright | Biochemistry & Molecular Biology | Michael Freitag
Zymoseptoria Tritici Mutation Accumulation Experiment
Elizaveta "Lisa" Zhivaya | Biochemistry & Biophysics | Maude David
Impact of the gut microbiota metabolites on the autism phenotype modulation
