2015 Summer Fellowship Award Recipients
The Center for Undergraduate Research (CUGR), is pleased to announce the recipients of the 2015 Summer Research and Creative Activities Fellowships. The fellowships were developed to enhance and increase undergraduate student involvement in faculty-supervised research and are supported through a PRE-VUE grant awarded by the President’s Office. Each summer fellowship recipient will receive a $3,000 award for the student to cover costs associated with the project. Congratulations to all fellowship recipients.
2015 Summer Research and Creative Activities Fellowship Award Recipients
(Student Name, Academic Program, Project, Title, Faculty Mentor)
- Spencer Desrochers, Electrical and Computer Engineering, “Optimizing Power Usage of Modern Computing Systems,” advised by Vincent Weaver
- Ailish Foley, School of Food and Agriculture, “The Effects of Collection Time, Auxin Concentration, and Wounding on Root Formation of Softwood and Semi-Hardwood Cuttings of Rhododendron Canadense,” advised by Bryan Peterson
- Zachary Mason, Earth and Climate Sciences, “Increasing Resolution of Tropical Last Glacial Maximum Record with Cosmogenic Surface Exposure-Dating,” advised by Brenda Hall
- Scott Mitchell, School of Food and Agriculture, “Use of FAME Profiling to Detect Differences in Microbial Activity in Compost from Horses Treated with and without Antibiotics,” advised by Robert Causey
- Jessica Moore, Molecular and Biomedical Sciences, “Investigating a Link Between Inflammation and Invasive Candidiasis,” advised by Robert Wheeler

