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SOAR

Don鈥檛 Just Fly. SOAR.

We don鈥檛 put our professors on pedestals, we put them with students. SOAR (Student Opportunities for Academic Research) provides stipends and support for students in any major who is engaged in scholarly research or creative activity with a faculty member. And since the idea of 鈥渟cholarship鈥 can take on a seemingly infinite number of forms, this faculty-student research pairing program is designed to be as inclusive as possible. Check out last summer鈥檚 SOAR projects, and click here to visit the official SOAR website to find out how researching alongside a faculty can help your education really take off.

2023 SOAR Students

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Jean-Pierre Appel 鈥24

Projects Titles: 鈥淣etwork Reliability Parameters鈥 and 鈥淓xploring Toggle Games on Graphs鈥

Major and Minor: Pure Mathematics with minor in Computer Science

Project Advisor: Nathan Shank, professor of mathematics

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Emmanuel Bulted 鈥26

Project Title: 鈥淪ynthesis and Characterization of Mixed Carboxylate Ligand Rhodium Complexes鈥

Major: Chemistry

Project Advisor: Stephen Dunham, associate professor of chemistry and department chair

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Liam Fitting 鈥23

Project Title: 鈥淪hades of Living Light: Historic Collections through an Intersectional Feminist Lens鈥

Major and Minor: Psychology with minor in Studio Art

Project Advisor: Angela Fraleigh, professor of art

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Devon Goerlich 鈥24

Project Title: 鈥淯sing Reading Circles to Promote Science Self-Identification in First- to Fifth-Grade Girls鈥

Major and Minor: Psychology with minor in Sociology鈥擟riminal Justice and Law

Project Advisors: Sarah Johnson, associate professor of psychology; Stacey Zaremba, professor of psychology

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Courtney Gordon 鈥24

Project Title: How Did Black Intersect the Blue and Grey? Black History at 麻豆果冻

Major and Minor: Nursing with minor in Music

Project Advisor: Belinda Waller-Peterson, associate professor of English and associate dean for equity and inclusion

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Dwight Holloway 鈥23

Project Title: 鈥淔ood Fights: Feeding Competition between Male Howler Monkeys and Other Group Members Depending on Food Source鈥

Major: Environmental Science

Project Advisor: Sarah McClelland, assistant professor of biological sciences

Gwen Kester 鈥24

Project Title: 鈥淐ytotoxicity Assays of Various Dirhodium Complexes in Cervical and Breast Cancer Cells鈥

Major and Minor: Cellular Neurobiology with minor in Chemistry

Project Advisors: Shari Dunham, associate professor of chemistry; Anastasia Th茅venin, assistant professor of biology

John Riley 鈥25

Project Title: 鈥淒etermining Three-Dimensional Current Distributions in the Earth鈥檚 Inner Magnetosphere Using the TS05 Magnetic Field Model and Satellite Measurements鈥

Major and Minor: Physics with minor in Math

Project Advisor: Keith Wood, assistant professor of physics

Rosina Symia 鈥23

Project Title: 鈥淧arents鈥 Self-Efficacy and Involvement in Early Intervention for Families of Young Children with Hearing Loss: A Mixed Study Design鈥

Major: Early Childhood Special 麻豆果冻

Project Advisor: Jean DesJardin, education department chair, associate professor, director of early childhood education, director of early childhood special education

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Gianna Tully 鈥24

Project Title: 鈥淯nveiling the Masks of the Women Artists of Second Wave Feminism鈥

Major and Minor: English with minor in Art History

Project Advisor: Elizabeth Gray, associate professor of English and writing arts