A new biosensor to help detect a genetic disease. The potentially carcinogenic effects of Round Up. This sort of research may sound like the domain of large biomedical research labs, but it’s being conducted right here on the Converse campus. And some of the researchers aren’t old enough to drive.
After nearly two months of laboratory research, seven research teams presented their findings to a gathering of Converse community members, family, friends and local college professors on July 29, 2016. …
Converse is well represented this summer in Washington, D.C. by three Nisbet Honors students. Chemistry and Politics major Kenda Szczesniak ’19 is working for an educational nonprofit. Biology, Chemistry and …
Converse College is a partial recipient of two grants totaling $2.5 million. One grant is from the National Science Foundation (NSF) while the remaining allotment is from the National Endowment …
Biochemistry major Ashley Thompson ’18 has been accepted to Furman University’s highly competitive NIH-INBRE 2016 Summer Undergraduate Research Program as a Converse-Furman collaboration student. She will work in Dr. John …
Professor Hurlbut along with Senior Art Therapy students Nicole Campbell, Drea Kelley, and Laura Slade, and Don Scott (Visiting Scholar) had their research accepted for presentation at the 47th Annual …
Dr. Will Case received a Target Faculty award through statewide competition under the SC-INBRE III Developmental Research Program of National Institutes of Health. He will receive $126,000 in direct support …
Dr. Neval Erturk received a major, six-figure, multi-year NIH-INBRE grant to support summer research and the renovation of animal facilities. The summer research component of the grant will sponsor two …
Nisbet Honors student Brooke Harrison ‘18 presented her research project titled The Effects of Ganoderma lucidum Extracts on the Viability of Cancerous vs Non-cancerous Breast Cancer Cell Lines at the …