How can earthworms help us reduce the risk of cancer? Is your new favorite weed killer less safe than its competitors? Students explored these and other questions in an award-winning summer research project.
Marlee Marsh ’02 was the first student at Converse to participate in SCICU-funded independent research under the mentorship of Dr. Edna Steele. Now Associate Professor …
Dr. Jessica Williams presented “A Novice Attempt at IBL Real Analysis,” and “Effects of Active Learning on Precalculus Students’ Beliefs” at the 2017 Joint Mathematics Meetings, …
Dr. Melissa Walker published a bibliography of research on rural women’s lives and the implications of gender for rural people. You can read it on …
Cristal Carreno ’17 and Nisbet Honors student Grace Frazor ’17 spent last summer digitizing the herbarium as part of the project funded by a $2.5 million grant from the …
Nisbet Honors students Caitlin Lazurick ’19, Rachel Owings ’19, and Nicole Lidzbarski ’19 presented the preliminary results of their summer research, “Investigating the Toxicity and …
Dr. Edna Steele was one of only six people in the United States to be recognized by the National Alpha Lambda Delta Freshman Honor Society …
Ashley Thompson ‘18 didn’t miss an academic beat this summer. The recipient of a summer INBRE grant, Ashley completed a summer research project at Furman …
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.
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