Karsen Woods Awarded Castleton University Institutional Research Grant

2016 Feb 23

Castleton student Karsen Woods of Castleton, VT was recently awarded an institutional research grant for the 2015-2016 academic year. Nine different faculty-student groups earned a grant for the spring semester.

Awarded by Academic Dean Tony Peffer and reviewed by Dr. Ingrid Johnston-Robledo, Dean of Arts, Sciences, and Community Engagement, and a faculty committee, the grants range from $500-$2,000 each.

Several disciplines are represented by the various projects, which utilize many different methods for answering research questions and generating knowledge. In addition to presenting their work at the Castleton Scholarship Celebration in May, many groups will present their work at national conferences this spring and summer.

Below is a list of students and their respective projects.

Spring 2016

Rebecca Allen & Roseanna Kirk: South Champlain Historical Ecology Project

Faculty Advisors: Paul Derby & Matt Moriarity, Anthropology

Dustin Lewis & Joshua Lake: The Factors that Make a Candidate Electable to the American Presidency

Faculty Advisor: Rich Clark, Political Science

Rachael Brazil & Hannah Rose: Analyzing the Nutrient Production of Teosinte and Modern Maize Through the Use of Fluorescent Biosensors

Faculty Advisor: Preston Garcia, Biology

Taylor Smith: The Antimicrobial and Anti-quorum Sensing Properties of Inonotus obliquus

Faculty Advisor: Preston Garcia, Biology

Karsen Woods: Media Images of Sexual Identity

Faculty Advisor: Sanjukta Ghosh, Communication

Catherine Wielgasz: The Contribution of Nitrate in Agricultural Runoff to the Sensitized Photochemical Degradation of Atrazine

Faculty Advisor: Andrew Vermilyea, Chemistry