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Patrick Cote-Abel
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  • Class of 2017
  • Castleton, VT

Patrick Cote-Abel Awarded Castleton University Institutional Research Grant

2016 Nov 2

Castleton student Patrick Cote-Abel of Londonderry, was recently awarded an institutional research grant for the 2016-2017 academic year. Twelve different faculty-student groups earned a grant.

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.

Fall 2016

Ashley Smith: Geologic Evolution of the Shelving Rock Quadrangle, Eastern Adirondack Mountains, NY (Faculty advisor: Tim Grover-Natural Sciences).

Justin Whitney: Effects of Anti-inebriation Drugs on the Activity of Alcohol Dehydrogenase (Faculty advisor: Livia Vastag-Natural Sciences).

Dalton-Jesse Cummins, Peter Michelsen: Almost Too Dark (Faculty advisor: Harry McEnerny-Theater).

Nicole Wershoven: Diet specialization & detoxification in Neotropical forest katydids (Faculty advisor: Christine Palmer-Natural Sciences).

Amber Elizabeth Miller Clark: Characterization of the stress-induced gene At4g33666 (Faculty advisor: Christine Palmer-Natural Sciences).

Emily Giddings: Shade Avoidance Syndrome in the Model Organism Arabidopsis thaliana (Faculty advisor: Christine Palmer-Natural Sciences).

Emily Giddings: Using Touchscreen Technology to Assess Early Grammar Knowledge (Faculty advisors: Megan Blossom-Psychology & Scott Hanselman-Business).

Eric Korzun: Gamification and Motivation (Faculty advisor: Christopher Boettcher-English).

David Carlino, Caitlin McCluskey, Audrey Phillip & Nicholas White: Factors Impacting Ethanol Sedation Tolerance in Drosophila melanogaster (Faculty advisor: Greg Engel-Psychology).

Patrick Cote-Abel: The New American Gods: Superheroes in the Age of Global Terrorism (Faculty advisor: Sanjukta Ghosh-Communication).

Ashley Nelson: Breaking Boundaries While Reinforcing the Status Quo: A Reappraisal of Modern Family (Faculty advisor: Sanjukta Ghosh-Communication).

Casandra Fyles, Christopher Shattuck & Iyanna Williams: Assessing the effectiveness of Twitter and Instagram for creation of an online academic community: Improving communications in the School of Business at Castleton University (Faculty advisors: Bill Godair & Ed Dansereau-Business).