{"id":27661,"date":"2025-01-14T15:22:00","date_gmt":"2025-01-14T20:22:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/news\/?p=27661"},"modified":"2025-03-24T08:57:03","modified_gmt":"2025-03-24T12:57:03","slug":"murc-announces-research-awards-for-faculty-and-undergraduates-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/news\/2025\/01\/murc-announces-research-awards-for-faculty-and-undergraduates-5\/","title":{"rendered":"MURC announces research awards for faculty, graduate students and undergraduate students"},"content":{"rendered":"
The Marshall University Research Corporation has announced the winners of the:<\/p>\n

\u00b7 Spring 2025 Undergraduate Creative Discovery & Research Awards<\/p>\n

\u00b7 Spring 2025 Graduate Creative Discovery & Research Awards<\/p>\n

\u00b7 Summer 2025 John Marshall Scholars Awards<\/p>\n

\u00b7 Fall 2025 John Marshall Scholars Awards<\/p>\n

The undergraduate and graduate award programs are open to qualifying students in the College of Science, the Lewis College of Business, the College of Liberal Arts, the College of Arts and Media, the College of Education and Professional Development, the College of Engineering and Computer Sciences, the College of Health Professions and the Honors College. The graduate award program is part of a new initiative started by the President\u2019s Office supporting graduate student research.<\/p>\n

Dr. Suzanne Strait is the associate vice president for research development.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe are deeply grateful to the Office of the President for supporting graduate-level research at Marshall University,\u201d Strait said. \u201cThanks to their commitment, MURC was thrilled to receive such a strong pool of applicants and award five grants for Spring 2025.\u201d<\/p>\n

The John Marshall Scholar program has supported the creative discovery and research work of faculty members from the College of Science, the Lewis College of Business, the College of Liberal Arts, the College of Arts and Media, the College of Education and Professional Development, the College of Engineering and Computer Sciences, the College of Health Professions and Marshall Libraries.<\/p>\n

Spring 2025 undergraduate awardees are:<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u00b7 Asha Bora (College of Science) \u2014 Does Oral Silver Nanoparticle Exposure Disrupt Synapse Morphology in the Rat Brain?<\/p>\n

\u00b7 Amelia Bowen (College of Science) — The Impact of Heavy Metals on Growth and Development of African ecotypes of Arabidopsis with distinct telomere lengths<\/p>\n

\u00b7 Sophia Childers (College of Liberal Arts) — Unveiling the Past: Emma of Normandy, Manuscript Artwork, and Textile Recreation<\/p>\n

\u00b7 Skylar Elliott (College of Liberal Arts) \u2014 Exploring the Role of Self-Reliance, Stigma, and Cultural Factors in Mental Health Service Utilization in Southern Appalachia<\/p>\n

\u00b7 Grace Ghiz (College of Liberal Arts) \u2014 Carving Culture: Butchery Practices and Funnel Insights from the Clover Site<\/p>\n

\u00b7 Maggie Gibbs (College of Liberal Arts) — Blessed Be the Daughters of Cain\u201d: Faith, Dominance, and Silencing in Ethel Cain\u2019s Preacher\u2019s Daughter<\/p>\n

\u00b7 Aaron Grimmett (College of Science) \u2014 Alternative Metabolic Inhibition Techniques for Tardigrades<\/p>\n

\u00b7 Hannah Hanlon (College of Science) — Design and 3D Fabrication of Bone Scaffolds with Complex, Structured Porosity<\/p>\n

\u00b7 Lizana Imran (College of Engineering and Computer Sciences) — Design and 3D Fabrication of Bone Scaffolds with Complex, Structured Porosity<\/p>\n

\u00b7 Eugene Kim (College of Science) \u2014 Evaluating the Effects of Mineral Substitution on Magnesium Regulation in the Circadian Clock<\/p>\n

\u00b7 Connor Stonestreet (College of Engineering and Computer Sciences) \u2014 Automated Detection of Track Gauge Deviations Using Video and Depth Cameras with Machine Learning<\/p>\n

\u00b7 Samuel Sutphin (College of Engineering and Computer Sciences) \u2014 Multi-Camera Gesture Recognition<\/p>\n

\u00b7 Brandi Taylor (College of Liberal Arts) — LLMs and Literature: Novel Approaches to Literary Engagement with Artificial Intelligence<\/p>\n

\u00b7 Leah Teasdale (College of Arts and Media) — Liminal Spaces<\/p>\n

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Spring 2025 graduate awardees are:<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u00b7 Jessica Bailey (College of Education and Professional Development) \u2014 Going Viral: Analyzing Social Media and its Usefulness in Classroom Instruction<\/p>\n

\u00b7 Evan Heuermann (College of Arts and Media) — By Trumpets for Trumpets, a Lecture Recital<\/p>\n

\u00b7 Sara Slack (College of Science) — Subsistence and Ecological Variance: Faunal Insights and Climate Comparisons from the Clover Site<\/p>\n

\u00b7 Anastasiia Sukhanova (College of Engineering and Computer Sciences) — Exploration of Vision Language Models (VLM) and Large Language Models (LLM) for Colorectal Cancer Segmentation<\/p>\n

\u00b7 David Warner (College of Engineering and Computer Sciences) — Optimizing Sand Battery Technology for Thermal Energy Storage<\/p>\n

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Summer 2025 John Marshall Scholar awardees are:<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u00b7 Ida Day (College of Liberal Arts) — Francisco Goya’s Apocalyptic Vision of the World<\/p>\n

\u00b7 Patricia Hunt (College of Health Professions) — Empowering Future Clinicians: A Community-Based Approach to Teaching Research in Communication Disorders<\/p>\n

\u00b7 Tracie Jones (College of Arts and Media) — Gossamer Bodies<\/p>\n

\u00b7 Derrick Kolling (College of Science) — Identification of Reactive-Oxygen Species Production Sites in Tardigrades<\/p>\n

\u00b7 Mehmet Kosa (College of Engineering and Computer Sciences) — Understanding Healthy Escapism in Video Games<\/p>\n

\u00b7 Kacy Lovelace (Libraries) — Art in the Libraries: Expanding MU Libraries\u2019 Art Exhibition and Performing Arts Performance Capabilities and Spaces<\/p>\n

\u00b7 George Lu (College of Business) \u2014 The Effect of the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act on Community Banking<\/p>\n

\u00b7 Jill Minor (College of Education and Professional Development) — Read to Lead: Professional Development Book Club for School Counselors<\/p>\n

\u00b7 Liang Wang (College of Health Professions) — Associations of Health Literacy with the Prevalence of Cardiovascular Diseases and their risk factors in West Virginia<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

Fall 2025 John Marshall Scholar awardees are<\/strong>:<\/p>\n

\u00b7 Haroon Malik (College of Engineering and Computer Sciences) \u2014 AI-Sniffer: A College-Led Initiative for Reliable Detection of Machine-Generated Content<\/p>\n

\u00b7 Sarah McDermott (College of Arts and Media) — A Printmaking Exploration of Coal Capitalism: Mercer County Boom Times<\/p>\n

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For more information about the research awards or upcoming proposals, visit www.marshall.edu\/murc<\/a>.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Marshall University Research Corporation has announced the winners of the: \u00b7 Spring 2025 Undergraduate Creative Discovery & Research Awards \u00b7 Spring 2025 Graduate Creative Discovery & Research Awards \u00b7 Summer 2025 John Marshall Scholars Awards \u00b7 Fall 2025 John Marshall Scholars Awards The undergraduate and graduate award programs are open to qualifying students in […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":239,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[42,46,26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27661","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cos","category-murc","category-news-releases"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27661","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/239"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27661"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27661\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27664,"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27661\/revisions\/27664"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27661"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27661"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27661"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}