Research
Undergraduate Research
Opportunities
D
uring the 2011-2012 year, Dyson College continued initiatives
designed to cultivate and sustain a culture of research. Ongoing
faculty-mentored student research spanned the fields of the
sciences, the social sciences and humanities, to creative expression in
literature, art, and performance.
For the fourth year in a row, Dyson's competitive
Summer Undergraduate Student-Faculty Research
Awards supported new projects. Undergraduate
research took place as students worked side-by-side
with professors in laboratory and experiential
work settings.
Projects included:
• The Role of the Retinoblastoma Protein in Cancer
Cell Apoptosis
• The Politics of Occupy Wall Street
• Generation and Characterization of Single Nucleotide
Polymorphisms in the Vasodilator-Stimulated Phosphoprotein
• Heat Stress in Arabidopsis Thaliana: A Study of Chemical and
Signaling Processes
The activities are supported by the Center for Undergraduate
Research Experiences (CURE) under the supervision of
Assistant Dean Maria T. Iacullo-Bird, PhD. CURE provides
leadership, coordination, and support to student-faculty research
collaborations, grant-funded research projects and programs, and
opportunities for service-based internships.
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