Research News Archive

Dr. Tom Cuchta, alongside his colleagues Dr. Jaqueline Mesquita (University of Brasilia) and Dr. Sabrina Streipert (University of Pittsburgh), organized a special session at the International Conference on Difference Equations and Applications held this year in Paris, France. The session, titled “Recent advances on time scales and its relation to difference equations”, hosted 14 speakers

The Department of Chemistry conducts an annual Chemistry Research Summer Program (CRSP) that serves to strengthen the culture of research among our student scientists. It serves as an opportunity to meet new people, enhance scientific presenting skills, and have fun! The Program includes educational as well as recreational activities. This year, student scientists participated in

DiscoverBMB 2024; Kolling traveled with Trace Clark, Sierra Lutz, Brendin Flinn, Garrett Shields, Jacob Blizzard, Jaxon Smith, and Aaron Grimmett to DiscoverBMB (the American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Meeting) in San Antonio, TX. All 7 students presented posters on their tardigrade-based research in the Kolling Lab.

Congratulations to Paul Summers for being awarded a NSF Graduate Fellowship! The NGFP supports and recognizes outstanding graduate students who are pursing research-based master’s and doctoral degrees in NSF – supported science, technology, engineering, and mathematics discipline at an accredited U.S. Institution. Paul graduated from Marshall University with a B.S. in Geology in 2023 and

The College of Science would like to recognize one of Dr. Cuchta’s students, Richard Williams. Richard is a mathematics major and he gave a talk at the Allegheny Mountain Section conference of the Mathematical Association of America. The conference was held in Fairmont, WV on April 5th and 6th. Richard gave a presentation titled “A

Congratulations to Caroline Cartwright, former student in Dr. Chirchir’s lab, on her publication in the Journal of Human Evolution. The paper is titled “Trabecular bone volume fraction in Holocene and Late Pleistocene humans”. Her research confirmed existing work suggesting that modern humans have ‘lightly’ built skeletons in having low bone density compared to our ancestors

Over Spring break, 27 undergraduate students and 5 faculty members represented the Department of Chemistry at the American Chemical Society National Meeting in New Orleans. Fifteen of the students made poster or oral presentations of their research.