{"id":494,"date":"2013-08-19T10:41:14","date_gmt":"2013-08-19T15:41:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/undergradresearch\/?p=494"},"modified":"2013-08-19T10:41:14","modified_gmt":"2013-08-19T15:41:14","slug":"summer-2013-research-roundup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/uresearch\/2013\/08\/19\/summer-2013-research-roundup\/","title":{"rendered":"Summer 2013 Research Roundup"},"content":{"rendered":"

ACU Undergraduate Researchers have been busy this summer working on a variety of projects. Over 50 students from at least 12 departments have participated in research this summer. Seventeen students participated in research through the McNair Scholars program<\/a><\/span>. Other students and faculty were supported by Pursuit\u00a0Research Grants<\/span><\/a>\u00a0and Office of Undergraduate Research Summer Stipend Grants<\/span><\/a>. Researchers worked in Abilene, but also stretched across the country from Physics researchers in New York to Biology researchers in California.<\/p>\n

In early July, we had a lunch to celebrate the research happening around campus. \u00a0Check out the Summer Research Lunch<\/span><\/a>.<\/p>\n

Check Out Photos from Various Research Groups<\/strong><\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0Here are some of the things we know about (let us know what we are missing):<\/h3>\n

Agricultural and Environmental Sciences:<\/strong> Student Darryll Morely\u00a0and \u00a0Dr. Michael Nicodemus\u00a0have been studying wildlife on Dyess Air Force Base.<\/p>\n

Biblical Studies:<\/strong> Several students, including John Kern, Darren Hughes, Joshua Brandon and Gloria Paul have been working with faculty on several research projects.<\/p>\n

Biology:<\/strong> Approximately 10 students have worked with 3 faculty in research labs at ACU. In addition, Dr. Tom Lee, Dr. Josh Brokaw and Dr. Qiang Xu took students to do on-site research in Michigan, California and around Texas.<\/p>\n

Chemistry and Biochemistry:<\/strong> Eleven students and 5 faculty participated in on-going research projects at ACU.<\/p>\n

Communication and Sociology:<\/strong> \u00a0Dylan Brugman and Amanda Rigby worked with Drs. Suzie Macaluso and Lynette Sharp-Penya in examining gender-role attitudes in religious affiliations.<\/p>\n

Education:<\/strong> Dr. Andrew Huddleston and student Tara Lowe were studying administrators’ and teachers’ responses to high stakes testing.<\/p>\n

Management Sciences:<\/strong> Levi Ritchie and Dr. Ryan Jessup were studying the effect of too much choice.<\/p>\n

Nursing:<\/strong> Matthew Molina and Dr. Anita Broxson studied parent attitudes towards immunizations.<\/p>\n

Engineering and Physics<\/strong>: Students and faculty worked on research projects at ACU, Brookhaven National Laboratories in New York, and the FermiLab near Chicago.<\/p>\n

Psychology:<\/strong> Caitlyn Spain and \u00a0Dr. Jennifer Shewmaker studied the effect of gendered toys.<\/p>\n

Social Work:<\/strong> Karli Southward and Kylee Craggett worked with Dr. Stephen Baldridge studying the role of technology in higher education.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Read about some of the exciting research that happened at ACU this summer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9214,"featured_media":499,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1980,10,76751],"tags":[1466,2477,76732,2479,970,73647,67393,2481,2482,2484,76752,2489,76753,76729],"class_list":["post-494","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-activities","category-announcement","category-feature","tag-biblical-studies","tag-biology","tag-chemistry-and-biochemistry","tag-communication","tag-education","tag-faculty-mentor","tag-management-sciences","tag-nursing","tag-physics","tag-psychology","tag-research-support","tag-social-work","tag-sociology-and-family-studies","tag-student-researcher"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/uresearch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/494","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/uresearch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/uresearch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/uresearch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9214"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/uresearch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=494"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/uresearch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/494\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/uresearch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/499"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/uresearch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=494"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/uresearch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=494"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/uresearch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=494"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}