SIUE Graduate School Presents Research Grants to Outstanding Students
The Southern Illinois University Edwardsville Graduate School is pleased to announce the spring 2023 Research Grants for Graduate Students (RGGS) award recipients.
The awards, valued at up to $500 each, will support the research and creative activities of 45 graduate students studying in the College of Arts and Sciences, and Schools of Engineering, Pharmacy, and Education, Health and Human Behavior.
“Graduate students at SIUE engage in their profession through the creation and publication of original research and creative activities,” said Jerry Weinberg, PhD, associate provost for research and dean of the Graduate School. “Their projects have regional, national and international impact. The RGGS recognizes the project’s potential contribution and provides the students with necessary resources to conduct the work.”
Faculty advisors oversee these students’ individual research or creative activity. The primary purpose of the RGGS program is to support the graduate students’ work, particularly as it relates to their thesis or final project.
The spring 2023 RGGS projects are listed at siue.edu/graduate-students/awards/research-grants.
A sampling of projects includes:
- Reducing Anti-Fat Stigma through Art Therapy and Activism (Allyson Burns, Art Therapy Counseling)
- Smoke Stimulation on In Vitro Seed Germination of Native Terrestrial Orchids of the Midwest (Taylor Gray, Biological Sciences)
- Deep Learning Based Visual Inspection for Pharmaceutical Tablets (Azad Gultekin, Industrial Engineering)
- The Effects of Remote Group Vibrations on the Kinetic Isotope Effects of the Hydride Transfer Reactions in Solution (Garima Ranabhat, Chemistry)
- Traffic Crash Hotspots Identification Using Geographic Information System (GIS) (Suprapti Gautam, Civil Engineering)
- Simulating Quantum Error Correction with Graphics Processing Units (David Shimkus, Computer Science)
- Diaspora | Rights of Passage (Natcha Wongchanglaw, Art Studio)
- Improving NASA GPM Weather Detection Algorithm to Detect Snow (Roshan Silwal, Electrical and Computer Engineering)
- Subsidies and Renewable Energy Growth: A Comparative Study of Midwestern United States and Eastern Europe, with a Focus on Economic Development (Austin Usmonov, Environmental Sciences)
- Inhibition of eIF4F as a Novel Treatment of Cancer (Jarret Morgan, Pharmaceutical Sciences)
- Can Mentoring Improve Engagement and Commitment for Remote Workers? (Jessica Quast, Industrial-Organizational Psychology)
Photo: The Quad on SIUE’s campus.
