SIUE Graduate School Presents Research Grants to Outstanding Students
November 26, 2024, 3:26 PM
The Southern Illinois University Edwardsville Graduate School is pleased to announce the fall 2024 Research Grants for Graduate Students (RGGS) award recipients.The awards, valued at up to $500 each, support the research and creative activities of 41 graduate students studying in the College of Arts and Sciences and Schools of Pharmacy, Engineering and Education, Health and Human Behavior.
“SIUE graduate programs are designed to ensure that our graduate students have opportunities to envision and carry out original research and scholarship in their field of study,” said Elizabeth Cali, PhD, interim associate dean of the Graduate School. “Here, students earning a master’s degree are already gaining critical experience impacting their field of study and identifying how their research and creative activities can positively impact our regional and national communities. The RGGS recognizes student project potential by providing the resources students need to conduct their work. More, the award provides an opportunity to celebrate graduate student innovation and excellence on campus.”
Faculty advisors oversee the 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 fall 2024 RGGS projects are listed. A sampling of projects are listed below.
- Exploring the Psychological Impact of Constraints to Exclusive Breastfeeding on Working Mothers in Lagos, Nigeria (Maryam Ayomide Musa, Public Health, Faculty Advisor: Dr. Alice Ma)
- Delineation of Groundwater Potential Zones Using Remote Sensing, GIS, and Multi- Criteria Decision Analysis Techniques (Anjon Das, Civil Engineering, Faculty Advisor: Dr. Rohan Benjankar)
- The Use of Social Media, Rhetorical, and Public Relations Strategies in Presidential Political Campaign Discourse: An Exploratory Study of Donald Trump's 2024 Presidential Campaign (Andrew Donkor, Applied Communication Studies, Faculty Advisor: Dr. Deborah Sellnow-Richmond)
- Unveiling Infertility (Miranda Wagman, Art and Design, Faculty Advisor: Dr. Aimee Clinger)
- Deciphering the dynamics of Bacteriophages and Bacteriophage Cocktails in the Tripartite Symbiosis with Paraburkholderia and Dictyostelium discoideum (Ashleigh Stults, Biological Sciences, Faculty Advisor: Dr. Susanne DiSalvo)
- Study of the Remote Hetero Atom and Steric Effects on Temperature Dependence of Hydride Kinetic Isotope Effects in Solution (Ava Austin, Chemistry, Faculty Advisor: Dr. Yun Lu)
- Exploring the Mentorship Experiences of Black Female Undergraduates at Predominantly White Institutions (Onyebuchi Stephanie Ewa, Diversity & Equity in Education, Faculty Advisor: Dr. Jennifer Logue)
- Drop Size Distribution Retrieval Using an Artificial Intelligence Method (Ecaterina Coman, Electrical & Computer Engineering, Faculty Advisor: Dr. Yadong Wang)
- Molecular Interaction of Selenium and Toxic Metals in Shellfish (Prakash Joshi, Environmental Sciences, Faculty Advisor: Dr. Zhiqing Lin)
- Improving Warehouse Efficiency: Collaborative Drone Operations Using Linear Programming Models (Abdul Jalil Abdulahi, Industrial Engineering, Faculty Advisor: Dr. Xin Chen)
- SIUE's BODe - A Robotic Tour Guide (Jared Jess, Mechanical Engineering, Faculty Advisor: Dr. Mingshao Zhang)
- Design and Synthesis of 3-substituted 1,2,3,4-Tetrahydroisoquinoline Compounds to Target Sigma Receptors and Developing In-House Cell-based Calcium Assay (Dikshita Lama, Pharmaceutical Sciences, Faculty Advisor: Marcelo Nieto)
- Show Me the Money... or Not: The Moderating Role of Gender on Salary Transparency and Job Satisfaction in the Workplace (Kaia Ford, Industrial-Organizational Psychology, Faculty Advisor: Dr. David Fisher)
PHOTO: Joseph Antwi, former RGGS recipient and current master’s student in Biological Sciences, presents his research at the Symposium, spring 2024
