The Quinnipiac University Interdisciplinary Program for Research & Scholarship (QUIP-RS) held its annual symposium on Saturday, September 17th in CCE (CCE118) and Atrium as part of Bobcat weekend.
The symposium was open to all students, faculty, staff and parents. Refreshments and appetizers were provided.
QUIP-RS is an immersive, multi-disciplinary undergraduate 8-week summer research and creative program where students work full time with a faculty mentor on a specific research project and meet weekly with other QUIP-RS fellows and faculty to share their findings. Acceptance to the program is competitive and all students receive funds for their research and summer stipend. At the symposium we celebrate their hard work and transformative experiences.
QUIP-RS 2022 Summer research: https://cas360.qu.edu/blog/2023/01/28/quip-rs-2022/
Saturday, September 17th, 2022
8:00 – 11:00 am
CCE 118 and atrium
Schedule:
- 8 – 9 a.m. – Arrival and poster setup in CCE Atrium
- 9 – 10 a.m. – Keynote Speaker (CCE 118) – Nicole Davis of “Save the Sound”
- 10 – 11 a.m. – Poster Presentations (CCE Atrium)
QUIP-RS keynote speaker :
Quip-RS 2022 Keynote Address by Nicole Davis, Watershed Coordinator, Save the Sound.
• Nicole Davis — Nicole Davis is the Watersheds Coordinator for Save the Sound’s Ecological Restoration program. She has an M.S. in Environmental Science from Virginia Commonwealth University, where her research focused on the interactions between land use and instream macroinvertebrate and fish communities. Nicole also has a B.S. in Marine Science and has completed post graduate work in Urban Planning. She has been working in coastal conservation in Connecticut since 2007 and has managed the development of several watershed plans, worked to integrate conservation measures and green infrastructure into disaster mitigation and flood plans, and conducted climate resilience work for the New York-Connecticut metropolitan area and managed the implementation of small and large scale green infrastructure projects for the New Haven Harbor Watersheds.
QUIP-RS 2022 Poster Presentations:
| Students | School | Mentor | Project Title |
| Khushi Agnish | SOB | Tilottama Chowdhury, Mohammed Elahee | How do social media influencers impact impulse buying |
| Alyssa Arends | CAS | Marcos Scauso, Melissa Kaplan | Citizenship in Myanmar: The mapping of difference |
| Emily Beltz | SHS | Shawna Reed | Developmental transitions during Coxiella burnetii infection. |
| Pam Chonweerawong | SHS | Christian Eggers | Investigating horizontal gene transfer in Lyme Disease vector Borrelia |
| Kelsey Darcy | SOC | Katie Place | Name, Image and Likeness: roles and value for the college athlete |
| Emily Diaz | CAS | Jonathan Torres | Mapuche Resistance: decolonizing histories |
| Hannah Jack | SHS | Adrienne Betz | Anxiety, learning, and memory deficits in adolescent rats |
| Ariel Khemraj | SOE | Mary Phillips Ho | The development of electrolytic electroporation for the treatment of skin lesions |
| Olivia Magno | CAS | Courtney McGinnis | Investigation of triflouroacetic acid in C. elegans |
| Riya Miller | CAS | Sarah Lawson | Investigating the role of biogenic amines in the formation of dominance hierarchies in the subsocial small carpenter bee Ceratina calcarata |
| Frankie Morganstern | CAS | Jill Fehleison | How society has learned to live through plagues |
| Yamna Siddiqui | SHS/CAS | Alex de Lencastre | MicroRNA regulation of splicing homeostasis and longevity in C. elegans |
| Hannah Williams | CAS | Scott Davies | Effects of artificial noise on the parental care of tree swallows |
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For more information about the QUIP-RS program, including how to APPLY and for EXAMPLES OF STUDENT RESEARCH FROM PREVIOUS SYMPOSIA, click here
QUIP-RS Committee (2022):
Dr. Alexandre de Lencastre, College of Arts and Sciences (Alexandre.deLencastre@quinnipiac.edu) (co-chair)
Dr. Katie Place, School of Communication (Katie.Place@quinnipiac.edu) (co-chair)
Dr. Kim DiGiovanni, School of Engineering (Kimberly.DiGiovanni@quinnipiac.edu)
Dr. Tilottama Ghosh Chowdhury, School of Business (Tilottama.GhoshChowdhury@quinnipiac.edu)
Dr. Christian Eggers, School of Health Sciences (Christian.Eggers@quinnipiac.edu)
