The Quinnipiac University Interdisciplinary Program for Research and Scholarship (QUIP-RS) program offers undergraduates the opportunity to conduct funded mentored research at Quinnipiac during the summer. As an interdisciplinary program, QUIP-RS is open to students from all disciplines at Quinnipiac, from STEM to business and humanities. This summer, from May to July, 2022, 13 students representing 5 different schools at Quinnipiac (CAS, SOCE, SHS, SOC and SOB) and 10 different majors completed projects that included: the study of the connection between anxiety and learning in adolescent rats, how societies respond to plagues throughout history, the effects of artificial noise on tree swallows, the value of image to the college athlete, an examination of how social media influencers impact impulse buying, and many others (see below for full list). Students conducted research during the 8 weeks of the program and met weekly as a group to discuss their progress and to participate in a variety of activities – including planting a pollinator garden, a sports jamboree day and rock climbing. The program concluded with the QUIP-RS symposium during Bobcat weekend (September 17, 2022) when all participants shared the final results of their work in poster presentations to the community. Beyond Quinnipiac, students also presented their research at regional and national meetings and winning awards for excellence in research.
Below you can find student projects, activities and awards for their research.
For more information about the QUIP-RS program, including how to APPLY to QUIP-RS and for EXAMPLES from previous years -> click here
To DONATE please click here -> http://qu.edu/supportquiprs
QUIP-RS 2022 Symposium (October 2022): https://cas360.qu.edu/blog/2022/09/19/quip-rs-2022-symposium/
PROJECTS:
| Student | Project | Major | Mentor(s) | School |
| Khushi Agnish | How do social media influencers impact impulse buying | Behavioral Neuroscience | Tilottama Chowdhury, Mohammed Elahee | SOB/CAS |
| Alyssa Arends | Citizenship in Myanmar: The mapping of difference | Political Science | Marcos Scauso, Melissa Kaplan | CAS |
| Emily Beltz | Developmental transitions during Coxiella burnetii infection. | Biomedical Sciences | Shawna Reed | SHS |
| Vareeon (Pam) Chonweerawong | Investigating horizontal gene transfer in Lyme Disease vector Borrelia | Microbiology & Immunology | Christian Eggers | SHS |
| Kelsey Darcy | Name, Image and Likeness: roles and value for the college athlete | Public Relations | Katie Place | SOC |
| Emily Diaz | Mapuche Resistance: decolonizing histories | Political Science | Jonathan Torres | CAS |
| Hannah Jack | Anxiety, learning, and memory deficits in adolescent rats | Behavioral Neuroscience | Adrienne Betz | SHS |
| Ariel Khemraj | The development of electrolytic electroporation for the treatment of skin lesions | Mechanical Engineering | Mary Phillips Ho | SOCE |
| Olivia Magno | Investigation of triflouroacetic acid in C. elegans | Biology | Courtney McGinnis | CAS |
| Riya Miller | Investigating the role of biogenic amines in the formation of dominance hierarchies in the subsocial small carpenter bee Ceratina calcarata | Biology | Sarah Lawson | CAS |
| Briana-Frankie Morganstern | How society has learned to live through plagues | History | Jill Fehleison | CAS |
| Yamna Siddiqui | MicroRNA regulation of splicing homeostasis and longevity in C. elegans | Biomedical Sciences | Alexandre de Lencastre | SHS/CAS |
| Hannah Williams | Effects of artificial noise on the parental care of tree swallows | Biology | Scott Davies | CAS |
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AWARDS and scholarship dissemination:
Since completing the program, these students have presented their QUIP-RS research at local, regional and national meetings and received awards for their work:
- Kushi Agnish (Behavioral Neuroscience), mentored by Dr. Chowdhury and Dr. Elahee – gave an invited talk on her QUIP-RS research at the Academy of International business conference held at American University (October 15th, 2022). She was the only undergraduate invited to give a talk.
- Riya Miller (Biology), mentored by Dr. Lawson (CAS) gave an invited talk at Hopkins School on her research “Biogenic amines and dominance hierarchies in the small carpenter bee”, November 2022.
- Yamna Siddiqui (Biomedical Sciences) mentored by Dr. de Lencastre (CAS) was awarded the 1st Place Research Award at the REMC Symposium, at Netter Medical School, for her QUIP-RS Research poster on “miRNAs and Splicing Homeostasis” (September 2022).
- Hannah Jack (Biomedical Sciences) mentored by Dr. Adrienne Betz (BNS) presented her QUIP-RS Research at the Society for Neuroscience Conference held from November 11-15 2022 in Washington DC.
QUIP-RS is supported by:
- The Quinnipiac University Provost’s office
- The “You Got This, Kids!” Foundation (https://www.yougotthiskid.org/student-fellows-and-internships)
To donate to the QUIP-RS program please click here! -> http://qu.edu/supportquiprs
QUIP-RS Committee:
Dr. Alexandre de Lencastre, CAS (Alexandre.deLencastre@quinnipiac.edu)
Dr. Katie Place, SoC (Katie.Place@quinnipiac.edu)
Dr. Kim DiGiovanni, SoCE (Kimberly.DiGiovannii@quinnipiac.edu)
Dr. Tilottama Ghosh Chowdhury, SoB (Tilottama.GhoshChowdhury@quinnipiac.edu)
Dr. Christian Eggers, SHS (Christian.Eggers@quinnipiac.edu)
