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Undergraduate research is a vital component of the learning experience as it enables students to apply the knowledge, skills and abilities they have developed in their academic program to solving problems in math, science and technology. Students work in collaboration with faculty and other student researchers to define the problem, propose approaches to solving the problem, conduct experiments or simulations to verify the efficacy of their proposal, and assess the outcomes.
Students typically prepare research posters summarizing their experience for presentation at the School of Science and Technology Spring Semester Twitter (SST2) Research and Activity Expo, for scientific conferences away from GGC or for publication in the scientific literature.
STEC 4500 – Undergraduate Research Project (3 credits)
Prerequisite: Permission of faculty research supervisor. Students may conduct research in any of the disciplines in the School of Science and Technology. Through this research project, students will:
- gather accurate information about a possible career path
- effectively use the steps of the scientific method
- communicate in-depth scientific information effectively in oral and written form using appropriate terminology and charts/graphs
- collect and analyze data and present results in appropriate formats including chart, graph and oral/written form.
Faculty Researchers
Dr. Evelyn R. Brannock:
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Digital image processing, particularly in bioinformatics and watermarking, wavelet transforms (DWT), software engineering and model driven architecture (MDA). |
| Dr. Chulsung Kim: |
Environmental chemistry, chemical education, environmental analytical chemistry, aquatic chemistry, geochemistry. |
| Dr. Karen L. Perell-Gerson: |
Diabetes prevention, effects of exercise on gait and disease prevention in older adults, biomechanics, motivation for exercise. |
Dr. Jim Nolan:
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Viral genome sequencing and evolution. |
Dr. Latanya Hammonds-Odie:
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Vertebrate gastrointestinal tract development, human toxicity of benzenearsonates, activities that encourage African-American undergraduate students to pursue careers in biomedical research. |
| Dr. Julia E. Barker Paredes: |
Oxygenation catalysts, organic sulfides, chemical education. |
| Dr. David P. Pursell: |
Analysis of environmental pollutants, photochemistry at interfaces, organic synthesis, chemical education. |
| Dr. Clay Runck: |
Biological and chemical analysis of freshwater ecosystems; feeding ecology of invertebrates. |
| Dr. Mark Schlueter: |
Field biology; human biology (depth perception research); reproductive and feeding biology of pest beetles. |
| Dr. Joseph C. Sloop: |
Organic synthesis, reaction kinetics and mechanistic studies, organofluorine chemistry, quantitative structure-activity relationship studies (QSAR), chemical detection of explosives. |
| Dr. Scott J Thompson: |
DFT and Monte Carlo simulations of oxide surfaces and surface defects, physics education.
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| Dr. Patrice Bell: |
Atmospheric chemistry, multiphoton excitation, gas-phase absorption, chemical education. |
Dr. Anatoly Kurkovsky:
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Information technology and simulation, systems analysis and efficiency assessment, systems architecture, artificial intelligence.
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