Following competitive review of applications, the Planning Committee for Research, Scholarship and Creative Activities has selected six outstanding researchers. In addition to being selected as HSU’s Outstanding Student Researchers, they will also represent HSU at the 29th Annual California State University Student Research Competition, May 1 and 2 at CSU San Bernardino. This annual statewide competition brings outstanding student researchers from all 23 CSU campuses to compete for research awards in discipline-based categories.
The students selected to represent HSU are:
Joao Paulo De Sordi Curti
Undergraduate in Forestry & Wildland Resources
“Virtual Interpretive Forest Recreation Project”
Faculty advisor: John-Pascal Berrill, Professor, Forestry & Wildland Resources
Haley du Bois
Undergraduate in Biological Sciences
“Dissecting the Role of MAPK Signaling in the Tumor Promoting Properties of Lethal Giant Larvae 1 (Lgl1) in Primary Neural Progenitor/Stem Cells”
Faculty advisor: Amy Sprowles, Assistant Professor, Biological Sciences
Nathan A. Graham
Undergraduate in Geology
“Determining Magma Mixing Duration and Dynamics Through Analysis of Reaction Rims on Olivine Crystals in Natural Samples of Black Dacite From the 1915 Eruption of Lassen Peak, CA”
Faculty advisor: Brandon Browne, Lecturer, Geology
Jairo Luque Villanueva
Undergraduate in Environmental Resources Engineering
“Forward Osmosis-Direct Contact Membrane Distillation Sewer Mining Waste to Resource System”
Faculty advisor: Andrea Achilli, Assistant Professor, Environmental Resources Engineering
Sylvia Nicovich
Graduate candidate in Geology
“Latest Pleistocene to Holocene River Terrace Deformation within the Southeastern Extent of the Little Salmon Fault Zone: Geomorphic Insights to Fault Termination and Rupture History, Van Duzen River, Northern California”
Faculty advisor: Mark Hemphill-Haley, Professor and Chair, Geology
Madelinn Schriver
Graduate candidate in Forestry & Wildland Resources
“Establishment and Growth Patterns of Oregon White Oak and California Black Oak Woodlands in Northwestern California”
Faculty advisor: Rosemary Sherriff, Associate Professor and Chair, Geography
These students will serve as exemplars of how student research is produced, supported, and promoted at HSU and compete based on their written summaries and oral presentations of their research.