Research Opportunities
Stonehill science students participate in highly competitive and prestigious summer research programs.
Stonehill breaks new ground on evolution
New research, conducted by biology faculty and students over more than fifteen years and published in Scientific Reports, identifies a genetic variation in mushrooms that may allow individual organisms to undergo adaptive changes within a single lifetime.
Recent research experiences include:
- National Science Foundation REU at Fordham University
- Judith P. Sulzberger Internship Program at the Institut Pasteur in Paris
- Harvard Stem Cell Institute Summer Program
- New England Primate Research Center Summer Training Program
- Pediatric Oncology Experience at St. Jude’s Research Hospital
- SEA Semester Student Research Projects
- SUCCESS Medical Research Program at Ohio State University
- UMass-Dartmouth NSF Research Experience for Undergraduates in Marine Biology
Stonehill Undergraduate Research Experience
The Stonehill Undergraduate Research Experience (SURE) is a competitive opportunity for students who have completed their first year at Stonehill to perform full-time, high-quality research over the summer under the guidance of an expert faculty researcher. The experience includes weekly lunches, postgraduate career professional development, program-wide outings and a student research symposium in the fall.
RECENT EXAMPLES
- Brandon Haffner ‘21 and Bryanna Norden ‘20 worked with Nicholas Block, assistant professor of biology, on "A Genetic Assessment of a Swallowtail Butterfly Hybrid Zone."
- Caroline Rosinski ’17 worked with Martha Hauff, assistant professor of biology, on “Variability in Nursery Habitat and Its Influence on Early Life Stages of River Herring.”
- Taylor Uccello ’17 worked with Greg Maniero, associate professor of biology, on “Characterization of Amphibian CD4 as a Receptor for Interleukin 16.”
SURE project on the detection, sequence analysis and antibiotic sensitivity of the Methylobacterium, a bacteria found in the fungus Armillaria gallica.
Fighting the ‘Glass Cliff’ with Science
Organizations often tap female executives when they’re on the verge of collapse. A student-professor research team hopes science will show it’s unfair to blame gender when the collapses happen.