Undergraduate Research in Biology
Emporia State University
Though it is easy enough to conduct experiments, it is far from easy to conduct irreproachable ones. -- Louis Pasteur (1864)

Many students in Biology at Emporia State University become involved in research projects. Students who have an emphasis in environmental biology are required to do an undergraduate research project. While this is not required for other biology students, it is strongly encouraged. The students listed below are involved in a variety of research projects. Some of these students do this for class credit, others as paid positions, and some on a volunteer basis. If you have an interest in doing research, contact one or more faculty members whose interests match yours. The faculty member can help you design your own project or suggest projects. Many of our students go on to present their work at state and regional scientific meetings and have often won "best student paper" awards at these meetings.

Student	Title of Project	Faculty Supervisor	Semester
Brenda Banka	Foraging behavior of gray and fox squirrels.	Dwight Moore	Fall 1999
Christy Brown	The use of cornfields by mammals with special reference to raccoons	Dwight Moore	Fall 1999
Lani Burress	Thermoregulation and diel cycles of metabolic rate in Woodhouse's toad	Lynnette Sievert	Fall 1998
	Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Kansas Herpetological Society (1998). First place for outstanding undergraduate student presentation.
Melissa Conroy	Effects of various venoms on red blood cell osmotic fragility	David Saunders	Spring 2000
Leanna DeBoer	Isolation of chromosomal DNA for the non-scientist	Scott Crupper	Fall 1999
	Poster presented at the annual meeting of the Kansas Academy of Sciences (2000).
Celeste Detiege	Postnatal development in the forelimb of Sigmodon hispidus	Dwight Moore	Spring 2001
Troy Fisher	Habitat use by young-of-year flathead catfish	David Edds	Fall 1998
Jennifer Greve	Chromosomal variation in Blarina carolinensis	Dwight Moore	Spring 1999
Jennifer J. Hammond	Parasite prerequisites: the life history of Poikilolaimus robbinsi	Derek Zelmer	Spring 2000
	Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Southwestern Association of Naturalists (2000).
Megan Kearney	Digestive efficiency in toads	Lynnette Sievert	Summer 1999
Megan Kearney	Foraging strategy of fox squirrels	Dwight Moore	Spring 2000 Fall 2001
Kelly Kramer Nicole Palenske	Comparative skeletal work in vertebrates	Lynnette Sievert	Spring 2000
Amy Lutes	Actin distribution within red blood cells: Use of fluorescent molecules and fluorescent microscopy to locate and map the distribution of actin in the red blood cell membrane of various vertebrate species	David Saunders	Spring 2000
Chris McFall	Isolation and quantification of Staphylococcus aureus from soil	Scott Crupper	Fall 1999
	Poster presented at the annual meeting of the Kansas Academy of Sciences (2000).
Jared McJunkin	The effects of N,N-diethyl-meta-toluaminde based insect repellant on the trap success of small mammals	Dwight Moore	Fall 1999
	Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Kansas Mammal Meeting (1999) and of the Southwestern Association of Naturalits (2000)
Kelsey Meador Aaron Stuerke	Comparative skeletal work in vertebrates	Lynnette Sievert	Spring 1999
Melissa Miller	Chromosomal variation within mice from a polluted site.	Dwight Moore	Fall 1999
Jason Pankratz	Dversity of aquatic invertebrates in burned and unburned moist soil units.	Derek Zelmer	Spring 2001
Linda Rice Katrina Brown	Effects of zinc on critical thermal maxima in red shiner	David Edds	Fall 1998
Linda Rice	Feeding behavior of goats in sericea lespedeza infested fields	Tom Eddy	Spring 1999
Aaron Scheve	Parasites of Kansas bobcats	Tom Eddy	Spring 1999
Melissa Smith	Bacterial Flora in the Household Cricket: Presence of Human Opportunists and Pathogens and Their Antibiotic Profiles	Ken Gaeddert	Spring 2001
Aaron Stuerke	The fishes of Browning Oxbow, Doniphan Co., KS	David Edds	Fall 1998 Spring 1999
Aaron Stuerke Travis Doile	Effect of riffles on dissolved oxygen levels in a stream	David Edds	Fall 1998
Jennifer Ziegler	The effect of Trental on red blood cell deformability and blood viscosity in the rat	David Saunders	Spring 2000

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Last updated on 26 January 2001.
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