First Year Research Awards

First Year Research Awards are scholarships designed to match outstanding students with Wittenberg’s award-winning faculty.

Wittenberg StudentsStudents selected for First Year Research awards will work closely with a faculty member while pursuing exciting research opportunities in the first year at Wittenberg. The First Year Research Awards are for $2,000 ($1,000 per semester) for the student’s first year only. This is a non-renewable award. Students can only receive one First Year Research Award and one will be awarded per area listed below. First Year Research Awards can be combined with other Special Interest Awards.

  • Deadline: February 15

Students must be admitted to Wittenberg prior to submitting a First Year Research Award application. When clicking the link to apply for an award, please log in using your Wittenberg Admission Portal username and password.

Recipient will assist Dr. Kunal Chatterjee in his current research in the area of tRNA nuclear-cytoplasmic shuttling and quality control. For more information about Dr. Chatterjee’s current research activities please visit this website.

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Recipient will assist Dr. Kristin Cline in her current research in characterizing the presence and identity of microplastics (less than 5 mm particles) in local water sources.

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Recipients will assist Dr. Michael Daiga in his research involving experiential learning in STEM education in partnership with the Great Smoky Mountain Institute at Tremont.

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Recipient will assist Dr. Elizabeth George in her research involving positronium, an artificial “atom” consisting of an electron and a positron (the antiparticle of the electron). The goal of the research is to investigate differences between matter and anti-matter.

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Recipient will assist Professor Jessica Johnson with her research on undergraduate curriculum related to the provision of healthcare for LGBTQA+ clients.

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Recipient will assist Dr. Adam Parker in his research implementing and assessing a new Learning Assistant (LA) program at Wittenberg.

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Recipient will assist Dr. Richard Phillips, in consultation with the Ohio Division of Natural Areas and Preserves, in developing and evaluating survey techniques to document the spotted turtle population numbers at fens in Clark County.

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Recipients may assist Drs. Reinsel & Welch with various aspects of their research, including sorting zooplankton samples to isolate larval fiddler crabs and fish, and using molecular tools (DNA extraction, PCR, and gel electrophoresis) to identify the species of individual fiddler crab larvae.

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