Student Research

Celebration of Student Research

All Biology and Natural Sciences majors are required to do senior research (more photos), and most present it at Xavier's Celebration of Student Research as well as in lower division classes. In 2004, some also presented their work at national conferences.

Dave Chess presents research he conducted on metalloborane synthesis with Dr. Craig Davis in the Xavier Chemistry Department. The team was trying to create new approaches for making copper derivatives of octahydrotriborate anions.
Dean Walker (second from left) hears about work from Beth Norris (left), Lauren Gertz, David Murphy and Xerxaser Kayode (left to right) on the effects of stream channelization on macroinvertebrate life. These students all did their work with Dr. Stanley Hedeen.
Thomas Oppold, Matt Palmer, Allegra Tenkman, Whitney Thornton and Chris Kluener make up the 2004 manatee team. They work with Dr. Chuck Grossman recording and processing audio data from the manatees at the Cincinnati Zoo. This research may inspire ways to increase manatee avoidance of the boats that currently threaten their existence.
Beth Sikora explains the work she did with Dr. Dan McLoughlin in the Chemistry Department. Beth helped design an exercise for students to illustrate the principles of NMR spectroscopy on a product of Diels-Alder reactions.
Kristen Habash, Rob Alunday, Jeff Hill, Christy Miller, Kat Mihlbachler and Angela DiCarlo present their work with Dr. Lisa Close-Jacob on how interleukin-6 affects vascular physiology in bovine hearts.