A&S Students Make Their Mark With Research
Almost 100 students from a wide range of A&S programs presented their impressive findings at this year’s Undergraduate Research Festival.
On Friday, April 11, the College of Arts and Sciences (A&S) hosted its annual Undergraduate Research Festival in the Life Sciences Complex. Throughout the day, nearly 100 undergraduate students showcased their academic work to interested faculty, staff, peers and guests, including Dean Behzad Mortazavi and other A&S leaders.
With projects ranging from VR and the Future of Therapy (Langston Manuel-Scott ’25) to Assessing Anthropogenic Impacts on Local Water Quality (Aamna Khan ’26), the exciting science- and humanities-related research on offer investigated past through a modern lens and explored the innovations of the present and future.
Biology major Alie Savane with his project, How Oleic Acid Affects C.elegans’ Lifespan.
Psychology student Kiley McGroder explaining her research to A&S Dean Behzad Mortazavi. Her project was titled, Alcohol use, Mental health, and Confidence in/use of University Reporting Procedures among College Women with a History of Sexual Assault.
Chemistry major Brynn Taylor presented findings from her project, Genetically Engineered Liposwitch-Based Nanomaterials.
Italian student Jack Siciliano with his project titled, All the Coverage For Half the Country. (Photo credit: @lll_syracuseu on Instagram)
With 62 poster exhibitions and 11 faculty-moderated presentations, this year’s festival was one of the largest of any such event at Syracuse University yet again.
Lyndsey Jones ’25, a Communication Sciences and Disorders major, shared a brief summary of her research with us. Watch the interview below.
Learn more about undergraduate research opportunities in A&S.