Many students choose Emmanuel College for its unique Summer Research Fellows Program that nurtures intellectual growth and curiosity, shapes professional journeys, enriches personal development, and creates lasting relationships with faculty members that continue well beyond graduation.
In 2024, 56 students across 11 disciplines and all five Academic Schools conducted research with faculty.
School of Humanities & Social Sciences
Andro Alkhawande '26, Mia DeCamillis '26, Alex Gencarelli '26, Loliana Morales '26
"Sisters of Notre Dame de Namur Oral History Project"
Faculty Advisors: Kelly Basille, Laurie Johnston, Katrin Kriz, Violetta Ravagnoli
Evan Decker '25
"Eat Drink Man Woman: A Taste of History of Chinese Transnational Migration Through the Lives of Women Culinary Pioneers"
Faculty Advisor: Violetta Ravagnoli
Gretel DiMauro '26, Linnea Matlack '25, Megan Novak '25, Brooke White '25
"Searching for Safety in the International Arena: The Plight of Refugees"
Faculty Advisor: Lenore Martin
Caroline Kuchar '26 and Taryn Vuk '26
"Parasocial Relationships and the Two Sides of Fandom" & "From Doctrine to Dissent: A Thematic Exploration of Ex-Fundamentalist Influencers"
Faculty Advisor: Caitlin Lawson
Joshua Luedke '26 and Sameeha Syed '27
"Party Polarization from Then to Now"
Faculty Advisor: Adam Silver
Alyssa Martino '26
"From Believers to Atheists"
Faculty Advisor: Melanie Murphy
Abigail Mullins '26
"Over My Dead Body"
Faculty Advisor: Violetta Ravagnoli
Jillian Feyler '26
"The Abenaki"
Faculty Advisor: Jeffrey Fortin
School of Science & Health
Juan Alejandro '25
"Quartz crystal microbalance (QCM) analysis of the initial kinetics of collagen mineralization in real-time"
Faculty Advisor: Aren Gerdon
Jyles Amirault '25
"Investigation of Binding to Reactive Sulfur Species Through Three-Armed Supramolecular Receptors"
Faculty Advisor: Nathan Lau
Cynthia Brito '25
"A Developmental Analysis of Remodeling and Spacing Factor 1 (RSF1) in Drosophila"
Faculty Advisor: Janel Cabrera
Anna Chrisman '25
"Synthesis of a tert-Butyl-Trifluoromethyl-Substituted Tripodal Host as a Receptor for Reactive Sulfur Species"
Faculty Advisors: Michelle Watt & Nathan Lau
Emely Cruz '25>
"Design and Synthesis of a Nucleic Acid-Binding, Sequence-Specific Methylfuryl-Substituted Bisaryl-Amidine"
Faculty Advisor: Michelle Watt
Jack Davis '26
"Technology Teaching in Math Education Courses and Concept Maps within Introductory Statistics Classes"
Faculty Advisors: David Earls and Miriam Gates
Marissa Diplacido '25
"Synthesis and Characterization of Zwitterionic Gold Nanoparticles and Analysis for Calcium Phosphate Mineralization "
Faculty Advisor: Aren Gerdon
Anna Drillen '25, Isabella Craus '25, and Zachary Palermo '25
"Impacts of Early development Stress in Glucocorticoid Receptor Levels: A Two-Hit Study"
Faculty Advisor: Melanie Leussis
Gwyenth Gagnon '26
"Theoretical Investigations if Polymeric Carbon Dots abd Their Optical Properties"
Faculty Advisor: Juan Duchimaza Heredia
Trinity Harrison '26, Evan Vienneau '25, and Sabina Alvarez '27
"Alcohol self-administration using LIQ HD and protocol development to analyze retinoic acid signaling alterations in mice"
Faculty Advisor: Liz Crofton
Georgia Kazis '27
"DNA Origami as a Biomimetic Scaffolds for Calcium Phosphate Mineralization"
Faculty Advisor: Aren Gerdon
Arthur Langford '25
"Investigating the spreading mechanism of the MSL dosage compensation complex on the X chromosome"
Faculty Advisor: Janel Cabrera
Maria Rose La Terza ‘25
"Should I Stay or Should I Go? The Effects of Perfluoroalkyl Substances (PFAS) on C. Elegans 'Leaving' and 'Choosing' Behaviors"
Faculty Advisor: Natalie Karagodsky
Blue Maranto '25
"Gender-Affirming Medical Interventions and Discrimination in Gender-Diverse Individuals"
Faculty Advisor: Linda Lin
Aiden McCarty '26 and Maria Rose La Terza '25
"Guardians of Healthspan: The Protective Role of SKN-1 in C. elegans"
Faculty Advisor: Natalie Karagodsky
Dennis Nguyen '25
"Mineralization of Calcium Phosphate with Different-Sized and Aptamer-Attached Gold Nanoparticles"
Faculty Advisor: Aren Gerdon
Astrid Esperanza Noriega '26
"Amyloid aggregation in bacteria"
Faculty Advisor: Padriag Deighan
Max Popolowski '26, Catalina Lujan-Rodriguez '26, and Helena (Lane) Couturier '26
"Hrp1 promotes early transcription termination via binding to attenuator RNA"
Faculty Advisor: Jason Kuehner
Jacob Proulx '26 and Lydia Vann '25
"Modeling Migration Patterns if Northern Pacific Humpback Whales"
Faculty Advisors: Ben Allen, Yulia Dementieva, and Christine Sample
Krysten Rafferty '25, Katie Polanco '25, and Harold Sartiah '25
"Studying restriction endonucleases with single molecule methods"
Faculty Advisor: Allen Price
Megan Reilly '26
"Exploring the Relationship between Polymer Length and Absorbance in Polymeric Carbon Dots"
Faculty Advisor: Juan Duchimaza Heredia
Victoria Rosado '25
"Synthesis of Pentamidine Derivatives to Increase Sequence Specificity in Binding to Nucleic Acids"
Faculty Advisor: Michelle Watt
Olivia Spokis '25
"The Synthesis and Coordination of the Tris[[6-(pivaloylamido)-2-pyridyl]amine Ligand"
Faculty Advisor: Nathan Lau
Nikholas Srnka '26 and Theodore Kelly '25
"Lazy Cops & Robber on Cartesian Product Graphs: Capture Times and Extremal Problems"
Faculty Advisor: Brendan Sullivan
Jillian Tierney ,27
"Developing New Molecular Tools to Study RSF1 During Development"
Faculty Advisor: Janel Cabrera
Monifer Vaca Solares '26 and Kira Jamieson '25
"Does State Judgement of Internal Experience Influence Mood and Rumination? Testing the Impacr of a Judgement Induction Procedure"
Faculty Advisor: Samantha Moshier
School of Business & Management
Molly Hans '25 and Erica Hinkle '26
"Leveraging Text Classification Neural Networks to Distinguish Understanding in Student Programming Assignments
Faculty Advisor: Mark Sherman
School of Education
Jack Davis '26
"Technology Teaching in Math Education Courses and Concept Maps within Introductory Statistics Classes
Faculty Advisors: David Earls and Miriam Gates
Grace Tumushabe '25
"Imagining her Role in the Field: A Self-Study on a Preservice Teacher's Engagement in Collaborative Practitioner Inquiry"
Faculty Advisor: Christine Leighton