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PhD Student Granted Access to Dominican Studies Archives
Raquel Corona ‘20Ph.D. first applied for a CUNY Dominican Studies Institute (CUNY DSI) Archives and Library Research Award in 2016 without success, but after some mentoring from Assistant Professor of...
Biology Professor Wins First NIH Grant to Combat ALS
Though Wan Seok Yang, Ph.D., is only in his second year at St. John’s University as an assistant professor of Biological Sciences, he has already been awarded his first National Institutes of Health (NIH) grant for the research proposal, “Determination of Cell Death Pathways Activated in ALS.” The amount of the award is $492,000 and extends for three years until 2020, at which point Yang may apply for another NIH grant with a larger funding amount. The current grant is part of the Support of Competitive Research (SCORE) Pilot Project Award (SC2) program.
Professor Becomes Double Grant Recipient for Sustainability Research
After a semester’s research leave working on her project, “Industrial Entanglements: The Black River as Political Ecological Agent in St. Elizabeth, Jamaica,” Associate Professor of Anthropology Anne M. Galvin, Ph.D., has secured two separate grants to support her continued work in this area. One, the Catholic Relief Services (CRS) Global Research Grant, is being offered for the first time at St. John’s University. The other is a prestigious postdoctoral research grant from the Wenner-Gren Foundation, the preeminent source of grant funding for international anthropological research.
Research Month Highlights Student and Faculty Scholarship
St. John’s annual Research Month activities in April showcased the breadth and quality of student and faculty scholarship across the University.
Research Month Highlights Student and Faculty Scholarship
As a junior at St. John’s, Haley Manchon ’17C was on a University service trip to Ecuador when she began studying the ways that public health education can help people to avoid pollution-borne illnesses.
Ph.D. Student Lands Research Grant for “Tutoring While Latina”
The International Writing Centers Association (IWCA) has awarded SJU student Nancy Alvarez ‘18Ph.D. with the Winter 2017 Ben Rafoth Graduate Research Grant for her dissertation project, “Tutoring While Latina: Making Space for Nuestras Voces in the Writing Center.”
English Professor Receives Prestigious Wilson Fellowship
Shanté Paradigm Smalls, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of English at St. John’s University, has won a 2017 Career Enhancement Fellowship for Junior Faculty from the Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation. The fellowship is funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation and administered by the Wilson Foundation. It helps exceptional junior faculty achieve tenure by facilitating their scholarly research and writing during the fellowship period.
Physicist Lands Supercomputer Time Fund for SJU
The allocation makes use of the Extreme Science and Engineering Discovery Environment (XSEDE), a virtual system for scientists to share computing resources, data, and expertise.
Three NIH AREA Grants Awarded to Biology Faculty
All received $495,000 to support their research programs within St. John’s University.
Math and Science Faculty Members Bring NSF S-STEM Program to St. John’s
Five faculty members spanning four departments have secured scholarship funding for SJU undergraduates as part of the National Science Foundation’s (NSF) Scholarships in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (S-STEM) Program.