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Congratulations to the 2008 Summer Fellows

Fellowship Recipients	Faculty Mentors
Melissa Browne, "The Impact of a High Fat Diet on Ostearthritis in C57/BL6 Mice "	Dr. Steve Spilatro
Anthony DeSimone, "Biterpyridone Metal Complexes: Synthesis, Magnetic Properties, and Derivatives "	Dr. Jim Jeiter
Meghan Griffith, "Campus Martius Museum Research Project "	Prof. Jolene Powell
Keira Hambrick, "The Effects of Manganese Concentrations on the Survival and Development of Larval Grass Shrimp (Palaemonetes kadiakensis) "	Dr. Dave McShaffrey

These students will present their research at the annual Investigative Studies Fall Symposium.

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Wondering what to do next summer? You could get paid to think!

Marietta College’s original charter in 1835 calls for instruction in "all the useful branches of knowledge." Investigative Studies attracts our students who have the deepest interest in actually growing those branches, and not just sitting in their shade.

The program funds projects across the disciplines, and is aimed at the kind of student interested not only in learning knowledge, but also in discovering and creating it.

The goal of the student Summer Fellowship Program is to encourage undergraduate student-faculty collaboration in investigative studies. Students in any discipline with at least a cumulative 3.0 GPA are encouraged to take advantage of this opportunity. Summer Fellowships are designed to support students for a six-week period, so students may work with a faculty member on a project of mutual interest. These students pursue their research and creative projects under the mentoring of Marietta College faculty. Students doing these projects, generally sophomores, juniors or seniors, apply for funding. Funding is competitive, and students are expected to write coherent proposals that make a strong case for their projects. Summer Fellowship recipients receive a taxable $2,250 stipend plus six weeks of campus housing (generally during May and June) or a $500 housing allowance for off-site projects. Students are responsible for their own meals and other living expenses.

Pictured above, Jeremy Riedel's description of his project from the Paleontology lab at the University of Otago, New Zealand, where he prepared, removed, and studied a fossil penguin skeleton removed from sandstone on the country's South Island.

The program is open to all undergraduate full-time students who are pre-registered at Marietta College for the fall semester. Student application proposals will be evaluated on a competitive basis by members of the Honors & Investigative Studies Committee. While the quality of the projects is the most important criterion for funding, projects that have a strong chance of resulting in a publication, performance, or professional presentation will receive higher rankings by the Committee.

The track record of our graduates who choose to do Investigative Studies projects is extraordinary, including meaningful and remunerative employment following graduation or admittance to some of the country’s finest graduate programs. In recent years, the Summer Fellowships Program supported projects such as:

• The composition and subsequent performance of a five-song cycle for women's chorus.
• An examination of the effectiveness of visual, auditory, and tactile strategies in letter recognition and phonemic awareness growth of early readers.
• A study of the antimicrobial properties of leech (Hirudo medicinalis) saliva.
• An investigation of simulated families at a maximum-security women's prison in West Virginia .
• An exploration of the influence of the Pentecostal religious movement on practices in the celebration of Catholic masses in Costa Rica.
• The creation of a visual arts summer camp for at-risk children and a subsequent show of the children's art work.
• A study of the critical and rhetorical tradition in Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring.

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