Lyrikah Rodrigues — the URECA Researcher of the Month for February — is a junior in the Honors College at Stony Brook University, pursuing dual majors in psychology and biology (neuroscience track). She has been a...
Matthew Venezia ’23 — the URECA Researcher of the Month for January — is a senior majoring in biology with a minor in writing and rhetoric whose deep interest in plant biology and biotechnology was sparked early on as a...
Nadine Areikat ’23 — the URECA Researcher of the Month for December — is double majoring in biology and psychology and is completing her biology honors thesis on “Characterization of Apoptosis During Murine Fracture...
Aiden Gauer ’23 — the URECA Researcher of the Month for November — is a senior in the University Scholars honors program, double majoring in chemical engineering and physics. For more than a year, he has been engaged in...
Marcela Muricy ’23 — the URECA Researcher of the Month for October — is in the University Scholars honors program, double majoring in biology and women’s gender and sexuality studies. For the past year, she has been...
Evan Trommer — the URECA Researcher of the Month for September — is a senior majoring in physics and mathematics who has been exploring experimental plasma physics under the mentorship of Navid Vafaei-Najafabadi from...
Hannah Philipose — the URECA Researcher of the Month for July — is a senior in the Honors College majoring in biology with a minor in health, medicine, and society. She is one of three recipients of a 2022 Sass...
Christopher Moore ’24 — the URECA Researcher of the Month for June — is a biomedical engineering major in the Honors College whose research under the mentorship of Wei Lin, associate professor in the Department of...
Franklin Eck ‘22 — the URECA researcher of the month for April 2022 — is a history major with a passion for early American history. Working under the mentorship of Professor Paul Kelton, Gardiner Chair in American...
“Honestly that’s what research is. It’s all troubleshooting,” said Joshua Heuvel-Horwitz ’23 — the URECA researcher of the month for March 2022 — who has experienced the day-to-day process of working through...
Sasha McKay — the URECA researcher of the month for February 2022 — graduated summa cum laude in December 2021 with a double major in biochemistry and sociology. Since June 2020, she has been investigating racial and...
The biology major says that at Stony Brook he was able to get "awesome research experience, which has been super valuable to me, and to have great mentors."
Lia Strait — the URECA researcher of the month for November 2021 — is a senior majoring in biomedical engineering who has been doing research since freshman year under the mentorship of Mei Lin (Ete) Chan and Clinton...
Sarah Vaccaro ‘22 — the URECA researcher of the month for September 2021 — is a biology major specializing in ecology and evolution with a minor in anthropology. Vaccaro’s research in the laboratory of Associate...
Gaurav Sharma ’22 — the URECA researcher of the month for August 2021 — is a biochemistry major in the Honors College and recipient of the Kenneth M. Nicholas Undergraduate Research Fellowship, which is an award...
Vicken Khazar ’22 — the URECA Researcher of the Month for June 2021 — is a biology major doing research under the mentorship of Dr. Patrick Hearing, Department of Microbiology and Immunology, on “Understanding the...
Each month, Undergraduate Research and Creative Activities (URECA) honors a student researcher of the month. For May, URECA celebrates the following group of graduating seniors who have contributed to the research life...