Meet Reid Sanderson ’25, one of 10 students selected for a 2023 Summer Research Fellowship. Reid is a junior broadcasting and sports communication major from Meadville, Pa. Working with his faculty mentor and School of Communication faculty member Bradley Weaver, Reid spent his summer months working as creator, producer and showrunner of the television program, “The Green Team.”
Outside of the classroom, Reid is active with the Agape Bible Study group.
Why did you apply for the Summer Research Fellowship?
I applied for the Summer Research Fellowship because I saw it was a great way to make some money over the summer and I was going to be doing something that involved my major. When I knew I was going to take on the role of producer, it was a dream. I wanted to become more familiar with working with editing software, cameras and videography equipment.
Meet Dane Fasick ’25, one of 10 students selected for a 2023 Summer Research Fellowship. Dane, a junior mathematics major and secondary education minor, is from New Brighton, Pa. He and his faculty mentor, Dr. Adam Blumenthal, assistant professor of mathematics, spent their summer months working on the project “Exploring Total Burning in Graphs.” Outside of the classroom, Dane is a member of the cross country and track & field teams.
Why did you apply for the Summer Research Fellowship?
The past few summers I’d been working some more typical summer jobs, but this year I wanted to do something more related to my future. The Drinko Fellowship caught my eye, partly because I didn’t really know what research was. I asked my advisor about it, and she gave me a loose idea of what math research looks like based on some projects she’d done. The idea of making new mathematical discoveries was what really got my interest. Plus, I thought i
Meet Hannah Piccirilli ’24, one of 10 students selected for a 2023 Summer Research Fellowship. Hannah, a senior double majoring in neuroscience and international relations, is from Erie, Pa. She and her faculty mentor, Dr. Eric Fields, assistant professor of psychology, spent their summer months working on the project “EEG Correlates of Memory Encoding and Consolidation from Emotional Stimuli.” She is a member of the All-College Honors Program and its corresponding honorary, Omicron Kappa Sigma. Consistently named to dean’s list, Hannah served as president of the sophomore honorary Lambda Sigma and is a member of the senior honorary Pi Sigma Pi. Hannah belongs to the Psychology-Neuroscience Honors Society Psi Chi and the Spanish Honors Society Sigma Delta Pi. She serves as a peer tutor for Spanish, psychology, neuroscience and speech. She currently serves as president of the Sexuality and Gender Alliance and was instrumental in organizing the campus’