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’
Meet Emily Huff ’24, one of 10 students selected for a 2023 Summer Research Fellowship. Emily is a senior biochemistry major from New Wilmington, Pa. She and her faculty mentor, Dr. Marosh Furimsky, associate professor of biology, spent their summer months studying the effect of bisphenol F on development and gene expression in zebrafish. Outside of the classroom, Emily is a member of the Chemistry Club, Pre-Vet Society and Lambda Sigma.
Students from two related Southern Illinois University Carbondale programs that teach students how to conduct research will present their findings during a research poster symposium this week.
Editor’s Note: This story appears in the June 2023 edition of Westminster Magazine, Westminster College’s alumni magazine, and was written prior to the completion of the spring track and field season. On May 27, Patton registered a fifth-place finish in the 400-meter hurdles final at the NCAA Division III Outdoor Track & Field Championships.