Student/Faculty Research

Our professors are making important discoveries. You can, too.

We have strong faculty research programs that lay the foundation for diverse student-faculty research opportunities and advanced laboratory and field-based learning.

Recent highlights:

Factors influencing the distribution of invasive species in the Connecticut College Arboretum

By: Jocelyn Navarro '19, Asa Peters '19
Faculty Adviser: Chad Jones

A Whole-plant Approach to Identifying Sites of Auxin Biosynthesis in Populus

By: Daniel Evanich '15
Faculty Adviser: Rachel Spicer

Valve Shape in Eunotia: Comparing Modern and Fossil Floras to Determine Impacts of Greenhouse Climates

By: Jordan Bishop '14
Faculty Adviser: Peter Siver

Ecosystem-Scale Study of the Impact of Excess Nutrients on a Salt Marsh within the Plum Island Estuary of Massachusetts

By: Christopher Haight '11 and Clara Chaisson '12
Faculty Adviser: R. Scott Warren

Activation of Signaling Pathways during Xylogenesis in Cultured Plant Stem Cells of Zinnia Elegans

By: Lucy Gotta '09, Jessica Sadick '11, Jeff Sumner '12, Aaron Feldman '13, Pam Lovejoy '13, Evan Studwell '13
Faculty Adviser: T. Page Owen

Ultrastructural Changes in the Digestive Glands of Nepenthes Alata during Protein Absorption

By: Sarah Beaudoin '09
Faculty Adviser: T. Page Owen