The Seidler Collaborative Awards have played an essential role in the College of Arts and Sciences' efforts to enhance undergraduate student research and creative activity. The College consists of a diverse set of disciplines that include the Arts, Humanities, Social Sciences and Natural Sciences, and the projects supported by the Seidler Fund reflect that diversity.
Summer 2026 - Spring 2027
| Faculty | Student | department | Project |
|---|---|---|---|
| Chukwumaobim Nwokwu |
Kent Nayga |
Chemistry & Physics | Exploring epigenomic signatures as resistance/sensitivity biomarkers in paclitaxel-resistant lung adenocarcinoma cell lines |
| Alejandro Bugarin | Benjamin Lozada | Chemistry & Physics | Light-Mediated Synthesis of Useful Chalcogens Derivatives |
| Andrea Fortin | Grace Carey | Communication & Philosophy | From Classroom to Career: How Transferable Skills Micro-Credentials Function in Practice |
| James Horn | David Lunsford | Biological Sciences | Phylogenomics of the Golden Asters (Chrysopsis, Asteraceae) |
| Durgesh Wagle | Mayra Buitron-Vazquez | Chemistry & Physics | Bio-based Deep Eutectic Solvents: A non-aqueous media for long term preservation of nucleic acid-based vaccines |
| Christina Anaya |
Noah Lewis Leni Ryczek |
Biological Sciences | Training Undergraduate Researchers Through the Study of Parasites in an Invasive Gecko |
| Thomas Cimarusti | Iris Brown | Bower School of Music & The Arts/Music | An Eco-Musicological Study of Nature and Soundscape at FGCU |
| Miles Hentrup | Jason Wolfe | Communication & Philosophy | Hegel's Reception of Stoicism |
| Alberto Condori |
Lucas Lima Tiffany Rodriguez |
Mathematics | Inversion-Free Newton's Method |
| Stephen Cavitt | Jalen Perry | Language & Literature | Flight of an Iron Blossom: Magic and Spirituality in African-American Literature |
| Krystal Mize | Kaleb Robertson | Psychology | Exploring clinical applications of psychedelics and associated self-transcendent experiences |
| Daniel Snook | Gabriel Kronbach | Psychology | The Science of Civility: Promoting Intellectual Humility to Reduce Polarization and Violent Extremism |
To view projects from previous years, please visit this page.
