Get Involved with KSU Research

The purpose of this page is to help undergraduates find faculty members who are looking for help on research projects. If you see a project you're interested in, click on "learn more" to find out the project details and then email the faculty member directly.

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Current Research Projects

  • We are interested in learning about the grief of students and how various student populations understand grief, experience grief, and subsequently cope with grief.

    Project Field of Study

    • Interviewing skills preferred
    • Communication skills
    • Interpersonal skills 
    • Oral communication skills
    • Organized
    • Ability to manage time effectively
    • Willing and open to learn
    • Research methods course in respective field is preferred
    • Communication, Education, Psychology majors preferred

    Faculty Mentors 

    Dr. Emily Scheinfeld
    Dr. Chinasa Elue

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  • Are you passionate about helping others and making a real difference? Join our dynamic research team as a Research Assistant and be part of an innovative project developing a voice assistance app to support informal caregivers helping individuals with dementia.

    Project Field of Study

    Department of Nursing, Department of Computer Science

    Faculty Mentors 

    Modupe Adewuyi
    Xinyue Zhang

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  • The research project aims to conduct a comprehensive numerical analysis of the entry and reentry dynamics of a space capsule within the Martian atmosphere.

    Project Field of Study

    Mechanical Engineering

    Faculty Mentor(s)

    Dr. Gaurav Sharma

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  • The journal "Maya America: Journal of Essays, Commentary, and Analysis" is looking for a student to help take the journal to publication.

    Project Field of Study

    School of Music and Interdisciplinary Studies

    Faculty Mentor(s)

    Dr. Jesús Castro-Balbi
    Dr. Alan LeBaron

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  • This project aims to develop a gamified behavioral training application prototype that provides a safe and immersive learning platform.

    Project Field of Study

    Nursing, Software Engineering and Game Development

    Faculty Member(s)

    Dr. Modupe Adewuyi
    Dr. Joy Li

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  • The project is exploring a new type of radiation capsule that can be remotely controlled using inductive coupling outside the body to block and release radiation with customized directionality. This enables precision dose delivery with a high dose rate for low-energy LDR radiation sources.

    Project Field of Study

    Electrical and Computer Engineering, Nuclear Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Physics, Biology, Nursing, Radiation Oncology

    Faculty Mentor(s)

    Dr. Hoseon Lee
    Dr. Chetan Dhital
    Dr. Tris Utshig
    Dr. Eduardo B. Farfan

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  • Alcohol is a unique commodity, as it can be both a liability and asset to societies worldwide. The objective of this project is to investigate the dynamics, opportunities, and downsides associated with artisanal alcohol in the context of economic retrenchment and regeneration opportunities through cultural asset management. The interdisciplinary researchers aim to study the complexities of artisanal alcohol as a commons problem that has the potential to both empower and imperil livelihoods.

    Project Field of Study

    Geography and Anthropology

    Faculty Mentor(s)

    Brandon D. Lundy
    Mark W. Patterson
    Monica H. Swahn
    Nancy H. Pullen

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  • This research project aims to add to the understanding surrounding the degree and nature of terrorism, nonterrorist criminal activities, pre-incident behaviors, and failed/foiled plots perpetrated by those motivated by a left-wing and environmental ideology in the United States. More specifically, this project will utilize secondary sources (e.g., court records, media reports) to assess the modus operandi of left-wing and environmental violent extremists with a specific focus on indicators of malevolent creativity & innovation and criminal expertise.

    Project Field of Study

    Sociology & Criminal Justice

    Faculty Mentor

    Dr. Michael Logan

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  • This ongoing study is exploring the relationships between hospital unit team virtuousness scores and eight hospital unit measures. Team virtuousness refers to a team climate in which virtues and character strengths are practiced, supported, and encouraged.

    Students who work on this study will help manage implementation of an online team virtuousness questionnaire and gather hospital unit data. A statistician will analyze the data to determine any associations between hospital unit team virtuousness scores and unit measures of quality of patient care, patient satisfaction, and unit staff engagement and turnover.

    Project Field of Study

    Nursing

    Faculty Mentors

    Lynn Varagona
    Nancy Ballard

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  • Population genetics deals with genetic differences within and between populations and is a part of evolutionary biology. It is used to detect genetic diseases and genetic risk factors for multifactorial diseases, understand diseases using insights obtained from genetic risk factors and treat diseases using these insights.   Theoretical population genetics bridges mathematics and evolutionary biology. The corner stone of  population genetics is the Kingman coalescent. Using a new calculus, fractional calculus, we introduced the modified version of Kingman coalescent, which we call fractional coalescent. In this research, you will learn how by using  Kingman's coalescent and fractional coalescent we could identify and understand the forces that produce and maintain genetic variation in populations. 

    Project Field of Study

    Mathematics

    Faculty Mentor

    Dr. Somayeh Mashayekhi

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  • The Center for Machine Vision and Security Research (CMVSR) is pursuing innovative research projects falling in the areas of machine vision, pattern recognition, machine learning, convolutionary neural networks (CNN), artificial intelligence, and evolutionary computation.

    Project Field of Study

    Computer Science

    Faculty Mentor

    Chih-Cheng Hung

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  • Recently several municipalities in the Atlanta area have declared themselves “welcoming cities” to immigrants and refugees. Atlanta is a new immigrant gateway destination and a region at the crossroads of receptivity (Singer, Hardwick, and Brettel, 2008).

    Project Field of Study

    Geography & Anthropology, Social Work and Human Services

    Faculty Mentors 

    Paul McDaniel
    Darlene Rodriguez

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  • Sexual harassment is common in the workplace and college settings. This project aims at understanding what factors impact people's willingness to believe victims of sexual harassment.

    Project Field of Study

    • Interest in Psychological research
    • Interest in gaining research experience
    • Comfort with learning new skills
    • Comfort interacting with other KSU students
    • Time management skills

    Faculty Mentors

    Dr. Danica Kulibert

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  • This project will assay potential biomarkers in blood samples drawn from postoperative patients who are assessed for delirium, for a project funded by the American Association of Clinical Care Nurses.

    Project Field of Study

    • Nursing
    • Molecular and Cellular Biology
    • Psychology

    Faculty Mentors

    Dr. Doreen Wagner
    Dr. Susan M.E. Smith
    Dr. Sharon Pearcey

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