Hannah Seyller of Hampshire receives stipend for research project at UNL

2016 Jun 21

Hannah Rose Seyller of Hampshire is among 325 undergraduates who have been awarded stipends by the University of Nebraska-Lincoln to participate in research with a faculty mentor during the 2016-17 school year.

Seyller, a speech-language pathology and audiology major, will participate in the project "Effects of a MicroRNA Deficient Diet on Cognitive Function and Muscular Efficiency" as part of UNL's Undergraduate Creative Activities and Research Experience (UCARE) Program, which supports undergraduates to work with faculty mentors in research or creative activities. Undergraduate students receive stipends of $2,400 to engage in intensive research or creative activity for 10 hours per week. The students' projects span across academic disciplines including engineering, chemistry, modern languages and literatures, psychology, art and art history, architecture, special education, and fisheries and wildlife.

For more about undergraduate research at UNL, visit http://ucare.unl.edu.