Doane College

Student and Faculty Research

Students can expand their horizons through research, whether in a lab, the research spot of your choice or Doane's 50-acre Aldrich Prairie Research Site. Senior research projects also provide experience before employment or grad school.

Summer Research Programs

Stipends are provided for students to work with faculty to conduct scholarly or creative research—from studying waterways to writing an original play.

Title	Department	Description
Glucagon and Cortisol Hormonal Response Pathways	Biology	Collection and analysis of glucagon and cortisol hormonal response pathways in rats and the mathematical modeling of the relationship of these hormonal path
Impacts of Biochar	Biology	Impacts of biochar on the invasion and success of Eastern Red Cedar (Juniperus virginiana) into grasslands.
Introducing Native Aquatic Plants into an Aquatic Ecosystem	Environmental Science	Introducing Native Aquatic Plants into an Aquatic Ecosystem.
MicroDETECHIP, a Nanoscale Array Sensor for Small Molecules	Chemistry	MicroDETECHIP, an nanoscale array sensor for small molelecules.
MicroDETECHIP, a Novel Molecular Sensing Assay on the Microscale	Chemistry	MicroDETECHIP, a novel molecular sensing assay on the microscale.
MindExpo	All	MindExpo is a college-wide event open to all current undergraduate students at Doane College.
N-cadherin Expression in Breast Cancer Cells	Biology	N-cadherin expression in breast cancer cells treated with the methylation inhibitor 5'-azacytidine.
Novel Detection Arrays for Steroid Determination	Chemistry	Novel Detection Arrays for Steroid Determination.
Phytomorph Research	Biology	This lab completed collecting over 14,000 individual responses of root tips to gravity stimulus from a set of Arabidopsis recombinant inbred lines,
Political Simulation of Authoritarianism and Opposition	Political Science	Designing and Developing a Political Simulation of Authoritarianism and Opposition
Producing a Metabolic Fingerprint for Arabidopsis thaliana Parental Lines	Biology	Producing a metabolic fingerprint for Arabidopsis thaliana parental lines using proton nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy.
Pseudomonas aeruginosa Biofilm with Glucose Substrate	Physics / Biology	Individual-based Modeling of a Pseudomonas aeruginosa Biofilm with Glucose Substrate.
Serious Wind Band Literature	Music	Dr. Gilbert's doctoral research involved the identification of artistically significant wind band repertoire.
Setup and Validation of a Local Cluster	Information Science & Technology	Setup and validation of a local cluster for distributed computing applications.
Testing the Effect of Household Chemicals	Biology	Testing the effect of household chemicals on vertebrate decomposition.

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