The First Year Research Experience in STEM aims to build a community of STEM students, faculty and professionals to support STEM majors or potential majors as they form identities as members of the scientific community. FYRE is supported by funding from the Helen Clay Frick Foundation.
Learn more about the FYRE program from Program Director Dr. Moriah Beck.
FYRE Info Session
3:30 - 4:30 pm
Tuesday, September 13th, 2022
Honors College Seminar Room | Shocker Hall Building A
FYRE is an applied learning program designed to connect first-year students with authentic hands-on research experiences in a variety of STEM-related disciplines. Students selected for the FYRE program enroll in an introductory research seminar course that exposes them to research methods and are matched with research positions in WSU labs actively involved in scholarly STEM research. FYRE students will be better prepared for advanced careers in STEM fields and will develop important skills in critical thinking and problem-solving that can be applied to careers outside of research.
FYRE 2019 Projects:
"Evaluation of Lingual Posture and Relation to Functional Balance" by Hanna Chastain in lab of Dr. Heidi VanRavenhorst-Bell, Human Perfomance Studies
"Is Palmer's goldenrod real?" by Mikayla Haynes in lab of Dr. James Beck, Biological Sciences
"a-Conotoxin Peptide Dynamics" by Parker Holloway in lab of Dr. Katie Mitchell-Kock, Chemistry
"Effect of Changes in Non-Conserved Regions of LDH on Enzyme Activity and Thermal Stability" by Shamir Khan in lab of Dr. Moriah Beck, Chemistry
"Protein Secondary Structure of Lethal Factor Anthrax N-Terminus" by Tristen Nguyen in lab of Dr. James Bann Chemistry
"Protecting aircraft wing leading and trailing edge devices from hail damage" by Siddharth Pathak, Aerospace Engineering
"Effect of Laminar and Oscillatory Fluid Shear Stress on Nuclear Morphology during in situ cell Fixation" by Sarah Schmitt in lab of Dr. David Long, Biomedical Engineering
"The Effects of Automated Driving on Hazard Perception" by Jacob Tubach in lab of Dr. Rui Ni, Psychology
"Palladin Ig3 domains bind to monomeric G-activ" by Kelsey Young in lab of Dr. Moriah Beck, Chemistry
FYRE 2020 Projects:
"Characterizing 3D Printed Carbon Fiber Nylon" by Emma Ahrenholtz in lab of Dr. Nicholas Smith, Aerospace Engineering
"Sweat Based Biosensor for Constant Health Monitoring" by Caesar Cedillo-Silva in lab of Dr. Yongkuk Lee, Biomedical Engineering
"Initial INvestigation for the Discovery of Mg4TS6 (T=Si, Ge, Sn)" by Gary Cicirello in lab of Dr. Jian Wang, Chemistry
"Determination of Lingual Performance Differences between Two Head Positions: Frankfurt Plane and Flexion Beyond Frankfurt Plane" by Isabel Burns & Ticie Dumas in lab of Dr. Heidi A. VanRavenhorst-Bell, Human Performance Studies
"Investigating Anomalous Fluorescence by Site-Directed Mutagenesis" by Aaron Fater in lab of Dr. Moriah Beck, Chemistry
"Measuring Acoustic Characteristics of Materials for Aerospace Systems with an Impedance Tube" by David Alberto Nevarez-Saenz in lab of Dr. Bhisham Sharma, Aerospace Engineering
"Processing Audio Signals into a Complete Scenario: Possibility Investigation" by Trent Oberlander in lab of Dr. Bhisham Sharma, Aerospace Engineering
"Design, fabrication, and characterization of a mesoscale electrostatic zipper actuator" by Jasmin Soriano in lab of Sindhu Preetham Burugupally, Mechanical Engineering
"Nylon Strain Resistance" by Jay Thompson in lab of Dr. Nicholas Smith, Aerospace Engineering
"Higher Concentrations of Fetal Bovine Serum Increases Endothelial Cell Growth" by Anna Tri in lab of Dr. David Long, Biomedical Engineering
The application includes the following:
Essay prompts include: