CEMS Projects

 Center for Coastal and Marine Studies (CCMS)

Center for Research on Interface Structures and Phenomena (CRISP)

Overview of Recent Faculty Research Activity

• Improving learning outcomes in physics courses K-G
• Benthic intertidal and subtidal ecology
• High resolution imaging techniques for astronomy
• Consequences of anthropogenic heavy metals on sediments and living marine organisms
• Motivation among mathematics students; gender differences in mathematics
• Conceptual change teaching in the sciences
• Effectiveness of online learning management system in mathematics classes
• Computer modeling of visual image perception
• Application of combinatorics and graph theory to problems in computational geometry
• Interactive multimedia applied to visual learning
• Localization and function of G1 Cyclin - Cln2
• Spectroscopy of ultraviolet radiation effects on inorganic and biological materials.
• Preclinical assessment of plant phytochemicals  for cancer therapeutic and preventive properties
• Development of new methodology for the functionalization
  and elaboration of indoles.

Overview of Recent Student Projects

• Geometry Projects in an Honors Option Program, a School Rejects Homogeneous Ability Grouping
• Sediment Metal Contamination in the Thames River and New London Harbor
• Synthesis of Carboxylate Substituted Tetraarylolefin Derivatives as Ligands for MOF Synthesis.
• The Effects of Epibiota on the Attachment Strength of the Blue Mussel Mytilus edulis
• Using Assessment and Evaluation to Improve Instruction
• Self-Reported Methods of Mathematics Curriculum Selection in Home-Schooling Families
• The Synthesis and Solid State Characterization of Platinum Nanoparticles Encapsulated by Dithiolate Containing MNY Polymers
• The G:T Ratio of the Intertidal Chondrus crispus in Long Island Sound.