Bridgewater Native Rachel Sederberg Earns Summer Research Award

EASTON, MA (04/10/2012)(readMedia)-- Bridgewater native Rachel Sederberg will be one of 50 students from Stonehill College working with faculty members at the College this summer on research projects through the Stonehill Undergraduate Research Experience (SURE) program. The SURE Program provides students with an opportunity to perform significant, publishable research under the guidance of an experienced faculty researcher.

Sederberg, a junior economics major at Stonehill, will work with Sean Mulholland, as\sistant professor of Economics on Catholic Schools, Competition, and Public School Quality.

This project is a continuation of their project from SURE 2011. Sederberg will be working with Professor Mulholland on verifying their findings from last summer as well as examining new data. This summer will be spent looking at the data from different grades, concentrating on the fifth, tenth and twelfth grades, to determine if competition from Catholic schools has similar effects on public school quality at other grade levels. A paper submission for publication in an economic journal, such as Economics of Education Review, Education Economics, or the Journal of Private Enterprise Education, is planned for the fall of 2012.

The scholars and their faculty mentors are the 17th group to work under the Stonehill Undergraduate Research Experience (SURE) program. SURE Scholars will engage in weekly meetings to discuss the progress of their projects and other topics of general interest, and will be paid a stipend for their full-time service. All SURE Scholars will present summaries of their summer's work at an all-campus poster session in the early fall.

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