Springvale Native Genelle Goodhue Earns Summer Research Award

EASTON, MA (04/09/2012)(readMedia)-- Springvale native Genelle Goodhue 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.

Goodhue, a sophomore neuroscience major at Stonehill, will work with John McCoy, director of the Neuroscience Program, on Apnea-Induced Cortical Arousals: Anatomical Studies of Neuronal Activation.

Obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) is the stoppage of breathing during sleep, which is caused by the upper airway collapsing. This study hypothesizes that the dorsal raphe nucleus will be stimulated by the cessation of breathing that characterizes OSA in humans. This activation will convey information to cortical arousal-related targets. Goodhue hopes to present a poster at the New England Undergraduate Research on Neuroscience (NEURON) conference next year.

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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