Nicholls

September 21, 2022

Nicholls Biology Graduate Student Presents Research in Switzerland

Nicholls biology graduate student Taylor Andrzejak presented her research work titled “Microbial Ecology and Antibiotic Resistance of Public Boat Launches in Southeast Louisiana” at the 18th International Symposium on Microbial Ecology conference in Lausanne, Switzerland
September 21, 2022

Nicholls Chemistry Student Receives Grant for Research That Led to Publication and a Bombshell Discovery

Yusra Soorya, a chemistry major with a biology minor, received a $4,000 grant from the Louisiana Space and Sea Grant Opportunities (LaSSO) for Undergraduate Research Program in the summer of 2021. This supported her nine-month research project which led to a bombshell discovery that CO2 acidified seawater speeds up crabshell hardening through increased mineralization.