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    23rd Annual Student Research Conference

    Department of Biology, Department of Computer Science and Software Engineering

    The 23rd Annual School of Science Student Research Conference was held on Friday, April 18th. This event showcased 32 research projects by teams of students and their faculty mentors from across the School of Science. The conference highlights the results of applied research, independent studies, and thesis projects being conducted by students in the departments…

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    “The Impact of Yoga on Math Anxiety” (Honors School Research Conference)

    Department of Mathematics

    This project looked at the correlation between physical activity, specifically yoga, and students’ anxiety in their math class. The research objective was to determine if yoga reduces stress and anxiety and increases self-confidence in a mathematics classroom, specifically in first year Monmouth University math courses. Students portrayed their feelings towards their mathematics class on a…

  • Math and Statistics Students Present at the Annual School of Science Research Conference

    Department of Mathematics

    Alexander Metz (Business-Stats Minor), Anthony Stirone (Math/Statistics), Olivia Fowles (Biology), and Brandon Govea (Math/Statistics), and worked with Richard Bastian, Ph.D. (Mathematics), and Jason Adolf, Ph.D. (Biology-MEBP), on a statistical analysis of water quality in coastal lakes in Monmouth County. Their data came from citizen scientists who voluntarily took water samples and remotely entered their measurements.…

  • CS Students Publish Mid-Atlantic Ocean Data Portal Mobile App

    Department of Computer Science and Software Engineering

    The team of Ava Taylor (CS ’23) and Anjali Narang (CS ’25) has created a mobile app version of the Mid-Atlantic Ocean Data Portal which gives access to coastal and ocean maps. The app is available on the Google Play and Apple App stores. The data portal (portal.midatlanticocean.org) is a publicly accessible GIS site containing…

  • CSSE Students Attend WECode Conference

    Department of Computer Science and Software Engineering

    This February, several Computer Science students, accompanied by CSSE Department Chair, Professor Ling Zheng, attended the WECode Conference in Cambridge Massachusetts. WECode (Women Engineers Code) is an annual event organized by undergraduate women at Harvard University. This conference, an initiative of Harvard Women in CS (harvardwics.com), is the largest student-run Women in Computer Science conference…

  • Department of Mathematics at the ICUNJ Undergraduate Research Symposium

    Department of Mathematics

    Miriam Abecasis ’27 represented the Math department at the Independent Colleges and Universities of New Jersey (ICUNJ) Undergraduate Research Symposium at Bell Works in Holmdel. She presented her research on quantum graphs that was funded by an ICUNJ grant. Miriam was among only a handful of second-years in the pool of 53 individuals/teams of undergraduates presenting their work from colleges and universities…