May 26, 2012

Sarah Fluharty wins SRCI

Sarah Fluharty, a psychology major from Sandusky, will receive $9,968 for her research on traumatic brain injury in rats. She will carry out her research at SVSU's Brain Research Lab, using rats as models to test the impact of an enriched environment for the recovery of head trauma. Fluharty writes that "rats are the preferred model for testing brain injuries because of their similar brain structure and organization" compared to humans. She hopes to present her findings at several conferences and ultimately submit a paper on the subject to scholarly journals.

Winning Student Research and Creativity Institute proposals were chosen through a competitive selection process.