Olivia Kaminski, a junior biology major from New Castle. Kaminski started an extracurricular research project with Stacey Hrizo, professor of biology, in March of 2022, in which they examined if a commonly used pesticide activates stress responses in three different human cell lines. They received an SRU SCORE grant that enabled them to work in the lab during the summer of 2022. Kaminski presented her research at a national meeting, Discover Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, in Seattle, Washington, in March of 2023, and at the SRU Research Symposium in April 2023. During the summer of 2023, Kaminski completed a summer undergraduate research experience with the cardiac program at Washington University of St. Louis Medical School, completing 10 weeks of research on ultrasound data collection for a cardiac research program at the medical school. She then presented her research results at an international cardiac research meeting in Seattle in October 2023.
Olivia Kaminski (CardS ’23) SRU recognized by SRU
