Kaylee Paige Cullen is the recipient of a Trewartha Senior Thesis Grant awarded by the College of Letters & Science Honors Program. She is a senior at pursing majors in Communicative Disorders and Spanish.
This Senior Thesis Grant enables honors students to undertake more demanding and extensive honors senior thesis research projects than might not otherwise be possible.
Cullen will use the money between December 2011 and May 2012 to purchase chemicals needed for immunohistochemistry of brain tissues, which will increase the validity of her research.
Cullen is currently involved in Dr. Michelle Ciucci's lab in the Medical Sciences Center. Her senior honors thesis uses a rat model to investigate the role environment plays in therapy outcome for individuals with Parkinson disease.