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06-45 John
Carroll University Students Receive
Cleveland, OH –Two John Carroll University seniors, Jacqueline Kemp and Crystal Woodside, took First Place awards at the prestigious 60th Annual Eastern Colleges Science Conference (ECSC) which was held this year at Saint Joseph’s University in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, on April 22. The awards are a culmination of the students’ independent research projects, a required component of the Neuroscience Concentration program at John Carroll University. In 18 of the past 19 years, neuroscience students of Drs. Helen Murphy and Cyrilla Wideman have been awarded First Place for a “Research Paper in Biology,” “Chemistry” and /or “Psychology” at the ECSC. This record of First Place wins becomes more impressive when the caliber of competition at the ECSC is considered. Jacqueline Kemp and Crystal Woodside, took First Place awards respectively for a “Research Paper in the Field of Biology/Physiology and First Place Award for a Research Paper in the Field of Biology/Endocrinology.” All papers were evaluated by faculty judges from various universities and research institutions in the Eastern section of the country. There were over six hundred participants at the conference where both of John Carroll’s First Place students were presented with plaques to acknowledge their achievement. John Carroll University, located in Cleveland, Ohio, is a liberal arts university grounded in the Jesuit, Catholic tradition. The university has some 3,350 plus undergraduates and just over 750 graduate students. The U.S. News & World Report’s 2006 annual college guide ranks John Carroll University among the top 10 master’s-degree-granting universities in the Midwest and first in graduation rank. Originally founded as St. Ignatius College in 1886, the university was renamed in 1923 to honor America’s first Catholic bishop, John Carroll of Maryland. John Carroll is one of 28 Jesuit colleges and universities located in the United States.
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