Rosanna Vaccaro Honored with Denman Award
July 18, 2007—Newark, OH-- Rosanna Vaccaro, an Evolution, Ecology and Organismal Biology major at The Ohio State University at Newark, was awarded a prestigious 2007 Denman award from The Ohio State University.
Vaccaro’s research project, “Behavior of Schizocosa bilineata,” commonly known as the wolf spider, was supervised by Newark faculty member J. Andrew Roberts, Ph.D. The wolf spider is quite a rare specimen, according to Vaccaro, and her work is the only research she is aware of on the topic.
The research project also earned Vaccaro first place in the category of Completed Research at Ohio State Newark’s Student Research Forum in March 2007.
Vaccaro, a Pataskala resident, is a 2004 graduate of Watkins Memorial High School. She plans to graduate from Ohio State University in spring 2008.
The Denman Undergraduate Research Forum was created in 1996 and is a cooperative effort of Ohio State University’s Honors & Scholars Center, Office of Undergraduate Research, Office of Research, and Office of University Development. The 12th Annual Denman Undergraduate Research Forum took place on May 16, 2007, in French Field House, with 354 students participating in 318 projects. Students were judged three times by faculty and corporate judges, with 44 awards given.
“Being at Ohio State Newark gave me the opportunity as an undergraduate to study and work one-on-one with my research adviser,” said Vaccaro. “I wanted to live at home, and attending Ohio State Newark has… definitely been a great experience.”
To learn about research opportunities for students at Ohio State Newark, visit http://newark.osu.edu/Professional/Research/index.htm.