Allicia Kellogg of Springdale, a senior at UCA, for the second year in a row has been awarded a Student Undergraduate Research Fellowship (SURF) worth $3,900 by the Arkansas Department of Higher Education.
Kellogg’s study, entitled “Investigation of the Molecular Biology of GL1 and GIS in Rubus,” will examine how prickles develop in plants in order to gain insights into how cells control their growth.
Kellogg’s research project will be supervised by JD Swanson of UCA’s Biology department. Swanson also supervised Kellogg’s winning grant project from last year, which was entitled, “Histology and Molecular Biology of Developing Rubus Thorns.”