She is the author and co-author of several articles and abstracts and has accompanied students to a number of national meetings. Dr. Keeney resides in Huntingdon with her husband Marty, and their two sons, Aaron and Paul. Her hobbies include running, hiking, canoeing and camping with her family, and gardening. As a four-year college, Juniata has no masters or Ph.D. programs. Thus, research in my laboratory is conducted exclusively by undergraduate students, with a strong emphasis on integration of teaching and research.
Students can become involved in the research process as early as the first year.
Grant funded summer research fellowships allow our students to spend summers fully immersed in their research projects. A second project involves isolation of host genes involved in the transposition process through studying the transposition process at high temperature. Saccharomyces cerevisiae . ASM Undergraduate Education Journal. Resubmitted following revision.