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Research Program

Roslyn High School’s Research Program provides the rare opportunity for students to design and conduct their own high-level projects in virtually any area of science or mathematics.

RESEARCH AREAS

Many of our students have done worked in various behavioral science disciplines such as psychology, epidemiology, behavioral medicine, political science, and economics. This work can be done at school or in a lab (e.g., university, medical practice). 

Example of student project titles include:

  • The Relationship between Psychosocial Factors in the Patient-Oncologist Relationship and Quality of Care: A Study of Breast Cancer Patients 
  • The Effect of Stereotype Threat on Girls' Performance on a Math Test 
  • The Relationship between School Starting Time, Student Sleep, Academic Performance and Mood

Other students work in theoretical math to develop and prove their own theorems. Projects include: 

  • Classifying Generic Smooth Curves in the Projective Plane Related to Algebraic Curves of Degree 5
  • A Computer-Based Solution Generator for Integral Solutions to Pell's/Fermat's Second-Degree Diophantine Equation
  • Periodic Binary Sequences


Students also pursue opportunities in local (and far off) laboratories where they carry out research in fields including environmental science, physics, and genetics. Project titles include:

  • An Innovative Approach to Recover Nitrogen from Wastewater Using Nanostructured Cellulose Sulfate 
  • Designing a Universal Liquid 3-Dimensional Printer Utilizing a Novel Liquid Transport System
  • Targeted Delivery of Toxic Nanoparticles: A Novel Innovation for Cancer Treatment


RESEARCH SEQUENCE

Year I: 
Semester 1: Introduction to Research 
  • One semester
  • Overview of basic research design and statistics
  • Opportunity to design and carry out a group project
Semester 2: Research Essentials 
  • One semester
  • Builds students’ ability to read and synthesize complex texts
  • Trains students to present research effectively via written papers and oral presentation                                                                                                          
Year II and/or III:
Research Seminar and Advanced Research Seminar
  • Alternate-day, small-group classes
  • Project-focused
  • Builds on curriculum learned in introductory class
     
Year III and/or IV:
Independent Study Research
  • Students identify an area of interest and are aided in finding outside experts and/or labs in which they can work independently on a project of their own design
  • Students meet weekly, one-on-one, with the Research Coordinator during free periods or a lunch period, much as a college student works with a professor on a thesis
  • Students may pursue opportunities to publish or present at professional conferences
  • One-half credit is earned for each semester of independent study research

Published Research

For additional student information please click here/Research File Library

Contact Us

For more information about
Roslyn High School’s Research Program,
please contact Dr. Allyson J. Weseley at
(516) 801-5170
 
Dr. Weseley (Ed.D. – Columbia, 2003, Ed.M. – Harvard, 1993, AB – Princeton, 1989) has coordinated Roslyn High School’s Research Program since 2000, mentoring hundreds of students including some of the top winners in the Intel Science Talent Search, Intel Science and Engineering Fair, Siemens Competition, and Young Epidemiology Scholars Competition. She and her students have published their work in a number of peer-reviewed journals including Current Psychology, Sex Roles, and Pediatric Cardiology. Dr. Weseley serves on the board of several local research fairs and has presented and published extensively on the topic of student research.