Center for Student Research
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About the Center for Student Research
The Center for Student Research helps students at Randolph College engage in meaningful research that enhances their education and their preparation for graduate studies, careers, and other opportunities after college.
Founded in 2012, the Center administers three programs that foster, encourage, and reward research activities. The Summer Research Program allows students to conduct research in the summer, working closely with their professors to answer challenging questions. The Symposium of Artists and Scholars brings the campus community together to honor the best student research and arts each spring. And Randolph’s Innovative Student Experience (RISE) awards up to $2,000 to support research, creative works, and other scholarly activities to students, who may apply at any time to use a grant for projects beginning in their second year.
The Center holds various programs throughout the year to help students learn about these programs, as well as events designed to highlight successful research.
Contact
The Center for Student Research
137 Main Hall
Randolph College
Lynchburg, Virginia 24503
(434) 947-8918
Staff
Crystal Howell
Center for Student Research Director, Associate Professor of Education
chowell@tamilfolksongs.com
Crystal D. Howell teaches undergraduate and graduate courses on classroom assessment, foundations of education, curriculum and instruction, and children’s literature as well as the graduate thesis research sequence. Before becoming a professor, she was a middle and high school Spanish teacher, first in a traditional classroom and later for the West Virginia Department of Education’s virtual Spanish program.
Now Howell focuses on virtual teaching – especially as it relates to embodiment – in her research. She also studies teachers unions, with special emphases on online organizing and the intersection of gender with teachers’ work.
Howell is the former president of the American Association for Teaching and Curriculum and is currently the editor of the journal Curriculum and Teaching Dialogue.
She has mentored numerous undergraduate and graduate students, accompanied students to present at national conferences, and collaborated with undergraduate researchers on peer-reviewed publications.
Outside of the College, Crystal is the communications officer for the League of Women Voters-Lynchburg and a member of the Friends of the Lynchburg Public Library. She enjoys running, reading, cooking, and spending time with her spouse Michael and her poodle mix Coco.
Luisa B. Carrera
Administrative Coordinator
Doyle House
434-485-8056
lbcarrera@tamilfolksongs.com
Luisa Carrera facilitates student and faculty scholarship, the Symposium of Artists and Scholars, the Summer Research Program, the American Culture Program, and the Mid-Atlantic Regional Conference for Undergraduate Scholarship (MARCUS).
She especially enjoys meeting with students to discuss how to they may receive Randolph’s Innovative Student Experience (RISE) grant and hearing about their innovative ideas and research topics.
Luisa enjoys cooking, traveling, hiking, kayaking, bicycling, motorcycling, gardening and adores being out of doors. She is blessed to reside in Amherst County with her caring husband Mark and their fabulous felines Chica and Lolita.
