Poster boards filled Jamrich Hall as students showcased their research on Thursday, April 17 for the 29th annual Celebration Student Scholarship. This event gives students a platform for other students, faculty and community members to see the work students put into their research while at NMU.

Biology student Kaylee Fridstrom said it is important for community members to be able to see and acknowledge the hard work NMU students put into their research.

“There [are] biology majors that are coming by and asking questions, and then there [are] people that don’t really know a lot about biology, just people from the community that are coming in,” Fridstrom said.

Fridstrom did research on burbot, a freshwater cod species that lives in Michigan’s Great Lakes. Burbots’ relative species are saltwater fish, which stuck out to Fridstrom and caused her and her partner Anna Hill to study them.

Their poster focused on the basic understanding of the fish’s cell morphology. Taking blood samples and creating blood smears, Fridstrom and Hill were able to create a basic understanding of this breed of fish, so it can be compared to its relative species.

Fridstrom said it was exciting to share their work to anyone who walked by.

“I felt so ‘sciency’ … while I was doing all this research. It’s exciting that I get to talk to people and share what I did,” Fridstrom said. “When people ask questions about it is when I can just go on a little rant, because there’s so much stuff that I want to talk about.”