In Research Methods: A Tool for Life, psychology professor Bernard Beins developed a textbook that prepares students to conduct their own research projects. Beins created a text that "lures students into research because it can be meaningful to their own lives."

In biology, professor Vicki Cameron continues her work on the effect amino acid substitutions have on the function of cytochrome c oxidase in yeast. As principal investigator in the biochemical study, she is supported by a multiyear grant from the National Science Foundation. Similarly, associate biology professor Marc Servetnick is supported by an ongoing NSF grant to continue his research on the use of transgenic xenopus embryos to study cell specification in eye development.