Faculty Profiles

Colleges and Departments

Dr. Carrie Jo Bucklin

  • Assistant Professor at Biology, College of Science & Engineering

Grants

2025

  • Fuess, Lauren Elizabeth (Principal), Percent Contribution: %90, Bucklin, Carrie Jo (Supporting), Percent Contribution: %10. CAREER: Characterizing the mechanisms linking bleaching recovery to pathogen susceptibility in a model cnidarian system, National Science Foundation, Federal, $676765.5. (Submitted: 2024, Funded: August 2025 - 2030). Grant.
  • Aleinikava, Darya (Principal), Percent Contribution: %50, Ronkainen, N (Co-Principal), Percent Contribution: %15, Ziliak, Ellen (Co-Principal), Percent Contribution: %25, Bucklin, Carrie Jo (Other), Percent Contribution: %10. S-STEM: Benedictine University STEM Scholars (BenSTEMS), NSF, Federal, $1595353. (Funded: October 2025 - December 2030). Grant.
  • Daniel, Kristy Lynn (Principal), Percent Contribution: %50, Bucklin, Carrie Jo (Co-Principal), Percent Contribution: %50, Godfrey, Amy (Co-Principal). Plant Protectors: Enriching Elementary Plant Biology Education by Integrating Outdoor Science Inquiry, American Society of Plant Biologists. Plant Biology Learning Objectives, Outreach Materials & Education Award Program, Private / Foundation / Corporate, $8500. (Funded: September 2025 - August 2026). Grant.
  • Bucklin, Carrie Jo (Principal), Percent Contribution: %50, Gay, Danielle Lexi (Co-Principal), Percent Contribution: %50. Increasing Wildlife Career Preparedness by Investigating Bat Activity Through Acoustics, Wildlife Acoustics, Private / Foundation / Corporate, $1596. (Submitted: February 15, 2025, Funded: August 2025 - July 2026). Grant.

2024

  • Bucklin, Carrie Jo (Principal). CURE TAPESTRy: Course-based Undergraduate Research Experiences TA Professional Development Resource Development, NSF via UT El Paso, Federal, $2500. (Submitted: February 2024, Funded: June 2024 - May 2025). Grant.

2022

  • Andrew, Euan (Principal), Alder, Luke (Co-Principal), Bucklin, Carrie Jo (Co-Principal). Lithobates catesbeianus: A Study of Diet, Disease, and Water Chemistry in Washington County, Utah, Walter Maxwell Gibson Endowment, Institutional (Higher Ed), $3000. (Funded: November 2022 - August 2023). Grant.
  • Bucklin, Carrie Jo (Principal). Project Presentation Travel (2022, NABT), Excellence for Teaching & Learning - SUU, Institutional (Higher Ed), $1948. (Funded: November 2022). Grant.

2021

  • Marines, Sierra (Principal), Mraz-Craig, Jennifer (Co-Principal), Bucklin, Carrie Jo (Co-Principal). Student Attitudes and Perceptions of Biology Labs Across Modalities (2021, Gibson), Walter Maxwell Gibson Endowment, Institutional (Higher Ed), $3000. (Funded: November 2021 - August 2022). Grant.
  • Bucklin, Carrie Jo (Principal). Project Presentation Travel (2021, NABT), Excellence for Teaching & Learning - SUU, Institutional (Higher Ed), $1768. (Funded: November 2021). Grant.

2020

  • Lloyd, Sheridan (Principal), Bucklin, Carrie Jo (Co-Principal). Burn Scar: An Assessment of a Course-Based Undergraduate Research Experience on the Effects of the Brian Head Wildfire (2020, Gibson), Walter Maxwell Gibson Endowment, Institutional (Higher Ed), $3000. (Funded: November 2020 - August 2021). Grant.

2019

  • Bucklin, Carrie Jo (Principal). Project Presentation Travel (2019, NABT), Excellence for Teaching & Learning - SUU, Institutional (Higher Ed), $935. (Funded: November 2019). Grant.
  • Bucklin, Carrie Jo (Principal). Project Presentation Travel (2019, AERA), Excellence for Teaching & Learning - SUU, Institutional (Higher Ed), $1400. (Funded: April 2019). Grant.
  • Johnson, Sara (Principal), Percent Contribution: %50, Cochran, Karly (Co-Principal), Percent Contribution: %25, Paulk, Amanda (Co-Principal), Percent Contribution: %15, Bucklin, Carrie Jo (Other), Percent Contribution: %10. Creating STEM Opportunities for High-Achieving Rural Alabama Students, NSF, Federal, $647613. (Funded: January 2019 - December 2025). Grant.

2018

  • Obray, Elizabeth (Principal), Bucklin, Carrie Jo (Co-Principal). Investigating how a Bridge to PhD Program influences the Science Identity of Graduate Students: A Case Study (2018, Gibson), Walter Maxwell Gibson Endowment, Institutional (Higher Ed), $1020. (Funded: November 2018 - August 2019). Grant.
  • Bucklin, Carrie Jo (Principal), Davis, Laura J (Co-Principal). Development of Western Women in Medicine Course (2018), SUU Center for Excellence in Teaching and Learning, Institutional (Higher Ed), $1000. (Submitted: 2018, Funded: May 2018 - May 2021). Grant.

2017

  • Bucklin, Carrie Jo (Principal). Project Presentation Travel (2017, NABT), Excellence for Teaching & Learning - SUU, Institutional (Higher Ed), $1570. (Funded: November 2017). Grant.
  • Bucklin, Carrie Jo (Principal). Implementing a CURE to expand student’s global learning and increase diversity in science research (2017, CETL-CIG), SUU Center for Excellence in Teaching and Learning, Institutional (Higher Ed), $1000. (Submitted: 2017, Funded: May 2017 - May 2018). Grant.

2016

  • Grimes, Kristin Wilson (Principal), Brandt, Marilyn (Co-Principal), Jones, Nastassia (Co-Principal), Medina, Monica (Co-Principal), Bucklin, Carrie Jo (Co-Principal). Collaborative Research: Changing the Face of STEM in the U.S. Virgin Islands through Targeted Interventions to Expand Opportunities and Broaden Participation, NSF, Federal, $1999441. (Submitted: 2016, Funded: 2016 - 2019). Grant.
  • Grimes, Kristin Wilson (Principal), Bucklin, Carrie Jo (Co-Principal), Habtes, Sennai (Co-Principal), Taylor, Marcia (Co-Principal), Forbes, Howard (Co-Principal). Pride in Our Seas, Pride in Ourselves: Preventing Land-Based Sources of Marine Debris in the US Virgin Islands through Educational Transformation and Community Engagement, NOAA, Federal, $99411. (Submitted: 2016, Funded: 2016 - 2018). Grant.
  • Bucklin, Carrie Jo (Principal). Conference Travel (2016, NABT), Excellence for Teaching & Learning - SUU, Institutional (Higher Ed), $1200. (Funded: October 2016). Grant.
  • Bucklin, Carrie Jo (Principal). Conference Travel (2016, HAPS), Excellence for Teaching & Learning - SUU, Institutional (Higher Ed), $1200. (Funded: May 2016). Grant.

2015

  • Bucklin, Carrie Jo (Principal). Biology Graduate Student Travel Award, The University of Southern Mississippi, Institutional (Higher Ed), $600. (Funded: November 2015). Grant.

2011

  • Maroo, Jill (Principal), Boyce, Carrie Jo (Co-Principal). Haunted Science Trail Supply Grant, Walmart, Private / Foundation / Corporate, $300. (Submitted: 2011, Funded: 2011). Grant.
  • Boyce, Carrie Jo (Principal), Maroo, Jill (Co-Principal). Local Waterway and Coastal Clean-up Grant, Walmart, Private / Foundation / Corporate, $500. (Submitted: 2011, Funded: 2011). Grant.

2010

  • Bucklin, Carrie Jo (Principal). Vernier Student Travel Award, Vernier, Private / Foundation / Corporate, $500. (Funded: November 2010). Grant.
  • Boyce, Carrie Jo (Principal). Vernier Student Travel Award, Vernier, Private / Foundation / Corporate, $500. (Funded: November 2010). Grant.