Erin Cashdollar of Saxonburg has been selected for the SEED Scholarship at Saint Francis University’s Small Business Development Center.

The SEED Scholarship is a professional internship designed to enhance business students’ learning opportunities.

Cashdollar is a freshman accounting major at Saint Francis and a member of the SIFE, History Club, American Sign Language Club, and Society of Economic Analysis.

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Sam Dowdy of Sarver was voted to be on the homecoming court for Ashland University.

Dowdy is a integrated social studies major at Ashland University.

He is a member of Orientation Team, Habitat for Humanity, Kappa Delta Pi honorary, and Fellowship of Christian Athletes worship team, as well as the public relations executive member for Black Student Union.

Dowdy is the son of Jonathan and Kathleen Dowdy of Sarver and is a 2009 graduate of Central High School.

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Amy Steinheiser of Butler received an undergraduate research grant from Westminster’s Drinko Center for Experiential Learning.

Steinheiser’s project is “The Effect of Camptothecin on Nuclear RanGTP Levels in HeLa Cells.”

She is treating HeLa cells with a chemotherapeutic drug that induces apoptosis and then monitoring nuclear transport into and out of the nucleus by analyzing the localization of a small protein called Ran.

Steinheiser is trying to determine how long it takes for the drug to disrupt nuclear transport mechanisms before it destroys/deregulates the nucleus as a whole.

She will present her research at the annual meeting of the American Society of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology taking place April 20 to 24 in Boston.

Steinheiser is the daughter of Larry and Donna Steinheiser and a graduate of Butler High School.