SHARE Awards support undergraduate research apprenticeships in the social sciences, humanities, and arts, offering students majoring in these fields opportunities to develop research skills and explore research interests early in their college careers.
We are delighted to announce the 21 student-faculty teams selected to receive awards for Spring 2016 and thank the University of Connecticut Humanities Institute for its generous support of two of these student awards. Congratulations to all award recipients!
Project Title: An Ethnography at a Colombian Maternity Hospital: A Critical look at Neoliberalism and Global Health
Student Apprentice and Major: Eeman Abbasi, Individualized: Health and Human Rights in the Middle East
Faculty Mentor and Department: Cesar Abadia-Barrero, Anthropology and Human Rights
Project Title: Realism, Refugees, and Global Governance
Student Apprentice and Major: Lucas Bladen, Political Science
Faculty Mentor and Department: Jennifer Sterling-Folker, Political Science
Project Title: Neural and Behavioral Changes Attributed to High Intensity Reading Treatment in Chronic Aphasia
Student Apprentice and Major: Samantha Coulombe, Speech, Language, and Hearing Sciences
Faculty Mentor and Department: Jennifer Mozeiko, Speech, Language, and Hearing Sciences
Project Title: Polysyllabic Word Spelling
Student Apprentice and Major: Marissa Gadacy, Psychology & Human Development and Family Studies
Faculty Mentor and Department: Devin Kearns, Educational Psychology
Project Title: Between Citizenship and Nationality: An Overview of Federal Citizenship Legislation for the U.S. Pacific Island Territories, 1898 to Present
Student Apprentice and Major: Maye Henning, Political Science & Human Rights
Faculty Mentor and Department: Charles Venator-Santiago, Political Science
Project Title: Project SPARK
Student Apprentice and Major: Kelsey Iwanicki, Elementary Education
Faculty Mentor and Department: Catherine Little, Educational Psychology
Project Title: Cross-Modal Integration: Effects of Shape on Phonetic Categorization
Student Apprentice and Major: Jessica Joseph, Psychology
Faculty Mentor and Department: Eiling Yee, Psychological Sciences
Project Title: Human Rights Discourse and Practices in Turkey
Student Apprentice and Major: Rubayet Lasker, Political Science & Human Rights
Faculty Mentor and Department: Zehra Arat, Political Science
Project Title: Exclusion Bullying in Same- and Cross-Race Contexts: Evaluations of Victimization, Victimizer Goals, and Victim Responses in Relation to Ethnicity and Personal Bullying and Victimization Experience
Student Apprentice and Major: Samantha Lawrence, Psychology & Human Development and Family Studies
Faculty Mentor and Department: Alaina Brenick, Human Development and Family Studies
Project Title: Developmental Cognition in Early Childhood
Student Apprentice and Major: Sonia Limaye, Allied Health Sciences
Faculty Mentor and Department: Kimberly Cuevas, Psychological Sciences
Project Title: Beat Your Gums: A History of Collected Stories and Reflections of Massachusetts Veterans
Student Apprentice and Major: Tara Lokke, History
Faculty Mentor and Department: Fiona Vernal, History
Award Co-Sponsored by the University of Connecticut Humanities Institute
Project Title: Museums and Civic Discourse: Past, Present, & Emerging Futures
Student Apprentice and Major: Samantha Mairson, Digital Media and Design
Faculty Mentor and Department: Clarissa Ceglio, Digital Media and Design
Award Co-Sponsored by the University of Connecticut Humanities Institute
Project Title: Neuro-Political Ideology: Motivated Reasoning Among Political Partisans
Student Apprentice and Major: Thomas Martella, Cognitive Science
Faculty Mentor and Department: Mikhael Shor, Economics
Project Title: Multi-Level Environmental Governance: Land Use Change and Carbon Emissions
Student Apprentice and Major: Edward McInerney, Political Science
Faculty Mentor and Department: Prakash Kashwan, Political Science
Project Title: Portraits of English/Language Arts Instruction with High and Low Evaluation Ratings
Student Apprentice and Major: Rachael Orbe, Secondary English Education & English
Faculty Mentor and Department: Rachael Gabriel, Curriculum and Instruction
Project Title: Effects of Attention on Lexically Informed Perceptual Learning
Student Apprentice and Major: Jacqueline Ose, Physiology and Neurobiology & Psychology
Faculty Mentor and Department: Rachel Theodore, Speech, Language, and Hearing Sciences
Project Title: The Influence of Comfort Measures on the Infant’s Microbiota in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU)
Student Apprentice and Major: Samantha Poveda, Nursing
Faculty Mentor and Department: Xiaomei Cong, Nursing
Project Title: Economics of Certification and Quality Disclosure
Student Apprentice and Major: Joseph Roessler, Economics & Mathematics
Faculty Mentor and Department: Talia Bar, Economics
Project Title: “Reel” Police, Prosecutors, and Portrayals of the Use of Force: Assessing the Lessons of Law and Order: SVU within the Current Legal and Political Climate
Student Apprentice and Major: Amy Saji, Political Science
Faculty Mentor and Department: Kimberly Bergendahl, Political Science
Project Title: Daniel Alarcón and the Peruvian Post-Conflict, Transnational Cultural Field
Student Apprentice and Major: Emily Socha, Spanish & Management
Faculty Mentor and Department: Guillermo Irizarry, Literatures, Cultures, and Languages
Project Title: Extension of the Prototype Willingness Model to Workplace Deviance
Student Apprentice and Major: Ryan Thibodeau, Psychology
Faculty Mentor and Department: Dev Dalal, Psychological Sciences