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!

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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

The Roper Award for Research Experience (RARE) supports undergraduate research apprenticeships that make use of the archives of the Roper Center for Public Opinion Research. We are pleased to announce the two student/faculty RARE teams who have received awards for Spring 2015 and thank the Roper Center for its generous support of these student awards. Congratulations, RARE awardees!

Project Title: The Role of Demographics and Socioeconomics on Views of the Food System and Food Access
Student Apprentice and Major: Christopher Bruno, Resource Economics
Faculty Mentor and Department: Benjamin Campbell, Agricultural and Resource Economics

Mr. Bruno and Professor Campbell will be using Roper Center data to consider how different groups view the food system and access information about food-related issues. They will examine how different groups view organic, local, and genetically modified food products, considering the role of race, gender, income, and other characteristics to better understand differences in perceptions. This research will culminate with the development of policy recommendations that address potential racial and/or income inequalities within the food system.

Project Title: Throwing the Bums Out: Public Attitudes Toward Scandal-Plagued Incumbents
Student Apprentice and Major: Erin Puglia, Political Science
Faculty Mentor and Department: Vincent Moscardelli, Political Science

Ms. Puglia and Professor Moscardelli will use exit poll data to consider the mechanism(s) by which Congressional incumbents involved in scandals lose vote share. While existing research has documented the phenomenon of reduced vote share for candidates in the election cycle in which a scandal is first reported in the media, the causal mechanisms have not yet been established, so this project aims to model this process.

SHARE Awards support undergraduate research apprenticeships in the social sciences, humanities, and arts. We are delighted to announce the 24 student-faculty teams selected to receive awards for Spring 2015 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: Health Care Reform, Fertility, and Infant Health: Evidence from Massachusetts
Student Apprentice and Major: Andrew Carroll, Economics & Psychology
Faculty Mentor and Department: David Simon, Economics

Project Title: Too Much of a Good Thing? Excess Legitimacy and Democratic Principles in Argentina
Student Apprentice and Major: Katie Cavanaugh, Political Science & Management Information Systems
Faculty Mentor and Department: Matthew Singer, Political Science

Project Title: The Crane Wife at the National Festival of the Puppeteers of America
Student Apprentice and Major: Edward Cody, Puppet Arts
Faculty Mentor and Department: Margarita Blush, Dramatic Arts

Project Title: Racial Identity, Ethnic-Racial Socialization, and Adjustment among Youth of Color
Student Apprentice and Major: Kalea Coles, Human Development and Family Studies
Faculty Mentor and Department: Annamaria Csizmadia, Human Development and Family Studies

Project Title: Prior Art Search and Settlement Negotiations in Patent Dispute
Student Apprentice and Major: Brendan Costello, Political Science & Economics
Faculty Mentor and Department: Talia Bar, Economics

Project Title: Dramaturgies of Memory, Materiality, and Violence in African American Theatre
Student Apprentice and Major: Brighid DeAngelis, Theatre Design/Tech
Faculty Mentor and Department: Adrienne Macki Braconi, Dramatic Arts
Award Co-Sponsored by the University of Connecticut Humanities Institute

Project Title: Provision of Emotional Support to Increase Pumping Duration in High Risk Mothers
Student Apprentice and Major: Katherine Dinisi, Nursing
Faculty Mentor and Department: Jacqueline McGrath, Nursing

Project Title: Economic Rights in Islam and the Middle East
Student Apprentice and Major: Abdullah Hasan, Political Science & Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
Faculty Mentor and Department: Zehra Arat, Political Science

Project Title: The Linguistic Analysis of Graphic Novels
Student Apprentice and Major: Matthew Henderson, Linguistics/Psychology & Anthropology
Faculty Mentor and Department: Harry van der Hulst, Linguistics
Award Co-Sponsored by the University of Connecticut Humanities Institute

Project Title: Teaching the Vocabulary of Comprehension: A Technology-Enhanced System to Enhance At-Risk 3rd Graders’ Acquisition and Application of Essential Vocabulary (IVCS)
Student Apprentice and Major: Timothy Henning, Digital Media and Design
Faculty Mentor and Department: Michael Coyne, Educational Psychology

Project Title: Topics in Time Series Modeling of Inter-Event Durations
Student Apprentice and Major: Rajeshwari Majumdar, Economics & Statistics
Faculty Mentor and Department: Nalini Ravishanker, Statistics

Project Title: The Comparison of Maternal Descriptions of Late Preterm and Full Term Infant Breastfeeding Behaviors
Student Apprentice and Major: Lindsay Moore, Nursing
Faculty Mentor and Department: Ruth Lucas, Nursing

Project Title: The Politics of Environmental Action: Cities, Water Pollution, and Environmental Inequality in Latin America
Student Apprentice and Major: Renato Muguerza, Latin American Studies & Economics
Faculty Mentor and Department: Veronica Herrera, Political Science

Project Title: The Effects of Perceptual Fine-Tuning on Facial Recognition in Infancy
Student Apprentice and Major: Leighanne Ormston, Psychology & Biological Sciences
Faculty Mentor and Department: Heather Bortfeld, Psychology

Project Title: Visual History of Parks and Green Spaces in Waterbury, Connecticut
Student Apprentice and Major: Donato Pesce, Urban and Community Studies
Faculty Mentor and Department: Phil Birge-Liberman, Urban and Community Studies

Project Title: Ensuring Economic Growth Promotes Economic and Social Rights: The Role of Gender Equality in Education
Student Apprentice and Major: Gwendolyn Peyton, Economics
Faculty Mentor and Department: Susan Randolph, Economics

Project Title: Importance of Social Network Ties in Ad-Hoc Team Composition: Implications for Individual Team Member Performance
Student Apprentice and Major: Emily Roller, Psychology
Faculty Mentor and Department: Dev Dalal, Psychology

Project Title: Galatea Triumphant: Explorations in Figurative Ceramic Sculpture for Upcoming Solo and Group Exhibitions
Student Apprentice and Major: Catherine Solari, Sculpture/Ceramics
Faculty Mentor and Department: Monica Bock, Art and Art History

Project Title: Content Analysis of Colorado District Gifted and Talented Program Plans as Compared to the National Association for Gifted Children PK-12 Programming
Student Apprentice and Major: Jessica Stargardter, Elementary Education & History
Faculty Mentor and Department: E. Jean Gubbins, Educational Psychology

Project Title: Use and Acceptance of Technical Signs in Deaf Higher Education
Student Apprentice and Major: Emily Stassen, Individualized: American Sign Language and Deaf Culture & Molecular and Cell Biology
Faculty Mentor and Department: Diane Lillo-Martin, Linguistics

Project Title: Coverage of Haiti in the Dominican Republic’s Daily Newspapers: A Pilot Content Analysis Study
Student Apprentice and Major: Isamar Tavarez, Political Science
Faculty Mentors and Departments: Thomas Craemer, Public Policy & Samuel Martinez, Anthropology & Latin American Studies

Project Title: Development of Polysyllabic Word Reading Skill in Elementary-Age Children: A Descriptive Study
Student Apprentice and Major: LaShawna Thompson, Elementary Education
Faculty Mentor and Department: Devin Kearns, Educational Psychology

Project Title: Public Opinion on Renewable Energy
Student Apprentice and Major: Jessica Topper, Individualized: International Relations
Faculty Mentor and Department: Oksan Bayulgen, Political Science

Project Title: A New Methodology for Understanding Development through Joint Action
Student Apprentice and Major: Cassandra Zwarycz, Psychology & Human Development and Family Studies
Faculty Mentor and Department: Adam Sheya, Psychology