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• Student Accomplishments – Fall 2014

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Please join us in congratulating the UConn undergraduates named below for their significant research and creative accomplishments this fall. Students: if you have an accomplishment to share, please do so using this online form.

AWARDS

The first panel image from Julianne Norton's graphic novel.
The first panel image from Julianne Norton’s graphic novel.

Julianne Norton ’15 (CLAS) is a winner of the prestigious Mitchell Scholarship, which will support her pursuit of a graduate degree in creative writing in Ireland. There, she will continue work on a graphic novel begun with the support of the UConn IDEA Grant. The novel builds on topics and themes Julianne has explored in prior projects and will include a cross-cultural comparison of post-memory of the Holocaust and the Irish Famine. Learn more about Julianne and the Mitchell Scholarship by reading the story about her achievement in UConn Today; see more of her work on her portfolio website or Instagram feed.

PUBLICATIONS

Robert Stickels ’15 (CLAS) is the first author on the following article:

Stickels, R., Clark, K., Heider, T.N., Mattiske, D.M., Renfree, M.B. & Pask, A.J. (2014). DAX1/NR0B1 Was Expressed During Mammalian Gonadal Development and Gametogenesis Before It was Recruited to the Eutherian X-Chromosome. Biology of Reproduction; published ahead of print November 13, 2014.

Haley Garbus ’15 (CLAS) is a co-author on two journal articles:

Alexander, M.L., Smith, A., Rosenkrantz, T., Garbus, H., & Fitch, R.H. (2014). Behavioral and histological outcomes following neonatal HI injury in a preterm (P3) and term (P7) rodent model. Behavioral Brain Research, 259, 85‐96.

Alexander, M.L., Smith, A., Rosenkrantz, T., Garbus, H., & Fitch, R.H. (2014). Cell size anomalies in the auditory thalamus of rats with hypoxic‐ischemic injury on postnatal day 3 or 7. International Journal of Developmental Neuroscience, 33, 1‐7.

PRESENTATIONS

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Controls for Dillon Jones’ CNC machine.

New York Maker Faire – September 20-21, 2014 – New York, NY

Dillon Jones ’15 (ENGR) – UConn IDEA Grant recipient
The Botler/The Gentleman’s Gantry Machine

Connecticut Invasive Plant Working Group (CIPWG) Symposium – October 7, 2014 – Storrs, CT

Aaron Rosman ’16 (CAHNR) – UConn IDEA Grant recipient
Small Plants, Big Questions: Asian Waterwort and Threestamen Waterwort

COMSOL Conference – October 10-14, 2014 – Boston, MA

Casey Settle ’15 (ENGR) – OUR Travel Award recipient
Analysis of Heat Transfer in a Complex Three Dimensional Structure Fabricated by Additive Manufacturing

Frontiers in Optics – October 19-23, 2014 – Tucson, AZ

Michael Cantara ’16 (ENGR) – OUR Travel Award recipient
Ultracold Trimer Formation Energetics of Rb and K

Biomedical Engineering Society (BMES) Annual Meeting – October 22-25, 2014 – San Antonio, TX

Stephanie Knowlton ’15 (ENGR)
Spatiotemporal Oxygen Monitoring for Three-Dimensional Engineered Tissues

Catherine Oliver ’15 (ENGR) – OUR Travel Award recipient
Analyzing ROS Generation from Magnetic Nanoparticles in an Alternating Magnetic Field and Its Role in Intracellular Hyperthermia

Kevin Smith ’16 (ENGR)
Investigating the Effects of Stromal Cell-Neuronal Cell Co-Culture on Neuronal Maturity and Neuronal Viability Under Oxidative Stress

Northeastern Educational Research Association Conference – October 22-24, 2014 – Trumbull, CT

Caroline Thompson ’15 (ED)
Career Paths of Elementary Educators: An Assessment of Attrition and Mobility in Connecticut by Type of Community

Society for Neuroscience (SFN) Annual Meeting – November 15-19, 2014 – Washington, DC

Ashlesha Dhuri ’16 (CLAS) & Xiao Li ’15 (CLAS) – OUR Travel Award recipients
Comparing Dorsal and Ventral Hippocampus Oscillations During Learning

Franchesca Kuhney ’17 (CLAS) – OUR Travel Award recipient
Human Conditioned Place Preferences Using Secondary Reinforcers

Kaitlin O’Connell ’15 (CAHNR) – OUR Travel Award recipient
Behavioral Effects of rmTBI Injuries in Mice Models

Sarthak Patel ’16 (CLAS) – OUR Travel Award recipient
Temporal Sequence Learning by Rats in a Radial Arm Water Maze

Margaret Rowland ’15 (CLAS) – OUR Travel Award recipient
Animal Models of Effort-Related Decision Making: The Antidepressant Fluoxetine Potentiates Effort-Related Effects of the Dopamine Depleting Agent Tetrabenazine

American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AIChE) Annual Meeting – November 16-21, 2014 – Atlanta, GA

Notations are included below for students who won poster presentation awards in their divisions.

Gianna Credaroli ’15 (ENGR) – 2nd Place in Separations
A New Thin Film Composite Membrane

Ari Fischer ’15 (ENGR) – 3rd Place in Catalysis and Reaction Engineering
Poster presentation: Thermochemical CO2 and H2O Splitting Via Chemical-Looping with Cerium and Cobalt Mixed Oxides for Oxygen Generation
Oral presentation: Conversion of Caffeine and Lipids in Catalytic Fast-Pyrolysis of Spent Coffee Grounds (Based on UConn IDEA Grant project)

Gabriella Frey ’15 (ENGR) – 1st Place in Separations
Formulating Draw Solution Mixtures for Forward Osmosis

Oscar Nordness ’15 (ENGR) – 2nd place in energy fuels and petrochemicals – OUR Travel Award recipient
Incorporation of High Pressure CLC into IGCC systems

Clarke Palmer ’16 (ENGR) – 3rd Place in Fuels, Petrochemicals, and Energy – OUR Travel Award recipient
Reactor Design and Analysis of a Simulated Moving Bed Reactor for Chemical-Looping Combustion

George Shaw ’15 (ENGR) – OUR Travel Award recipient
Fluorescence Nitro-Explosive Detection through Electrospun Pyrene-PES Nanofibers

Abbey Wangstrom ’15 (ENGR) – 2nd place in Reaction and Catalysis Engineering
High Activity, High Stability Pt/ITO Fuel Cell Catalysts

Learn more about the AIChE presentations via the School of Engineering.

ONGOING PROJECTS

Christina Cotte ’17 (CLAS) worked with Dr. Craig Nelson’s Genetics lab over the summer diagramming the trajectory of reprogramming cells and developing a Lineage Map of the early stage mouse embryos. She and her colleagues have found new information about the process of turning a fibroblast cell into a stem cell that will be helpful for its future use. A publication with their findings on the reprogramming stem cell project is in preparation. The Lineage Map project is Christina’s focus for the 2014-15 academic year.

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Joseph Rosen and Emmanuel Oppong-Yeboah

UConn IDEA Grant recipients Emmanuel Oppong-Yeboah ’15 (CLAS) and Joseph Rosen ’17 (CLAS) are currently soliciting submissions for the premiere issue of Exsistentia, a new multimedia literary journal that addresses existential questions through the art of curation. Submissions in all genres (poetry, prose, illustration, audio, film, etc.) that respond to the issue’s thematic question, “do you see me?,” will be accepted through January 1, 2015, via exsistentia.net.

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Ornella Tempo

Ornella Tempo ’16 (ENGR) is conducting her McNair Scholars and Honors Thesis research in Dr. Yusuf Khan’s laboratory at UConn Health. She is studying the in vitro evaluation of calcium peroxide (CaO2) release from composite polylactic-co-glycolic acid (PLAGA) microsphere scaffolds. The objective of this project is to investigate the potential of a materials-only approach for guided bone regeneration.

• 2015 Roper Awards for Research Experience (RARE)

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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!

2015 RARE Recipients
Erin Puglia ’17 (CLAS), Professor Vin Moscardelli, Roper Center Director Paul Herrnson, OUR Director Caroline McGuire, Chris Bruno ’16 (CAHNR), and Professor Ben Campbell.

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.

• Congratulations, 2015 SHARE Award recipients!

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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

• Congratulations, Summer 2014 SURF Award Recipients!

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SURF is the largest competitive funding opportunity administered by the UConn Office of Undergraduate Research. I am delighted to announce that 59 UConn undergraduates have been offered SURF awards for summer 2014. The faculty review committee was impressed by the overall high caliber of the 108 applications submitted this year.

Congratulations to the SURF awardees! Your academic achievements, creativity, and initiative were evident in your applications. You have a challenging summer of deep engagement with the process of research ahead of you. We look forward to hearing about all you learn!

Thank you to the faculty members who supported SURF applicants: mentors, letter writers, and faculty review committee members! SURF represents a collaborative effort between students and faculty. This program would simply not be possible without the support and participation of faculty members!

Thank you, too, to SURF supporters in the UConn community. We are grateful to the Provost’s Office and to the Deans of the Schools and Colleges of Agriculture and Natural Resources, Engineering, Fine Arts, Pharmacy, and Nursing, who all contributed funding to the SURF competition this year. Alumni, parents, and friends of UConn also helped fund SURF awards. This collaborative funding effort ensures that SURF supports a diverse array of undergraduate research endeavors!

Once again, congratulations to those students offered 2014 SURF awards.

Caroline McGuire, Ph.D.
Director, Office of Undergraduate Research

 

 

 

• Congratulations, Spring 2014 UConn IDEA Grant Award Recipients!

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Congratulations to the twenty UConn undergraduates who have been awarded UConn IDEA Grants! idea_logo_standard_color_bottomWEB

Fourteen of the twenty award recipients will be completing individual projects, and the remaining six will be working on collaborative group projects.

Click here to learn more about the UConn IDEA Grant recipients and their projects.

Special thanks to the faculty and staff that supported student applications to the UConn IDEA Grant and to those who will be mentoring the award recipients as they complete their projects.

The UConn IDEA Grant program awards undergraduates funding to support self-designed projects including artistic endeavors, community service initiatives, traditional research projects, entrepreneurial ventures, and other innovative projects. Proposals for the UConn IDEA Grant represented a variety of disciplines, ranging from fine arts to marine sciences. The program is open to undergraduates in all majors at all campuses.

• Upcoming Presentations of Student Research and Creative Activity

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While the largest-ever Frontiers in Undergraduate Research Poster Exhibition may now be over, there are several additional opportunities to see UConn students’ work in the coming days and weeks.
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BFA Art Exhibition

April 17-27, 2014
ArtSpace, Windham Gallery, 480 Main Street, Willimantic, CT 06226

See this exhibition of work by students graduating from the BFA program in the Art and Art History Department, School of Fine Arts.

UConn School of Nursing ATHENA Research Conference

April 25, 2014
School of Nursing Widmer Wing

The program for this annual conference includes a poster presentation session from 1-2:30pm featuring the work of Honors students.

Language Fest 2014

April 26, 2014
9am – 4pm, Oak Hall

The UConn Language Fest is a University-wide research conference, now in its fourth year, which showcases the many facets of research on language in the UConn community. Poster sessions are scheduled for 10-11am, 1-2pm, and 3-4pm, and feature the work of undergraduate researchers from a number of UConn departments and programs.

Undergraduate Research Colloquium in Biology

May 2, 2014
8:30am-6:00pm, TLS 111

Graduating senior biology students (BIOL, PNB, EEB, MCB, BPHYS) will present short talks on their research at this 32nd annual biology research colloquium. All presentations are limited to ten minutes. Advisors, undergraduates, graduate students, faculty, postdocs, staff, parents, and friends are welcome and encouraged to attend.

UConn School of Engineering – Senior Design Demonstration Day

May 2, 2014
1-4pm, Gampel Pavilion

Senior Design Day, an exhibition of capstone projects from across the School of Engineering, affords parents, alumni, friends and project sponsors the opportunity to view project outcomes, interact with students and faculty, and learn more about the School. This year, 475 students will display and demonstrate 154 projects, and the whole university community is invited.

• Join us for the screening of two student documentaries!

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Please join us for a screening of two original documentaries directed by UConn IDEA Grant Recipients Peter Logue and David Pereira. A discussion with the filmmakers will follow the screenings.

Documentaries:
The Search for the White Rose – a film by Peter Logue – View the film trailer

Free Time – a film by David Pereira and RJ Anderson

Date: Friday, April 11th
Time: 7:00PM
Location: Laurel 101

Click here for more information on the documentaries.

 

• Congratulations, Fall 2013 UConn IDEA Grant Recipients!

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idea_logo_standard_color_bottomWEBThe UConn IDEA Grant program provides funding of up to $4,000 for self-designed projects including entrepreneurial ventures, community service initiatives, traditional research projects, or other creative endeavors. Proposals for the UConn IDEA Grants represented a variety of disciplines, ranging from history to mechanical engineering.

Congratulations to the nine undergraduates who have been awarded UConn IDEA Grants in the second award cycle of this new program coordinated by the Office of Undergraduate Research (OUR)! Click here to download the list of grant recipients and their projects.

Rosse Gates ’16 (ENGR) – Autonomous Navigation Systems and Algorithms

  • Rosse will work to develop an autonomous quadcopter that can track its position in relation to the environment and survey disaster areas in GPS-devoid environments.

Dillon Jones ’15 (ENGR) – Gentleman’s Gantry Machine

  • Dillon will work to build a “Gentleman’s Gantry Machine,” a general purpose, computer controlled positioning system of his own design that will enable multiple forms of manufacturing on one device.

Saher Kazi ’16 (CLAS) – Investigation and Analysis of the Barriers to Mental Health Care in India

  • Saher plans to investigate the factors influencing access to mental healthcare in India in a study involving mental health clinics in the town of Nashik in Maharashtra, India.

Kiersten Kronschnabel ’16 (CLAS) – POWER: Providing Optimal Strategies for Patient Retention While Transitioning from Pediatric to Adult Care 

  • Kiersten’s project is a community service initiative to address the dearth of resources for facilitating the pediatric-adult care transition for HIV-positive adolescents.

Katelyn McFadden ’15 (CANR) – Effects of Poor Maternal Nutrition on Liver Development in Lambs

  • Katelyn’s project builds on a collaborative study in the Department of Animal Science evaluating the effects of poor maternal nutrition on the growth of offspring in sheep. Katelyn will analyze liver samples in lambs to understand the mechanisms at work affecting offspring growth and development.

Amoolya Narayanan ’16 (CLAS) – Investigating the Use of Natural Antimicrobials to Control Urinary Tract Infections in a Mouse Model

  • Amoolya will investigate the potential of trans-cinnamaldehyde, a natural antimicrobial molecule contained in cinnamon, as an antimicrobial coating on urinary catheters to control urinary tract infections.

Zachary Raslan ’15 (CLAS) – Historic GIS Mapping of Hartford, CT

  • Zachary is partnering with a larger research project, Virtual Hartford, to acquire and digitize the earliest maps of Hartford, CT. He will apply GIS software to create maps that detail the evolution of the city and show changes to the physical landscape after significant historic events.

Aaron Rosman ’16 (CANR) – Elatine Ambigua and Elatine Triandra

  • Aaron will conduct research on invasive plant species Elatine Ambigua and Elatine Triandra to clarify the species boundaries and provide insights on their source and vector of introduction in the U.S.

Rachel Winsor ’15 (ENGR) – Project XX

  • Rachel plans to partner with UConn groups and departments to help bridge the gender gap to success by developing and implementing a series of empowerment workshops for the UConn community.

 

Thank you to the faculty members who have agreed to supervise the UConn IDEA Grant students in their projects. Thank you as well to the faculty members and program directors who served on the UConn IDEA Grant Proposal Review Committee!

• Announcing the 2014 Roper Awards for Research Experience (RARE)

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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 2014 and thank the Roper Center for its generous support of these student awards.

Project Title: Public Perception and Judicial Legitimacy
Student Apprentice and Major: Molly Rockett, Political Science
Faculty Mentor and Department: Virginia Hettinger, Political Science

Ms. Rockett and Professor Hettinger will be using the DRI National Poll on the Civil Justice System to explore public perceptions of the judicial decision-making process and poll respondents’ assessments of firsthand experiences (as litigants, jurors, or witnesses) with the legal system.

Project Title: The Right to Bear Arms: The Role of Federalism in Gun Control Policy
Student Apprentice and Major: Brian Tiedt, Political Science & Economics
Faculty Mentor and Department: Paul Herrnson, Political Science

Mr. Tiedt and Professor Herrnson will use the metadata available on iPOLL and a variety of data sets to consider the evolution of public opinion on gun control, subgroup variation in opinion, and public perceptions of the role of the federal government in regulating firearms.

 
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• Congratulations, 2014 SHARE Award Recipients!

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SHARE awards support undergraduate research apprenticeships in the social sciences, humanities, and arts. Following the most competitive application cycle to date, we are pleased to announce the 20 awardees for the Spring 2014 semester. Congratulations!

Project Title: Deferred Examination
Student Apprentice and Major: Patrick Adams, Economics
Faculty Mentor and Department: Talia Bar, Economics

Project Title: Evaluation of Gifted Education Using State Accountability Systems
Student Apprentice and Major: Daniel Arndt, Education
Faculty Mentor and Department: Jonathan Plucker, Educational Leadership

Project Title: Implementing and Evaluating K-3 Literacy Support in CT Schools
Student Apprentice and Major: Rachael Cerutti, Elementary Education
Faculty Mentor and Department: Michael Coyne, Educational Psychology

Project Title: Exploring Prunus Domestication in the Southern Caucasus
Student Apprentice and Major: Joyce Fountain, Anthropology
Faculty Mentor and Department: Alexia Smith, Anthropology

Project Title: Assessing Legal Protections Against Rape in the 50 U.S. States
Student Apprentice and Major: Celia Guillard, International Relations
Faculty Mentor and Department: David Richards, Political Science

Project Title: The New Husky Study: Stress, Coping and Health Behavior Change in First-Year Students
Student Apprentice and Major: Megan Iacocca, Psychology
Faculty Mentor and Department: Crystal Park, Psychology

Project Title: Damini: Illuminating the Flaws in India’s Legal System and Rape Laws
Student Apprentice and Major: Tina Lapsia, Political Science
Faculty Mentor and Department: Betty Hanson, Political Science

Project Title: Congressional Responsiveness During the ‘New Gilded Age’
Student Apprentice and Major: Phillip Menard, Political Science
Faculty Mentor and Department: Thomas Hayes, Political Science

Project Title: Gifted Students Achievement Patterns Beyond High School
Student Apprentice and Major: Jennifer Moore, Secondary Education
Faculty Mentor and Department: Del Siegle, Educational Psychology

Project Title: Discourse in Linguistically Diverse Mathematics Classrooms
Student Apprentice and Major: Bailey Muchin, Special Education
Faculty Mentor and Department: Mary Truxaw, Curriculum and Instruction

Project Title: Neural Mechanisms for Behavioral Differences on Visual Integration in Schizophrenia
Student Apprentice and Major: Fariya Naz, Psychology
Faculty Mentor and Department: Chi-Ming Chen, Psychology

Project Title: Observations on the Genderization of Security: A University (UConn/Avery Point) Community Perspective
Student Apprentice and Major: Kaitlin Pealer, Anthropology
Faculty Mentor and Department: Richard Cole, Political Science

Project Title: Beyond Nation States
Student Apprentice and Major: Marissa Piccolo, Political Science
Faculty Mentor and Department: Prakash Kashwan, Political Science

Project Title: Understanding of Social Relationships in Children with a History of Autism Who Have Achieved Optimal Outcomes
Student Apprentice and Major: Kaitlyn Porter, Speech, Language and Hearing Sciences
Faculty Mentor and Department: Deborah Fein, Psychology

Project Title: Counting Strategies in Deaf Homesigners in Nicaragua: Can Fingers Help?
Student Apprentice and Major: Devika Prasad, Psychology
Faculty Project Title: Marie Coppola, Psychology

Project Title: Neonatal Nurses’ Perceptions of Mother-Infant Skin-to-Skin Contact in NICUs: A National Survey
Student Apprentice and Major: Kelsey Richardson, Nursing
Faculty Project Title: Xiaomei Cong, Nursing

Project Title: Examining Questioning in Reading Classrooms
Student Apprentice and Major: Melissa Scarbrough, Secondary Education/French
Faculty Project Title: Catherine Little, Educational Psychology

Project Title: Preparation of Engraved Editions of Late Piano Works by American Modernist Composer Dane Rudhyar
Student Apprentice and Major: Jonathan Schmieding, Music -Composition and Performance
Faculty Project Title: Ronald Squibbs, Music

Project Title: Gap Detection and Frequency Discrimination Abilities in Individuals High in Autism Spectrum Disorder Symptomatology
Student Apprentice and Major: Emily Thompson, Speech, Language and Hearing Sciences
Faculty Project Title: Inge-Marie Eigsti, Psychology

Project Title: Social Challenges for Correctional Nurses Delivering Healthcare
Student Apprentice and Major: Alyssa Zabin, Psychology
Faculty Project Title: Denise Panosky, Nursing