2025
River Blumenstock
Project Title: Depression Affects the Accuracy of Maternal Reports of Children’s Externalizing Behavior
Graduate Research Interest: Psychological and Brain Sciences
Sofia Cruz García
Project Title: Phosphate homeostasis and phosphate availability impacts the sensitivity of Staphylococcus aureus to antibiotics
Graduate Research Interest: Microbiology and Immunology
Joseph Egbe, Jr.
Project Title: Assessing Arsenic Exposure with Toenail Biomarkers
Graduate Research Interest: Occupational and Environmental Health
Jackson Friedman
Project Title: Experimental Investigation of Synthetic Jet Actuators via Rigid-Orifice and Deformable-Membrane Interaction
Graduate Research Interest: Mechanical Engineering
Bailee Kamerzell
Project Title: The Influence of Executive Functioning and Conflict Monitoring on Race Bias
Graduate Research Interest: Psychological and Brain Sciences
Alyssa Marzorati
Project Title: Spatial Attentional Errors on the Clock Drawing Task are Associated with Clinicians' Recommendations to Discontinue Driving
Graduate Program Interest: Neuroscience; Psychological and Brain Sciences
Carius McClain
Project Title: Modeling Epithelial-to-Mesenchymal Transition in ARPE-19 Cells Using Pro-EMT Cytokines
Graduate Research Interest: Biomedical Engineering
Wren Pinkela
Project Title: Are Visuo-spatial Neuropsychological Test Performances Associated with Visual Hallucinations in Patients with Dementia with Lewy Bodies?
Graduate Program Interest: Neuroscience; Psychological and Brain Sciences
Sanaa Thomas
Project Title: The Miseducation of Misogynoir: Criminalization
Graduate Research Interest: Sociology and Criminology
Lauren Wall
Project Title: Neonatal testosterone dysregulation induces developmental delays in wild-type mice
Graduate Research Interest: Developmental and Behavioral Pediatrics
2024
Lonni Garcia
Project Title: "Who Would Believe Me?" How Incarcerated Boys Describe Sexual Harassment & Abuse by Female Staff
Graduate Research Interest: Sociology & Criminology
Makenzie Kennedy
Project Title: Affective Prosody Perception and Psychopathology
Graduate Research Interest: Psychological & Brain Sciences
Natalee Kohl
Project Title: Investigating Histone Modifications in Memory Consolidation via Immunofluorescence
Graduate Research Interest: Neuroscience & Pharmacology
Johanna Kopelman
Project Title: The Power of a Hot Lunch: School Lunch Programs, Rural Electrification, and "Modern" Education in 1930s-1940s Iowa
Graduate Research Interest: History
Cindy Lara
Project Title: The Role of Socioeconomic Status in the Development of Children's Externalizing Problems: Examining Parental Acceptance as a Potential Moderator
Graduate Research Interest: Psychological & Brain Sciences
Carrington Mattis
Project Title: Wartime Restrictions: The Changing Landscape for NGOs in Conflict Zones
Graduate Research Interest: Political Science
Adriana Novello
Project Title: Transforming Trauma: Insights from Formerly Incarcerated Survivors on Advocating for Criminal Justice Reform in Gender-Based Violence
Graduate Research Interest: Sociology & Criminology
Afuosino Oiboh
Project Title: Examining the relationship between preschoolers' density of African American English usage and ratings of language ability in different language sampling environments
Graduate Research Interest: Communication Sciences & Disorders
Analise Pugh
Project Title: "American Woman": How do Corporate Sponsors Frame the USWNT?
Graduate Research Interest: American Studies
Adriana Rosario
Project Title: Optimizing Bacterial Ghost Production and Loading Ciprofloxacin in E. coli Strains for Enhanced Drug Delivery
Graduate Research Interest: Engineering
Adam Sayyed
Project Title: Evaluating The Performance Of LLAMA3 Model
Graduate Research Interest: Computer Science
Taylor Stalnaker
Project Title: On the tip of the tongue: Left anterior insula damage is associated with category-specific performance deficits in fruit/vegetable naming and fluency
Graduate Research Interest: Psychological & Brain Sciences