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    LAURA Awards

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The College of Liberal Arts’ student body is driven by curiosity and questioning. We encourage all our students to participate in research and help create knowledge. The College of Liberal Arts offers funding opportunities each semester, including summer, to afford students to undertake critical and impactful work. Our Liberal Arts Undergraduate Research Awards (LAURAs) are College funded awards with bi-annual calls for proposals.

The Liberal Arts Undergraduate Research Awards (LAURAs) grant $2,000 each to undergraduate student-faculty member duos to conduct a research project over the course of a semester. Each student earns a $15/hour stipend from the grant while spending 100 hours on the project, which enables students to dedicate their time to developing research skills without having to worry about their financial wellbeing.

The Liberal Arts Undergraduate Research Awards (LAURA) creates more opportunities for undergraduate students to develop research skills by working with faculty mentors on faculty-led research projects while increasing support for faculty research in the College of Liberal Arts. 

LAURA Scholars Teams Share Experiences

Student-faculty teams worked together over the course of a semester or summer on a research project of mutual interest. Visit our LAURA Scholars Testimonials page and watch the videos to see some of the experiences from our faculty and students! 

Faculty and Student Research Teams

The College of Liberal Arts is pleased to announce the Spring 2025 LAURA Scholar Awards:

    Spring 2025

    • Eli Alshanetsky (Philosophy) and student Jo Liberman for AI and Cognitive Autonomy
    • Lisa Briand (Psychology and Neuroscience) and student Arwen Gormley for Impact of Adolescent social isolation on microglial morphology in the pain circuit
    • Eunice Chen (Psychology and Neuroscience) and student Laura Walker for Use of machine learning to explore the effects of ultraprocessed food and physical activity cross sectionally and longitudinally
    • Jason Chein (Psychology and Neuroscience) and student Tanaka Manhede for Intervention to enhance human discernment of artificial intelligence
    • Jared Clemons (Political Science) and student Adenike Onanuga for Privatizing Antiracism: Why Racism Cannot Solve Racial Inequality
    • Deborah Drabick (Psychology and Neuroscience) and student Sakoura Casimir-Cespedes for Assessment of the Coping Power Program among Minoritized Children in a Low-Income, Urban School
    • Matt Graham (Political Science) and student Alexis Thomas for Detecting Cheating in Online Surveys
    • Melissa Gilbert (Geography, Environment and Urban Studies) and student Kristin Cornish for Emerging critical infrastructures during COVID-19: The role of PA school districts in supporting vulnerable communities during crisis
    • Kristin Gjesdal (Philosophy) and student Carolyn Gnage for Unruly Women
    • Chelsea Helion (Psychology and Neuroscience) and student Bridget Colgan for Using Natural Language Processing to Examine Intergenerational Conversation
    • Kevin Henry (Geography, Environment and Urban Studies) and student Julia Schumacher for Beyond Census Demographics: Using Business Data and Street View Images to Enhance Ethnic Enclave Measures
    • Ames Sutton Hickey (Psychology and Neuroscience) and student Madonna Samaan for Dietary Fat Composition and its Role in Altering Food Preferences and Standard Diet Devaluation
    • Hilary Lowe (History) and student Maya Tzan for Fannie and Amelia J. Allen Diaries Project
    • Patricia Melzer (Modern Languages, Literatures and Cultures) and student Kirana Horn for Alternative masculinities in the (West) German left-radical political movement Autonome (chapter draft)
    • Harvey Neptune (History) and student Dorian Miller for To Trash America: Consensus Historians and the US Past
    • Nora Newcombe (Psychology and Neuroscience) and student Leah Harvey for GEO-OWL Academy: Advancing Large-Scale Spatial Thinking through Geospatial Exploration and Outdoor World Learning
    • Thomas Olino (Psychology and Neuroscience) and student Dabin Yim for Reward-related brain functioning in adolescents at high- and low-familial risk for depression
    • Hamil Pearsall (Geography, Environment and Urban Studies) and student Olivia Sansone for Overcoming barriers to participation in nature prescription programs in Philadelphia
    • Jessica Roney (History) and student Tina Jacz for The Revolution Out of Bounds – Building a City Overnight
    • Christina Rosan (Geography and Urban Studies) and student Mildred Arevalo for Mapping Trees to Advocate for Equitable and Climate-Ready Neighborhoods: A Student-Centered and Community-Engaged Mapping Partnership with the USchool
    • Eileen Ryan (History) and student Isa Nunez for Mussolini's Empire in the City of Brotherly Love: Community Reactions to the Invasion of Ethiopia, 1935-36
    • Michael Sances (Political Science) and student Rishi Pattni for Non-Lawyer Judges in Pennsylvania Trial Courts
    • David V. Smith (Psychology and Neuroscience) and student Jamie-Nicole Luistro for Environmental stressors and brain health in older adults
    • Ronald Taylor (Psychology and Neuroscience) and student Tegan Schultz for Online Racial Discrimination, Depression, and College Adjustment Among African American Students
    • Olga Timoshenko (Economics) and student Alexander Kitsmarishvili for The Impact of US – South Korea Trade Agreement on U.S. Economy: Do News Matter?
    • Will Vincent (Psychology and Neuroscience) and student Alexis Henegan for The role of intersectional stress in the relationship between expectations of and attitudes toward masculinity and depression for young Black men who have sex with men and are living with HIV
    • Mathieu Wimmer (Psychology and Neuroscience) and student Katherine Lee for Delineating the neurobiology of chronic inflammatory pain using novel machine learning-based appraoches
    • Sean Yom (Political Science) and student Kyrollos Abraham for The Lost Politics of Middle East Monarchies: The Relevance of Royalism for Modern Authoritarianism
    • Adam Ziegfeld (Political Science) and student Reema Kalidindi for Election Alliances in India's States

    Fall 2024

    • Kevin Henry (Geography and Urban Studies) and student Madelyn Bower for Exploring the relationship between residence in an Asian enclave and breast cancer stage for Asian women
    • Karen Hersch (Greek and Roman Classics) and student Thomas Fishman for Vestals of the Barnyard: The Sacred Chickens of Rome and the Riddle of Gallinaceous Virginity
    • Artemy Kalinovsky (History) and student Vivek Iyer for Pipeline Politics and Development in Post-Soviet Eurasia 
    • Judith A. Levine (Sociology) and student Kyla McDermott for Landing a Job: Moving from College to Employment in the New Economy
    • Patricia Melzer (German) and student August Horn for Alternative masculinities in the (West) German left-radical political movement Autonome (chapter draft)
    • Leslie Reeder-Myers (Anthropology) and student Neamiah Pedraza for Community Archaeology and Museology: Bringing Timbuctoo (Back) to Temple
    • Jessica Roney (History) and student Tina Jasz for The Revolution Out of Bounds – Building a City Overnight 
    • David V.  Smith (Psychology and Neuroscience) and student Ashley Hawk for White matter hyperintensity burden and premature brain aging: Assessing moderating influences of environmental stressors and social support
    • Jessica Stanton (Political Science) and student Erica Stone for Global Anti-Terrorism Law: Criminalizing Support for and Incitement of Terrorism

    Past LAURA Scholar Awards

    Summer 2024
    • Eunice Y. Chen (Psychology and Neuroscience) and student Amelia Blumberg for Pilot studies assessing the factors affecting energy balance
    • Elise Chor (Psychology and Neuroscience) and student Nicholas Weitzel for Preschool Participation and Children’s Time Use
    • Tania Giovannetti (Psychology and Neuroscience) and student Julina Hossfeld for Developing an Automated Scoring Program to Assess Cognition in Older Adults: An International and Interdisciplinary Project
    • Tania Giovannetti (Psychology and Neuroscience) and student Yuki Tsuchiya for An International and Interdisciplinary Collaboration to Produce an Efficient and User-friendly Function-based Assessment of Cognition for Older Adults
    • Matt Graham (Political Science) and student Binh Hoang for Covariate Adjustment in Theory and Practice
    • Alexandra Guisinger (Political Science) and student Anna Rowland for Foreign Policy in a Diverse Society: How does race, ethnicity, and gender shape perceptions of economic foreign policy?
    • Michael Hagen (Political Science) and student Steve Binod for The Struggle over Voting Rights in Philadelphia and Pennsylvania
    • Kevin Henry  (Geography and Urban Studies) and student Madelyn Bower for Exploring the relationship between residence in an Asian enclave and breast cancer stage for Asian women
    • Matthew Hiller (Criminal Justice) and student Lea Readinger Canta for Risk-Need-Responsivity Probation Officer Training: A Meta-Analysis
    • Veronica Jacome and student Titilayo Brown for Labor Power, Consumer Capitalism and Lightless Tuesday in An Electrifying US 
    • Jeremy Mennis Geography and Urban Studies) and student Luke Mathers for Building a Dataset of Individual Escapes from Slavery on the Underground Railroad to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in the 1840s and 1850s
    • Alan McPherson (History) and student Nolan Greenways for Vengeance in American Foreign Relations
    • Lauren Olsen (Sociology) and student Siyona Keya for U.S. Medical School Leaders’ Responses to Restrictive Abortion Policies
    • Hamil Pearsall and student Robyn Kerachsky for Environmental Scan of Outdoor Programming in Philadelphia
    Spring 2024
    • Lisa A. Briand (Psychology and Neuroscience) and student Matthew Piniero for Sex Differences in the Post-Translational Modification O-GlcNAcylation
    • Jason Chein (Psychology and Neuroscience) and student Harry Green for Does the Brain's Sensitivity to Social Feedback Predict Social Memory?
    • Eunice Y. Chen (Psychology and Neuroscience) and student Laura Walker for Understanding the Multilevel Correlates of the Overconsumption of Ultraprocessed Food
    • Elise Chor (Political Science) and student Sarah Blackman for Literacy-Rich Neighborhoods in Philadelphia
    • Nyron N. Crawford (Political Science) and student Jayla Collison for Strike from the Record: Administrative Burden in Criminal Record Expungement
    • Tania Giovannetti (Psychology and Neuroscience) and student Anna Callahan for Validating a Novel Performance-based Measure of Everyday Function for Older Adults with Suspected Cognitive Decline
    • Travis Glasson (History) and student Charlotte Mansfield for The Trans-Atlantic Peace Movement During the American Revolution
    • Matt Graham (Political Science) and student Binh Hoang for Bridging Disparate Approaches to the Study of Partisan Bias
    • Alexandra Guisinger (Political Science) and student Emily Starks for The Gender Gap in Economic Policy Preferences: Does Structural-Level Inequality Explain Cross-National Differences?
    • Victor Gutierrez-Velez (Geography and Urban Studies) and student Maggie Roseto for Mapping Wildfire Under Contrasting Drought Conditions and Their Impacts on Tropical Dry Ecosystems
    • Michael Hagen (Political Science) and student Gianni Quattrocchi for Political Parties in the Greater Philadelphia Region
    • Donald A. Hantula (Psychology and Neuroscience) and student Alexandra Capalbo for Human Robot Proxemics
    • Chelsea Helion (Psychology and Neuroscience) and student Lauren Ewell for Identifying Markers of Good Conversation in Intergenerational Dyads
    • Kevin Henry (Geography and Urban Studies) and student Nathaniel Shaw for Examining the Role of Social Infrastructure on Breast Cancer Stage at Diagnosis among Hispanic Women in New Jersey
    • Brian Hutler (Philosophy) and student Yuliya "Jo" Liberman for Mapping the Field of Neuroethics
    • Johanna Jarcho (Psychology and Neuroscience) and student Alexis Bendl for Social Anxiety and Emoji Use: Exploring the Influence of Mental Health Issues on Digital Communication
    • Philip C. Kendall (Psychology and Neuroscience) and student Sara Leik for Parent-child Communication And Emotion Expression in Youth Receiving Anxiety Treatment
    • Karen E. Klaiber Hersch (Greek and Roman Classics) and student Harrison (Indy) Calig for Tanaquil Rex
    • Judith A. Levine (Sociology) and student Kyla McDermott for Landing a Job: Moving from College to Employment in the New Economy
    • Kevin Loughran (Geography and Urban Studies) and student Andrea Aguilar for Countercultural Spaces and the Reproduction of Racial Inequality
    • Hilary Lowe (History) and student Hailey Rounsaville for Fannie and Amelia J. Allen Diaries Project
    • Alan McPherson (History) and student Nolan Greenways for Vengeance and American Foreign Relations 
    • Vishnu P. Murty (Psychology and Neuroscience) and student Ashley Hawk for Leveraging Conceptual Knowledge in Service of Event Memory
    • Melissa Noel (Criminal Justice) and student Cass Tilley for The Double-Edged Sword: A Qualitative Examination of Parental Incarceration and Parental Immigration Detention
    • Mark Pollack (Political Science) and student Hanna Lee for Teaching International Law in the Liberal Arts Curriculum
    • Leslie A. Reeder-Myers (Anthropology) and student Abasi Nicholson for Immigration and the Philadelphia Dream, 1750-1950
    • Adam Shellhorse (Spanish and Portuguese) and student Robyn Kerachsky for The Modalities of Affect: Language, Feeling, and Intensity in Latin American Film and Art (1924-2021)
    • Thomas F Shipley (Psychology and Neuroscience) and student Diuto Anyanwu for Understanding Types of Common Causal Structures in Feedback Loops
    • David V.  Smith (Psychology and Neuroscience) and student Enes Yanilmaz for Characterizing the Causal Influence of Noninvasive Brain Stimulation on Reward Processing
    • Miriam Solomon (Philosophy) and student Lucas Jackson for An Ameliorative Replacement for the Concept of Psychiatric Disorder
    • Amarat Zaatut (Criminal Justice) and student Joao Goncalves for An Examination of the Integration Experiences of Muslim Refugees in Traditional and Non-Traditional Immigrant Destinations 
    • Janire Zalbidea (Spanish and Portuguese) and student  Maya Halma for Linguistic Profiles and Communicative Competence in Spanish Foreign and Heritage Language Writing
    Fall 2023
    • Eunice Chen (Psychology and Neuroscience) and student Mahanoor Rafi for Changes in cognitive, and emotional functioning with increasing physical activity in young adults
    • Nyron N. Crawford (Political Science) and student James L. Gray for Strike from the Record: Administrative Burden in Expungement of Criminal Records
    • Tania Giovannetti (Psychology and Neuroscience) and student Melissa Rosahl for Relations between Language Production and the Performance of Everyday Tasks in Older Adults
    • Tania Giovannetti (Psychology and Neuroscience) and student Adaeze Uwaomah for Improving Everyday Action in People with Dementia
    • Donald A. Hantula  (Psychology and Neuroscience) and student Julia Zortea for Human Robot Interaction
    • Johanna Jarcho (Psychology and Neuroscience) and student Thais Costa Macedo de Arruda for Childhood maltreatment and memory bias for social and non-social events: Exploring neural mechanisms that promote risk for mental health problems
    • Michael A. Leeds (Economics) and student Owen Hurley for Recruiting and Reproduction: Do Female Athletes Consider Abortion Laws When Deciding on a College?
    • Alan McPherson (History) and student Matthew Friedman for Vengeance in American Foreign Relations
    • Melissa E. Noel (Criminal Justice) and student Anna Palillero-Benito for The Double-Edged Sword: A Qualitative Examination of Parental Incarceration and Parental Immigration Detention
    • Ingrid Olson (Psychology and Neuroscience) and student Caroline George for How the “little brain” may play a key role in modulating socioemotional thought and behavior 
    • Victor M. Pueyo Zoco (Spanish and Portuguese) and student Meira Galapo for The Literature of the Commons. Reading the Early Modern Spanish Canon  Otherwise (1450-1700)
    • Leslie A. Reeder-Myers (Anthropology) and student Abasi Nicholson for Immigration and the Philadelphia Dream, 1750-1850
    • Eileen Ryan (History) and student Olivia Blake for Racialization of Italian Immigrants in the Americas
    • Michael W. Sances (Political Science) and student Jaydyn Doebler for District Attorney Web Site and Social Media Collection
    • Thomas F Shipley (Psychology and Neuroscience) and student Abby Losey and Neuroscience for Understanding the Unspoken: Comprehension and Communication of Uncertainty in Gestures
    • David V. Smith (Psychology and Neuroscience) and student Matthew Drayton for Characterizing Risk Factors for Financial Exploitation
    • Kimberly D. Williams (Anthropology) and student Eitan Runyan for Exploring Dental Anthropology with a Future Dentist
    • Mathieu Wimmer (Psychology and Neuroscience) and student Camryn Krumbhaar for The role of the hippocampus in the intensification of drug craving using animal models of substance use
    Summer 2023
    • James D. Bachmeier (Sociology) and student Amira Solomon for Childhood School Contexts and the Integration of the Children of Immigrants in 20th Century America
    • Lisa A. Briand (Psychology and Neuroscience) and student Bridget Armstrong for Effect of adolescent social isolation on brain immune cell expression and function
    • Jason Chein (Psychology and Neuroscience) and student Alex Barone for ChatGPT/AI Belief: Can AI create Human-like responses?
    • Elise Chor (Political Science) and student Stephen Pelliccia for Literacy-Rich Neighborhoods in Philadelphia
    • Nyron N. Crawford (Political Science) and student James L. Gray for Strike from the Record: Administrative Burden in Expungement of Criminal Records
    • Tania Giovannetti (Psychology and Neuroscience) and student Riya Chaturvedi for Assessment of Everyday Function in Older Adults
    • Cristina Gragnani (French, German, Italian and Slavic) and student Makayla Anja Montarti for Gender Violence, Loathing, and Self-Affirmation Through Narration: Anna Franchi’s Avanti il Divorzio (1902)
    • Donald A. Hantula  (Psychology and Neuroscience) and student Julia Zortea for Human Robot Interaction
    • Philip C. Kendall (Psychology and Neuroscience) and student Elizabeth (Lizzie) Rawa for Therapist ratings of in-session behavior and treatment outcomes for youth with anxiety disorders
    • Rita Krueger (History) and student Elizabeth Allendoerfer for Exploring the Sounds of War
    • Natalie M. Léger (English) and student Emme Goldman for “Unimaginable Solidarities: Black and Indigenous Resistance in Film”
    • Judith A. Levine (Sociology) and student Juliya Medyukh for Landing a Job: Moving from College to Employment in the New Economy
    • Laura McGrath (English) and student Abigail Corcelli for The Literary Agent and American Literature
    • Nora Newcombe (Psychology and Neuroscience) and student Camille Strand for Individual Differences in Integrating Spatial Relationships Across Separately Learned Routes
    • Hamil Pearsall (Geography and Urban Studies) and student Karishma Medatia for Evaluation of Prescribe Outside program
    • Victor M. Pueyo Zoco (Spanish and Portuguese) and student Meira Galapo for The Literature of the Commons. Reading the Early Modern Spanish Canon  Otherwise (1450-1700)​
    • Leslie A. Reeder-Myers (Anthropology) and student Olivia Bove for The Thones Kunders Site: An Archaeological History of Germantown
    • Eileen Ryan (History) and student Christopher Klapakis for Development Programs in Post-Imperial Europe
    • Michael W. Sances (Political Science) and student Isabella Francisco for District Attorney Web Site and Social Media Collection
    • Mathieu Wimmer (Psychology and Neuroscience) and student Cass Tilley for Studying the impact of early life adversity on substance use traits using rodent models of addiction
    Spring 2023
    • Nilgun Anadolu-Okur (Africology and African American Studies) and student Julia Sarah Chein for Freedom on My Mind: A Photographic Journey Mapping Philadelphia’s Contribution to Arts, Culture and Freedom 
    • James D. Bachmeier (Sociology) and student Amira Solomon for Childhood School Contexts and the Integration of the Children of Immigrants in 20th Century America
    • Lisa A. Briand (Psychology and Neuroscience) and student William Cuadrado for Effect of adolescent social isolation on cocaine reinstatement using a lever press procedure
    • Eunice Y. Chen (Psychology and Neuroscience) and student Mahanoor Rafi for Correlates of sedentary behavior in emerging adulthood
    • Tania Giovannetti (Psychology and Neuroscience) and student Marina  Kaplan for Using Smartwatches to Assess and Improve Cognition in Older Adults 
    • Cristina Gragnani (French, German, Italian and Slavic) and student Alexandra Glyptis for Gender Violence, Loathing, and Self-Affirmation Through Narration: Anna Franchi’s Avanti il Divorzio (1902)
    • Elizabeth Gunderson (Psychology and Neuroscience) and student Sherese Bennett for The Impact of Spatial Book-Reading on Preschoolers’ Mental Rotation Skills
    • Chelsea Helion (Psychology and Neuroscience) and student Tiara Bounyarith for Decision-making under uncertainty
    • Veronica Jacome (Geography and Urban Studies) and student Mina Schneck for Power, Responsibility and Reliability in the Electrical World: The Case of Rural Pennsylvania  
    • Artemy M. Kalinovsky (History) and student Ian Francis Henry for Funding a Dam: Tajikistan’s Eurobond and the Financing of Development 
    • Karen E. Klaiber Hersch (Greek and Roman Classics) and student (Indy) Harrison Kyle Calig for Tanaquil Rex
    • Michael Mccloskey (Psychology and Neuroscience) and student Jules Mirales for Association between trauma and aggression
    • Laura McGrath (English) and student Tiffany Li for The Literary Agent and American Literature
    • Alan McPherson (History) and student Jessica Homan for The Impact of Iran-Contra on US Democracy
    • Vishnu P. Murty (Psychology and Neuroscience) and student Christopher Papazian for Characterizing agency-related remediations in memory distortions for aversive events
    • Nora Newcombe (Psychology and Neuroscience) and student Kara Storjohann for Home Sweet Home: Relations between episodic and semantic memory in childhood
    • Lauren Olsen (Sociology) and student Caitlin Tickman for Examining Opportunities and Barriers to Underrepresented Student Advancement Along the Premedical Track
    • Ingrid Olson (Psychology and Neuroscience) and student Asha Mir-Young for Modes of Spatial Navigation: Comparing Virtual and Real-world Encoding
    • Vinay Parikh (Psychology and Neuroscience) and student Aryan D. Patel for Isolation of Neural-Derived Exosomes from Blood as Biomarkers for Brain Cholinergic Signatures
    • Mónica Ricketts (History) and student Ximena Alatorre Terrazas for Women in the Theater: Actresses, Managers, and Public Speakers (Lima, 1821- 1850)
    • Christina Rosan (Geography and Urban Studies) and student Julianna Roseo for PREACT: Planning for Equity and Resilience Through Accessible Community Technology 
    • David V.  Smith (Psychology and Neuroscience) and student Cooper J. Sharp for The Signal and the Noise: Teasing Apart Cerebellar Responses to Decision-Making Tasks
    • Will Vincent (Psychology and Neuroscience) and student Sirina E. Tiwari for Is Anxiety Associated with Conspiracy Beliefs About HIV and COVID-19 Among People Disproportionately Affected by HIV?
    • Jeffrey T.  Ward (Criminal Justice) and student Sabina Pawlowska-Kawiiso for Consequences of Procedural Justice for Individual Well-being Among Justice-Involved Youth
    • Robert W. Weisberg (Psychology and Neuroscience) and student Marah Dormuth for REMOTE ASSOCIATES AND CREATIVE THINKING
    • Kimberly D. Williams (Anthropology) and student Asher Quentin Riley for Corinth Bioarchaeological Continued Digital Database Development and Analysis
    • Mathieu E. Wimmer (Psychology and Neuroscience) and student Chethan Reddy for Delineating the neural pathways underlying cognitive deficits caused by chronic opioid consumption in male and female Long Evans Rats
    • Steven Windisch (Criminal Justice) and student Rosalee Banks for Nefarious Net-Nazis: Analyzing the Social Function of White Supremacist Humor
    • Matt Wray (Sociology) and student Julia Budlow for Whiteness & Eugenics in American Literature & Thought, 1880-1960
    • Janire Zalbidea (Spanish and Portuguese) and student Levi Weber for Understanding Bilingual Writing Development in College-Level Spanish Classes
    Fall 2022
    • Deborah Drabick (Psychology) and student Georgia Moon for Neuropsychological and peer predictors of Coping Power intervention outcomes
    • Orfeo Fioretos (Political Science) and student Lauren Ross for The United States and the Politics of Multilateralism Since the End of the Cold War
    • Kevin Henry (Geography and Urban Studies) and student Jacob Downey for Socioeconomic Disparities in Female Breast  Cancer Stage at Diagnosis: Revisiting Neighborhood Poverty using Residential Histories     
    • Jeremy Mennis (Geography and Urban Studies) and student Kai Yuen for Digitizing Historical Maps of Chesapeake Bay’s Eastern Shore to Support the Geographic Analysis of the Underground Railroad
    • Vishnu Murty (Psychology) and student Bailey Spangler for Memory fragmentation during threat-drive naturalistic events
    • Nora Newcombe (Psychology ) and student John Erardi for Development of Naturalistic Event Memory
    • Lauren Olsen (Sociology) and student Meghan Gongalla for Curricular Opportunities and Constraints: Reproducing Privilege and Inequality in U.S. Medical Education
    • Ingrid Olson (Psychology) and student Obinnaya Onwukanjo for Event Segmentation and Remembering Natural Events
    • Aunshul Rege (Criminal Justice) and student Parker Naugle for Disinformation, Cyberwar, and Critical Infrastructure Security 
    • Mónica Ricketts (History) and student Ignacio A. Vasconsellos Riva for Hunger and Famines in Bourbon Proyectista Writings
    • David Smith (Psychology) and student Ishika Kohli for Age-Related Differences in Social and Economic Reward Processing
    • Kimberly Williams (Anthropology) and student Asher Quentin Riley for Corinth Bioarchaeological Digital Database Development
    Summer 2022
    • Zain Abdullah (Religion) and student Angelique Vittone for The Nation of Islam and Social Change, 1955-1975     
    • Debra Bangasser (Psychology) and student Rutvik Mehta for Effect of a Low Resource Environment on Social Motivation  
    • Eunice Chen (Psychology) and student Shely Khaikin for Acute Reward and Mood Effects of Ultraprocessed Food  
    • Nyron Crawford (Political Science) and student Jerry Dong for An Experimental Test of  Administrative Burden in Expungement of Criminal Records           
    • Nah Dove (Africology and African American Studies) and student Aissata Sy for Raising the Visibility of African Women Scholars   
    • Barbara Ferman (Political Science) and student  Emma Jensen for Gun Violence in Philadelphia: Youth Perspectives on Origins and Solutions         
    • Kimberly Goyette (Sociology) and students Francisca  Selase and Afantchao Biakou for A Continuation of Longitudinal Research on the Impacts of the Champions of Caring Ambassadors Leadership Program  
    • Elizabeth Gunderson (Psychology) and student Joei Camarote for Improving Preschoolers’ Spatial Skills Through an At-Home Parent-Led Intervention        
    • Victor Gutierrez-Velez (Geography and Urban Studies) and student Chandler Marie McNelis for Land Cover and Ecosystem Change Mapping for Colombia
    • Kevin Henry (Geography and Urban Studies) and student Jenna Pinto for Hispanic and Immigrant Paradoxes in Colon Cancer Outcomes: The role of Neighborhood Poverty, Ethnic Enclaves, and Residential Mobility             
    • Veronica Jacome (Geography and Urban Studies) and student Amy Cunniff for Relationship Building in the Pursuit of Just Transition: The Electrification of Philadelphia      
    • Catherine Maclean (Economics) and student Akash Banerjee for Unintended Consequences of Public Good Investment: Evidence from Professional Sports Stadium Openings and Crime     
    • Laura McGrath (English) and student Abigail Corcelli for Literary Agents and American Literature
    • Nora Newcombe (Psychology) and student Linh Nguyen for Marvelous Moments
    • Hamil Pearsall (Geography and Urban Studies) and student Emma Linneman for Advancing Equitable Urban Forestry by Uncovering Barriers to Participation            
    • Mónica Ricketts (History) and student Ignacio A. Vasconsellos Riva for The Spectacle of Politics: Gender and Race in Lima’s Theater, 1650-1850    
    • Christina Rosan (Geography and Urban Studies) and student Mason Dofflemyer for Reimagining A Sustainable Education to Meet Environmental, Climate, Education, and Community Goals           
    • Damien Stankiewicz (Anthropology) and student Kathryn Dando for French Far-Right Twitter and the 2022 French Presidential Election    
    • Amarat Zaatut (Criminal Justice) and student Jessica Chapman for Scholars’ Perceptions of Qualitative Research and its Utility in Criminology and Criminal Justice: A Comparative Study     
    • Janire Zalbidea (Spanish and Portuguese) and student Molly Clark for Factors Underlying Aptitude for Foreign Language Learning
    Spring 2022
    • Casarae Abdul-Ghani and student Bella Reina (English) for Sonia Sanchez’s Dramatic Exploration of the Japanese Immigrant’s Voice in Dirty Hearts​
    • Abhit Bhandari and student Ariel Breitman (Political Science) for Political Property Rights: Inequality and Growth Under Selective Rule of Law​
    • Lisa Briand and student Roxanne Perez (Neuroscience) Tremble for Effect of Cocaine Reinstatement on Microglial Morphology following Adolescent Social Isolation​
    • Jason Chein and student Grace Pinkstone (Psychology and English) for Passive Versus Active Smartphone Engagement: The Association Between Specific Digital Behaviors and Impulsivity​
    • Eunice Chen and student Kaitlin Amber Zinn (Psychology) for Addiction to ultraprocessed sweet foods: effects on health and behavior
    • Tania Giovannetti, PhD, ABPP-CN and student Giuliana Vallecorsa (Neuroscience) for Association between Self-reported Neurodevelopmental Disabilities and Cognitive Function in Older Adults​
    • Kimberly Goyette and students Francisca Selase (Economics) and Afantchao Biakou (Sociology) for Longitudinal Research on the Impacts of the Champions of Caring Ambassadors Leadership Program​
    • Kevin Henry and student Kelley Simon (Environmental Studies) for Sociodemographic disparities in access to comprehensive stroke centers in Pennsylvania, New Jersey, New York, and Delaware:  Where should we open the next to comprehensive stroke center?  
    • Johanna Jarcho and student Megan Schaal (Neuroscience) for The influence of social contexts on relations between poor social skills, social anxiety, and peer victimization​
    • Artemy M. Kalinovsky and student Veronika Vologina (Economics and Global Studies) for Post-Soviet Modernity and Neoliberal Reform: Electricity and Gas in Contemporary Central Asia ​
    • Philip C. Kendall, PhD, ABPP and student Gillian Dysart (Psychology) for Stigma as a moderator in the relationship between preferred sources of mental health information and actual sources among caregivers​
    • Judith Levine and student Tara Cunniffe (Sociology) for Landing a Job: Moving from College to Employment in the New Economy
    • Laura McGrath and student Nikki Gallant (English) for Book Data​
    • Alan McPherson and student Iuri Piovezan (Global Studies) for The Impact of Iran-Contra on U.S. Democracy​
    • Patricia Melzer and student Bri McCaffrey (Interdisciplinary German Studies and Computer Science) for Accessing and cataloging digital archives for book chapter "Feminist Militants’ Response to Sexism and Sexual Violence in the Autonomen"
    • Thomas Olino and student Melissa Bomberger (Psychology) for Maltreatment, Affiliation, and Depressive Symptoms in Youth​
    • Mark A. Pollack and student Sara Graham (Global Studies) for The Lasting Legacies of the Trump Era in US Foreign Policy​
    • Christina Rosan and student Kevin Wang (Economics with a Minor in Geography and Urban Studies) for PREACT (Planning for Resilience and Equity through Accessible Community Technology)​
    • David V. Smith and student Neriah Kahn (Psychology) for Neural Mechanisms Underlying Social and Economic Reward Processing​
    • Jessica Stanton and student Brianna Kline-Costa-Chavez (Political Science) for Anti-Terrorism Law and Its Consequences for Human Rights in the Middle East and North Africa​
    • E. Rely Vilcica and student Sophia Shaiman (Criminal Justice and Psychology) for Reform to Counteract Mass Incarceration in the Era of Progressive Prosecution: Philadelphia as a Case Study 
    • Steven Windisch and student Courtney Kater (Gender, Sexuality, and Women's Studies) for Killing in the Name of: Cognitive and Emotional Catalysts for White Supremacist Mass-Causality Violence​
    • Janire Zalbidea and student Gabriela H. Ingber (Spanish and Criminal Justice) for Developing Foreign and Heritage Language Writing Skills in College-Level Spanish Classes​
    • Adam Ziegfeld and student Ellen Kamalyan (Political Science) for The Politics of Election Alliances in India​
    Fall 2021

    • Lisa Briand (Psychology) and student Abigail Jurewicz for Influence of Social Isolation During Adolescence on Social reward and Opiate Self-administration

    • Deborah Drabick (Psychology) and student Macy Galante for Prevention of Adolescent Emotional and Behavioral Difficulties Among Low-Income, Urban Youth
    • Petra Goedde (History) and student Noor Abdelkader for International History: A Cultural Approach​
    • Alexandra Guisinger (Political Science) and student Samantha Campbell for Trump Championed the White Working Class Man: Does That Explain the New Partisan Gap in Trade Protection?
    • Chelsea Helion (Psychology) and student Adhya Gowda for Action and Motivation Congruency in Assessing Interpersonal Similarity
    • Judith Levine (Sociology) and student Tara Cunniffe for Landing a Job: Moving from College to Employment in the New Economy
    • Patricia Melzer (French, German, Italian, and Slavic) and student Bri McCaffrey for Accessing and Cataloging Digital Archives for Book Chapter 'Feminist Militants’ Response to Sexism and Sexual Violence in the Autonomen'
    • Vishnu Murty (Psychology) and student Kathryn Lockwood for The Interactive Effects of Emotional Arousal on Time Perception and Memory Utilizing the Social Media Platform Tik Tok
    • Adam Shellhorse (Spanish and Portuguese) and student Matheus Fronza for The Modalities of Affect: Language, Feeling, and Intensity in Latin American Literature and Art (1924-2021)
    • E. Rely Vilcica (Criminal Justice) and student Sophia M. Shaiman for Bail Reform in the Era of Progressive Prosecution: Philadelphia as a Case Study
    • Hongling Xie (Psychology) and student Anna Stewart for TBody Image and Risky Sexual Behaviors among College Students: The Moderating Role of Dating App Use
    • Lu Zhang (Sociology) and student Shane A. Binot for A Comparative Study of Public Responses to COVID-19 in the United States and China: What Role Do Political Leaders, Experts, and Media Play?
    • Adam Ziegfeld (Political Science) and student Ellen Kamalyan for The Politics of Election Alliances in India
    Summer 2021
    • Zain Abdullah (Religion) and student Angelique Vittone (Psychology and Religion) for The Nation of Islam and Social Change, 1955-1975
    • Debra Bangasser (Neuroscience) and student Alexandra Hehn for Effect of a Low Resource Environment on Maternal Motivation and Defensive Behaviors in Rats
    • Lisa Briand (Psychology) and student Brigham Rhoads for Effect of Adolescent Social Isolation and Cocaine Self-Administration on Microglial Morphology
    • Eunice Chen (Psychology) and student Shely Khaikin for Developing Novel fMRI Delivery Systems for Rapidly Dissolving Edible Taste Strips
    • Deborah Drabick (Psychology) and student Aidan Campagnolio for Risk and Resilience for Internalizing and Externalizing Behavior Problems Among Youth Experiencing Adverse Childhood Experiences
    • Tania Giovannetti (Psychology) and student Marina Kaplan for Using Virtual Reality to Assess Everyday Function in Older Adults
    • Travis Glasson (History) and student Maureen Iplenski for Finding the ‘Nobody Men’: Neutrality and Family in the Era of the American Revolution
    • Alexandra Guisinger (Political Science) and student Samuel Hall for Framing Layoffs: Media Coverage, Blame Attribution, and Trade-Related Policy Responses
    • Kevin Henry (Geography and Urban Studies) and student Kelley Alexander Simon for Geographic Disparities in Access to Comprehensive Stroke Centers in Pennsylvania, New Jersey, New York, and Delaware
    • Rebeca Hey-Colón (Spanish and Portuguese) and student Maighdlin Elizabeth Lagonegro-Coar for Channeling Knowledges: Afro-diasporic Waters in Latinx and Caribbean Worlds
    • Kathryn Hirsh-Pasek (Psychology) and student Nicole Toltzis for Multi-communication and Children: The Influence of Technology on Trust and Judgement
    • Johanna Jarcho (Psychology) and student Caroline Kessler for The Effects of Childhood Unpredictability and COVID-Related Sheltering-in-Place on Mental Health
    • Laura McGrath (English) and student Robert Russell Magee for Book Data
    • Laura McGrath (English) and student Nikki Gallant for Book Data
    • Alan McPherson (History) and student Igor Piovezan for The Impact of Iran-Contra on U.S. Democracy
    • Lauren Olsen (Sociology) and student Olivia Quartey for Examining Opportunities and Barriers to Underrepresented Student Advancement Along the Premedical Track
    • Vinay Parikh (Psychology) and student Miranda Targum for AChE Regulation and Individual Differences in Cognitive Aging
    • Moritz Ritter (Economics) and student Zainab Malik for Impact of Child Marriage on Human Capital Outcomes
    • Eileen Ryan (History) and student David Devine for Heroes of Italian Unification and the Abolitionist Movement
    • Thomas F Shipley (Psychology) and student Kalya Brown for Robotics Engineering Design Decisions and the Influence of Disciplinary Expertise
    • David V. Smith (Psychology) and student Scott Blender for Causal Modeling of Corticostriatal Connectivity During Reward Processing
    • Sandra Suarez (Political Science) and student Patricia Almodovar for Amazon Women: Technological Change, Housework, and Privacy in Comparative Perspective
    Spring 2021
    • Zain Abdullah (Religion) and student Angelique Vittone (Psychology and Religion) for The Nation of Islam and Social Change, 1955-1975
    • Debra Bangasser (Neuroscience) and student Alessandro Jean-Louis for Probability Discounting
    • Jason Chein (Psychology) and student Olivia Bishop for Fake News Belief and Sharing Behaviors in Media Savvy Youth
    • Eunice Chen (Psychology) and student Shely Khaikin for Fasting, Hunger and Neural Response to High-fat, High-sweet Food Pictures
    • Nyron N. Crawford (Political Science) and student Tylir Fowler (Political Science and Economics) for Strike from the Record? Exploring Administrative Burdens in Take-up of Criminal Record Clearance
    • Cristina Gragnani (Italian) and student Andrew Raker for I Believed so Many Things. What a Disaster!: Strategies of Reticence and Misdirection in Anna Franchi’s Autobiography
    • Johanna Jarcho (Psychology) and student Catherine Archambault (Neuroscience) for Effects of Temple COVID Policy on the Relations of Race and Health
    • Philip C. Kendall (Psychology) and student Jacob Blank for Intolerance of Uncertainty Moderates the Relationship Between Change in Family Accommodation and Change in Anxiety Symptom Severity in Clinically Anxious Youth
    • Judith Levine (Sociology) and student Danielle Brodsky for Landing a Job: Moving from College to Employment in the New Economy
    • Michael McCloskey (Psychology) and student Kashish Patel (Neuroscience) for The Effect of Cognitive Behavioral Therapy on Self-Harm Among Individuals with Intermittent Explosive Disorder
    • Alan McPherson (History) and student Kathryn Perron (Global Studies and Political Science double major) for The Impact of Iran-Contra on US Democracy
    • Patricia Melzer (Gender, Sexuality and Women's Studies) and student Frida Clark for Feminist Militancy and Gender Performativity in the (West) German Left-radical Political Movement Autonomen
    • Ajima Olaghere (Criminal Justice) and student Makayla Maynard for Legitimacy in Corrections: Perspectives from Incarcerated Individuals
    • Christina Rosan (Geography and Urban Studies) and student Kyle Cruz for This is Our Story, Our Experience, Our Neighborhood, Our Future”: Digital Storytelling, Story Maps, and Machine Learning to Promote Sustainable Urban Infrastructure in Philadelphia
    • Eileen Ryan (History) and student Bahar Ceylan for Race and Racism in Modern Italy
    • Thomas F Shipley (Psychology) and student Gina Calise for COVID-19 Vaccine dDcision Making: The iIfluence of Outcome Framing and Perceptions of Virus Risk on choice Psychology
    • David V. Smith (Psychology) and student Fatima Umar (Neuroscience) for Meta-Analysis of Striatal Connectivity During Reward Processing
    • Howard Spodek (History) and student Matthew Wolf for After the Homeless Encampments: Implementation of Resolutions
    • Tom Waidzunas (Sociology) and student Sid Feinberg for The Sexuality Scanners: A Sociological Study of Scientific Communities Producing the Sexual Brain
    • Kimberly Williams (Anthropology) and student Matthew Walsh for Reconstructing Mortuary Ritual in Early Bronze Age Oman: The Role of Animals and Fire: Manuscript Preparation
    • Mathieu Wimmer (Psychology) and student Priya Doshi for Creating a rat pain scale using high-speed imaging, dimensionality reduction, and machine learning to better understand the neurobiology of pain
    • Hongling Xie (Psychology) and student Emily Yam for Social Media Behaviors and Different forms of Online and Offline Peer Victimization
    • Amarat Zaatut (Criminal Justice) and student Isabel Apothaker for Scholars’ Perceptions of Qualitative Research and its Utility in Criminology and Criminal Justice: A Comparative Study
    • Janire Zalbidea (Spanish) and student Gillian Smyth for Individual Differences in Foreign and Heritage Language Writing
    • Lu Zhang (Sociology) and student Shane A. Binot (Philosophy and Sociology double major) for A Comparative Study of Public Responses to COVID-19 in the United States and China: What Role Do Political Leaders, Experts, and Media Play?
    Fall 2020
    • Rebecca Alpert (Religion) and student Jessica Levine for Jewish Feminists and the UN Decade on Women Oral History Project
    • Tania Giovannetti (Psychology) and student Dhruvi Mehta for Objective Assessment of Cognition and Everyday Function in Older Adults
    • Victor Hugo Gutierrez-Velez (Geography and Urban Studies) and student Evelyn Gorey for Mapping Drivers of Ecosystem Change in a Biodiversity Hotspot in Colombia
    • Andrew Karpinski (Psychology) and student Phiona Tran for Religious Beliefs and Beliefs in Free Will
    • Judith Levine (Sociology) and student Emily Wilson for Landing a Job: Moving from College to Employment in the New Economy
    • Ajima Olaghere (Criminal Justice) and student Makayla Maynard for Legitimacy in Corrections at a Time of Crisis: Perspectives from Incarcerated Individuals
    • Pedro Silos (Economics) and student Samuel Von Mahs for Inferring Risk Aversion from Career Choices
    • David Smith (Psychology) and student Gemma Goldstein for Shared Reward Processing and Substance Use
    • Kimberly Williams (Anthropology) and student Matthew Williams for Reconstructing Mortuary Ritual in Early Bronze Age Oman: The Role of Animals and Fire
    • Janire Zalbidea (Spanish) and student Lytice Gordon for Factors Impacting Foreign Language Reading Comprehension
    Summer 2020
    • Colin Chamberlain (Philosophy) and student Callum for Do Minerals Dream? Margaret Cavendish’s Panpsychism
    • Eunice Chen (Psychology) and student Thomas Kelly for Medical Comorbidity and COVID-19
    • Deborah Drabick (Psychology) and student Faylyn Kalchthaler for Do Working Memory Abilities Moderate the Relation between Community Violence and Peer Processes?
    • Jamie Fader (Criminal Justice) and student Shannon McGorry for Mapping the Landscape of School-Based Interrogations: A Pilot Study
    • Tania Giovannetti (Psychology) and student Matthew Ambrogi for Training Older Adults with Cognitive Impairment to Use Assistive Technologies
    • Kristin Gjesdal (Philosophy) and student Andrea Paleos for Germaine de Staël on Implicit Bias
    • Victor Gutierrez (Geography and Urban Studies) and student Evelyn Gorey for Mapping Forest Loss due to Agricultural Expansion in a Hotspot of Ecosystem Change in Colombia
    • Rebeca Hey-Colón (Spanish) and student Sebastián Rangel for Disastrous Beginnings: Caribbean and Latinx Renditions of Emergence
    • Robin Kolodny (Political Science) and student Daisy Confoy for Campaign Finance Allegations in the 2020 Democratic Presidential Primary: Game Changer or Red Herring?
    • Peter Marshall (Psychology) and student Troy Houser for Leveraging the Construct of Embodiment to Advance Developmental Science
    • Alan McPherson (History) and student Alan David Devine for The Iran-Contra Scandal and Its Impact on US Democracy 
    • Thomas Olino (Psychology and Neuroscience) and student Meghan O'Neil for Interacting influences of socioeconomic status and stressful life events on youth anxiety symptoms
    • Thomas Olino (Psychology and Neuroscience) and student Holly Bruns for Interactive influences of depressive symptoms and stressful life events on youth non-suicidal self-injury
    • Hamil Pearsall (Geography and Urban Studies) and student Madison Tablas for Advancing knowledge on social infrastructure systems for health, equity, and well-being
    • Mark Pollack (Political Science) and student Zeinah Latefa for The Trump Administration as a Change Agent in International Law 
    • Leslie Reeder-Myers (Anthropology) and student Kylie Spinello for Changing Cultural and Sacred Landscapes of the Chumash World
    • Aunshul Rege (Criminal Justice) and student Rachel Bleiman for An exploration of trends in ransomware attacks against municipal government facilities
    • Moritz Ritter (Economics) and student Alison Tintera for Firm Organization and Inequality
    • Eileen Ryan (History) and student Megan McGraw for Black Italy
    • Thomas Shipley (Psychology) and student Daniel McGuigan for Exploring heuristics and biases in engineering design
    • Amarat Zaatut (Criminal Justice) and student Isabel Apothaker for Scholars’ Perceptions of Qualitative Research and its Utility in Criminology and Criminal Justice: A Comparative Study
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