Watch the celebration of the first cohort of Student Researchers and Mentors in the Teacher-Scholar Program! These 38 research teams of 1st and 2nd-year undergraduate students and their research mentors worked on important research questions of our times, including:
- Hoosier Civil Rights History
- Adolescent Anxiety and Depression
- Conquering COVID in the Classroom
And other topics that advanced understanding of:
- the Medieval Princess Ermengarde
- rRNA processing
- porous structures at an atomic level
As a part of the event, Provost Rivera-Mills shared remarks, some Student Researchers shared briefly about their research and some Mentors shared about their experience.
Opening Remarks
Provost Susana Rivera-Mills (Watch Video)
Student Researcher Presentations
Ivan Mota-Sánchez (Watch Video)
Islamic Center of Muncie – Solar Start Project
Mentor: Sherif Attallah
Department of Construction Management and Interior Design
Hollyn Anderson (Watch Video)
Site Characteristics, Food Distribution Strategies and Program Challenges Experienced by School-based Pantries in Indiana, Wisconsin and Ohio
Mentor: Christina Jones
Department of Nutrition and Health Science
Brooke Walter (Watch Video)
Teaching Food in History and the Canterbury Tales
Mentor: Alexander Kaufman
Honors College
Keely Pitts (Watch Video)
Personal Belief Systems, Teaching Practices and Classroom Climate
Mentor: Dane Minnick
Department of Social Work
Jordan Olson
Victimization, Negative Emotions and Substance Use: Examining if Marital Status and Relationship Quality Moderate General Strain Theory Processes
Mentor: Greg Rocheleau
Department of Criminal Justice and Criminology
Katrina Partlow
Designing High-Fidelity Online Learning Modules for Building Leadership Skills and Self-efficacy in JROTC
Mentor: Mathew Stuve
Department of Educational Psychology
Ella Waldspurger
Examining Racial Bias in Police Decision Making
Mentor: Anthony Vito
Criminal Justice and Criminology
Sandy Gonzalez
Educating Future and Current Journalists about Eyewitness misidentification and memory issues.
Mentor: Robin Blom
Department of Journalism
Lauren Szymczak (Watch Video)
Academic Anxiety Resource Center Interventions: Test Anxiety
Mentor: Jerrell Cassady
Department of Educational Psychology
Morgan Moore
Towards the Construction of Metal Organic Frameworks: Predicting the Metal-binding Sites on Tetrazole Ligands
Mentor: Sundeep Rayat
Department of Chemistry
Student Experiences
Ella Waldspurger
Mentor: Anthony Vito
Jill Beck
Mentor: Alan Yen
Closing Remarks
Vice Provost for Research Sue McDowell (Watch Video)