From the Mason Gazette:
Nineteen students were selected for the competitive Undergraduate-Faculty Apprenticeship Program, which matches students with faculty mentors to work on a creative or scholarly project.
The students selected, their projects and mentors are
- Arya Ansari, psychology; “School Readiness: Are Latino Children Better Suited Attending Family Care?”; Adam Winsler, mentor
- Michael Atkins, mathematics; “Phase Field and Atomistic Modeling of Grain Boundaries”; Yuri Mishin, mentor
- Janet Bourne, music; “Exploring Patterns and Similarities in Compositions that Depict Specific Emotions and Scenes”; Rachel Bergman, mentor
- Anna Braum, integrative studies; “Changes in the Distribution of Larval Bluet Damselflies in Response to Tidal Influences in a Freshwater Marsh”; Rebecca Forkner, mentor
- Tiffany Cambridge-Williams, psychology; “University 100: Examining the Effect of a First-Year Program on Student Satisfaction, Motivation, Retention and Graduation Rates”; Anastasia Kitsantas, mentor
- Jessica Chang, psychology; ” Cloning of Thymosin Beta4 Plasmid and Transfection in MRC5 and A549 Cell Lines”; Geraldine Grant, mentor
- Catharine Chavez, psychology; “ The Relative Contributions of Dimensions of Classroom Emotional Support in Predicting Pre-Kindergarten Children’s Developmental Success”; Timothy Curby, mentor
- Lauren-Claire Kelley, English; “Narrative, Queerness and the Mind-Body Split in Sarah Orne Jewett’s ‘Deephaven’”; J. Samaine Lockwood, mentor
- Meghan Clark, computer science; “Justice Is Served: An Experimental Examination of Law Internalized as Personal Morality”; Ricci Heishman, mentor
- Scott Douglass, physics; “Interstellar Trajectories of Extra Solar Meteoroids”; Joseph Weingartner, mentor
- Simone Erchov, psychology; Writing Fellow; Mark Hopson, mentor
- Caroline Gergel, biology; Writing Fellow; Giuseppina Kysar Mattietti, mentor
- Katherine Kane, music; Writing Fellow, Tom Owens, mentor
- Mathieu Kurosawa, neuroscience; “Developing Novel Tools for Gain-of-Function Analyses of Individual Neurons”; Daniel Cox, mentor
- Tarek Lahlou, electrical engineering; “Radio Transmitter Localization for Health Care Applications in Rural Guatemala”; Jill Nelson, mentor
- Dennis Price, physics, “Testing a New Method to Measure the Mass of Black Holes”; Mario Gliozzi, mentor
- Kendra Smyth, integrative studies; “Development of a Testosterone Field Kit for African Elephants”; Elizabeth Freeman, mentor
- Sarah Minerva Venuti, mathematics; “Modeling, Analysis and Computation of Fluid Structure Interaction Models for Biological Systems”; Padmanabhan Seshaiyer, mentor
- Leah Wolfeld, psychology; “Effects of Office Layout on Social Interaction and Productivity in the Workplace”; Seth Kaplan, mentor
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