A Record 17 Students win Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program (UROP) Awards
Psychology students involved with UROP Fall Semester 2016
This fall, a record 17 students, including several at the new University Asia Campus, were awarded UROP assistantships.
- Taylor Adams (Prof. David Sanbonmatsu) – Self-Concept: Change and Perseverance Over Time
- Peyton Bruce (Prof. Sheila Crowell) – Self-Harming and Suicidal Repercussions of Physiological and Biological Influences
- Molly Davis (Prof. Carol Sansone) – Exploring How First-generation College Students Motivate Themselves in Academic Settings
- Karis Han (Prof. Ansuk Jeong) – Factors Related to Stress in College Students
- William Hynes (Prof. Monisha Pasupathi) – Audience Tailoring: Implications for Narrative Identity Formation
- Diane Jeong (Prof. Ansuk Jeong) – Stress Factors of Korean College Students
- Yuna Kang (Prof. Ansuk Jeong) – Self-concept and Well-being of People with Chronic Illness
- Jean Kim (Prof. Ansuk Jeong) – Over-diagnosis for Thyroid Cancer and Satisfaction of Patients in South Korea
- Lily Kim (Prof. Ansuk Jeong) – Menopause Symptom: Breast Conserving Surgery v. Breast Mastectomy
- Mark Lavelle (Prof. Matthew Euler) – EEG Correlates of the Urge to Blink
- Renee Nilssen (Prof. Michael Himle) – Assessment of Personal Relationships, Loneliness and Quality of Life Among Adults with ASD
- Alice Park (Prof. Angelea Panos) – Do Suicide Interventions In Korean Secondary Schools Work?
- Isabel Reback (Prof. Trafton Drew) – Using Eye-Tracking to Evaluate Low Prevalence Computer Aided Detection
- Katie Roth (Prof. Sheila Crowell) – Mother’s Validation and Teen Self-Injurious Behavior
- Jake Ryu (Prof. Ansuk Jeong) – Relationship between Employment Stress, Demographic Factors, and Psychosocial Factors at UAC
- Ashma Shrestha (Prof. Elisabeth Conradt) – A Biobehavioral Approach to Measuring Emotion Dysregulation in Pregnancy
- Mitch Whitfield (Prof. David Strayer) – Using a Detection Response Task to Simultaneously Assess Levels of Visual and Cognitive Load in Simulated Driving
UROP is:
The Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program (UROP)provides undergraduate students and faculty members the opportunity to work together on research or creative projects.
UROP provides assistantships up to $1,200 for students who assist with a faculty member’s research or creative project, or who carry out a project of their own under the supervision of a faculty member. Students may apply for an assistantship any semester, and may be eligible for a one-semester renewal. UROP awardees are hired by the Office of Undergraduate Research and are paid $10/hour for up to 120 hours of work during the semester.