2013 Summer Research Initiative College of Behavioral and Social Sciences
Welcome Reception The Lucille Maurer Library 1126 Taliaferro Hall
Monday June 3, 2013
Message from the Dean of BSOS Welcome to the College of Behavioral and Social Sciences (BSOS) Summer Research Initiative (SRI). This year marks the 14th summer in which our College has hosted this important training experience for undergraduates. The Summer Research Initiative was created in 1999 to provide undergraduates with an opportunity to learn about research and scholarship in the social and behavioral sciences as well as graduate studies, at the University of Maryland College Park (UMCP). The SRI is part of BSOS’s longstanding commitment to increasing the number of underrepresented minorities who pursue graduate degrees in the social and behavioral sciences. This year over 300 students from across the country applied to our program and we are delighted to welcome the 11 students chosen to participate and to introduce them to the University and BSOS community. They come to us from as far away as Washington, California, and Ohio and from as close to us as D.C. Regardless of their home universities, as you can see from their biosketches provided in this booklet, the students selected to participate represent an outstanding group of promising social and behavioral scientists. On behalf of the College, I wish each of the SRI scholars a productive and meaningful summer experience here at Maryland; one that advances their educational and career goals. I would be remiss if I did not take this time to thank the University of Maryland and BSOS community for their unyielding support of this important program. This program is successful because of the contributions of the UMCP Office of the Provost, Office of the Vice President for Research, the Graduate School, each BSOS department and especially because of the leadership and commitment of Assistant Dean, Dr. Kim Nickerson. Finally, I want to thank the faculty who serve as mentors for the SRI scholars. Indeed, without the mentors, hosting a summer research program would be impossible. Please take the time to get to know the faculty mentors as well and thank them for their contribution and commitment to the next generation of scientists and scholars. Sincerely,
John R.G. Townshend Dean and Professor
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12:00 noon – 12:30 p.m.
Luncheon / Informal meet & greet
12:30 p.m. – 1:00 p.m.
Introduction of Students and Mentors Welcome and Greetings from: Dr. Kim J. Nickerson, SRI Director & Assistant Dean College of Behavioral & Social Sciences Dr. Wayne McIntosh, Associate Dean & Professor College of Behavioral & Social Sciences Dr. Robert Steele, Director of Diversity Initiatives The Graduate School Dr. Kumea Shorter-Gooden, Chief Diversity Officer & Associate Vice President The Office of the Senior Vice President and Provost
1:00 p.m. – 1:30p.m. Continue informal meet and greet Adjournment—Scholars depart with mentors
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2013 sri scholars
Sean Anderson
Cristina Arboleda
Mr. Anderson will be mentored by Dr. Yi Ting Huang, an assistant professor in the Department of Hearing & Speech Sciences.
Ms. Arboleda will be mentored by Dr. Irwin Morris, chair of the Department of Government & Politics. Cristina Arboleda is a junior at the State University of New York (SUNY) College at Oneonta in Oneonta, New York. She is majoring in international relations and minoring in French. Cristina plans to pursue a doctoral degree in comparative politics and therefore, she hopes to expand her social science research skills during the SRI to better prepare her for graduate school. Long term, she plans to incorporate diverse scientists into her research initiatives and to research topics relevant to diverse communities. Cristina is interested in comparative politics and social and political thought. She would like to pursue Europe-focused research such as a studying the European Union. When she returns to Oneonta this fall, she will use the knowledge and skills acquired through the Summer Research Initiative in a project focusing on the effects of French immigration on African countries. This project will be a joint research collaboration with a professor at the College of Oneonta.
Sean Anderson is a junior at Baldwin Wallace University in Berea, Ohio, pursuing a double major in neuroscience and psychology, with minors in music and statistics. Sean will pursue a doctoral degree in cognitive neuroscience and seeks research opportunities in auditory perception and cognition. In the fall, he will conduct a thesis in psychology, investigating the electrophysiological correlates to chills experienced in response to music. Sean also works in the Neuroscience Lab at Baldwin Wallace, where he assists in research investigating the pharmacological effects of the anesthetic agent ketamine in developing cortical neurons. Sean is an undergraduate member of the Society for Neuroscience, and has presented at its general meeting and at the Faculty for Undergraduate Neuroscience satellite meeting. He is the vice president of Baldwin Wallace’s Interdisciplinary Neuroscience Society, is a STEM scholar and also is a member of the Psi Chi Honor Society.
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2013 sri scholars
Temi Ariyo
Shonise Flowers
Ms. Ariyo will be mentored by Dr. Jack Blanchard, chair of the Department of Psychology.
Ms. Flowers will be mentored by Dr. Jonathan Beier, an assistant professor in the Department of Psychology.
Temitope Ariyo is a senior majoring in psychology at Morgan State University in Baltimore, Maryland. She was born in Lagos, Nigeria, and grew up in Howard County, MD. She is an honor student and a member of Psi Chi Honor Society. Temi’s interests include providing affordable mental health services for low-income families and encouraging the development of more productive members of society through research in clinical psychology. As an African American female pursuing a doctorate degree in clinical psychology, she intends to diversify the field of psychology and make it more inviting for other African American women who are interested in seeking a higher degree in the behavioral sciences through her own success. Her current research interests include finding nonmedicinal remedies for stress-related mental illnesses, as well as exploring the cognitive processes of decision making.
Shonise D. Flowers is a senior majoring in psychology with a minor in sociology and hails from Milwaukee, Wisconsin. After graduating from Howard University in the fall, she hopes to pursue a doctoral degree in the field of clinical psychology and a career as a behavioral analyst. Shonise’s research interests include analyzing behavioral patterns associated with criminal offenders and the cognitive processes, normal or abnormal, related to those offenses. Shonise is on the Dean’s List of Howard University’s College of Arts & Sciences and is a McNair Scholar. She also is a recipient of the Trustee Scholarship and a member of numerous honor societies, including Psi Chi International Honor Society and Golden Key International Society.
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2013 sri scholars
Jahnieka Griffin
Curtis Hooks
Ms. Griffin will be mentored by Dr. Ronald Luna, the Director of Undergraduate Studies in the Department of Geographical Sciences.
Mr. Hooks will be mentored by Dr. Carl Lejuez, a professor in the Department of Psychology and the director of UMD’s Center for Addictions, Personality, and Emotion Research.
Jahnieka Griffin is a geography major with a minor in Geographic Information Systems at the University of Maryland. Her goal for the SRI is to strengthen her research and analytical skills. She is interested in researching social trends from a geographical perspective; specifically, she is interested in how culture plays a role in community development. Upon graduation, Jahnieka hopes to attend Georgia Institute of Technology and pursue a master’s degree in city and regional planning with specialization in environmental planning and management. Her career aspirations include facilitating sustainable development in rural China and implementing Smart Growth strategies in various countries around the world.
Curtis Hooks is a senior majoring in psychology at Morehouse College in Atlanta. Curtis also is a research assistant in the Family Emotions Experimental Lab: Intergenerational Nurture & Gene Studies in the department of Psychology at Georgia State University. This lab investigates mediators of—or potential explanations for—the associations between parental depression and young adult depression, anxiety, alcohol use and dependence, and interpersonal impairment. His research interests include understanding mechanisms that lead to depression and other mood disorders and developing and/or improving related treatments and interventions. Curtis is a NIMH Career Opportunities in Research Scholar and is a member of Psi Chi National Honor Society. He hopes his participation in the SRI will provide him with additional research experience and professional development that will help him attain a Ph.D. in clinical psychology.
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2013 sri scholars
Paul Martinez
Eduardo Mejia
Mr. Martinez will be mentored by Dr. Rashawn Ray, an assistant professor in the Department of Sociology.
Mr. Mejia will be mentored by Dr. Jean McGloin, an associate professor in the Department of Criminology & Criminal Justice.
Paul Martinez is a senior majoring in sociology at Sonoma State University in Rohnert Park, California. He was born in Los Angeles and raised in San Diego. Paul’s research interests include race/ethnicity, gender, immigration and class issues and their impact on social inequality. His goal is to pursue a doctoral degree to conduct research promoting social equality and to become a sociology professor. With the help of SRI, Paul hopes to gain the training and experience he needs to succeed in graduate school. As a participant in the McNair Scholars Program, Paul has conducted research on a multicultural awareness-training program. His research focuses on helping students increase their awareness by learning about inequalities in society and motivating them to become agents of change.
Eduardo Mejia is a recent graduate of Washington State University in Pullman, Washington. He earned a B.A. in criminal justice with minors in sociology and political science. He will enter the University of Central Florida in the fall to pursue a M.S. in criminology. He ultimately hopes to secure a career in the federal branch of government in an agency such as the FBI, and to to evaluate programs and policies and improve them to limit wrongful convictions or unanticipated consequences. Eduardo’s research interests are in program and public policy evaluation in the criminal justice system. His research on Drug Recognition Experts (DRE): Impaired Driving and the Prescription Drug Abuse Epidemic Challenge is a part of an ongoing partnership between the Washington State University Division of Governmental Studies and Services and Washington State’s DRE program. He received the Student of the Year Award from the College Assistant Migrant Program.
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2013 sri scholars
Mariah Prensa
Elena Ramirez
Ms. Prensa will be mentored by Dr. Virginia Haufler, an associate professor and director of graduate placement with the Department of Government & Politics and the director of UMD’s Global Communities LivingLearning Community.
Ms. Ramirez will be mentored by Dr. Jessica Goldberg, an assistant professor in the Department of Economics. Elena Ramirez is from the Washington, D.C., metropolitan area and is a senior at Salisbury University on Maryland’s Eastern Shore. She is majoring in economics with minors in mathematics and business administration. Elena’s research interests are in the field of international economics. Specifically, she is interested in economic development in developing regions, foreign investments and their effects on host nations, and multinational trade agreements. She also is interested in international issues such as poverty and the effects different international economic policies have on those who are impoverished. Elena has presented at the Salisbury University Student Research Conference and is a Franklin P. Perdue School of Business Scholar. She also is a member of the Beta Gamma Sigma, Pi Gamma Mu and Phi Kappa Phi Honor Societies, and of the Delta Gamma Fraternity. Elena intends to pursue a doctoral degree in economics and she aspires to work with international economic policies in the future.
Mariah Prensa is a New Yorker and a senior at the College at Buffalo, State University of New York. She credits her analytical, philosophical and critical thinking skills to her studies in political science. Mariah’s research interests include civic engagement, political competence of young Americans, globalization, U.S. foreign policy and the politics of developing countries. She has participated in service-learning by serving as a tutor in the EOP academic center for excellence, the public relations chair of the Pan-African Student Organization, and a member of the NAACP at Buffalo State College. Mariah plans to pursue a Ph.D. in political science in order to reach her full academic potential. Her ultimate goals are to become a diplomat, philanthropist and educator.
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2013 sri scholars
Karrie Woodlon Ms. Woodlon will be mentored by Dr. Andrea Chronis-Tuscano, an associate professor in the Department of Psychology. Karrie Emma Woodlon attends Morgan State University in Baltimore, Maryland. She is a junior majoring in psychology and hails from Pikesville, Maryland. Karrie is active in the Psychological Society at Morgan State University, serving as treasurer. Her research interests include the impact of a child’s environment on his or her social, emotional, behavioral and academic success. Karrie participated as a research intern in a study entitled, MidMatch Chess Program. The goal of the study was to investigate the effect of the cognitive abilities of third and fourth graders learning to play chess. After graduating from Morgan State, Karrie plans to earn an M.A. in school counseling and a Ph.D. in counseling. As a school counselor, Karrie would be interested in working with elementary school children and their families in order to successfully contribute to each child’s social and academic success.
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Mentor Biosketches
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MENTOR – “Someone who allows you to see the hope inside yourself.” – Oprah Winfrey Each summer, BSOS faculty give of their time and talents to provide SRI scholars with guidance and with a research experience that will serve them well as they move forward in their educational careers. It is said that a lot of people have gone further than they thought they could because someone else thought they could. This is certainly the case in the SRI as our scholars, with the help of the mentors, produce amazing research projects in a short, 8-week period. The mentors also provide the scholars with insight into securing admission to graduate school and navigating other career paths. We are grateful to have a corps of mentors who are willing to allow their hindsight to become the foresight for the scholars. Here you will find brief biosketches of the 2013 SRI mentors. We would not be successful in this effort without the mentors – they are the heart and soul of the SRI.
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2013 sri mentors Criminology & Criminal Justice
Economics
Dr. Jean McGloin is an associate
Dr. Jessica Goldberg is an as-
professor in the Department of Criminology and Criminal Justice. She received her PhD and MA in criminal justice from Rutgers University and her BA in psychology from Bryn Mawr College. Her research interests focus on peer influence, co-offending, and offending specialization. Dr. McGloin’s primary research focus is on groups and crime, which is reflected in several research programs. She has an ongoing research program focused on peer influence processes. This program has focused on developing new theoretical explanations of peer influence, the role of peer network structure in shaping delinquency, and the extent to which individual characteristics condition peer influence. Dr. McGloin also conducts research on co-offending, including why offenders decide to commit crime with accomplices, under what conditions they will instigate group crime rather than follow others, and how co-offending networks can shape and influence the criminal career. She is also working on a joint research project focusing on social networks and the re-entry process among parolees.
sistant professor of Economics at the University of Maryland and a Non Resident Fellow at the Center for Global Development. Her research focuses on the ways that people in developing countries earn, spend, and save money. She is particularly interested in how financial market imperfections, behavioral factors, or other obstacles to borrowing and saving may distort decisions about working and consuming. Currently, she is working on field experiments about labor supply, time preferences and saving decisions in Malawi, the effect of social pressure on consumption and savings in Malawi and Uganda, and the role of social networks in outreach to treat communicable disease in India. She received her PhD in Economics and Public Policy from the University of Michigan in 2011, and a Master's degree in public affairs from Princeton University in 2005. Dr. Goldberg is the mentor for Elena Ramirez (Salisbury University).
Dr. McGloin is the mentor for Eduardo Mejia (Washington State University).
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2013 sri mentors Geographical Sciences
Government & Politics
Dr. Ronald Luna is the Undergrad-
Dr. Virginia Haufler is a profes-
uate Director and a lecturer for the Department of Geographical Sciences. He has been a lecturer at the University of Maryland for ten years. His research interests include transnationalism, Latin American migration to the United States, Central American communities in the Washington, DC-Metropolitan area, and the creation of cultural spaces by Latinos in the United States. A former McNair Scholar, Dr. Luna received his PhD, MA, and BS in Geography from the University of Maryland. Dr. Luna teaches classes which include an introduction to Human Geography, Latin American Geography, introduction to Geography, and Latin American migration to the United States. Dr. Luna is passionate about improving the social and academic lives of children and students through education.
sor in the Department of Government and Politics, and Director of the Global Communities undergraduate program. She is an associate of the Center for International Development and Conflict Management. She earned her PhD from Cornell in 1991. Her research and publications focus on the governance of global corporations through standard-setting, transnational business regulation, and corporate social responsibility. She is currently working on a book examining the creation of a new institutions addressing the role of business in conflict and conflict prevention. Dr. Haufler has been a visiting scholar at the University of California, Irvine; a visiting nonresident fellow at the Center on Public Diplomacy at the University of Southern California; and a senior associate at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. She is an advisor to the Peace Research Institute Frankfurt (PRIF), the OEF Foundation, the Principles for Responsible Investment, and Women in International Security (WIIS).
Dr. Luna is the mentor for Jahnieka Griffin (University of Maryland, College Park).
Dr. Haufler is the mentor for Mariah Prensa (State University of New York, Buffalo State College).
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2013 sri mentors Government & Politics
Hearing & Speech Sciences
Dr. Yi Ting Huang is an assistant
Dr. Irwin Morris has been a faculty
professor in the Department of Hearing and Speech Sciences. She received her PhD in Developmental Psychology at Harvard University and trained as a post-doctoral fellow in Cognitive Psychology at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Dr. Huang’s research focuses on how young language learners acquire the ability to coordinate linguistic representations during real-time comprehension. She explores this question by using eye-tracking methods to examine how the moment-to-moment changes that occur during processing influence the year-to-year changes that emerge during development. She has applied this approach to examine a variety of topics including word recognition, application of grammatical knowledge, and the generation of pragmatic inferences. Other interests include the relationship between language and concepts, language comprehension and production, and language development and literacy.
member at Maryland since 1998, he was the Director of Graduate Studies in the Department of Government and Politics for a decade before becoming the department chair last year. His research focuses on a variety of topics in the fields of American politics, political economy, and public policymaking. Though his earlier work tended to focus on either racial/ethnic dynamics (articles on public attitudes on immigration issues) or economic dynamics (a book and articles on monetary policymaking and a book on the role of campaign contributions in the Clinton impeachment), a much of his recent work (primarily on legislative politics and party development in the South) focuses on the intersection of race and class. Dr. Morris’ recent publications include an article explaining membership in the Tea Party Caucus in the House of Representatives and a book entitled The Rational Southerner: Black Mobilization, Republican Growth, and the Partisan Transformation of the American South (Oxford University Press, 2012). He is proud to say that both publications were co-authored with former graduate students.
Dr. Huang is the mentor for Sean Anderson (Baldwin Wallace University).
Dr. Morris is the mentor for Cristina Arboleda (State University of New York, College at Oneonta ).
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2013 sri mentors Psychology
Psychology
Dr. Jack Blanchard is a profes-
Dr. Jonathan Beier is an assis-
sor and Chair of the Department of Psychology. Dr. Blanchard conducts research examining the psychopathology of schizophrenia and schizotypy. This research involves understanding the emotional, social, and neurocognitive changes associated with these disorders. Much of his research has focused on understanding how emotion is altered in schizophrenia and how individual differences in affective traits are related to other aspects of the disorder including social dysfunction, stress reactivity, and cognitive impairment. Related to this work on emotion, Dr. Blanchard’s lab has sought to understand how decreased hedonic capacity might serve as an indicator of the genetic liability for schizophrenia. Another focus of his lab is the development of new assessment approaches for the measurement of negative symptoms in schizophrenia.
tant professor in the Department of Psychology at the University of Maryland. He received his Ph.D. in Developmental Psychology from Harvard University and completed his postdoctoral work in the Department of Developmental and Comparative Psychology at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology. His research investigates the development of social cognition, through studies with infants, toddlers, and young children. In particular, his work focuses on early reasoning about intentional agency, social interactions, communication, and social relationships. In complement with research investigating how children understand their social world, he also examines how this understanding combines with different social concerns to motivate children’s own social behaviors. He employs a variety of behavioral methods in this pursuit, from looking time and eye-tracking methodologies to measures of children’s active helping and communicative behaviors.
Dr. Blanchard is the mentor for Temi Ariyo (Morgan State University).
Dr. Beier is the mentor for Shonise Flowers (Howard University).
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2013 sri mentors Psychology
Psychology
Dr. Andrea ChronisTuscano received her PhD in Clinical
Dr. Carl Lejuez is the Associate Dean for Research in the College of Behavioral and Social Sciences, the founder and Director of the Center for Addictions, Personality, and Emotion Research (CAPER), and a professor in the Psychology Department. Dr. Lejuez’s current clinical and research interests focus on the development of ecologically valid laboratory analogues of addiction and their use to better understand the active ingredients of treatment (i.e., translational research). His most recent projects involve (1) the creation and validation of a behavioral task to predict adolescent risk-taking behaviors; (2) the examination of factors underlying addictions treatment failure; (3) the development of novel treatments of co-morbid depression and anxiety among substance users with behavioral activation strategies; (4) factors underlying drug choice differences among inner-city substance users; and (5) mechanisms underlying AXIS II Personality Disorders (primarily Borderline PD and Antisocial PD), with a focus on inner-city substance using samples.
Psychology from the State University of New York at Buffalo and completed her clinical internship at the University of Chicago. She joined the UMCP faculty in 2002, and directs the Maryland Attention Deficit/ Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) Program in the Clinical Psychology Program. Her research focuses on understanding early predictors of developmental outcomes for children with ADHD and developing novel treatments which target these early risk and protective factors. Much of this research has addressed issues related to maternal parenting and psychopathology (namely, maternal depression and ADHD). She is the associate editor of the Journal of Clinical Child & Adolescent Psychology; on the APA Division 12 Presidential Task Force on Enhancing Graduate Training in Evidence-Based Practice in Psychology; and serves the Scientific Advisor to the NIMH Outreach Partnership with the State of Maryland. She is the recipient of multiple NIH grants and has served on the NIMH Interventions Committee for Children and their Families.
Dr. Lejuez is the mentor for Curtis Hooks (Morehouse College).
Dr. Chronis-Tuscano is the mentor for Karrie Woodlon (Morgan State University).
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2013 sri mentors Sociology
Dr. Rashawn Ray is an assistant professor in the Sociology Department. Dr. Ray’s work addresses three key areas: the determinants and consequences of selfevaluated social class, men’s treatment of women, and how racial stratification structures social life. He is currently examining how racially mixed and segregated communities influence physical activity levels across racial/ethnic groups and contribute to healthy lifestyles and obesity rates. He received his PhD from Indiana University in 2010. Dr. Ray is the editor of the recently published Race and Ethnic Relations in the Twenty-First Century: History, Theory, Institutions, and Policy. The book examines the major theoretical and empirical approaches regarding race/ethnicity. Its goal is to continue to place race and ethnic relations in a contemporary, intersectional, and cross-comparative context and progress the discipline to include groups past the Black/White dichotomy. Dr. Ray is the mentor for Paul Martinez (Sonoma State University).
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SRI Administration
Ms. Amanda Allen is an administrative assistant in the BSOS Dean’s Office and works as the logistics coordinator for the Summer Research Initiative.
Dr. Kim Nickerson is the Director of the Summer Research Initiative and is responsible for the overall mission, coordination, and operation of the program. Dr. Nickerson received his doctoral degree in clinical psychology from the University of North Texas in 1992. His research has focused on race, ethnic, and cultural factors related to health disparities and mental health services for ethnic minorities. His research interests also include ethical, legal and social implications (ELSI) of genomics – especially as they relate to ethnic minority communities. Dr. Nickerson has more than 15 years of experience consulting with universities and federal agencies regarding diversity and increasing the participation of underrepresented ethnic minorities in science.
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Acknowledgements
Support for this program is provided by the College of Behavioral and Social Sciences Dean’s Office and Departments , the Office of the Provost, the Graduate School, and the Office of the Vice President for Research at the University of Maryland - College Park.
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2009 SRI SCHOLARS AND MENTORS
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2010 SRI SCHOLARS AND MENTORS
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2011 SRI SCHOLARS AND MENTORS
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2012 SRI SCHOLARS AND MENTORS
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