50 Students Participate in First Annual CSBS Research Day
The interior walls of Orson Spencer Hall were papered with research posters from April 28 through May 9. Fifty students – 31 graduate and 19 undergraduate – participated in this first annual event organized by associate dean for research, Jessie Fan. Three winners were selected from both the graduate and undergraduate submissions. The winners were:
Graduate Students
- First Prize (tie) Yingru Li (Geography): “Health care, mortality and economic transition in China (coauthor/advisor: Dennis Wei).
- First Prize (tie) Christy S. Weeden (Psychology): “The role of GABA-ergic interneurons in CA1 and dentate gyrus for sequence learning” (coauthor/advisor: A.M. Morris, C.A. Rossi, J.M. Roberts, R.P. Kesner)
- Third Prize Felix Haifeng Liao (Geography): “Agglomeration, Spillover and Multi-scale Regional Inequality in Guangdong, China” (coauthor/advisor: Dennis Wei).
Undergraduate Students
- First Prize David Gerritsen (Psychology): “A Bit of Decline in Tracking Performance: An Information Processing Approach” (coauthor/advisor: Adrian Musters, Frank Drews).
- Second Prize Ryan Kirk (Psychology): “Exploring the Effects of Intraperitoneal Injections of Naloxone on Relapse for Methamphetamine Conditioned Cues” (coauthor/advisor: Raymond Kessner).
- Third Prize Leonel Nieto (Sociology): “High Education and Low Hopes: An Exploration of the College Experiences and Post-college Expectations of Undocumented Students in Utah” (coauthor/advisor: Julie Stewart).
Thanks goes out to the students who participated and the many faculty mentors who lent guidance and support. In addition, the college thanks the six faculty members who judged the competition. They are: Henry Harpending (Anthropology); Zhou Yu (Family and Consumer Studies); George Hepner (Geography); Steven Lobell (Political Science); Ray Kesner (Psychology); and Ming Wen (Sociology).