8 CEHS undergraduate students receive stipends for summer research projects

15 Jun 2021    

The University of Nebraska–Lincoln has awarded stipends to eight undergraduate students in the College of Education and Human Sciences to participate in research with a faculty mentor this summer.

Nebraska’s Undergraduate Creative Activities and Research Experience (UCARE) Program supports undergraduates to work with faculty mentors in research or creative activities. Students receive stipends of $2,400 to engage in intensive research or creative activity for 20 hours per week.

The students’ projects span the academic disciplines of secondary English (7-12), speech-language pathology, and nutrition and health sciences. 

The students also will have opportunities to participate in the Big Ten Academic Alliance’s Graduate Education Discovery Program. In August, students from the Nebraska Summer Research Program and UCARE will present posters on their research and creative activities at a virtual campus research symposium. For more about undergraduate research at Nebraska, click here.

Following is a list of CEHS students by hometown who received summer UCARE awards, with their year in school, academic major(s) and project title.

Aurora:

• Emily Rose Donnell, senior, secondary English (7-12), “Paraeducator-to-Teacher Partnership Program Designed to Address Educator Workforce Demands in a Large Urban School District.”

Gering:

• MaKenna Rose Dahlgrin, senior, speech-language pathology, “Exploring the Psychosocial Factors Related to Stuttering.”

Lincoln

• Carly Kathleen Johnson, senior, speech-language pathology, “Exploring the Psychosocial Factors Related to Stuttering.”
• Amy Renee Reisher, junior, speech-language pathology, “Cortisol and Salivary Alpha-Amylase as Indicators of Stress Reactivity in Preschoolers.”

Oakland:

• Jared Richard Milton Mulder, junior, nutrition and health sciences, “A Second Trial: Past Convictions and the Collapse of Compassion.”

Papillion:

• Angela Huebert, senior, speech-language pathology, “Effects of Hearing Aid Amplification on the Ability of Individuals with Hearing Loss to Perceive Spectral Information.”

Madison, Indiana:

• Madeline Elizabeth Holland, senior, biochemistry, and nutrition and health sciences, “EAT Family Style Adaptations to the Childcare Home Setting.”

Kansas City, Missouri:

• Olivia Renee Book, senior, speech-language pathology, “Exploring the Psychosocial Factors Related to Stuttering.”