BSOS Emerging Scholars Program Recognizes Four Undergraduate Researchers
6 February, 2012
The College of Behavioral and Social Science (BSOS) Emerging Scholar’s Program would like to highlight four new talented undergraduate students conducting research during the Spring 2012 semester:
BSOS Emerging Scholar Alexandra Jacobsen will be conducting research with Department of Psychology Professors Scott Roberts, Ryan Curtis and Charles Stangor on academic achievement in Psychology. Alex has a paid assistantship where she will be learning how to structure data collections, code open-ended responses and conduct qualitative and quantitative analyses. She will also assist in the methodological design of interventions intended to increase student performance in their coursework and progress through psychology's undergraduate program.
BSOS Emerging Scholar Lindsey A. Zemeir will be working with Psychology Professors Andres De Los Reyes and Lea Dougherty on research on “Using Gene X Environment Interactions to Clinically Identify Adolescents with Social Anxiety Concerns.” This includes research related to improving the quality of adolescent social anxiety assessments. This semester Lindsey will be observing structured clinical interviews of adolescent social anxiety and learning how to collect observational and psychophysiological data taken during laboratory tasks.
BSOS Emerging Scholar Alyssa Snyder is working on the Immigrant Life Course Research Program with Judith Freidenberg from the Department of Anthropology.
Zachary Glennon is working on research on Politicized Criminological Science with Criminology and Criminal Justice Professor Brendan D. Dooley.
Scholars are selected through a competitive application process based on their academic potential and research interests. To be eligible, applicants must have a BSOS major with between 30 and 60 credits (at the start of the semester) and have earned an overall and major GPA of at least 3.5. BSOS will soon be announcing details on the application process for Summer 2012 and Fall 2012 Emerging Scholars positions.
