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Spring 2012 Research Matchmaker

Want to get involved in a research lab in psychology?
Interested in volunteering, or earning PSCH 396 or Honors Activity credit? 

Come to Matchmaker to hear about some of the labs looking for Undergraduate RAs for Spring 2012!

When: 5pm on Friday, January 13th
Where: BSB 145
Who: Anyone who is interested!

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      The Effects of Child- and Family-focused Cognitive Behavioral Therapy

Presenter: Jacquelyn Doxie

Division: Psychiatry/Pediatric Mood Disorders Clinic

Faculty Sponsor: Amy West

Contact: Jacquelyn Doxie - jdoxie@psych.uic.edu

Phone: 312-996-9438

Website: http://www.psych.uic.edu/brain-center/piramd.html

URE Profile: https://tigger.uic.edu/htbin/codewrap-auth/bin/orgs/ura/cgi-bin/browse_col.php?prof=jldoxie

 

     Science Learning through Instruction and Visualization

Presenter: Allison Jaeger and Andrew Taylor

Division: Cognitive

Faculty Sponsor: Jennifer Wiley

Contact: Allison Jaeger - ajaege1@uic.edu

Websites: http://tigger.uic.edu/~jwiley/eyelab.html; http://sites.google.com/site/allisonjjaeger/

 

     Cognitive Processing in Spanish-English Bilingual

Presenter: Joanna Bovee

Division: Cognitive

Faculty Sponsor: Gary Raney

Contact: Joanna Bovee - jbovee2@uic.edu

 

     Targeted LGBT Smoking Cessating Project

Presenter: Kyle Jones

Division: Clinical/Department of Nursing

Faculty Sponsor: Alicia Matthews

Contact: Kyle Jones - kjones42@uic.edu, Alicia Matthews - aliciak@uic.edu

 

     Emotional Processing and Physiology

Presenter: Casey Sarapas

Division: Clinical

Faculty Sponsor: Stewart Shankman

Contact: Casey Sarapas - csarap2@uic.edu

 

     Cognitive Demands in Curriculum-Embedded Assessments: Influences on Children’s Mathematical Reasoning

Presenter: Frances Amurao

Division: Cognitive

Faculty Sponsor: Jim Pellegrino

Contact: Frances Amurao - frances.amurao@gmail.com

Website: http://www.lsri.uic.edu/projects/projectInfo.asp?ID=33

 

    Cognitive Evaluation of Children’s Performance in Large Scale Mathematics Assessments

Presenter: Frances Amurao

Division: Cognitive

Faculty Sponsor: Jim Pellegrino

Contact: Frances Amurao - frances.amurao@gmail.com

Website: http://www.lsri.uic.edu/projects/projectInfo.asp?ID=33


    Volunteer Retention: An Organizational Perspective

Presenter: Lindsay Bynum

Division: Community & Prevention

Faculty Sponsor: Ed Trickett

Contact: Lindsay Bynum - lbynum2@uic.edu

Phone: 443-414-7847

 

    Understanding and Interpretation of Literary Texts

Presenter: Katie McCarthy & Candice Burkett

Division: Cognitive

Faculty Sponsor: Susan Goldman

Contact: Katie McCarthy - kmccart5@uic.edu

 

   Interpreting Graphs of Kinematic Functions

Presenter: Reality S. Canty

Division: Cognitive

Faculty Sponsor: Susan Goldman

Contact: Reality Canty - rcanty1@uic.edu

 

   The Effect of Moral Interactions on Executive Functioning

Presenter: Brittany Hanson

Division: Social

Faculty Sponsor: Linda Skitka

Contact: Brittany Hanson - bhanso5@uic.edu

 

   Domestic Violence and Substance Abuse in Chicago

Presenter: Rannveig Sigurvinsdottir

Division: Community & Prevention

Faculty Sponsor: Stephanie Riger

Contact: Stephanie Riger - sriger@uic.edu

Phone: 312-413-2300

 

  In Touch Crisis Hotline Para-Professional Program

Presenter: Angelique Bodine

Division: Psychology

Faculty Sponsor: Christiane Blanco-Oilar

Contact: Christiane Blanco-Oilar - cblancov@uic.edu

 

   Race, Social Perception and the Physical Context

Presenter: Courtney Bonam

Division: Social/Personality

Faculty Sponsor: Courtney Bonam

Contact: Courtney Bonam - cbonam@uic.edu

 

  Perception of Events

Division: Clinical

Faculty Sponsor: Evelyn Behar

Contact: Michelle Goldwin - mgoldw2@uic.edu

   
         How Social Context affects STEM (Scence, Technology, Engineering, and Math)                            Performance

Presenter: Lara Mercurio

Division: Social/Personality

Faculty Sponsor: Mary Murphy

Contact: Mary Murphy - mcmpsych@uic.edu

                                Website: http://tigger.uic.edu/~mcmpsych/Home.htm 

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Researchers: If you are looking for new RAs and are interested in presenting at Matchmaker, please send the following information to Ben Storm (bstorm@uic.edu).  We will begin scheduling the event during the first week of January.

1. Title of Research Project
2. Name of Person Presenting at Matchmaker
3. Department/Division
4. Faculty Sponsor
5. Contact Information (email, phone, website)
6. Link to URE Profile (if available)

The information you provide will also be posted on the Psi Chi website.

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Only a small portion of UIC's research labs present at Matchmaker each semester.  For additional research opportunities see UIC's Undergraduate Research Experience website at: 

http://www.ure.uic.edu/

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