The University of Nebraska-Lincoln has awarded stipends to 325 undergraduates to participate in research with a faculty mentor during the 2016-17 school year. Of those 325, seven are students in the women's and gender studies program.
UNL's Undergraduate Creative Activities and Research Experience (UCARE) Program supports undergraduates to work with faculty mentors in research or creative activities. Undergraduate students receive stipends of $2,400 to engage in intensive research or creative activity for 10 hours per week. The students' projects span across academic disciplines including engineering, chemistry, modern languages and literatures, psychology, art and art history, architecture, special education, and fisheries and wildlife.
- Myrianna T. Bakou, psychology major and triple minor in WGS, communication studies, and English, "Race, Objectification, and Sexual Assault on College Campuses"
- Jessica Carter, history major and WGS minor, "'Curating the Movement': Working with Roz Payne's Digital Sixties Archive"
- Amanda Dale, double major in psychology and WGS and minor in English, "Race, Objectification, and Sexual Assault on College Campuses"
- Rachel Dickerson, double major in anthropology and WGS and minor in Human Rights & Humanitarian Affairs, "MayaCityBuilder: Refining a Ceramic Chronology in Copan, Honduras"
- Emma Finken, double major in sociology and WGS, "The Impact of New Parenthood on Ambivalent Family Relationships"
- Ee Shin Hum, double major in psychology and sociology and minor in WGS, "Gender Differences in Mental Health Outcomes: The Role of Social Support and Self-Salience in Externalizing and Internalizing Symptoms"
- Lori Nevole, double major in English and WGS and minor in digital humanities, "The Willa Cather Archive: The Complete Letters of Willa Cather"
For more about undergraduate research at UNL, click here.
