The Office of Student Research at IUPUC will have its 12th annual Student Research Exhibition on Tuesday from 2:30 to 4 p.m. in the student commons at the Columbus Learning Center. The exhibition brings together the work of 16 students and eight faculty mentors to showcase 10 research projects selected for the academic year.
Each student-faculty team receives up to a $1,000 grant from the Office of Student Research to fund their project. To earn a grant, students submitted detailed project proposals, passed a rigorous vetting process by a review committee, and then completed their projects with direction and guidance from a faculty mentor.
“These innovative research projects have important impacts on various target populations and communities. Completing the work has been an excellent opportunity for students to integrate their academic knowledge with professional research,” explained IUPUI Chancellor’s Professor of English Julie Goodspeed-Chadwick, who has been leading the Office of Student Research since its inception. “Intensive research adds to the overall academic experience for our students and elevates the quality of learning throughout the region.”
The exhibition is free and open to the public.
Descriptions of the funded projects, along with the names of the student researchers, their hometowns, and the faculty mentors are:
Project 1: Personality Characteristics and Lie Detection — Introverts vs. Extroverts
Description: This online survey research was created to determine whether personality characteristics impact one’s ability to detect when others are lying.
Student: Bryor Brown, Franklin
Faculty mentor: Kimdy Le, Ph.D.
Also: This project was presented at the 2021 Indiana University Undergraduate Research Conference.
Project 2: Sylvia Plath in the 21st Century Undergraduate Classroom
Description: This project looks at the relevancy in studying Sylvia Plath in the 21st century literary studies classroom.
Students: Olivia Brown and Sarah Kendall, Columbus, Margaret Carson, Elizabethtown, and Christian Litsey, Seymour
Faculty mentor: Julie Goodspeed-Chadwick, Ph.D.
Project 3: Risk Factors and Treatment of Substance Use Disorders
Description: The purpose of this study is to assess the likelihood of developing a substance use disorder (SUD) based on family dynamics and sibling order.
Students: Kelsie Bullard, Shelbyville, and Anna Weedling, New Whiteland
Faculty mentor: Elizabeth daSilva, Ph.D.
Project 4: Studying the Performance and Compatibility at the Boundary Interfaces of Multi-Material Composites Fabricated by Additive Manufacturing
Description: For this project, tensile test specimen were created using additive manufacturing with two or three materials.
Student: Joseph Focke, Columbus
Faculty mentor: Mohammed Noor-A-Alam, Ph.D.
Project 5: Intelligence and Visual Perceptual Skills
Description: The purpose of this study is to investigate if the source of effort praise feedback effects the development of growth mindset beliefs and to find support for peers as an effective source of influence in mindset development.
Student: Brittany Gholsten, Nashville
Faculty mentor: Kimdy Le, Ph.D.
Also: This project was presented at the 2021 Indiana University Undergraduate Research Conference.
Project 6: Understanding the Impact of Public Discourse on Teacher Autonomy in Rural Schools
Description: As someone who has worked as a teacher’s aide in an elementary setting for several years, I have noticed the lack of inclusivity of diverse experiences among popular curriculums created and disseminated by large publishing companies.
Student: Daymon “D.J.” Higdon, Shelbyville
Faculty mentor: A’ame Joslin, Ph.D.
Project 7: My Story: Corporate Scandal Survey
Description: Understanding the effects that scandals have on business success and the relationship between the business and the customer is an important part of being an educated businessperson and consumer.
Student: Lauren Pauley, Brownstown
Faculty mentor: Jon Padfield, Ph.D.
Project 8: Design of a Driver Gear System for Incessant Feeding of Fiber in Additive Manufacturing of Continuous Fiber Reinforced Composites
Description: The goal of this project is to design a driver gear system for a 3D printer that will allow for continuous fiber composite printing.
Student: Andrew Philip Glen McGinnis, Brownstown
Faculty mentor: Mohammed Noor-A-Alam, Ph.D.
Project 9: What Are You Going To Do With That Degree: Alternative Prompts for English Capstone Reflection
Description: This project is a metacognitive reflection on the idea of what the English Capstone means: by drawing on student experiences in the English program.
Students: Dalton Ferguson, Commiskey, Christian Litsey, Seymour, Ethan Montgomery, Freetown, Cynthia Scott, Columbus
Faculty mentor: Katherine Wills, Ph.D.
Project 10: My Story: Identity Dilution in Rural Indiana
Description: This research centers on tensions that exist between my interaction with the communities/peoples in rural Indiana, the institutions that shape me (e.g., university life), my employment, family roles, and alliances that form within these systems. It is a realization of an assimilation of self and what that means and how others, especially white (Euro-centered) individuals, interact with me. This auto ethnographical research will be a study of the culture of my own group, of me, the way of life of people like me, my family, and my current cultural experiences in this present community of rural Indiana.
Student: Priscilla Villarreal, Columbus
Faculty mentor: Lawrence Ruich, Ph.D.
