McNair-Ballotti Undergraduate Research Symposium (MBURS)
This year’s McNair-Ballotti Undergraduate Research Symposium will be held Friday April 21, 2023 in the Programming Space on the 9th floor of 73 Tremont.
Schedule of Events
Breakfast & Welcome | 8:30 a.m. | |
Session 1 | 8:40 a.m. | Angela El-Jazzar, Nicole Kingdon, Lindsay Dieudonne, Lella Woolery |
Session 2 | 10:30 a.m. | Janice Perez-Gomez, Sarah Anne Lawton, Abigail Verfuerth, Mari Ortega |
Lunch | 12:00 p.m. | |
Session 3 | 1:00 p.m. | Chaimaa Mansour Hossaini, Olivia Sears, Cassandra Bertsch, Andrea Muszka |
Session 4 & Closing Ceremony | 3:00 p.m. | Monica Prudencio, Naylene Rivera, Marcela Melendez Escobar, Johensky Etienne Celestin, Jamie Bondar, Jarvis Chen |
Presentations
Dr. Jarvis Chen, CAAO
& Jamie P. Bondar, CLAS
Cassandra Bertsch
Ballotti Scholar
“Breaking Down a Scientific Paper.”
Research Mentor: Jamie Bondar
Johensky Etienne Celestin
McNair Scholar
“Understanding the Perception of Mental Health Within the Haitian Community”
Research Mentor: Jessica LoPresti
Lindsay S. Dieudonne
McNair Scholar
“Food for Thought: Assessing Accessibility: Using WIC and SNAP Enrollment Data and Accessibility Measures For Program Recommendations”
Research Mentor: Jarvis Chen
Angela El-Jazzar
McNair Scholar
“Administrative Impact on the U.S. Refugee System: A study on the 21st century need for restructure”
Research Mentor: Katherine Horn
Chaimaa Mansour Hossaini
Ballotti Scholar
“Assessment of ADHD Accommodations in Schools and How We Can Improve Them”
Research Mentors: Jamie Bondar & Andrew Cioffi
Nicole Kingdon
McNair Scholar
“Low-Income Caregivers with Young Children Experience Risk and Resilience Through Pandemic-Related Stressors”
Research Mentors: RoseMarie DiBiase and Molly DuBuc
Sarah Anne Lawton
McNair Scholar
“An Examination into Critical Race Theory in K-12 History Curriculum”
Research Mentor: Jarvis Chen
Marcela Melendez Escobar
McNair Scholar
“The Cellular Localization of a Bacterial Protein Required for Symbiosis”
Research Mentor: Vincent J Starai
Microbiology Department, University of Georgia in Athens
Andrea Muszka
McNair Scholar
“Psychedelics and Psychotherapy as Vehicle for Altered States of Consciousness and Metacognition in Treating Treatment-Resistant Psychiatric Disorders”
Research Mentor: David Gansler
Mari Ortega
Ballotti Scholar
“Design-Centered Learning”
Research Mentor: Jamie Bondar
Janice Perez-Gomez
McNair Scholar
“Social Media Usage during COVID: An Exploratory Study of Well-Being and Interconnectedness”
Research Mentor: Elizabeth J Wilson
Monica Prudencio
McNair Scholar
“Racial Mental Health Disparities in the U.S.”
Research Mentor: Sukanya Ray
Naylene Rivera
McNair Scholar
“The Effects of Emotions and Dreams: A Sleep Study of Primed Emotions and Dream Response Using Content Analysis and Participant Surveys”
Research Mentor: Jarvis Chen
Olivia Sears
Ballotti Scholar
“Enhancing Student Learning and Application of R Programming Language for Biology and Environmental Science Through the Creation of a Reference Guide”
Research Mentor: Jamie Bondar & Eric Dewar
Abigail Verfuerth
Ballotti Scholar
“Tutoring as A Tool for Marginalized Student Degree Persistence”
Research Mentor: Jamie Bondar
Lella Woolery
McNair Scholar
“Understanding Juvenile Offenders Issues of Behavior-A Multidisciplinary Perspective”
Research Mentor: Sukanya Ray