INSTITUTE FOR POLICY RESEARCH

Megana Audipudy
Class: 2018
Major(s): Industrial Engineering

• Collecting and analyzing data on incarceration reform in Pennsylvania to identify how key legislators and leaders have affected prison

Ryan Broll
Class: 2020
Major(s): Mathematics

Reena Burt
Class: 2020
Major(s): Social Policy and Economics

Alexander Dale
Class: 2019
Major(s): Political Science

• Political partisanship and economic behavior

Elizabeth Diamond
Class: 2019
Major(s): Human Development and Psychological Services

• STEM media use in early childhood

William Fischer
Class: 2019
Major(s): Journalism

• Intergenerational transmission of antisocial behavior in children with previously incarcerated parents

• Effects of cash transfers/income supplements for low-income families on long-term health and educational attainment

Tyler Goff
Class: 2017
Major(s): Economics and Mathematics

•  The perils of pay-for-performance

Dorothy Hogg
Class: 2019
Major(s): Statistics and Geography

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•  Racial profiling and immigrant mobilization 

Luke Jokerst
Class: 2019
Major(s): Biomedical Engineering and Psychology

•  Personality Across Development Lab

 
Seung Ho (Daniel) Jung
Class: 2018
Major(s): Economics, Political Science, and Geography

• I’m Talking to You: How Political Elites Talk About Economic Policy and What They Say

Ahmad Keshk
Class: 2020
Major(s): Political Science

• Passing the Buck: Gridlock in Congress

Joshua Koo
Class: 2019
Major(s): Computer Science

• Creating a database of economic and financial journals and a website to allow users to view, modify, and search that database

Carolina Laguna
Class: 2019
Major(s): Social Policy and Political Science

• Educational policy and the organization of distributed leadership within schools

Seong Won Lee
Class: 2018
Major(s): Statistics

Dr. Larry Hedges

• Meta-Analysis in Replication Studies

Jason Levin
Class: 2020
Major(s): Neuroscience

• Emotion in Couples study

Kenneth Lim
Class: 2020
Major(s): Social Policy and Global Health

• Studying the effects of perceived racial discrimination on biological stress levels

Amy Lin
Class: 2018
Major(s): Biological Sciences

• Working with the Illinois Perinatal Quality Collaborative on supporting quality improvement initiatives for maternal and infant healthcare

Xinyi (Sunny) Liu
Class: 2017
Major(s): Mathematical Methods in the Social Sciences, Economics, Statistics, and Mathematics

• Studying how effectiveness of professional development programs in early education centers differ based on contexts in- and out-of-school contexts

Helen Lu
Class: 2020
Major(s): Learning and Organizational Change

• Intersectionality Literature Review project
• Narrative Reliability project

Claudia Lundgren
Class: 2019
Major(s): 

James Malnati
Class: 2019
Major(s): English and Sociology

• IMPACT project with the Institute for Sexual and Gender Minorities Health and Wellbeing

Gloria Mao
Class: 2019
Major(s): Economics and Mathematical Methods in Social Sciences

• Political communication and candidate promises

• The relationship between economic behavior and partisanship

Sumaia Masoom
Class: 2018
Major(s): Social Policy

• Status Processes in Young Adult Peer Cultures: An In-Depth Examination of Sorority Women’s Recruitment War Stories

Peter Nam
Class: 2019
Major(s): Mathematical Methods in the Social Sciences, Economics, and Computer Science

• Writing R and Stata scripts to compile and visualize time series data on healthcare consumption in the United States

Isabel Olivos
Class: 2018
Major(s): Mathematical Methods in the Social Sciences and Political Science

• Chicago Democracy Project
• Researching sororities' relationships with Title IX offices

Naomi Ostrander
Class: 2018
Major(s): Political Science and International Studies

• Political campaigns on the internet

Isabella Pinerua
Class: 2018
Major(s): Mathematics and Latinx Studies

• COHERE project examining math coherency and instruction from Pre-K to grade 3

Thomas Ritz
Class: 2019
Major(s): Legal Studies and Mathematics

• "After the JD" project combining longitudinal survey data with interview data on the structure and statistics of the American legal profession

Ethan Roubenoff
Class: 2018
Major(s): Sociology and Computer Science

• Developing a database for the Chicago Democracy Project 

Samuel Broughton Russell
Class: 2018
Major(s): Social Policy

• Studying legislative trends relating to mass incarceration in different states

Natalie Sands
Class: 2020
Major(s): 

Hye Yoon Shin
Class: 2019
Major(s): Economics, Mathematics, Statistics

• Building a database of finance and accounting research for a project on the use of shock-based causal inference methods

Rebecca Sinard
Class: 2018
Major(s): Neuroscience and Psychology

• Family Asthma Study
• Mentoring and Health Study

Ryan Stork
Class: 2018
Major(s): Statistics

• Efficacy of political promises
• Pandering in campaign events

Matthew Tobia
Class: 2019
Major(s): Economics

• Recruitment patterns of the Kosovo Liberation Army during the Kosovo War

Andrew Wayne
Class: 2020
Major(s): Social Policy

• ARO Project with the Network for Nonprofit and Social Impact 

Emma Zblewski
Class: 2018
Major(s): Anthropology

• Evaluation, Data Integration, and Technical Assistance (EDIT) team at the Institute for Sexual and Gender Minority Health and Wellbeing