INSTITUTE FOR POLICY RESEARCH

• Comparing the performance of Medicaid Managed Care health plans by evaluating health outcomes, spending, and plan utilization among low-income populations in South Carolina

•  Developing and assessing methods for generating, synthesizing and translating cluster-randomized trial in educational interventions

Flannery Cusick
Class: 2021
Major(s): Art History and Political Science

• Evaluating the effectiveness of specific forces within the Civil Rights Movement of the 1960’s against the modern-day status of the towns these forces visited 

Cate Durudogan
Class: 2022
Major(s): Social Policy and Gender and Sexuality Studies

• Studying the social networks of LGBTQIA+ older adults in senior living 

Daniela Garcia
Class: 2021
Major(s): 

Bidemi Godo
Class: 2020
Major(s): Psychology

•  Researching the intergenerational continuity/discontinuity of anti-social behavior problems with the goal of identifying protective parenting behaviors among parents who were incarcerated when they were adolescents 

Siobhan Ihenacho
Class: 2021
Major(s): Psychology

• Focusing on research examining intergroup relations and social cognition

Sally Kim
Class: 2022
Major(s): Economics and Statistics

• NU Two-Generation Research Initiative

Alana Kosches
Class: 2022
Major(s): 

Yize Li
Class: 2020
Major(s): Material Science and Engineering

David McCuskey
Class: 2020
Major(s): Global Health and Social Policy

Mary Okematti
Class: 2021
Major(s): Cognitive Science

• Studying brain activity in infants when they hear communicative tones, noncommunicative tones, lemur screeches, and infant-directed speech
• Researching eye movements in infants when they receive new stimuli in various forms

Daniel Ross
Class: 2021
Major(s): Mathematical Methods and Economics

Dr. Terri Sabol

• Researching how school ground quality and neighborhood contexts, such as crime and segregation, influence child outcomes

• Tracking economic development on tribal reservations over time, examining constitutions of tribal nations for membership laws, and comparing constitutions of tribal nations

Leo Sainati
Class: 2021
Major(s): Social Policy and International Studies

• The COHERE project: Studying coherence in math instruction from Pre-K to second grade across two school districts through pedagogy, district-wide policy, and teacher communities 

Natalie Sands
Class: 2020
Major(s): 

Wesley Shirola
Class: 2021
Major(s): Psychology

• Investigating the relationship between chronic stress and low-grade inflammation and the potential impact that that may have on the neural circuitry involved in threat and reward-related behavior

Ahmadu Simpson
Class: 2021
Major(s): Psychology

• Tracking the physical and psychological benefits of being in a mentor/mentee relationship 

•  Examining patterns of language use and visual attention in individuals with autism and their first-degree relatives

Caroline Werner
Class: 2020
Major(s): Social Policy and Political Science

•  NU Two-Generation Research Initiative