URSCI Undergraduate Summer Scholar Program
The Undergraduate Summer Scholar Program offers Dominican’s highest level of undergraduate research funding support. URSCI Summer Scholars receive a stipend of $3000 and a tuition waiver for three academic credits of undergraduate research (e.g., PSYC 495). The duration of the program is 8 weeks. Any Dominican undergraduate student in good standing who has completed their sophomore or junior year can apply to be a Summer Scholar. Sponsoring faculty members must be full-time members of the undergraduate or graduate faculty at Dominican University. Mentors receive a $500 stipend for their oversight of the student's project.
Scholar selection is based on the student’s academic merit and the quality of the proposed scholarly project. Scholarship recipients are required to present their independent scholarly and creative work at the annual SI (Scholarship & Ideas) Expo the following April.
More information can be found on Canvas. Self-enroll in the Canvas course to learn more.
Angela Borek (Mentors: Khalid Razaki, Anne Drougas, Accounting)
Sustainability: Financial Accounting, Cost, and Cost Management Aspects
Bianca Leon (Mentor: Patrick Homan, Political Science)
Italian Democracy in Jeopardy? Giorgia Meloni and her relationship with neo-fascist organizations
Callum Moran (Mentor: Frank Spidale, Graphic Design/Art)
Explorative Self-Portraits
Cesia Villatoro (Mentor: Tracy Caldwell, Psychology)
How Do People Understand the Value of “Retail Therapy”?
Kaya Paluch (Mentor: Tracy Caldwell, Psychology)
Sexist Video Games Predict Benevolent Sexism (But Not Hostile Sexism): A Replication Study
Kevin Moore (Mentor: Sophia Duffy, Psychology)
Experiences of Trauma and Structures of Meaning
Nina M. Blaise (Mentor: Persis Driver, Psychology)
An Interpretive Phenomenological Analysis of STEM Peer Led Team Leaders’ Perceived Roles
Cali J. Carlson (Mentor: TJ Krafnick, Psychology)
The Subclinical Effects of the Covid-19 Pandemic on Women in Mid-Adulthood
Irving Castaneda (Mentor: McKinley Johnson, Fashion)
Minority Style: A Fashion Exploration of the Design Contributions Made by Men of Color to Menswear
Corey Lang (Mentor: Tracy Caldwell, Psychology)
The Effects of Educational Videos on Attitudes Toward Autism
Natalia Prato (Mentor: Tina Taylor-Ritzler, Psychology)
The Effect of Sense of Community on Academic Outcomes of Transfer Students: A Replication and Extension of Townley et al. (2013)
Corinne E. Roemer (Mentor: Amartya Chakrabarti, Chemistry)
Synthesis of ZnS Quantum Dots as an Environmentally Benign Experiment
Prayer Childress (Mentor: Professor Tracy Caldwell, Psychology)
The Dispersion of Undergraduate Teaching Opportunities for Minority Students and Women: A Literature Review
Elise Ndoe Gouag (Mentor: Sophia Duffy, Psychology)
Childhood Trauma and Antisocial Behavior and Trauma: A Meta-Analysis
Lance Grunert (Mentor: Persis Driver, Psychology)
Applying the Self-Determination Theory to Enhance the Impact of Undergraduate Teaching Assistants on Students' Motivation and Achievement
Jamie Pena (Mentor: Zomary Flores Cruz, Biological Sciences)
Identifying the role of oxyR in Vibrio fischeri
Chelsea Zhao (Mentor: Yuanqing Li, Accounting, Finance, Entrepreneurship)
A Study of Successful Attributes of Small Businesses during the COVID-19 Pandemic
Lesley Arroyo (Mentor: Persis Driver/Psychology)
Speech-Language Pathologist’s Efficacy and Beliefs in Assessing Bilingual Children
Katherine Carper (Mentor: Christina Perez, Sociology)
Even Sickness has Privilege: Racial Inequalities in Health within Chicago
Kristen Garcia (Mentor: Sophia Duffy, Psychology)
Complex Trauma, Coping, and COVID-19: Understanding the Associations between Forms of Trauma and Coping among College Students
Gabriela Giza and Alison Laton (Mentor: Tracy L. Caldwell, Psychology)
The Connotation of Obesity and Its Effect on Body Satisfaction
Daisy Rivera (Mentor: Yuanqing Li/Accounting, Finance, Entrepreneurship)
The Power of Responsiveness During Crisis in the World of Business - Take Covid-19 as Example
Kathryn Brien (Mentor: Tina Taylor-Ritzler)
Work with the Division of Student Success and Engagement to implement and evaluate Mental Health First Aid training at Dominican University.
Meyahueltzin Angeles (Mentor: Brent Stephens)
Work on the design of a bus shelter with an efficient and budget-friendly heating system.
Gloria Gervacio (Mentor: Persis Driver)
Investigated whether greater retention of women of color in STEM fields is possible if students experienced a greater sense of belonging in their educational experience before and during their undergraduate years.
Natalie Gabriela Babrowska (Mentor: Kim Theriault, Art, Art History and Design)
A Brief Manual on How to Ethically Exhibit Native American Art and Artifacts
Visit More to Explore below to learn more about summer student research. A description of Summer Scholar projects prior to 2013 can be viewed here: USSP awards (pdf)