CBD Student Work Funded 2003-2008
Students received CBD funding for their CBD Work in the first five years of the program.
2007-2008
Lauren Bentley (conference presentation): Annual American Educational Studies Association Meeting in Cleveland, October 24-28, 2008. Division III project, The Cost of Accountability: Teaching Under the No Child Left Behind Act.
Ellen Dulaney (internship with Jeffrey D. Blaustein at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst Center for Neuroendocrine Studies), The Effects of Adolescent Stress on Susceptibility to Sex Steroid Hormones in Adulthood.
Don Everhart (internship with Salman Hameed of the Hampshire College Integrated Science and Humanities Initiative): Development of Science in the Islamic World.
Tara Frady (Division III): Accessible Method for Neuropsychological Assessment.
Tara Frady (conference presentation): Cognitive Neuroscience Society 15th Annual Meeting in San Francisco, CA on April 12-15, 2008. As ERP Lab Manager, Tara participated in two Div III projects that were presented at the conference: Erik Benau’s project, Reading, The Brain, and Reading the Brain, Economics, Emotion, and Electroencephalography.
Erik Hoel (Independent Study): Neuronal Development.
Sam Hoffman (Div III): Support of Cortisol Production through Dietary Salt Supplementation.
Kristin Iodice (internship with Christopher Overtree and Paula Errazuriz at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Psychological Services Center): How are Biology, Psychology, and Culture Implicated in the Development of Emotional Life?
Samantha Kimball (conference presentation): Annual American Educational Studies Association Meeting in Cleveland, October 24-28, 2008. Division III project, The Cost of Accountability: Teaching Under the No Child Left Behind Act.
Mirana Moore (Div III): Learning and Teaching through Dramatic Conventions.
Sean Nunley (Div III): Experimental Domestication: Selecting for Tameness in Voles.
Ariel Pressman (post-graduation internship with Nilanjana Dasgupta in the University of Massachusetts, Amherst Deptartment of Psychology): The Interplay of Implicit Prejudice and Emotion Using ERPs.
2006-2007
Miryam Ali (internship with Dr. Amin at the Divisional Hospital in Faisalabad, Pakistan): The effects of socio-economical position and cultural practices in Pakistan on woman's health and physical, mental, and educational development.
Heather Browning (Div III): Constructivist Physics-of-Energy.
Rose Cheyette (Div III): Educational Attainment in Post-Apartheid South Africa.
Gaea Dill-D'Ascoli (Div III): Dialectal Variation in West Galway.
Jonathan Fanning (Div II): Facial Perceptual Narrowing in Infants.
A. Nilesh Fernando (internship with Dr. Julian Jamison at the Experimental Social Science Laboratory (XLab) at the University of California at Berkeley):
Neuroeconomics.
A. Nilesh Fernando (Seminar/Workshop in Experimental Economics, Interdisciplinary Center for Economic Sciences (ICES), 2007, Philadelphia, PA
Tara Frady (internship with Dr. Lisa Scott in the University of Massachusetts, Amherst Laboratory of Brain, Cognition, and Development, the "BCD" Lab): Perceptual Narrowing Study.
Marie Landis (Div III): Autism Spectrum Disorder in Silicon Valley.
Su Yeon Lee (Div III): Comparison between Chinese and Korean Psychiatrists' Mental Health Practices.
Carlyn Mamber (Div III): The effect on morphology, behavior, and human cognition of the fragile X mental retardation gene.
Carlyn Mamber (Installation): Fragile X Syndrome: From Neuron to Cognition, an Interactive and Educational Exhibition (May 8-18, 2007).
Johnna Murphy (Div III): Socioeconomic Status and Autism Spectrum Disorder.
Katharine A. Spero (Div III): Slim to None: an Experimental Eating Disorder Education Program.
Gwen Straley (Div III): Child Labor in the Carpet Industry in Nepal.
2005-2006
Alek Chakroff (Div III): An EEG Investigation of the "Flow State"
Erin Edmiston (internship with Hilary Blumberg at the Yale Department of Psychiatry): Investigation of emotional processing in mood disorders.
Kirsten Goldman (Div III): Brainstorms! Teaching Cognitive Science Concepts through Hands-On Museum Exhibit
Theresa Gorman (Div III): An Epidemiological Review of the Physical and Mental Effects of the 9/11 Attack.
Theresa Gorman (conference presentation: American Public Health Association Annual Meeting, 2006, Boston, MA
Ben Grosscup (Div III): Ethnography of the Transhumanist Movement.
Ben Grosscup (conference presentation): The Society for the Social Study of Science Conference, 2005, Pasadena, CA
Carlyn Mamber (internship with the Neurons and Networks Research Group under the guidance of Jaap van Pelt and Ger JA Ramakers, at The Netherlands Institute for Brain Research): Plasticity and the pathology of cell morphology and neural networks.
Ariel Pressman (internship with Buju Dasgupta at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst ERP Lab): Development and persistence of implicit stereotypes.
Annie Ren (Div III): Studying Various Models of Community Care for Orphan Children Affected by HIV/AIDS in Cape Town, South Africa.
Kathryn A. Spero (internship with Diego Pizzagalli at the Affective Neuroscience Lab at Harvard University): Investigations into Depression.
2004-2005
Rachel Abed (Div III): Development of Reasoning About Morality in College Students
Angela Acosta (Div III): Street Child Access to Health Care in Metro Manila, Philippines.
Angela Acosta (conference presentation) The American Public Health Association Annual Meeting, 2005, Philadelphia, PA
Matthew Darling (Div III): Title: Fairness and Reciprocity: Behavioral Game Theory and Social Preferences.
Cortney Haynes (Div III): Time of Death 5:01: Video Art Exploring the Medical Meaning of Death.
Jiah Kim (Div III): Spirituality of Health: Mind-Body and Spirit According to Dahnworld.
Su Yeon Lee (conference presentation): N.E.U.R.O.N., the Northeast Undergraduate Research Organization of Neuroscience Annual Conference, 2005, New York, NY
Tasha Loader (internship with Carole H. Browner at the FPR-UCLA Center for Culture, Brain and Development): The culture of biomedicine.
Emily Schlesinger (Div III): The Rise of the Medical Model, the Domination of Big Pharma, and the Distribution of Stimulant Drugs.
Zachary Stein (conference presentation): Annual Meeting of the Jean Piaget Society, 2004, Toronto, Canada.
Sangpo Tsamda (conference presentation): The Vision Sciences Society Conference, Annual Meeting, 2004, Sarasota, FL.
Antonius Wiriadjaja (Div III): The Influence of Category-Based and Relationship-Based Learning on Memory in Children and Adults.
Fan Yang (Div III): The Exacerbation of Social Inequalities Through Inequalities in Education and Development.
2003-2004
Eric Anderson (Div III): Moral Cognition.
Eric Anderson (internship with Alan Fiske at the FPR-UCLA Center for Culture, Brain and Development): Assessment of Socio-Emotional Behavior in Frontotemporal Dementia," and "Towards a Neurochemistry of Sociability.
Eric Anderson (conference presentation): The Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 2003, Boston, MA.
Caitlin Berrigan (Div III): La Specola: Medicine and the Mythology of the Vagina Dentata.
Amanda Dennis (Div III): M/OTHER.
Jasmine Loveland (Div III): An Analysis of Abnormal Behaviors in Kenneled Dogs at the Pioneer Valley Humane Society in Greenfield, Massachusetts
Andrea Martin (conference travel): Architecture and Mechanisms of Language Processing (AMLaP), August, 2003, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, Scotland, UK; and The Annual Meeting of the Psychonomic Society, November, 2003, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.
Aliza Yarrow (Div III): More than 4 Walls: A Study of Intergenerational Theater and Its Effects on Displaced Youth.