The 2017-2018 Cohort consisted of five students. All students attended the 10-week Summer Research Institute (SRI) that started on May 21st and successfully ended on July 28th, 2018. Their research areas consisted of Social Sciences and Engineering.
Jon-Paul Bustos
Major: Contemporary Latino Latin American Studies | Faculty Mentor: Jody Vallejo, Ph.D., Department of Sociology | Department: Dornsife: Sociology | Research Gateway Project: “Navigating the Institution of Health Care as an Undocumented Latino/a living in LA County”
Andrea Serrano
Major: Psychology | Faculty Mentor: Jason Kevin, Ph.D., Department of Psychology | Department: Dornsife: Psychology | Research Gateway Project: “Bilingualism and Morality in Children”
Danya Clayton
Major: Psychology | Faculty Mentor: Daphna Oyserman, Ph.D., Department of Psychology | Dornsife: Psychology | Research Gateway Project: “Power and The Interpretation of Difficulty”
Ariane Yumi Kreidl
Major: Business Administration | Faculty Mentor: Leland Saito, Ph.D., Department of Sociology | Department: Marshall: Business Administration | Research Gateway Project: “Perpetuating Segregation Through Racial Norms a Comparative Study on Multiracial Americans and Brazilians”
Kimberly Alvarado
Major: Psychology | Faculty Mentor: Myka Winder, Assistant Professor of Clinical Occupational Therapy | Department: Dornsife: Psychology | Research Gateway Project: “Disparities Faced by 4-11 Year Old Latino Children with Autism Living in Los Angeles, CA”
2016-2017 Cohort
The 2016-2017 Cohort consisted of eight students. All students attended the 10-week Summer Research Institute (SRI) that started on May 22nd through July 30th, 2017. Their research areas consisted of Social Sciences and Engineering.
Mia Yanez
Major: Human Biology
| Faculty Mentor: JSteven Finkel, PhD., Professor of Biological Sciences | Department: Dornsife: Biological Sciences | Research Gateway Project: “The Predictability of Antibiotic Susceptibility Using Genetic Mutations in Long Term Stationary Phase Escherichia Coli”
Sierra Williams
Major: Industrial and Systems Engineering
| Faculty Mentor: John Carlsson, PhD., Associate Professor of Industrial and Systems Engineering | Department: Viterbi: Industrial & Systems Engineering | Research Gateway Project: “First-Generation, Low Income, Minority Student Retention in STEM Fields”
Cindy Pineda
Major: Public Policy, Planning, and Development
| Faculty Mentor: LaVonna Lewis, PhD., Teaching Professor of Public Policy | Department: Price: Public Policy | Research Gateway Project: “A Call for Community Planning: Higher Education Attainment and the Influence of the Built Environment on Attitudes Towards Higher Education”