Major: Public Policy, Planning, and Development
| Faculty Mentor: Morgan Polikoff, PhD., Associate Professor of Education | Department: Price: Public Policy
| Research Gateway Project: “Resource Disparities in Rural and Urban Public Education Systems and its Impact on Student Achievement”
Karen Kwon
Major: Sociology
| Faculty Mentor: Leland Tadaji Saito, PhD., Professor of Sociology and American Studies & Ethnicity | Department: Dornsife: Sociology | Research Gateway Project: “Identity Formation Among Monoracial and Multiracial Individuals”
Alfredo Gonzalez Ruiz
Major: Mechanical Engineering
| Faculty Mentor: Kaila Rajiv, PhD., Professor of Physics | Department: Viterbi: Mechanical Engineering | Research Gateway Project: “Fusion Ion Confinement in Spherical Ion Trap”
Ronit Farahmandian
Major: Computational Neuroscience | Faculty Mentor: Jason Zevin, PhD., Associate Professor of Psychology and Linguistics | Department: Dornsife: Psychology | Research Gateway Project: “Validity of the Common Working Memory Tests in L2 Individuals”
Eloisa Campuzano
Major: American Studies & Ethnicity | Faculty Mentor: Stanley Huey, PhD., Associate Professor of Psychology and American Studies & Ethnicity | Department: Dornsife: Psychology, American Studies & Ethnicity | Research Gateway Project: “Stitching a Community Together: Youth as Agents of Community Transformation”
Ana Yaneiry Barrios
Major: Social Sciences with emphasis in Psychology and Contemporary Latino and Latin American Studies | Faculty Mentor: George Sánchez, PhD., Professor of History and American Studies & Ethnicity | Department: Dornsife: Sociology | Research Gateway Project: “The Lasting Effects of the Guatemalan Genocide”
2015-2016 Cohort
The students of the 2015-2016 Cohort
Anthony Zelaya-Umanzor
Major: Psychology | Faculty Mentor: Dr. Stanley Huey | Department: Dornsife: Psychology | Research Gateway Project: “Encouraging Classroom Attendance and Engagement in College Students: the effect of Cognitive dissonance intervention”
Natalie Solis
Major: Religion | Faculty Mentor: Dr. Joseph Palacios | Department: Dornsife: Sociology | Research Gateway Project: “Creating Sacred Space: The Influence of our Lady of Guadalupe in Boyle Heights”
Eilen Mena
Major: Fine Arts (Major) & Urban Planning (Minor) | Faculty Mentor: Dr. Lavonna Lewis, Sol Price School of Public Policy and Dr. Francille Wilson, Dornsife College of Arts & Letters | Department: Price: Public Policy, Urban Planning | Research Gateway Project: “Ways in which immigrant populations, specifically in the African diaspora affect the food systems of historically predominantly African American communities in Los Angeles and New York”