Maryland Student Researchers - BSOS Fall 2017 Research Opportunities

Below are research opportunities listed by BSOS faculty for Fall 2017. Interested students can see the full listings for all schools and colleges, including contact information for faculty, on our MSR webpage: http://www.ugresearch.umd.edu/current-studentresearchers.html.

Bell, Caryn	African American Studies	Social norms and health behaviors among African Americans
Bell, Caryn	African American Studies	Social, economic and political disparities among Black Marylanders
Bell, Caryn	African American Studies	Racial segregation and health-related resources in Maryland
Dunbar, Angel	African American Studies	The African American Child and Family Emotions Project
Harley, Sharon	African American Studies	The Gender Politics of W. E. B. Du Bois: The "Father of Sociology" and Political Activist
Shackel, Paul	Anthropology	Anthracite Heritage Program
Whitehead, Tony	Anthropology	Coding, Reading, and Writing Culture
Shackman, Alex	Department of Psychology; Maryland Neuro	The Brain and Emotion: Neuroimaging
Murrell, Peter	Economics	Generating Data on English History
De Floriani Leila	Geographical Science and UMIACS	Interactive tools for point cloud data analysis
De Floriani Leila	Geographical Science and UMIACS	Compact, feature-based, large data visualization using Hadoop technologies
Altstatt, Alice	Geographical Sciences	CARPE: Tropical Forest Cover and Forest Cover Change Analysis
McIntosh, Wayne	Government & Politics	US Supreme Court Database
Hosam, Christian	Government and Politics	Center for American Politics and Citizenship (CAPC) Research Assistantships
Hosam, Christian	Government and Politics, Center For Amer	CAPC Latino Research Fellowship
Uslaner, Eric M.	GVPT	National Identity and Political Polarization
Westhelle, Felipe; Braun, Joseph	GVPT	The Politics of Psychology and Climate Change: An experiment testing the effect of environmental perception on human psychology
Cabrera, Natasha	HDQM	Family Involvement Laboratory - BabyBooks2 project
Faroqi Shah, Yasmeen	Hearing and Speech Sciences	Language and Cognition in Aging, and Brain Damage (aphasia), and Bilingualism
Newman, Rochelle	Hearing and Speech Sciences	Language Development
Newman, Rochelle	Hearing and Speech Sciences	Language rehabilitation in children and adolescents with concussion
Ratner, Nan	Hearing and Speech Sciences	Natural language analysis
Ratner, Nan	Hearing and Speech Sciences	The development of language fluency
Dien, Joseph	Maryland Neuroimaging Center	EEG and fMRI studies of reading and hemispheric asymmetry
Kuchinsky, Stefanie	Maryland Neuroimaging Center	Neuroimaging studies of auditory and cognitive aging
Beier, Jonathan [Qasmieh, Noor]	Psychology	The Lab for Early Social Cognition
Cassidy, Jude	Psychology	Emotion Suppression in Middle Childhood: Links with Physiology, Negative Emotion, and Prosocial Behavior
De Los Reyes, Andres	Psychology	Comprehensive Assessment and Intervention Program
Jens Herberholz	Psychology	Crustacean Neurobiology and Behavior
Kruglanski, Arie	Psychology	Goal Systems and Motivation
Kruglanski, Arie	Psychology	What motivates human behavior?
Lemay, Edward	Psychology	Social Psychology of Interpersonal Relationships and Social Interaction
Dernberger, Brittany	Sociology	Public and Employer Evaluations of Military Spouses Seeking Work
Dr. Morad Elsana	The Gildenhorn Institute for Israel Stud	The disposition of indigenous people's land rights
Koven, Barnett	The National Consortium for the Study of	Weapons Availability and Civil War Onset: A Natural Experiment in Peru