INSTITUTE FOR POLICY RESEARCH

Zak Brustman
Class: 2022
Major(s): Psychology, Philosophy

• Fact checking a policy report created in cooperation with the Brookings Institution and AEI about childhood outcome equity

Lauren Chandler-Holtz
Class: 2022
Major(s): Mathematics and Statistics

• Developing and assessing methods for generating, synthesizing, and translating cluster-randomized trials in educational interventions

Alex Chang
Class: 2022
Major(s): Ethnic Studies

• Analyzing health disparities among sexual and gender minority youth using data from the CDC's Youth Risk Behavior Survey

•  Assessing the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on individuals with HIV and individuals who identify as sexual and/or gender minorities

Beatrice Chao
Class: 2022
Major(s): 

Ava Cheevers
Class: 2022
Major(s): Statistics and Economics

Olivia Cohen
Class: 2022
Major(s): Social Policy and International Studies

• The political consequences of punishing Black women and girls

Rui Du
Class: 2021
Major(s): Economics, Mathematics, MMSS

• The Retirement of Coal Power Plants in the U.S.

• NU Two-Generation Research Initiative

Rachel Fishman
Class: 2021
Major(s): History

• Studying how corporations respond to controversial current events and social issues through overt corporate political action from 1995-2020

Hannah Klein
Class: 2022
Major(s): Social Policy and International Studies

• Bias Intolerance: Predicting condemnation of apologetic perpetrators of prejudice

Lola Knight
Class: 2022
Major(s): Social Policy and Philosophy

• Researching collective impact, specifically emergent versus planned networks in leveraging community outcomes

Aneesh Kudaravalli
Class: 2021
Major(s): 

Victoria Lee
Class: 2021
Major(s): Economics and Journalism

Leah McGruder
Class: 2022
Major(s): Social Policy

• The COHERE Project, studying coherence in math instruction from pre-K to second grade across schools in two districts by examining district-wide policies, teacher communities, teaching practices, etc.

Hee Moon
Class: 2022
Major(s): Biological Sciences and Psychology

Dr. Greg Miller

• Stress, pregnancy and health study
• Mentoring and health

Christy Parzyszek
Class: 2021
Major(s): Sociology and Environmental Science

Dr. Christine Percheski

• Studying support in the adult sibling relationship, including financial and in-kind transfers
• Examining PrEP access inequalities and how local health policies and infrastructure influence access
• Researching the fertility of Mexican immigrant women 

• Evaluating how framing discrimination in terms of implicit vs. explicit bias affects the perception and punishment of the action

Annalisa Romanenko
Class: 2022
Major(s): Neuroscience and Psychology

• Investigating the development of stereotypes and social categories, such as race and gender, in young children

Alison Rosengren
Class: 2022
Major(s): Human Development and Psychological Services

• Researching the implications of COVID-19 on the childcare system in Illinois

• Coding parent and child focus groups to see how the two generation approach impacts parents and their children

Noah Scantlebury
Class: 2022
Major(s): Political Science

• Evaluating the responsiveness of voters to campaign promises and other forms of political messaging in the United States

Michelle Sheinker
Class: 2022
Major(s): Social Policy and Legal Studies, Psychology

• Researching the effects of campaign promises on voter perception and behavior, including coding primary debate rhetoric into distinct categories dating back to 1960, as well as analyzing Trump’s campaign promises of 2016 and discerning which were delivered on and why

• Researching effects of the Illinois state budget on Black Illinoisans
• Researching the implications of noncognitive skills on outcomes for students

Ahmadu Simpson
Class: 2021
Major(s): Psychology

• Investigating the health effects of mentoring on both mentees and mentors, as well as the psychosocial pathways explaining these effects

Natalie Tomeh
Class: 2021
Major(s): Economics and Mathematical Methods in the Social Sciences

• Using data from the Census Bureau’s Household Pulse Survey to create an app in which users can compare rates of food insecurity across states and among racial/ethnic groups in each state

Nguyen (Johnny) Trinh
Class: 2021
Major(s): Mathematics, Economics

Madison Tyrcha
Class: 2022
Major(s): Neuroscience

• Reviewing educational models of causation vs. correlation and working with a developing theory on training modules for distinguishing these two outcomes
• Developing a chemistry-based educational project on visual representations of objects rotating using chemical molecules represented in different ways

Harry Xie
Class: 2022
Major(s): Political Science and Saxophone Performance

• Researching the role of pay for performance in nonprofits and government

Antonia Young
Class: 2021
Major(s): Psychology

• Studying the use of pragmatic language in children with and without Autism Spectrum Disorder as well as their first-degree relatives in structured and semi-structured social activities.  

Mariana Zarate
Class: 2022
Major(s):  Neuroscience and Global Health