Goodspeed-Chadwick
The public is invited to Indiana University-Purdue University Columbus on Tuesday to learn about efficient wind turbine blades, creative mental health care for the Asian community, how educators can support children recovering from trauma and more.
The Office of Student Research will feature 13 projects from 23 students, including some from Jackson County, and nine faculty members during its 13th annual exhibition from 2:30 to 4 p.m. at the Columbus Learning Center Student Commons, 4555 Central. Ave. The exhibition is free.
“We are so pleased to highlight the work of bright, motivated and creative undergraduate and graduate students along with supportive, innovative and impressive faculty,” said chancellor’s Professor Julie Goodspeed-Chadwick, who has been leading the exhibit since its inception.
Each student-faculty team received up to a $1,000 grant to fund their project. To earn the grant, students submitted detailed project proposals, passed a vetting process by a review committee and then completed their projects with direction and guidance from a faculty mentor.
“OSR projects have made important contributions to various and diverse communities and disciplines,” Goodspeed-Chadwick said.
She added OSR students benefit from working on long-term research projects and building close working relationships with their professors. The process helps prepare students for success in their continuing studies and professional endeavors. Each student is honored at IUPUC’s annual honors convocation.
Foe information, visit iupuc.edu/osr or contact Goodspeed-Chadwick at 812-348-7270 or [email protected]
This year’s projects:
Project: Trauma-Informed Learning Environments
Description: This project focuses on incorporating practices that support children recovering from trauma into their learning environment, based on interviews with educational professionals.
Student: Sarah Achenbach, Greenwood
Faculty mentor: Lawrence Ruich
A Farm-University-Library Partnership in Elementary Civic Science Teacher Education
Description: Students designed, implemented and analyzed the impact of community-engaged civic science outreach at a public library. They hosted an Earth Day storytime and used participant surveys and interviews to further elementary environmental-sustainability education.
Students: Sarah Achenbach, Greenwood; Chanel Martinez, Seymour; Lily Thompson, Columbus
Faculty mentor: Laura B. Liu
Entrepreneurial Benefits Through Use of Business Simulations
Description: Students developed distribution, marketing, sales and manufacturing plans along with a weekly business analysis to stakeholders using the Business Strategy Game on an international scale.
Students: Austin Baecke, Bargersville; Todd Coons, Columbus; Tatum Downing, Columbus; Carson Farmer, Crothersville; Jordan Kelley, Columbus; Bryan McGaha, Franklin; Andrea Rodriguez, Seymour; Tina Russell, North Vernon; Samuel Willis, Trafalgar
Faculty mentor: William Haeberle
Pre-service Teachers’ Decisions for Including LGBTQ+ Children’s Literature in Their Future K-6 Classrooms
Description: This study examined how dducation students’ demographics, place in the program, university, family background and their own elementary school location(s) may have influenced attitudes and behaviors toward incorporating LGBTQ+ children’s literature in a K-6 classroom.
Student: Sophie Barrett, North Vernon
Faculty mentor: A’ame Joslin
Creative Approaches in Counseling Asian Americans
Description: To improve outcomes when counseling Asian American clients, this study gathered information from mental health professionals working with Asian American clients using creative approaches that demonstrated positive results.
Student: Austin Finney, Nashville
Faculty mentor: Debolina Ghosh
Inside the Bell Jar
Description: Using current research in psychology and women’s, gender and sexuality studies, this project concentrated on analysis and discussion of trauma as it pertains to women in Sylvia Plath’s “The Bell Jar.”
Student: Kaleigh Goode, Columbus
Faculty mentor: Julie Goodspeed-Chadwick
Hush Hush No More: Understanding Vaginismus from a Mental Health Counseling Perspective
Description: This project aims to understand the biopsychosocial components of vaginismus as well as counseling interventions and alternative medicines to relieve distress.
Students: Natalie Heidenreich and Dariagne Romero Lopez, both of Indianapolis
Faculty mentor: Debolina Ghosh
Learning from Our Stories, Aprendiendo de Nuestras Historias
Description: The student-researcher authored an autobiographical, bilingual children’s book and created a supporting lesson plan, which she presented to second grade students and helped them share their own stories with one another.
Student: Anakarina Hurtado, Columbus
Faculty mentor: Laura Liu
The Mediating Role of Rumination in the Relationship between Neuroticism and Death Anxiety
Description: Previous research concludes that severe death anxiety is associated with specific personality traits. This study investigates whether ruminative thinking explains the relationship between death-anxiety severity and neuroticism.
Student: Kylei Kinworthy, Columbus
Faculty mentor: Kimdy Le
Investigating Predictors of Academic Performance Amongst ESL Middle School Students
Description: Using survey results from 21 middle school ESL students, this research found that self-esteem and perceived social support positively impacted these students’ academic performance, while stress had a negative effect.
Student: Joseph Lampton, Columbus
Faculty mentor: Kimdy Le
The Effects of Parental Divorce on Emotional Development
Description: This study looks at whether parents’ marital status influences young adults’ emotion regulation and adjustment. It also studies the effect of sibling order.
Student: Natalia Alexandra Martinez, Columbus
Faculty mentor: Elizabeth daSilva
In the Shadows: Immigrant Stories
Description: This project aims to better understand how discrimination against national origin, language and citizenship status are perpetuated. It includes art and stories of immigrants who arrived to the region undocumented as well as survey data.
Student: Yamileth Martinez, Columbus
Faculty mentor: A’ame Joslin
Design and Development of Wind Turbine Blades Using Additive Manufacturing of Continuous Fiber Reinforced Polymer Composite
Description: This project developed and tested wind turbine blades manufactured using continuous fiber-reinforced polymer composite. Lighter blades reduce the overall weight of the turbine and require less force to rotate.
Student: Paul Meyer, Columbus
Faculty mentor: Mohammed Noor-A-Alam