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Friday, October 22 • 12:15pm - 1:00pm
Mentorship Throughout Different Phases of Research

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Our panel will focus on how undergraduate researchers can contribute to various phases of research under supportive mentorship. Each member of our panel developed positive relationships with our respective mentors and supervisors, facilitating an encouraging lab environment. McKenna worked with the Family Relationships, Minority Health, and Affective Science Lab at UMass Amherst, helping to prepare and develop a pilot study. Olivia worked as an ERP (event-related potential) and electroencephalography lab student lab assistant alongside Dr. Jane Couperus of Mount Holyoke College. She was able to publish an academic poster on how Anxiety and Stress affect Pre-Attentive Processing measured by the MMN (mismatch negativity). Ruby cleaned and coded eye tracking data in the Binder Reading and Cognition Lab at Mount Holyoke. Kareena interned at a genomic research lab at Washington University in St. Louis where she worked on whole-genome and exome data analysis of Cerebral Palsy patients to find genetic links to the disease.
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McKenna Crosby

Positive Mentorship in the Initial Phases of Undergraduate Research
This summer I worked as an Undergraduate Research Assistant in the Family Relationships, Affective Science, and Minority Health (FAM) Lab at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. I entered the lab with zero research experience whatsoever, eager to learn more about academia and... Read More →
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Kareena Joshipura

Interdisciplinary application of Statistics in action - Genomics Research
During the summer, I was a research intern at a genomics lab at Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis working on whole-exome and whole-genome sequencing data to find genetic causes of Cerebral Palsy. It was a difficult time landing this opportunity but with the help... Read More →
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Ruby Kules

Education Research and Practical Applications of Internship Experiences
The Binder Reading and Cognition Lab at MHC aims to identify the types of strategies students use when reading and comprehending texts and what strategies prove to be most efficient and effective. Working in this lab as a research assistant I cleaned and coded eye-tracking data collected... Read More →
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Olivia Clarke

Data Collection and Analysis as a Student Lab Assistant in an ERP Lab
"This past summer, I worked remotely alongside Dr. Jane Couperus of Mount Holyoke College in her Neuroscience lab as a Student Assistant. Dr. Couperus’s work is mainly focused on using ERP (event-related potential or electrical brain activity) to observe trends in attention and... Read More →

Friday October 22, 2021 12:15pm - 1:00pm EDT
Clapp 407
  Session I