Child Policy Research Certificate Alumni

Class of 2022

Sydney Albert, psychology major, education minor

  • Project: Toppling America’s King: Teaching Martin Luther King, Jr. For Liberation
  • Mentor: Dean Martin Smith
  • Honors and Awards:  Graduating with Distinction outside the major; Morris Fellowship Award; Winfred Quinton Holton Prize in Education for her Morris Fellowship research; Phi Beta Kappa Society; Outstanding Psych 101 Scholar Award Fall 2019; Innovative Educator Award through the Constanzo Teaching Fellow Program; Nakayama Scholar for Public Service

 

Ainsley Buck, neuroscience major

  • Project: Resting-State Functional Connectivity of the Ventral Attention Network and Non-Clinical Anxiety in Early Childhood
  • Mentors: Michael Gaffrey and Yu Sun Chung
  • Honors and Awards:  Graduating with Distinction in Neuroscience; 2021 Bass Connections Student Research Award; Academic Pediatric Association Region IV Student Award, February 2020

 

Daniel DeVault, psychology major

  • Project: Neural and Environmental Predictors of Early Childhood Anxiety
  • Mentors: Michael Gaffrey and Armen Bagdasarov
  • Honors and Awards:  Graduating with Distinction in Psychology

 

 

Jessica Falbaum, psychology major, education minor

  • Project: Is Collaboration Key? Reframing Classroom Participation as Collaboration in the College Classroom
  • Mentor: Bridgette Hard
  • Honors and Awards:  Graduating with Distinction in Psychology; Winfred Quinton Holton Prize for Innovative Work in the Field of Education for her thesis project

 

Sonia He, psychology major, education minor

  • Project: Childhood Teachers’ Responses to their Students’ Emotions: Validation of a Novel Scale
  • Mentor: Dr. Rick Hoyle
  • Honors and Awards:  Graduating with Distinction in Psychology; Winfred Quinton Holton Prize for Educational Research; Phi Beta Kappa Society: April 2022; Morris Fellowship Award; Dean’s List with Distinction Fall 2019 and Fall 2021; Dean’s List Fall 2018 and Spring 2019; Vertical Integration Program (VIP) Fellowship Summer 2021; URS Independent Study Grant Recipient February 2022

 

Sophie Hurewitz, neuroscience major, global health minor

Sierra Jones, psychology major, Asian & Mid East Studies – Korean-Literature minor

  • Project: Family Coping During COVID-19
  • Mentor: Dr. Eve Puffer
  • Honors and Awards:  Duke International House, Global Fellow 2020-21; Duke Psi Chi, The International Honors Society in Psychology; 2021 Fall Dean’s List with Distinction; Duke Undergraduate Research Support Office, Winter Remote IDEA Grant Recipient; Duke Questbridge Scholar; Junior Researcher Programme, JRP Scholar

 

Katie Lutz, psychology major, education minor

  • Project: COVID-19 and Mental Health: The Impact of the Coronavirus Pandemic on the Mental Health of Ninth- and Eleventh-Graders in Georgia
  • Mentor: Katie Rosanbalm
  • Honors and Awards:  Morris Fellowship Award; Dean’s List with Distinction Fall 2019, Fall 2021, Spring 2022

 

Emily Raich, psychology major

  • Project: Exploring the Relationship Between Prenatal Discrimination and Maternal Fetal Attachment
  • Mentor: Michael Gaffrey
  • Honors and Awards:  Graduating with Distinction in Psychology; Morris Fellowship Award; Dean’s List with Distinction; Inducted into Psi Chi.