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
- Project 1: Path-4CNC: The Path to Better Health for Children with Complex Needs (https://sites.duke.edu/path4cnc/)
- Project 2: Ensuring Equity in Early Childhood Autism Spectrum Disorders Services in North Carolina (https://bassconnections.duke.edu/about/news/meet-winners-2021-bass-connections-student-research-awards)
- Mentors: David Ming, Michelle Franklin, and Geraldine Dawson
- Honors and Awards: 2021 Bass Connections Student Research Award; Academic Pediatric Association Region IV Student Award, February 2020
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.