Several undergraduate students received a Chancellor’s UNCW Undergraduate Student Research and Travel Award for the 2006-2007 school year.

Two undergraduates in Dr. Simone Nguyen’s Cognitive Development Lab received the CSURF Chancellor’s Gold Travel Award, Kristen Wilfong and Tess Young. They received funding to attend the Society for Research in Child Development Conference in Boston, Massachusetts in March 2007.

In Dr. Len Lecci’s lab, Emily Anne Hanks received the award to attend the American Psychological Society’s National Convention in Washington, DC in May 2007. Dr. Lecci’s lab is researching juror biases and juror susceptibility to influence during a deliberation process.  Emily will be presenting a poster on their findings at this conference.

Kelly Weiland, a member of Dr. Bruce’s lab, received a CSURF award to travel to the Comparitive Cognition Conference in Melbourne, Florida in March 2007. She presented a poster with graduate student Brooke Poerstel titled, “Evaluating Olfactory Identity Matching-To-Sample (MTS) in Rats Using an Open-field Apparatus”.

Student Researchers

Kristen Wilfong presents her honor's research
at UNCWs 2007 Undergraduate Research Showcase

Kristen Wilfong, Mary Beth McCullough, & Tess Young at the 2007
Meeting of the Society for Research in Child Development in Boston, Massachusetts.