Researchers of Emory

                                                     Amy Ma  is a senior majoring in Psychology with a minor in Quantitative Sciences. She was awarded a Fall 2019  Independent Grant which he used to conduct research on Human Behavior under Dr. Jessica Barber. 

Bella Ren is a senior double majoring in Quantitative Sciences and Psychology. She was awarded a Fall 2019 Independent Grant which he used to conduct research on Ethics under Dr. Adam Glynn. 

Congratulations to Zoe Robbin, URP’s featured undergraduate student researcher for the month of April! Zoe is currently a senior and is the first-place winner of the first annual URP 3-minute thesis competition.  **How did you get started in undergraduate research?** I got started in undergraduate research when I was a sophomore. I networked a lot with my professors and developed a lot of relationships with them. My first experience as part of a developed research team was when I was able to assist with writing a systematic review of conception strategies for people living with HIV and AIDS in sub-Saharan Africa. It was a great experience and highly recommend undergraduate to develop relationships with your professors because you never know when they might need assistance from an undergraduate. **What motivated you to select your specific research topic?** The research topic that I presented for the 3-minute thesis was about the influence of tribal networks...

Zoe is an Emory senior from Fairfield Connecticut who studies Quantitative Sciences and Arabic. She was the Emory Global Health Institute Field Scholar in 2018 and traveled to Jordan to conduct research on sexual harassment in partnership with the Information and Research Center of the King Hussein Foundation. She worked on a study that seeks to assess the prevalence and develop a primary prevention intervention against sexual harassment at the University of Jordan. A professor from the Rollins School of Public Health is leading this study in partnership with the research team at the King Hussein Foundation. She is continuing her research on sexual harassment in at the University of Jordan through her senior honors thesis. Her argument is that gender-roles in Jordan carryover from tribal institutions into institutions of higher education. She is establishing this link through Sex-role Spillover theory. Zoe’s thesis will also include an epistemological discussion about Orientalism ...