On April 3, 2015, the School of Human Environmental Sciences held its second Graduate Student Research Day. Graduate students in the three academic departments of the School were invited to submit research posters for review and presentation. Thirteen graduate student research posters were submitted and displayed on the third floor of Funkhouser Building from April 2 through April 10. Students were present to discuss their work for a one hour poster session on April 3. A full listing of research posters is included at the end of this article.
As part of the research day, a faculty committee selected three outstanding research posters for recognition. The winning students received cash awards.
Those winners were:
- Matthew Saulnier, master’s student, Department of Dietetics and Human Nutrition: “Linking the home and neighborhood environment to dietary intake among rural adolescents.”
- Amanda Westmoreland, doctoral student, Department of Family Sciences: “Mentoring buzz: Student perspectives.”
- Qun Zhang, doctoral student, Department of Family Sciences: “Personality, health literacy, and health outcomes among middle-aged and older adults.”
Saulnier and Zhang both gave oral presentations of their research in addition to the poster presentations. They were joined in the graduate seminar by Laura Frey, doctoral student in the Department of Family Sciences and an Alice P. Killpatrick Fellow in the School of Human Environmental Sciences. Frey’s presentation entitled, “Grounded theory exploration of suicide disclosure” shared a component of her dissertation research.
We congratulate all the students for their excellent work.
Research posters:
- Akloubou Gnonhossou, D. (2015). Historical and contemporary mate selection patterns and implications for assessing intimate relationships in South Benin, West Africa.
- Asher, W. J., Forsythe, H. W., & Young, T. (2015). Food security factors affect growth in young children in an indigenous Ecuadorean community.
- Bronner, E., Forsythe, H., Young, T., Ceballos, J., & Ikechi, R. (2015). Nutritional assessment of preschool children in urban Ecuadorian community.
- Chen, W., & Lu, Y. (2015). How online reviews affect customer perceived value of hotels: A contextual consideration of UGC platforms.
- Cui, G., Karman, N., & Vazsonyi, A. T. (2015). The effect of low self-control on sexual aggression: A test of three mediators of rape myth acceptance, date rape attitudes, and deviant sexual norms.
- Jiskrova, G., Vazsonyi, A. T., & Ksinan, A. (2015). Does the discrepancy between sensation seeking and impulse control mediate the sleep functioning-deviance link?
- Ksinan, A., Vazsonyi, A. T., Jiskova, G., & Javakhishvili, M. (2015). A test of the dual systems model: Developmental similarities/differences in male and female adolescents.
- Okhotnikov, I. A. (2015). Russian families at the nexus of global change: Evolution, revolution, reformation.
- Saulnier, M. (2015). Linking the home and neighborhood environment to dietary intake among rural adolescents.
- Svynarenko, R. (2015). Challenges of globalization and mate selection of Ukrainian women.
- Westmoreland, A. (2015). Mentoring buzz: Student perspectives.
- Zhang, Q. (2015). Mate selection in pre and post economic reform periods in China: Implications for relationship assessment among “80s generation.”
- Zhang, Q., & Svynarenko, R. (2015). Personality, health literacy, and health outcomes among middle-aged and older adults.
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