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Undergraduate Student Fellowships

Jacqueline Morris was the Center’s first undergraduate honors thesis student. She was a rising senior, majoring in Psychology and Public Policy, when she passed away in a tragic car accident in her native Arizona in 2000. Her parents established the Jacqueline Anne Morris Memorial Foundation to support undergraduate students who, like their daughter, are “dynamic, bright, ambitious and idealistic.”

The foundation has endowed a fellowship program to support students who are interested in conducting research in an area of child and family policy. Up to four awards are granted each year.  Each selected student receives $500 to cover research-related expenses.  

2012-13 Morris Fellows:

• Cate Auerbach, senior, public policy studies major, Markets and Management Studies certificate
  Project: Gifted Education in Orange County Schools
  Mentor: Clara Muschkin, assistant research professor of public policy

• Eric Emery, senior, psychology major, chemistry minor, Human Development certificate
  Project: Analysis of Treatment Outcomes in Childhood Leukemia
  Mentor: Sharron Docherty, associate professor of nursing

• Julia Quinn, senior, public policy studies major, history minor
  Project: Raising the Age in North Carolina: Looking to the Connecticut Experience
  Mentor: Philip Cook, ITT/Sanford professor of public policy

• Sarah Rogers, senior, public policy studies major, Children in Contemporary Society certificate
  Project: Effects of High School Athletic Participation on the Educational Aspirations of Male Student-Athletes: Does Race Matter?
  Mentor: Clara Muschkin, assistant research professor of public policy

• Allison Schulhof, senior, public policy studies major, Children in Contemporary Society certificate
  Project: Developing a Methodology to Elicit Input from High School Students to Inform CHCCS's Long Range Plan
  Mentor: Leslie Babinski, research scientist, Center for Child and Family Policy

• Tess Shiras, senior, public policy studies major, cultural anthropology minor, Global Health certificate
  Project: Under What Conditions do Low-Income Women in Durham, NC, Choose to Access Prenatal Care?
  Mentor: Kathryn Whetten, professor of public policy, nursing, community and family medicine, and global health