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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 accident in her native Arizona in 2000. Morris’s 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.  

2011-2012 Morris Fellows:

  • Andrea Green, senior, psychology major, minors in French studies and chemistry
        Project:  ADHD in College Students
        Mentor:  David Rabiner, associate research professor of psychology
       and neuroscience; associate director for program evaluation services,
       Center for Child and Family Policy

  • Lauren Hendricks, senior, public policy studies major, English minor
       Project:  Factors Contributing to Disproportionate Rates of IDMI and SED Identification in African American Students
       Mentor:  Jenni Owen, lecturer, Sanford School of Public Policy; associate director for policy and translation and
       director of policy initiatives, Center for Child and Family Policy

  • Sol Bee Jung, senior, public policy studies major, Asian and Middle Eastern studies minor
        Project:  Evaluating the Impact of Evidence-Based Practice in Public Health: 
        A case study on parent-child interaction therapy
        Mentor:  Katie Rosanbalm, research scholar, Center for Child and Family Policy

  • Ryan Lipes, senior public policy major, statistics minor
       Project:  Smaller-Themed Learning Communities
       Mentor:  David Malone, associate professor of the practice, director of undergraduate studies,
       and director of Service Learning Program, Program in Education

  • Erica Nagi, senior, interdepartmental major:  Language and Culture of the Arab and Francophone World
       Project:  Constructing the Future:  The process of street children rehabilitation in Cairo, Egypt, a case study
       on Ana el-Masry Organization
       Mentor:  Mbaye Lo, assistant professor of the practice, Asian and Middle Eastern Studies

  • Chinmayi Sharma, sophomore, public policy major; English minor, Children in Contemporary Society certificate
       Project:  Parent Behavior and Child Adjustment Across Cultures
       Mentor:  Jennifer Lansford, associate research professor, Social Science Research Institute

  • Rohan Taneja, junior, economics and public policy majors, political science minor
       Project:  The Effect of Teacher Assistants on Student Achievement
       Mentor:  Leslie Babinski, research scientist, Center for Child and Family Policy

  • Jenny Wang, senior, neuroscience major, chemistry minor
       Project:  At-risk children
       Mentor:  Makeba Wilbourn, assistant professor of psychology and neuroscience

  • Stephanie Weiss, senior, public policy major, biology minor, genome science and policy certificate
       Project:  Cyber bullying
       Mentor:  Philip Cook, ITT/Sanford professor of public policy