Many of our students participate in a program titled the Iowa Center for Research by Undergraduates. For more information on research opportunities for undergraduate students, please visit the Iowa Center for Research by Undergraduates (ICRU) site.

2021-2022

FURF 2021 Presenters:

• Cecelia Bonilla
  • Juvenile Justice: The Incarceration of Youth in the U.S.
  • Major: Criminology
  • Mentor: Dr. Karen Heimer (Sociology & Criminology)
• Sophia Shubatt
  • Best Practices for Teaching Higher Education in Iowa Prisons
  • Majors: Criminology, Law, & Justice | Political Science
  • Mentor: Dr. Stephanie DiPietro (Sociology and Criminology)
• Theodore Byrnes
  • Organizational Email Formality in the Flint Water Crisis
  • Majors: Chinese | Linguistics (TESL)
  • Mentor: Dr. Louise Seamster (Sociology & Criminology)
• Regan Smock
  • The Impact of Sexual Assault Prevention Education on Bystander Intervention at Iowa
  • Major: Sociology
  • Mentor: Dr. Mary Noonan (Sociology & Criminology)

2020-2021

ESURF 2021 Presenters:

• Sara Berkowitz
  • Universities and the Challenges of the COVID-19 Pandemic 
  • Major: Social Justice 
  • Mentor: Louise Seamster (Sociology)
• Marissa Good
  • Analyzing Formality of the Flint Water Crisis Email Archive 
  • Major: Sociology 
  • Mentor: Louise Seamster
• Samalya Thenuwara 
  • Exploratory Analysis of Newspaper Coverage of CKDU Arsenic Hypothesis - Sri Lanka, June - July 2011
  • Major: Human Physiology
  • Mentor: Michael Lovaglia (Sociology and Criminology)
• Andrew Wendel 
  • Using White Collar Crime to Gauge Regional Perceptions of Race and Crime
  • Major: Biology; Criminology
  • Mentor: Marina Zaloznaya (Sociology; Criminology)
• Hannah Zadeh
  • The Genealogy of Racialized Method: eGFR as Case Study 
  • Major: Sociology 
  • Mentor: Louise Seamster (Sociology)