Please check out all 18 projects, and remember that faculty mentors are looking for interested students, not students from any particular major. If you have any questions, please reach out to Soo-Yeon Yoon (sooyeon.yoon@sonoma.edu), Heather Smith (smithh@sonoma.edu), Teresa Nguyen (teresa.nguyen@sonoma.edu) or Allison Ford (allison.ford@sonoma.edu). For full consideration, apply by 11:59 pm, Friday, April 17, 2026.
Project Title: Diversion, Treatment, and Public Safety: An Analysis of Mental Health Courts (Criminology and Criminal Justice Studies)
Faculty Mentor: Emily K. Asencio, Ph.D.
Sociology, Criminology, and Criminal Justice Studies Department
email: emily.asencio@sonoma.edu
Project Description:
This project gives students a front-row seat to one of the most innovative areas in criminal justice reform, the Mental Health Diversion Court. Mental Health Courts are specialized court programs that aim to reduce incarceration by connecting individuals living with mental health conditions to treatment and community support instead of jail. These courts focus on accountability, rehabilitation, and long-term stability rather than punishment alone. Students on this project will actively explore how and why these courts operate, and whether they truly work. You’ll read and discuss cutting-edge research, examine real-world data on outcomes like recidivism and program success, and help identify strengths and weaknesses in diversion models. Students will also have the opportunity to observe Mental Health Court sessions in person, gaining firsthand insight into courtroom interactions, judicial decision-making, and how treatment-based justice unfolds in real time. This is a hands-on research experience that blends theoretical application and practical solutions in criminal justice. If you’re curious about how systems can change to better support vulnerable populations, this project offers meaningful, real-world engagement and practical research skills you can carry into law school, graduate study, or public service careers.
Student Contributions:
The scope of the summer work on this project can be adjusted based on students' qualifications. Tasks may include conducting a literature review and creating an annotated bibliography, analyzing focus group and survey data, or developing a large-scale survey instrument.
As a research assistant, you will:
✔ Conduct literature reviews and create annotated bibliographies
✔ Assist with analyzing data from focus groups and surveys
✔ Help distribute surveys to community members
✔ Gain hands-on experience in qualitative and quantitative research
Meeting Schedule and Modality:
Meeting schedule (including frequency and modality) is flexible and will be arranged according to students' availability during the summer.
Project Title: How People Take on White-Collar Crime (Criminology)
Faculty Mentor: Bryan Burton, Ph.D.
Sociology, Criminology, and Criminal Justice Studies Department
email: bryan.burton@sonoma.edu
Project Description:
Can anything actually be done about white-collar crime? Many people believe the answer is no, but this project challenges that idea. Edwin Sutherland defined white-collar crime as offenses committed by individuals of high social status and respectability in the course of their occupation. This research focuses on developing a book chapter titled The Myth That Nothing Can Be Done About White-Collar Crime, which shows how individuals, communities, and institutions can make a real difference. As part of this project, you will explore real-world cases and research what different countries and organizations are doing to reduce white-collar crime. We will also examine success stories of individuals (such as Erin Brockovich and others) who have successfully challenged large corporations and even governments. In addition, we will conduct interviews with individuals in the local community who have played an active role in reducing white-collar crime and protecting the public. You will gain experience in research, interviewing, and communicating complex ideas to the community, which are skills that are valuable for careers in criminal justice, law, and public policy. This work highlights an important message: the harms caused by white-collar offenses can be reduced, even when it may seem impossible.
Student Qualifications:
Students with a GPA of 3.0 or higher are preferred. Interest and, if possible, CCJS academic coursework. In addition, interest, and if possible, experience with SSU database searches and AI programs like Perplexity.
Meeting Schedule and Modality:
Attend Weekly 1 Hour Meetings via Zoom
Project Title: When will people challenge injustice? (Criminology and Criminal Justice Studies and Psychology)
Faculty Mentor: Heather Smith, Ph.D., and Diana Grant, Ph.D.
Psychology & Sociology, Criminology, and Criminal Justice Studies
Department
email: smithh@sonoma.edu and grantdi@sonoma.edu
Project Description:
Our research explores how people change their definitions of fairness and their reactions to disadvantage or conflict when they identify themselves as members of different groups. At the moment, we are investigating three questions; 1) how can we increase the likelihood that college students will intervene if they witness possible sexual misconduct? 2) how do economic comparisons to peers shape the transition from university to work? and 3) when will observers evaluate a person who forgives a transgression more negatively than the person who transgressed? This summer, our SSURI scholars will help design new experiments based on data from our previous experiments. As part of this effort, we are testing hypotheses related to participants’ identification with either the target or the perpetrator of sexual harassment. We are developing measures that should capture observers’ reactions to witnessing a transgression, including potential behavioral measures of perpetrator punishment and victim compensation. We also plan to analyze survey data from SSU alumni surveys as part of our examination of the transition from undergraduate to postgraduate life.
Student Contributions:
Working as a team with Dr. Heather Smith and Dr. Diana Grant, students will 1) learn how to operationalize variables as part of experimental design, 2) learn how to content analyze and code experiment and survey data (both quantitative and qualitative), and 3) complete human subjects applications for ethics review. Students will get an inside view of the deductive-inductive cycle of research, including conceptualization, implementation, analysis and interpretation of results. Students will learn how to treat participants ethically, from administering informed consent to conducting exit interviews. No prior research experience is required.
Meeting Schedule and Modality:
Remote meetings every few weeks (maybe with one or two in-person meetings if everyone is close to campus).
Project Title: The History of Slavery and Coerced Labor in Sonoma County from 1850 (History)
Faculty Mentor: Amy Kittelstrom, Ph.D.
History and Politics Department
email: kitt@sonoma.edu
Project Description:
This groundbreaking project is the first to explore the history of slavery and other forms of coerced or exploitative labor in the founding period of Sonoma County. Prof. Kittelstrom, in community partnership with the Santa Rosa-Sonoma County NAACP, directs research in the archives of Sonoma County to expand our documentation of African American, Native, and Chinese forced contributions to the development of the county. This summer we will also be working with D'Mitra Smith of the NAACP to create representation of this work for a website and a future museum exhibit and/or monument.
Student Qualifications:
Students don't even need to know much about American history, nor have any particular skills beyond reading comprehension, basic time management, and accountability/responsibility.
Meeting Schedule and Modality:
D'mitra and I will both be here most of the summer, so we can be flexible about meeting frequency according to students' schedules. Meeting in person every other week seems a good sustainable rate to keep everyone on track and with tasks they can do between meetings. Since the holdings are here in the county, it's best if the students plan to be here for the better part of the summer (We will have our first meeting in early June and aim to wrap up by the beginning of August.)
Project Title: Sailors Partying in Santa Rosa: The Great White Fleet comes to Sonoma County (History)
Faculty Mentor: Robert Chase, Ph.D.
History and Politics Department
email: chaser@sonoma.edu
Project Description:
In 1908, the US Atlantic Fleet conducted a global tour to build domestic support for the US Navy and to demonstrate America's military strength. The tour included many stops along the West Coast including the Bay Area. San Francisco was the center of festivities, but sailors and officers took excursions to many other parts of the region, from San Jose to Santa Rosa. This project is focused on Santa Rosa. It seeks to identify who organized the local festivities, what they hoped to achieve by hosting the sailors, and what the sailors actually did while in town.
Student Qualifications:
Students need only be interested in conducting research at the local level. Students will focus on using digitized newspaper archives, Sonoma County historical archives, and Santa Rosa municipal records.
Meeting Schedule and Modality:
The majority of the research will take place during July. One in-person meeting to begin the project to discuss archival research in Sonoma County and Santa Rosa archives. Subsequent meetings would be in-person or over Zoom depending on students' schedules. A significant amount of the research will take place in digital archives, so the faculty member is flexible with establishing a meeting schedule.
Project Title: Research on the Sonoma Developmental Center cemetery (Anthropology/History)
Faculty Mentor: Alexis Boutin, Ph.D.
Applied Human and Environmental Sciences (Anthropology) Department
email: boutin@sonoma.edu
Project Description:
Located in Eldridge, California, the Sonoma Developmental Center (SDC) opened in 1891, eventually serving thousands of residents who would today be described as developmentally or physically disabled, mentally ill, or behaving outside of social norms. Between 1892 and 1960, its “Home Cemetery” received the remains of over 1920 residents—after which its use ceased and gravemarkers were removed. The SDC closed in 2018, and the core of its 945 acre campus is now slated for redevelopment. Our research project works collaboratively with local stakeholders to document and preserve the cemetery as a site of social memory and cultural heritage by using archival and archaeological methods. Students will assist with archival research into the lives and deaths of the people buried in the Home Cemetery. This includes transcribing early 20th century documents, and collecting and analyzing the resulting evidence, in order to learn about patterning in medical diagnoses of disability and mortuary practices in the cemetery. Students will also conduct genealogical research on Ancestry.com and write biographical sketches of residents buried in the cemetery to be shared on an ArcGIS StoryMap (https://storymaps.arcgis.com/stories/95067129dbba4a5cb3c9661b7f806629).
Student Qualifications:
Students from the Anthropology, Human Development, or History majors are preferred. Students should be detail-oriented and intellectually curious. Students will need to have a computer capable of handling large files and a reliable internet connection.
Meeting Schedule and Modality:
Students will be asked to meet biweekly for one hour on Zoom to discuss their progress on the research, discuss findings, and ask questions.
Project Title: Digitally Divided: Racial Gatekeeping in Digital Games (Human Development)
Faculty Mentor: Benjamin Smith, Ph.D.
Applied Human and Environmental Sciences Department
email: smithbe@sonoma.edu
Project Description:
The opportunity for research experience focuses on the issue of “racial gatekeeping” in internationally popular digital games; the research is a part of a larger research project on race and stereotypes about gaming (in)ability in the game Defense of the Ancients 2 (or, DOTA 2). This is a gaming community in which stereotypes about Peruvian and Indigenous players circulate widely. Students will examine online forums devoted to DOTA play, and they will look for the strategies players describe as allowing them to avoid playing with racialized players imagined as incompetent players. Students will be asked to identify relevant content from specific online forums, organize data on this content systematically, and develop a preliminary account of strategies for “racial gatekeeping.”
Student Qualifications:
Students do not need a special interest or expertise in gaming or Peru. Students need only be attentive to detail and capable of using the most basic spreadsheet functions. Knowledge of Spanish would be useful, but it is not a requirement.
Meeting Schedule and Modality:
I would prefer working with students who could meet in-person for a first and last session. Otherwise, all other (weekly or, on occasion, biweekly) meetings could happen over zoom. I’m open to conducting the entire project over zoom, even if it’s not my preference. I anticipate our work starting July 6th.
Project Title: What’s It Like to Give Birth? Exploring Pregnancy, Childbirth, and Postpartum (Sociology)
Faculty Mentor: Kyla Walters, Ph.D.
Sociology, Criminology, and Criminal Justice Studies Department
email: kyla.walters@sonoma.edu
Project Description:
Giving birth is one of the most memorable moments a person can experience. This study uses original in-depth interviews with people who have recently given birth in California to explore childbirth. By centering the voices of women, this project examines how women navigate medical institutions, cultural expectations, create joy, and survive what can be extremely traumatic and near-death experiences. The goal for this summer is to finish processing the first wave of interviews so that Dr. Walters can analyze them and write her findings. Her ultimate aim for this project is a book with a popular press, so that “everyday moms” and other interested people can access sociological understanding of childbirth.
Student Qualifications and Contributions:
Students assisting this project will complete their CITI IRB certification. They will focus on data processing work by transcribing interviews by hand, verifying interview transcripts, and verifying translations of Spanish interview transcripts (if they are fluent in Spanish). Students will pull the birth story data from each transcript to help produce a digital birth story keepsake for the study’s participants. Through this research assistantship, students will (1) identify the key elements of interview transcription, (2) recognize semi-structured interview techniques, and (3) describe the importance of rapport for in-depth interviews.
Preference will be given to students with an interest in gender, race, health and medicine, human reproduction, and/or the body, given the project's focus. Ideally, students will have familiarity with social scientific research methods.
Meeting Schedule and Modality:
Three research meetings will occur remotely (via Zoom) this summer between June 1–Aug 15.
Project Title: Meaning of a Suitable Romantic Partner: Mate Selection Preferences (Sociology)
Faculty Mentor: Soo-Yeon Yoon, Ph.D.
Sociology, Criminology, and Criminal Justice Studies Department
email: yoons@sonoma.edu
Project Description:
This project investigates the criteria young adults use to evaluate potential partners, focusing on the distinction between preferences for dating partners and for spouses. This distinction has been largely overlooked in the family demography literature, which has tended to assume that mate selection is oriented toward marriage. By incorporating both objective traits (e.g., education, income) and relational traits (e.g., good communication), this study seeks to capture the full range of attributes shaping contemporary mate preferences.
Student Qualifications and Contributions:
All students interested in social science research are welcome to apply. A large portion of the student work will involve searching for relevant literature, building annotated bibliographies, and contributing to a literature review. Although it's not required, students who have completed a research methods course and have a basic understanding of social science research methods are preferred.
Meeting Schedule and Modality:
Meetings will take place virtually every 2 weeks. Work may be concentrated in a selected month or through the duration of the summer, depending on students' availability and preferences.
Project Title: Designing Equitable Career Pathways: AI, Experiential Learning, and High Impact Practices (Communication)
Faculty Mentor: Emily Acosta Lewis, Ph.D.
Art, Media, and Communication Department
email: acos@sonoma.edu
Project Description:
Experiential learning opportunities such as internships, undergraduate research, service learning, and applied media projects are strongly associated with student persistence, career readiness, and post-graduate success. At the same time, artificial intelligence is transforming many industries, changing how students prepare for future careers. This research project examines how higher education programs can be designed to expand equitable access to experiential learning while preparing students for an AI-influenced workforce. Working with the faculty mentor, student researchers will help investigate how institutional policies, program requirements, and communication practices shape student access to career-building opportunities. Students will assist with a structured review of experiential learning programs, including internship descriptions, program materials, and course-based applied learning opportunities, to identify where documentation requirements, employment assumptions, or program language may unintentionally create barriers. Students will also examine how AI-related career skills and tools are being integrated into communication and media pathways. The goal is to generate recommendations for more inclusive and future-oriented experiential learning design. Through this project, students will gain experience in qualitative research, document analysis, policy review, and translating research findings into practical recommendations for institutional improvement.
Student Qualifications:
No prior research experience is required. Students will receive mentorship in qualitative research methods, including document analysis, coding, synthesis, and policy-oriented interpretation. Students who are interested in equity in higher education, career readiness, experiential learning, and the future of work are especially encouraged to apply
Meeting Schedule and Modality:
The hours will be flexible and done remotely between June 1st and August 1st. We will meet regularly on Zoom or in person if you're local this summer. Much of the related work will be done independently using Google drive for organization.
Project Title: Fruit Pie (Short Film Development)
Faculty Mentor: Talena Sanders
Art, Media, and Communication Department
email: sanderta@sonoma.edu
Project Description:
I am seeking students to assist in research and professional development of a queer romantic drama short film script based on true events. In 1975, queer rights activist Thom L. Higgins, who coined the term and concept of “gay pride” orchestrated a counter protest action against anti-gay rights activist and Florida orange juice spokeswoman Anita Bryant. Pieing people in the face was a popular form of protest in the 1970s. Higgins threw a pie at Anita Bryant as she was being interviewed on live television. "Fruit Pie" will be a short film focused on the loving relationship between Thom L. Higgins and his partner as they prepare pies for the action. The goal is to create all needed materials to seek the funding and professional opportunities required to get the film into production in 2026 – 2027.
Student Qualifications:
Experience with or interest in learning about film and video production, the entertainment industry, script writing, creative writing. Graphic design experience or willingness to learn.
Meeting Schedule and Modality:
Mostly on Zoom, once weekly check ins and possibly 1 - 2 in person meetings on campus in June (not required if students will be out of town for summer), with independent research work outside of meeting times. I am happy to work flexibly with students' schedules and summer plans. I will primarily focus on this project in June and July.
Project Title: Vocal and Career Development of Gender Non-Conforming Opera Singers (Music)
Faculty Mentor: Mary Evelyn Hangley
Art, Media, and Communication Department
email: HangleyM@Sonoma.edu
Project Description:
This project aims to gather and organize data from gender non conforming singers in the opera world. Students will research, contact, and interview opera singers who are gender non conforming and compile data focusing primarily on these two categories: -the physical transformation and development with voice when taking hormone replacement therapy/voice training for a gender aligned sound -Socially transitioning and balancing a singer’s appearance compared to the “traditional” character need. This is a burgeoning field at the crossroads of voice pedagogical and social research.
Student Qualifications and Contributions:
Students will have the opportunity to connect with various professional opera singers at different stages of their careers. Students will gain experience in data collection, organization, analysis, and interpretation. Students will gain insight and understanding of laryngeal physiology and the changes that occur during hormone-induced voice transitions. Preferences will be given to:
Music majors or those with musical experience.
General understanding of operatic traditions, but I am willing to educate interested and enthusiastic students in the ins and outs of opera!
Empathy and professionalism when dealing with sensitive topics
Meeting Schedule and Modality:
We will meet mostly on zoom once every week (depending on schedules) beginning after June 1. Students should expect 50 hours of work broken up over 8-9 weeks.
Project Title: Scinescape (Art)
Faculty Mentor: Sena Clara Creston
Art, Media, and Communication Department
email: crestons@sonoma.edu
Project Description:
Facade is a series of photographic light box cubes with the faces images depicting images of landscape exteriors shot from the perspective of the interior, so it looks as if you can travel into the sculpture from any angle. Facade invites viewers to imagine themselves within impossible interiors, where each direction leads to a different physical and environmental perspective. Viewing these sculptures as precious objects encourages viewers to consider their environments as precious as well.
I plan to work with students in the wood shop to design and build cubic frames and cut clear and frosted plexi to size; and in the media lab to print images of landscape portals on translucent paper. The plexi blacked images will be fitted to the sculpture with a battery powered LED, so it can be shipped and exhibited with sculptures, installations, and photographs.
Student Qualifications:
I prefer students with interest or experience in the wood shop using a table saw and miter saw; in geometry designing 3D objects; or media lab working with Adobe Photoshop on an iMac and printing on a large format inkjet printer, but can train students and give them tasks they are comfortable with.
Meeting Schedule and Modality:
I will work with students' schedules during business hours for at least two weeks during the summer, not including the weeks of June 8th, June 15th, and July 6th for a total of 50 hours.
Project Title: Sonoma Mountain Greenlinks: An Enabling Framework for Greenway and Trail Connectivity across Sonoma Mountain Drainages (Environmental Science and Planning)
Faculty Mentor: Katarina (Katie) Michel
GEP Department
email: michelk@sonoma.edu
Project Description:
This project is in collaboration with the SSU Center for Environmental Inquiry and the North Bay Watershed Association to develop a framework and toolkit for enabling greenway connectivity in the Sonoma Mountain Watershed. The goals of this project are: 1. Enhance riparian connectivity for people and ecosystems across urban watershed boundaries 2. Develop practical, policy-ready tools for green infrastructure, trail design, and zoning 3. Train future watershed stewards through hands-on planning and implementation. By working on this project students will have the opportunity to contribute to future practices of creek conservation and greenspace development in Sonoma County. This project is ideal for students interested in local environmental issues including watershed stewardship, bicycle and pedestrian connectivity, and green space design that works for people and the environment.
Student Qualifications and Contributions:
Students will work on gathering information, documents, and synthesizing existing practices and projects in greenspace and trail connectivity. Students will have the opportunity to hone their research skills and practice synthesis and writing in a way that is understandable to a policy audience. Preference will be given to students with an interest in urban/regional planning, watershed management, or greenspace design.
Meeting Schedule and Modality:
The meeting schedule is flexible. In person is preferred for at least the first meeting, with additional meetings 3-6 times over the summer.
Project Title: Copeland Creek Information Hub (Environmental Science and Planning)
Faculty Mentor: Jackie Guilford, Ph.D.
GEP Department
email: guilforj@sonoma.edu
Project Description:
Copeland Creek is a 9 mile long stream that passes through the Sonoma State campus. Students working on this project would continue to build the Copeland Creek Information Hub website, which began in Fall 2025 by students in the GEP Water Research Methods course. The goal is to continue to add and organize the following information to the Copeland Creek Information Hub website: -Historical Copeland Creek maps, data, reports -Current and past restoration projects -Plant distribution (native vs invasive) -Human use -Wildlife camera animal photos -Water quality monitoring of the creek and campus ponds This project is important because it will be one place that SSU faculty and students, community members, and local agencies can go to find out everything known about Copeland Creek in one spot. Data from past and current projects will be accessible from the website. Website: https://storymaps.arcgis.com/stories/da4f1288828b40e19cdf33335c8b
Student Qualifications and Contributions:
Students should be available to meet on campus several times in June to walk along Copeland Creek and learn about taking water quality measurements. Students should be able to work independently on individual assignments and report back during periodic Zoom meetings. Preference will be given to students with experience editing a StoryMap in ArcGIS.
Meeting Schedule and Modality:
Two in person meetings at the start of the project. Subsequent check in Zoom meetings every two weeks throughout the summer.
Project Title: The Impact of University Socioeconomic Environments on Low-SES Students (Psychology)
Faculty Mentor: Wenwen Ni, Ph.D.
Psychology Department
email: nih@sonoma.edu
Project Description:
This project examines how physical cues in university environments may either help or hinder low-income students as they seek to pursue their college education. A laboratory experiment tested whether cues of affluence in the college environment discouraged low-income students, making them feel like they do not belong at college and decreasing their academic performance. The ultimate goal of this project is to identify structural factors in university environments that may contribute to inequalities in academic achievement among students from different social class backgrounds.
Student Qualifications and Contributions:
This summer, SSURI scholars will help the project director with entering and checking data, as well as preliminary analyses and background research on this project. Preference will be given to students who have completed a research methods, data analysis, or statistics course.
Meeting Schedule and Modality:
Meet every two weeks, either online on in-person at Stevenson. At least some meetings will be in-person. Project will continue throughout the summer.
Project Title: What Makes a Marriage Strong? (Psychology)
Faculty Mentor: Teresa Nguyen, Ph.D.
Psychology Department
email: nguyenter@sonoma.edu
Project Description:
How do couples thrive in the face of social and economic adversities? To promote marital resiliency among couples, we need an accurate understanding of how couples perceive the strengths of their spouse as well as the stressors they may encounter. In Dr. Nguyen’s lab, we examine the factors that shape marital relationships, including the influence of culture, race, and socioeconomic status. This is an ongoing project that will give two students the opportunity to continue working with Dr. Nguyen after the conclusion of SSURI.
Student Qualifications and Contributions:
Students will gain hands-on experience that can be used in clinical, academic, and research settings. Responsibilities and Opportunities include:
Learn how to find and dissect research articles about stress and intimate relationships
Learn how to interview couples and conduct those interviews via telephone
Recruit couples in the Bay Area to participate in the study
Meet weekly with faculty mentor
There are no required qualifications; all are welcome to apply! Students who are bilingual in Spanish and English and/or interested and available to continue participating after SSURI are especially encouraged to apply. Students who have any of these attributes can note that information in their application for this project.
Meeting Schedule and Modality:
Team meetings occur weekly via Zoom from June 1st to mid-August. Team members also communicate regularly via email in between meetings. One-on-one Zoom meetings may also be scheduled as needed.
Project Title: EEG Investigations of Attention and Working Memory (Cognitive Psychology)
Faculty Mentor: Evan Lintz, Ph.D.
Psychology Department
email: lintze@sonoma.edu
Project Description:
We use our working memory (WM; AKA short-term memory) for nearly everything we do. Our use of attention influences what is held in WM, and vice-versa. Despite decades of research, we barely understand how the brain maintains information in WM. Our ability to remember things over the long term is nearly unlimited; however, WM can only hold ~4 items at once—and we don’t know why! Further, since we are constantly updating the contents of our WM, some things will be removed, and there is a longstanding debate as to whether such a process can be consciously controlled. My previous work used a novel WM updating task that required participants to remember a continually changing set of images while we recorded electroencephalography (EEG) data. EEG is a form of neuroimaging, which measures the electrical activity produced by the brain via sensors placed on the scalp. This experiment produced a rich dataset; however, now that we have a sense of the results, our goal is to refine the task so that we can test some of the new hypotheses it generated. This summer, we have two main goals: 1) Conduct further exploratory analyses, determine which new versions of the task would be most fruitful, and revise the task to implement them. 2) Expand the current stimulus set (images of people, places, and things) to allow for a new way of testing participants’ memory after they perform the task. This would involve working with large databases to select sets of similar-looking images.
Student Qualifications and Contributions:
Students will gain experience with EEG data analysis, the process of developing and implementing experiment designs, and the construction and validation of stimulus sets. No EEG experience is necessary, though some familiarity with statistics/research methods is beneficial. We will spend the first ~4 hours learning the basics of EEG and related topics, before digging into the analysis side of things. I will handle running any software involved; however, if students are interested, they are welcome to contribute here as well (all software is open-source or has free trial versions that would work fine for the summer).
Students are welcome to continue as volunteers in my lab in the fall if they are interested in seeing how their work fits into the bigger picture. Both aspects of the project would be appropriate as a student-presented research poster, if students wish to see these components of the project to completion.
Meeting Schedule and Modality:
We will meet weekly or biweekly via Zoom to run analyses and discuss the results, as well as divvy up tasks to be completed remotely prior to the next meeting. The overall schedule is extremely flexible; the research team will meet briefly in early summer to formulate a plan that fits everyone’s availability.