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Butler Summer Institute

The Butler Summer Institute has been developed to provide an opportunity, and privilege, for "the best and brightest" of Butler's students to engage in learning that is creative, experiential, and investigation oriented by collaborating with Butler faculty.

The benefits of being a Butler Scholar:

• Meet, interact and support other students equally interested in research or other creative endeavor.
• Establish close professional relationships with members of the faculty.
• Work on a project that may lead to a publication in a peer-reviewed journal, a presentation at a scholarly conference, or a public performance.
• Contribute to the Institute's mission and tradition.
• Explore your commitment to original research or creative activity.
• Engage in learning that makes critical connections between the classroom, lab, different courses of study and the undergraduate and educational community.

The following psychology majors are recipients of the Butler Summer Institute Award:

2007

Sara Minor
Mentor: Dr. Neil Bohannon
Discovering the deaths of others: The effects of personal relevance

Kara Shaneyfelt
Mentor: Dr. Neil Bohannon
Flashbulb memory: Private memories for car accidents

2006

Brett Agypt
Mentor: Dr. Neil Bohannon
Study of memories of the discovery of parent's intended divorce.

Ashley Gretencord
Mentor: Dr. Tara Lineweaver
Children's stereotypes about the elderly: What do children believe and how do these beliefs develop?

Paul Hutman
Mentor: Dr. Tara Lineweaver
Elderspeak: Speech accommodations to the elderly.

2005

Susanne Biehle
Mentor: Dr. Tara Lineweaver
Does gender of the griever impact how expressions of grief are perceived.

Marchion Hinton
Mentor: Dr. Neil Bohannon
Romance: Memory of a shared event.

Megan Julian
Mentor: Dr. Neil Bohannon
The exclusivity of consistency as the only measure of flashbulb memory.

2004

Lacy Lesmeister
Mentor: Dr. Robert Dale
Investigating an employee's memories regarding job termination.

2003

Ali Kozlowski
Mentor: Dr. Kathryn Morris
The influence of personal relationships on impression formation.