Butler Summer Institute Recipients

• 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.

Psychology recipients of the Butler Summer Institute Award

2019

• Melissa Evans
  Mentor:  Dr. Jennifer Berry
  Anxiety Inducing Effects of Alcohol and Caffeine in C57BL/6J Mice

2018

• Shriya Vinjimoor
  Mentor:  Dr. Jennifer Berry
  Effects of Alcohol and Nicotine Co-dependence in a Binge-like Animal Model

2017

• Oreoluwa Akinbo
  Mentor: Dr. Jennifer Berry
  The Effects of Combined Alcohol and Nicotine on Corticosterone Levels in C57BL/6J Mice
• Amanda Wallace
  Mentor:  Dr. Neil Bohannon
  Matched vs. Mismatched Gender and Course Subject Effects of Learning

2016

• Avery Charron
  Mentor:  Dr. Neil Bohannon
  Physiological Arousal and Its Effect on Memory:  Visual vs. Verbal

2015

• Dan Evans
  Mentor: Dr. Mandy Gingerich
  Effects of an Exogenous Moving Cue on Reaction Time and Response Error Rates
• Emily Farrer, Psychology and Music
  Mentors: Dr. Tara Lineweaver and Dr. Tim Brimmer
  Play It Again, Sam!  Using Individualized Music Listening to Improve the Social Interactions of Dementia Patients
• Colleen Frank
  Mentor: Dr. Tara Lineweaver
  If They’re Happy, Do You Know It?  An Investigation of the Emotion Recognition Abilities of Parkinson’s Disease Patients Compared to Healthy Older Adults.
• Lauren Murphy
  Mentor: Dr. Ali O’Malley
  Good Leaders Give Good Feedback:  How Emotional Inteligence and Implicit Theories Enable Leaders to Develop Themselves and Others

2014

• Ian Katz
  Mentor: Dr. Ali O’Malley
  Believing in the Change We Seek:  Implicit Person Theories and Negative Feedback
• Anna Sutter
  Mentor: Dr. Neil Bohannon
  Flashbulb Memories of Coming Out: Child and Parent Perspective
• Gabrielle Tatara
  Mentor: Dr. Kate Morris
  The Effect of Priming God Concepts on Interpersonal Interactions
• Zach Walter
  Mentor: Dr. Mandy Gingerich
  The Pokemon Effect: An Investigation of theCognitive Factors that Predict Desirable Difficulties

2013

• Kaylin Beckwith
  Mentor: Dr. Tara Lineweaver
  The Power of Individual Art Versus Collaborative Art to Improve Mood in Grieving Children
• Renato Puga
  Mentor: Dr. Neil Bohannon
  The Effects of Tylenol on Non-Social Emotional Memory Effects

2012

• Karina Hamamouche
  Mentor: Dr. Neil Bohannon
  Memories for Traumatic Childhood injuries
• Aimee Wilkinson
  Mentor: Dr. Mandy Gingerich
  Using Students’ Judgments of Learning to Predict and Improve Test Performance

2011

• Dominick Atkinson
  Mentor: Dr. Neil Bohannon
  The Effect of Emotion on Group Recall 
• Claire Brownson
  Mentor: Dr. Brian Giesler
  Self-Regulation:  An “Active Ingredient” in the Spirituality-Health Relationship
• Jasmen Rice
  Mentor: Dr. Neil Bohannon
  Flashbulb Memories of the Resignation of Butler University’s President 

2010

• Nicole Ehlert
  Mentor: Dr. Ali O’Malley
  Emotional Intelligence:  Examining an Effect on Marriage Outcomes 
• Laura Fels
  Mentor: Dr. Neil Bohannon
  Affect and Consequentiality Effects on Remembering Important Childhood Events
• Alissa Fritz
  Mentor: Dr. Neil Bohannon
  Context Dependent Memory with Nonsense Words 

2009

• Sarah Gillot
  Mentor: Dr. Neil Bohannon
  Sweet Smooches:  The Effects of Glucose on Retrieval of Romantic Kiss Memories 
• Samantha Meints
  Mentor: Dr. Tara Lineweaver
  The Effects of Emotions on the Memory of Autistic Children 
• Walter Stamp
  Mentor: Dr. Tara Lineweaver
  An Investigation of Language Impairment in Alzheimer’s Disease, Parkinson’s Disease and Huntington’s Disease