Butler Summer Institute Recipients
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.
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