4 Result(s)
Mapping Personal Finance Education: A Data Collection of High School Financial Education Course Standards in the United States
The Mapping Personal Finance Education project will involve data collection of school-level financial education course offering standards in US high schools for the 2025-2026 academic year. The data collection effort is intended to encourage further research documenting the implementation and effects of personal finance education. Financial education course offering standards will be collected from online course catalogs and matched to publicly available data on school characteristics. The project outcomes include constructing a dataset for the use of researchers, developing documentation explaining how to use the data and detailing the specifics of the dataset, and producing a summary of results of the data collection for dissemination, in...
Preferred Majors
Law | Pre-Law Studies-AS | Pre-Law-CB | Political Science | Secondary Education | Social Work | Consumer Sciences | Consumer Sciences (GR) | Economics (CB) | Economics (AS) | Educational Research | FinanceKeywords
policy | education | data | Emerging Scholars | Financial Education | Education Policy | Data Collection | Data Analysis | CodingFaculty
Madelaine L'EsperanceNeural correlates of dissociative states associated with trauma among former foster youth
This MRI study will be examining dissociative states associated with a history of trauma exposure among former foster youth. I'm looking for a highly motivated undergraduate student to help with basic research tasks, including recruitment, assistance with eligibility screenings, and audio transcription of scripts to be used in the MRI scanner....
Faculty
Lindamarie OlsonConsent, Alcohol and Sexual Assault (CASA) Lab
Sexual violence is a pervasive problem for young people and our understanding of factors that increase the risk for sexual violence to occur or impede our efforts to prevent sexual violence is not well-understood. Within our lab, projects focus on three main areas: 1) understanding how alcohol use impacts people's ability to communicate about the sex they do or do not want, 2) how alcohol use impacts people's ability to intervene when they witness risky sexual experiences, and 3) how alcohol use increases the risk for sexual violence to occur. Across these studies, we also examine how these factors may look similar and different among cisgender women and men, and sexual and gender minority persons. If these topics interest you, students...
Preferred Majors
Sociology | Social Work | Clinical Psychology | Psychology | Public Health | Criminology & Criminal JusticeKeywords
sexual assault | sexual miniority persons | LGBTQIA+ | alcohol use | sexual consent | sexual refusals | bystander intervention | sexualityFaculty
Tiffany MarcantonioAsian Americans and Health Care Services in Alabama
We are seeking a dedicated and detail-oriented undergraduate and graduate research assistant with experiences in quantitative and qualitative research methods. The successful candidate will contribute to a research project regarding “Asian Americans and Health Care Services in Alabama.” This is a dynamic and hands-on role that offers the opportunity to gain practical experience in mixed method research approach in academic setting. The successful candidate will work closely with the research team in involving data collection, analysis, and report/manuscript writing. Required Qualifications Major in a relevant field such as social sciences, social work, psychology, health sciences, or a related discipline. • Strong proficiency in...