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Brittany Rudd (on left), a student of Amy
Holtzworth-Munroe, is working on a
project entitled “Relationship Dissolution
in Never Married Parents: Improving Court
Efficiency.” The project will “evaluate family
law interventions for separating, never
married parents. The ultimate goal is to
improve the efficiency (i.e., time and money
spent) on family law court systems and
outcomes for the families these courts serve.
Francisco Magdaleno (center) is a student in
the lab of Professor Meredith West. He is
currently “comparing the babble of Spanish-
and English-language-learning infants using
a phonological approach that incorporates
facial expressions.”
Julie Eyink (on right) is a student in the lab
of Professor Edward Hirt. Her research
“looks at how beliefs about control (over the
situation and other people) contribute to an
individual’s decision to use self-handicapping
or another type of compensatory behavior
aer a threat.”
Stephanie Lochbihler (not pictured) is a
student in the lab of War Years Chancellor’s
Professor Eliot Smith. Her research
“investigates the effect of social interaction
on the behavior and perceived reward of
smoking by assigning participants to either
consume nicotine in the presence of others
or alone and examining the differences in
nicotine intake and perceived reward of the
smoking experience.
The NSF fellowship is a prestigious and
extremely competitive award among students
in all NSF-supported science, technology,
engineering, and mathematics disciplines.
The award provides three years of support
for graduate education. Previous PBS
recipients include:
In 2011: Dustin Asaf Beasley, Lisa Byrge,
Katie Van Loo
In 2010: Nicole Beckage (an undergraduate),
Gregory Cox, Patrick Egan
In 2009: Viridiana Benitez, Lisa Cantrell,
Molly Erickson, Jerillyn Kent, Day Yurovsky
CongraTulaTions To The four Pbs reCiPienTs of The naTional
sCienCe foundaTion graduaTe researCh fellowshiP award!
send us your PhoTos from iu and be feaTured in our CelebraTion
We are compiling photo galleries, slide
shows, and posters for our 125th celebration.
We’d love to include your photos. Email them
to us at pbschair@indiana.edu.
