Twelve students who participated in Service Opportunities in Leadership (SOL) last year presented their research findings at Visible Thinking, Duke’s annual event that celebrates the achievements of undergraduate researchers. SOL students represented ten percent of the total research projects showcased across the humanities, the natural sciences and engineering, and the social sciences.
Lizzie Speed and Zhong Huang Present their Posters
Below is a list of the SOL students’ research posters:
Joyce Er: “Growing Pains: Adaptive Analysis of Singapore’s Aging Population.”
Spencer Flynn: “A Holistic Investigation into Appointment Keeping in a Mid-sized Urban Free Clinic.”
Ebony Hargro: “Under-Representation in Gifted Education Programs.”
Zhong Huang: “Strengthening Chinese-American Health Coalitions: Mobilizing Chinese-Americans.”
Emily McAuliffe: “Sexual Assault at Duke.”
Ashlyn Nuckols: “Barriers to Political Participation for Working Class People of Color in Durham, North Carolina.”
Gino Nuzzolillo: “Addressing Mass Incarceration in Cook County, Illinois.”
Olivia Pennoyer: “Batson Up, Strike Three You’re Out: Eliminating Racial Bias in North Carolina Jury Selection.”
Elizabeth Speed: “Women’s Underrepresentation in United States Elective Office: Why Women are Less Likely to Run and How This Imbalance Can be Addressed.”
Amulya Vadapalli: “Yemen: A Forgotten War, A United Nations Crisis.”
Samantha Villalobos: “Building Back Better: Architecture and policy of Mexico City’s housing system after the earthquake of September 19, 2017.”
Erin Williams: “Collecting Stories of Murdered and Missing Native American Women and Girls.”