Betty Buchanan Dunn '53 University Fellows Endowment Fund

My summer research looked at the connections between technology and a student’s sense of belongingness in public elementary education. Through a combination of school visits, literature reviews, and reflection on the purposes of early education, I was able to begin developing a framework to think seriously about how schools should use technology with young children.  

The topic of my research is abroad experiences effects on education inequality for pre-health students. This project consists of analyzing pre-health and especially pre-med student’s experiences of participating in a pre-health environment abroad. My research questions are how do health-related international programs and/or lab courses benefit pre-health professions students? And, due to access problems, how do these programs perpetuate inequality in the medical system?

How does the politicization of ethnicity impact government minority development efforts in East and Southeast Asia?