Dr. Paul Conway is an assistant professor in the Department of Psychology . He is interested in the psychology of morality and justice, how people think about good and bad, right and wrong, and whether to help or harm others. Congratulations, Dr. Conway!

For her nomination of Dr. Conway, UROP student Kailyn O'Connor wrote, "I had the wonderful opportunity of running my own experiment and getting first hand experience in the field. He had faith in me to basically run a whole study on my own with his guidance when I had never done anything in research before. Dr. Conway was patient with my [initial] confusion, answered all of my questions and helped me every step of the way."

Dr. Peter Cheetham was a post-doc and is currently a faculty member working at the Center for Advanced Power Systems at FSU. He has hosted several UROP student in his lab over the years including Alexia Mullings, who nominated him for this award! Congratulations, Dr. Cheetham!

Alexia wrote of her time working with Dr. Cheetha m, " Dr. Peter Cheetham has demonstrated outstanding guidance and mentoring during my UROP research project by giving me the opportunity to observe projects and experiments that take place at the Center for Advanced Power Systems, even when they do not involve my own research, in order to give me the opportunity to gain more exposure to real life projects and environments that engineers work in."

Kate Hill is a PhD student in biological sciences and hosts several UROP students in her lab. Her UROP assistant Elizabeth Campos nominated her for this award. Congratulations, Kate Hill!

Elizabeth wrote of her ment or, " Kate Hill has demonstrated outstanding guidance and mentorship through the time of our UROP study. Kate exemplifies the meaning of constant support and dedication to her work and has shown me a new light to the research field. She goes out of her way to help my cohort and me with our projects and has shown us the diverse aspects that build a researcher."

We are recruiting UROP project proposals for the 2019-2020 academic year from faculty, post-doc, graduate, and community research projects to broaden the options for our Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program students.

Learn more about how to become a UROP Research Mentor and help FSU students get experience in their field!

Application deadline: August 12, 2019!

Associate Director Kimberly Reid administers the Global Scholars Program, Gap Year Fellows, and the IDEA Grant programs for the CRE. She is also a recent FSU alumna, earning her PhD in 2018 in International and Multicultural Education!

Last month, Dr. Reid was awarded the 2019 Best Dissertation Award from the Comparative and International Education Society (CIES) Study Abroad and International Students Special Interest Group at the CIES annual conference in San Francisco. Her doctoral dissertation, titled Crossing Borders, Crossing Boundaries: Negotiating identity in international service learning, explores how students negotiate their sociocultural identities throughout an international service learning program and compares the identity negotiation experiences of traditionally represented and underrepresented students.

In addition to her academic successes, she enjoys being outdoors, eating ice cream, biking, and incorporating fun, hands-on activities into CRE events. Congratulations, Dr. Reid!

Nia is currently working on her Honors in the Major thesis research in physical chemistry under the supervision of Dr. Thierry Dubroca at the National High Magnetic Field Laboratory . Her research involves studying the dynamics of radicals and the target molecule, carbon-13 tetrachloride, in solution using two techniques: liquid scalar Overhauser dynamic nuclear polarization (DNP) and electron paramagnetic resonance (EPR) spectroscopy. 

During her time in UROP, she worked in Dr. Lei Zhu's organic chemistry lab where she synthesized fluorescent dyes used to image zinc (II) in living cells. She also served as vice president of FGLSAMP , before serving two terms as president. She spearheaded FGLSAMP's involvement in service through FSU STEM Day and the MagLab Open House.

Nia presented her research at the 2017 ACC Meeting of the Minds and the 2019 National Conference for Undergraduate Researc h. She is an IDEA Grant recipient, being awarded the 2019 Scott and Ina McNichols Undergraduate Research Award, which will fund her honors thesis research this summer. After she graduates, she plans to earn her PhD in physical chemistry.

Benji Charles was born in Haiti and raised in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, and i s a third year transfer student majoring in computer science.

For the past two semesters, he has conducted research through UROP at the Research Computing Center under Paul Van Der Mark, PhD & Prasad Hemantha Maddumage, PhD using FSU’s supercomputer to complete a research project titled “Using Machine Learning to Predict Financial Markets”. He presented his research twice at the 2019 Undergraduate Research Symposium and at Tallahassee's MLx19 (Machine Learning Expo 2019) . He is a member of the FGLSAMP (Florida Georgia Louis Stokes Alliance for Minorities Participation) and Theta Tau: Professional Engineering Fraternity.

He plans to take the GRE and apply to graduate school next year. Benji wants to focus on machine learning and analyzing big data. This summer he will go to Orlando to intern for Lockheed Martin, the largest defense contractor in the world.

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