Six Undergraduate Researchers from the USF Music Research and Testing Lab Earn Excellence in Research Awards
Friday, April 27, 2018
Excellence in Research Award winners Daisy Solis, Adriana Melgan, Lindsay Power, and Carla Formoso Pico present their research project "A Novel Inhibition Measure for Preschool Children" at the 2018 USF Undergraduate Research Symposium on April 19.
Six undergraduate research students working in the Music Research and Testing Lab
(MRTL) under Dr. Jennifer Bugos have received Excellence in Research Awards from the
Office of Undergraduate Research (OUR) after they presented their work at the Undergraduate
Research Symposium held on April 19.
The award acknowledges the student researchers for their outstanding research and
presentation of their work.
Award winners Daisy Solis, Lindsay Power, Adriana Melgen, and Carla Formoso Pico shared
their research poster "A Novel Inhibition Measure for Preschool Children" while Kayla
Li and Hiwot Zewdie presented their project "Auditory Processing Interventions on
Musical Nuance Perception in Older Adults" at the Symposium.
Kayla Li (left) and Hiwot Zewdie present their project "Auditory Processing Interventions on Musical Nuance Perception in Older Adults" at the USF Undergraduate Research Symposium. They each received the Excellence in Research Award for their research work.
In all, 13 of Bugos' undergraduate student researchers presented a total of six projects. Additional research presentations were made by Brittany Long, Christina Stokes, Jessica Shetterly, Sara Skinner, Angela Zhu, Gisselle Palaca, and Tien Pham.
The student's research included topics and data from their collaboration with Bugos, such as the association between music and language learning, and reporting on the impact of music as a cognitive intervention for adults with Parkinson's disease.