Jul 27, 2018
The UNC Summer Undergraduate Pipeline Research Symposium is hosted by UNC’s recruitment arm of Graduate Student Diversity to foster graduate school readiness and promote diversity, broadly defined.
The event celebrates the work of undergraduate researchers in 14 participating research programs at UNC.
This year, Carolina Population Center summer intern Mark Griffith was awarded first place recognition for his oral presentation, “The Association between Birthplace and Wages for Recent Caribbean Migrants to the United States.”
2018 Presentations by Summer Interns at CPC:
- Kirsten Paulus, UNC Chapel Hill: “Adolescent Knowledge of Contraception and Moral Judgment as Conducive Factors of Unintended Pregnancy in Adulthood”
- Ugoada Ikoro, UNC Chapel Hill: “Exploring Sociodemographic Differences in Access to Care among Young Women with Menstrual Pain: Findings from the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent to Adult Health”
- Christopher Cortina, UNC Chapel Hill: “Impact of Increasing Autism Rates on Vaccine Exemptions in California”
- Elijah Watson, UNC Chapel Hill: “Social Determinants of Household Diet Quality in the Galapagos Islands”
- Mark Griffith, Dartmouth College: “The Association between Birthplace and Wages for Recent Caribbean Migrants to the United States”
- Elissa Scherer, UNC Chapel Hill: “The Relationship between Caregiving Behaviors and Child Outcomes: Evidence from Mother-Child Dyads in Pakistan”
A full list of participating students can be found here.