Journal and Conference Papers with Undergraduate Authors

Beights, E. & Reifman, A. (Advisor). A policy proposal to expand early childhood education in Texas.
Fruin, C. (with advisors S. Hart & K. Behrens). Jealousy's presentation at 9-months predicts attachment status at 12-months (presented through the Honors College).
Gonzalez, V.A. (with Alexander, K., Advisor). (2006). Program evaluation of Ready, Set, Teach! curricula. American Association of Family and Consumer Sciences, Charlotte, North Carolina.

Beights, E., & Iber, J. (Advisor, Department of History). The politics of South Texas football: E.C. Lerma and the Parr Machine. (Elizabeth Beights is a double major in History and in Human Development and Family Studies, and a student in the Honors College).

James, R.L., Griswold, J.A., Hamood, A.N., & Rumbaugh, K.P. Analysis of motile variants of Pseudomonas aeruginosa strain PA103. (The latter three co-authors were faculty advisors from the Departments of Microbiology/Immunology and Surgery, TTU Health Science Center).
Kious, A., & Blum, S.C. (Advisor). Hospitality employees’ job satisfaction in relation to characteristics of their general managers.
Brown, E. (with McCarty, M., Advisor). (2005). Children vs. adults: Effects of child-staff ratios and group sizes in child care centers. All-University Conference on the Advancement of Women in Higher Education, Texas Tech University.
Lair, T., & Reifman, A. (Advisor) (2004). Attitudes toward cohabitation and their predictors in a college sample. International Association for Relationship Research. Madison, Wisconsin. (Click here for copy of paper and photos from Madison).

Millsaps, T., Lindsey, E.W. (Advisor), & Colwell, M.J (Advisor). Preschool children's play behavior and emotional expressiveness with peers (Human Sciences section).
Stoyanova, A., & Yoo, S. (Advisor). Business jacket design preferences of non-Caucasian working women (Human Sciences section).
Stoyanova, A., & Yoo, S. (Advisor). Hispanic working women and business jacket design preferences: Focus on age (Honors College section). This poster won a second-prize award from the Honors College in the Social Sciences, Humanities, and Arts category.

Yoo, S. (Advisor), & Stoyanova, A. Hispanic working women and business jacket design preferences: Focus on age.
Millsaps, T., Lindsey, E.W. (Advisor), & Colwell, M.J. (Advisor). Preschool children's play behavior and emotional expressiveness with peers.
Milton, E., & Reifman, A. (Advisor) (2003). Social influences on eating in sorority women. Society for the Study of Human Development. Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Dennis, B. (Advisor, M.J. Colwell). Preschool children's conflict and emotional competence: Is conflict necessarily a bad thing? This paper (with authorship of Dennis, Colwell, and E. Lindsey) has now been published in the online Undergraduate Research Journal for the Human Sciences (Volume 3).
Nash, A. (Advisor, B. Shriver). Evaluation of medical records and completion of a health needs assessment for rural Hispanics with Type 2 diabetes: A research project.
Stoyanova, A. (Advisor, S. "Lori" Yoo). Design preferences of non-Caucasian working women: A business jacket focus. This paper has now been published in the online Undergraduate Research Journal for the Human Sciences (Volume 2).

Diane Saenz completed her thesis requirement for the McNair Program (September 2003), with a paper entitled Revalidation of the Nutrition Knowledge Component of a Survey Designed for Evaluation of WIC Participants with Overweight in Texas. Currently she is working with a community-based research project in the Dominican Republic, where she is also completing a minor in Spanish. Update by Dr. Carmen Roman-Shriver.