Graduate Scholars & Their Projects
2025-2026 Cohort

Librecht Baker
Department of English

MacKenzie Bonner
Department of Sociology

An-Ru Chu
Department of Drama

Imtiyaz Hariyani
Department of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology
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2024-2025 Cohort
Maryam Hassani
Department of Informatics
Diana M. Fathi
Department of Drama
Project Title: The Performative Act of Writing: Connecting Artistic Practice and Critical Reflection in Theatre Studies
Tracy Uzoigwe
Department of Cognitive Science
Winter-Spring 2024 Cohort

Clay Ammentorp
Department of History
Project Title: Speed-Revision: Tracking the Impact of Accelerated Peer Feedback on Process Writing

Nora Bradford
Department of Cognitive Science
Project Title: The Potential of Stylistic Self-revision to Improve Disciplinary Content Understanding

Amy Gilmore
Department of Political Science

Jiaxuan Li
Department of Language Science
Project Title: ChatGPT in the Classroom: How does the use of Generative AI Tools Impact Students’ Writing Quality and Conceptual Learning?

Matthew Madruga
Department of Philosophy
Project Title: Writing Ethically: Being Ethical — Can writing about ethics or moral theory improve a student’s ethics?

Katya Moiseeva
Department of Criminology, Law & Society
Project Title: The Role of Reflective Writing in Teaching Controversial Topics

Emily Parise
Department of Drama
Project Title: Undergraduate Student Attitudes and Improvements Throughout the Revision Process

Mahkameh Rasouli
School of Nursing
Project Title: Examining the Impact of Guided ChatGPT Utilization on Nursing Undergraduate Students’ Self-Efficacy in Assignment Completion

Waverly Tseng
School of Education
Project Title: How do students engage with a generative AI tool to support their writing process, and how does use of the tool affect their comfort with writing?

Fuxin Zhai
School of Business
Project Title: How do students write the risk factor section of the S-1 Form professionally in the IPO document by learning from past IPO documents and professionals in industry?
