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Undergraduate
Achraf Abouras
Achraf majors in the Forensic Psychology discipline. His research will rate the perceived foreignness of a Hispanic or Arab American displaying a national symbol on their clothing or résumé.
Aliyah Williams
Aliyah is currently pursuing a Master's degree in Forensic Psychology. Aliyah’s research will focus on the racial, psychosocial, and legal factors that lead to differential rehabilitative treatment among sex offender populations.
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Graduate
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Amy Polinsky
Dr. Rebecca Weiss, mentor, rweiss@jjay.cuny.edu
Amy is in her second year of her Master's in Forensic Psychology. Amy is examining the differences in scores of the digit-span subtest when completed in either English or Spanish by bilingual adults.
Graduate
Arjanita Elezaj
Dr. Daryl Wout, mentor
Dr. Anila Duro, mentor
Arjanita is a second year graduate student pursuing a Master's degree in Public Administration in the Inspection and Oversight Program. Her research aims to determine the prevalence of domestic violence (DV) within the Albanian American community in the US, the impact on women survivors of DV specifically, as well as the broader repercussions for immigrant communities.
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Graduate
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Undergraduate
Ayzha Talley
Ayzah is a junior majoring in Forensic Psychology and minoring in Art. Ayzah's research will be consisted on digital art therapy and its effect on college students suffering from symptoms of anxiety.
Dilan Morales-Caro
Dilan is a senior currently pursuing a Bachelor of Science in Applied Mathematics with a cryptography concentration and a minor in cybercrime at John Jay College of Criminal Justice. Dilan’s research will consist of analyzing how multiple parties can evaluate a function and make sure that it is effective, accurate, secure, and private.
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Undergraduate
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Emily Ives
Emily is a second-year graduate student in the Forensic Psychology Master's program. Her research project examines differences in perception of sex offenders by society, based on the particular identity of the offender and the nature of the specific crime.
Graduate
Eliza Popa
Eliza is a senior at John Jay and is majoring in Forensic Psychology. Eliza will conduct an original study on digit ratio as a biomarker of dominant behavior within romantic relationships.
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Undergraduate
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Jeeyun (Christine) Lee
Christine is an undergraduate Honors student and a second-year BA/MA scholar in the Forensic Psychology discipline. In her research, she will employ a grounded theory approach and examine the driving factors of Asian American students’ help-seeking attitudes in the context of COVID 19.
Graduate
Joie Ning
Dr. Anru Lee, mentor
Joie is a second year junior in the Macaulay Honors College currently pursuing a Baccalaureate in East Asian Diaspora Studies. Joie’s research investigates how different foreign languages in COVID-19 news coverage impact anti-Asian sentiment in different ethnic communities.
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Undergraduate
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Marco Alba
Marco is a current rising senior majoring in Anthropology and Global History with a minor in Spanish. Marco’s research will examine the economic impact of third party involvement in ethnic tourism in the Caribbean.
Undergraduate
Melitta Oppenheim
Melitta is a Sophomore majoring in Forensic Psychology and minoring in Biology and Chemistry. Melitta’s project will focus on first generation immigrant college students and their rates of depression and suicide compared to non-immigrant college students.
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Undergraduate
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Undergraduate
Narick Kevin Harrilall
Kevin is currently a senior at John Jay College pursuing a forensic psychology major, English minor and an Addiction Studies Certificate Program. Kevin’s research will explore the possible connections between Substance Use Disorder (SUD) and Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) and how those might translate into treatment.
Oscar Zielinski
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Oscar Zielinski is a junior studying Forensic Psychology and Cultural Anthropology. Oscar aims to take an applied approach in better understanding young people’s capacity of financial literacy.
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Undergraduate
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Seunghye Yang
Seunghye is a second-year graduate student in the Forensic Psychology M.A. program at John Jay College. Her research is image-based sexual abuse (IBSA). IBSA refers to sexual abuse where abusers non-consensually create and/or distribute the victims’ sexually explicit images or videos.
Graduate
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Undergraduate
Veronika Zenkeviciute
Veronika is a senior majoring in Cell and Molecular Biology. Her research focuses on disparities in clinical outcomes for individuals from underrepresented communities in the US. She will study disparities associated with rheumatoid arthritis outcomes, specifically neuropathic pain.
Shermarke Thomas
Shermarke Thomas is a first year graduate student in the Criminal Justice Masters program at John Jay College of Criminal Justice. Under the supervision of Professor Heath Brown, Shermarke’s research will begin to examine the prison system structure and collateral consequences of disenfranchisement for ex-offenders.
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Graduate
Yan Shan Yu
Yan is a first year MA student in the Forensic Psychology program. Her project will examine educator misconduct cases within U.S. states as it pertains to inappropriate sexual behaviors.
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Graduate