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Exhibition to showcase student research

More than 700 people from every discipline on campus will be sharing their work at this year’s Student Research and Creative Endeavors Exhibition.

“SRCEE is the official day acknowledging the students’ work and their faculty advisers,” said Lisa Boyd-Devers, an undergraduate research coordinator in her ninth year organizing the program.

SRCEE, which will take place from 1 to 4 p.m. today in Finch Fieldhouse, contains a wide range of projects covering topics like developing a high mileage vehicle and investigating the effects of gambling, she said.

Kylie Rymanowicz, an Ypsilanti senior, focused her studies on examining the parent-child relationship during the transition to college, working alongside Pamela Sarigiani, associate human environmental studies professor, and Phame Camarena, human environmental studies department chair, as well as other students.

“Studying college was really interesting,” Rymanowicz said. “It’s almost like studying yourself. I was interested in seeing how my experiences during the transition were different or similar to other students’.”

The research project itself consisted of sending out a survey to first-year students.

Rymanowicz focused on how the relationship had changed between the student and his or her parents since the transition.

She concluded that a parent-child relationship does undergo changes, and it varies between mother-child and father-child relationships.

“Overall, it was a great opportunity for me to learn about and participate in research,” Rymanowicz said.

Holt graduate student Kristi Knop said she is interested in ways to promote social-emotional health, and is presenting her master’s thesis on the relationship between children’s playground interactions, self concepts and sociometric status.

“I am presenting a work-in-progress,” Knop said. “My data-collection is ongoing, but I will share the information I have found in the literature.”

SCREE will be a way to recognize these and many more scholarly achievements of CMU students.

“A lot of people in the college and local community don’t always know that we have undergrad and grad students doing research studies and creative projects,” Boyd-Devers said. “This is a celebration of their hard work.

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