Current Undergraduate Research Assistants

Amanda is a first year (but with sophomore standing) student majoring in Spanish, Global & International Studies, and Labor and Human Resources. In her spare time she also minors in Civic and Community Engagement and Latin American Studies. Fall 2020 is her first semester in the Brain Tracking Lab and she is interested in Spanish and English bilingualism and how the brain processes learning two languages at once. After living in Belgium for a year, she can now speak fluent Dutch!

Caden is a second-year student majoring in energy engineering and Spanish, with a passion for sustainable development in relation to energy transitions. Caden started in the lab in January of 2021 to explore the various pathways of linguistics and language that exist beyond the classroom. He is eager to complete his project over the Summer of 2022, where he will investigate the use of inclusive language and its relationship to English as a first and second language.

Jane is a junior in 2021 majoring in English and Linguistics with minors in German and World Literature. She loves the art of language but is also interested in the science behind it. She's intrigued by how people process two languages at the same time and how one language influences another. She hopes to work as an interpreter and translator after graduation, what she learned in the lab will help her and other translators in the future.

Tessa is a junior majoring in Communication Sciences and Disorders. She was interested in the lab because she hopes to become a speech language pathologist with an interest in neuroscience/ the brain, so she finds it interesting that the lab uses eye-tracking to inspect someone's spoken and written language processes. A fun fact about Tessa is that she has been scuba diving!