Undergraduate & Graduate Student Research

BSW students Christine Kwon and Maya Novick had presentations accepted at the National Conference of Undergraduate Research (NCUR):  

• Christine’s presentation is entitled, “Adverse Childhood Experiences, Intimate Partner Violence, Anger, and Mental Health Symptoms Among Incarcerated Women”, and Rachel Garthe served as her faculty mentor. 
• Maya’s presentation is entitled, “Intimate Partner Violence Against Transgender and Gender Expansive Individuals: A Review of Existing Literature.” Rachel Garthe served as their faculty mentor, and Allyson Blackburn (PhD student in Psychology) served as a mentor.

BSW student, Christine Kwon, and Rachel Garthe, had a presentation accepted at the Society for Prevention Research: “Adverse Childhood Experiences, Intimate Partner Violence and Mental Health among Incarcerated Women: The Role of State Anger”

MSW student, Alexis Krones, had a presentation accepted at the Society for Community Research and Action (SCRA): “An uphill battle: Sexual violence preventionists’ experiences engaging community members and partners” with co-authors Agnes Rieger, Rachel Garthe, & Nicole Allen.

Finally, social work students presented and won awards at the Undergraduate Research Symposium at UIUC: 

A Narrated Review on the Prevalence of Police Violence in the Disability Community Riley Murphy, Junior, Social Work, SSW (Research Mentor(s): Rachel Garthe, School of Social Work & Carol Wilson-Smith, School of Social Work)

Intimate Partner Violence Against Transgender and Gender Expansive Individuals: A Review of Existing Literature Maya Novick, Sophomore, Social Work, SSW (Research Mentor(s): Rachel Garthe, School of Social Work & Allyson Blackburn, Psychology)

Positive Relationships with Parents or Other Adults: A Protective Factor Against the Transmission of Intergenerational Trauma Alina Loewenstein, Sophomore, Psychology, LAS (Research Mentor(s): Rachel Garthe, School of Social Work & Qihao Zhan, School of Social Work)

Winner of Conference Travel Grant (CTG): 

Adverse Childhood Experiences, Intimate Partner Violence, Anger, and Mental Health Symptoms Among Incarcerated Women Christine Kwon, Junior, Social Work, SSW (Research Mentor: Rachel Garthe, School of Social Work)

Undergraduate Research Certificate Awardees: 

Madisyn Welsh

Amanda Yeazel