Research
2021-Present
Research Group Affiliation
Media and Advertising Psychology Lab
2024-Present
USAID Minority Serving Institutions Partnership (MSI) Learning Review
- Funded: Research Assistant to Dr. Jane Payumo and Team at MSU
- Conduct interviews with USAID officials and Partner MSIs
- Transcribe and analyze interview data with NVivo
- Draft USAID-MSI evaluation report
- Awarded $200,000 by the National Opinion Research Center (NORC)
2022-Present
A qualitative exploration of media and information/communication technology use of older adults with and without cognitive impairment and dementia
- Funded: Research Assistant to Dr. Anastasia Kononova
- Recruit participants, conduct interviews, analyze data, and contribute to the writing of papers, two of which have been presented at conferences.
- Awarded $10,000 Science and Society at State (S3) Collaborative Grant by Michigan State University
2022
Hard wired for news revisited: Biology, culture, deviance, time, and reality
- Funded: Research Assistant to Dr. Pamela Shoemaker
- Conducted literature review and wrote an annotated bibliography on articles focused on news, biology, and cultural evolution
2023
Conversational agents as an aid for cancer survivors’ information search
- Funded: Research Assistant to Dr. Argyris Young
- Led a content analysis to determine the information needs of cancer survivors and contributed to a published, non-empirical paper on how conversational agents can address these needs.
- Awarded $348,310 by the National Institutes of Health (NIH)
2023
Stereotypes between Africans in the diaspora and Africans on the continent
- Funded: Research Assistant to Alliance for African Partnership, Michigan State University
- Conducted interviews between Africans and Africans in the diaspora to identify the sources of existing stereotypes, their effects, and potential solutions