Undergraduate members of the Sociolinguistics Lab and/or the MI Diaries project team demonstrated their research skills at MSU’s 2025 University Undergraduate Research and Arts Forum (UURAF) on April 11, 2025. Presenters included:
- Sabrina Ruiz, Who’s afraid of the Big Bad C*nt? Changes in offensiveness across generations.
- Senior thesis project supervised by Dr. Betsy Sneller.
- Sara Kirkman, Emoji and age: Exploring age-based variations in expressing emotions via emojis
- Senior thesis project supervised by Dr. Betsy Sneller.
- Xhanna Travina, A/B testing for engaging users with Knowledge Commons newsletter emails
- Mentor: Larissa Babak (College of Arts and Letters)
- Hannah Choi, Interpreting the simple past as the present perfect (with Jaina Kittle, Kay Humpert, Mason Dellot)
- Mentors: Alan Munn, Cristina Schmitt (Linguistics) – Language Acquisition Lab
- Ezekiel Brown, Verb agreement with non-DP subjects
- Mentors: Alan Munn, Louis Konkoly (Linguistics) – Language Acquisition Lab
