Dr. Ariel Belasen
abelase@siue.edu
Room 3144, Alumni Hall
Campus Box 1102
Edwardsville, IL 62026-1121
(618) 650-2940
Provost Office
Rendleman Hall 3115
Campus Box 1300
CONGRATULATIONS to all of our URCA Assistants and Mentors for the Spring 2023 semester!
We wish you all the best of luck with your projects.
College of Arts and Sciences School of Business School of Engineering
School of Education, Health and Human Behavior
School of Nursing School of Pharmacy
| Department and Mentor | Assistant(s) |
| Anthropology | |
| Susan Kooiman | Emma Warner |
| Cory Willmott | Nicholas Fowler |
| Julie Zimmerman | Miles Cleland |
| Art & Design | |
| Thad Duhigg | Ashley Retrum |
| Shelly Goebl-Parker | Lindsey Marshall, Maisy Garrison |
| Brigham Dimick | Shannon Corgan |
| Rodrick Whetstone | Allison Schwartz |
| Michael Strumbras | Katy Geurts |
| Biological and Environmental Sciences | |
| Thomas Anderson | Karlie Markus, Mackenzie Fisher, Selina Wilson |
| Maurina Aranda | Fabiola Perez, Hannah Almos, Alexis Keegan |
| Carolyn Butts-Wilmsmeyer | Mary-Margaret Benware, Tyson Lobb, Ifeoluwa Peace Osikoya, Milena Di Blasi, Riwaz Poudel |
| Elizabeth Esselman | Jennica Stanley |
| Thomas Fowler | Lauren Lucykow, Jaelyn Boone |
| Danielle N. Lee | Peyton Jeckstadt, Riley Brown, Kelley Raetz, Adrian Davis, Alayna Snelling, |
| Darron Luesse | Callie Field, Jill Lambrechts, Carter Jones |
| Brittany Peterson | Angel White, Corwin Sullivan, Ava Ploeckelman, Mallory Nichols |
| Nathaniel Adegboyega | Abisola Olatunde |
| Kyong-Sup Yoon | Emily Beiler, Blake Rentz, Autumn Belt |
| ZQ Lin | Dalton Steinkamp |
| Chemistry | |
| Robert Dixon | Giselle Krikorian |
| Debanjana Ghosh | Gregory Nodorft, Isaac Chapman, Maria Castillo Vega |
| Myron Jones | Anna Wolter, Adriana Elliott |
| Sarah Luesse | Hannah Bradley |
| Mina Sumita | Melanie Clawson, Nicole Burbach, Kylie Raasch, Ridwan Oyebamiji |
| Kevin Tucker | Samuel Bickford, Leslie Kupferle, Reagan Guerra, Ashley Chirchirillo, Joao Nail, Gabriel Bressendorff, Claire Korte, Lauren Phan |
| Chin-Chuan Wei | Ali Fraase |
| Physics | |
| Abdullatif Hamad | Gabriela Gonzalez |
| English Language and Literature | |
| Howard Rambsy | Albert Smith |
| Elizabeth Cali | Rie'Onna Holmon |
| Mass Communications | |
| Ashton Speno | Anne Fulgenzi |
| Geography | |
| Alan Black | Emily Stanton |
| Susan Hume | Evan Theising |
| Shannon McCarragher | Alissa Harris |
| Historical Studies | |
| Jason Stacy | Francesca Boston, Conner Lynn |
| Allison Thomason | Kyle Matychowiak, Rachel Alley |
| Kathleen Vongsathorn | Warren Woolsey, Caroline Colgan, Carliln Gualandi, Makayla Mallon |
| Political Science | |
| Suranjan Weeraratne | Emma Seibert |
| Mathematics and Statistics | |
| Marcus Agustin | Jackson Huff |
| Sociology | |
| Corey Steven | Chassidy Pratt, Tama'Jae Graham |
| Theater & Dance | |
| Kathryn Bentley | Leanna Lewis |
| Kristin Best Kinscherff | Ali Hay |
| Geovonday Jones | Leta DeBardeleben |
| International Studies |
|
| Sorin Nastasia | Dalton Hodge |
| Foreign Languages and Literature | |
| Carolina Rocha | Josephine Kanyi |
| Douglas Simms | Shaun McGraw, Elizabeth Smith |
| Department and Mentor | Assistant(s) |
| Economics and Finance | |
| Ariel Belasen | Mickenzie Bass |
| Jie Ying | Mai Al Shaaban |
| Management and Marketing | |
| Gloria Sweida | Makayla Rowe |
| Yuping Zeng | Kashish Tandon |
| Department and Mentor | Assistant(s) |
| Growth, Development and Structure | |
| Alicia De Maria | Kelly Bunselmeyer, Luke LeQuatte |
| Barbara McCracken | Nguyen Cau, Elise Murphy, Sahar Rashid |
| Cinnamon VanPutte | Ethan Monroe, Emily Laird |
| Department and Mentor | Assistant(s) |
| Civil Engineering | |
| Rohan Benjankar | Khoi Minh Pham |
| Alaa Elsisi | Harpreet Kaur |
| Saad Ullah | Yassine Ndiaye |
| Electrical & Computer Engineering | |
| Jon Klingensmith | Ryan Kulasekara, Lena Juenger, Scott DeLozier |
| Scott Umbaugh | Zach Walters |
| Yadong Wang | Avery Stilwell, Narangoo Tumur |
| Timothy York | Caleb Probst |
| Computer Science | |
| John Matta | Morgan Jackson, Kevin Belobrajdic, Zachary Sappington |
| Industrial Engineering | |
| Sinan Onal | Cody Schaefer |
| Construction | |
| Chris Gordon | Iretomiwa Idowu |
| Anne Werner | Noah Scrogum |
| Department and Mentor | Assistant(s) |
| Applied Health | |
| Chaya Gopalan | Paris Kinsley, Jacen King |
| Brianne Guilford | April Hornsey |
| Allison Sauerwein | Curran O'Riley |
| Bryan Smith |
Nick Miller |
| Erin Vanderbunt | Jenna Wolley, Hannah Cordes, Jade Falk |
| Joshua Wooten | Dana Smith, Jacob Western, Josh Behary |
| Jen Zeurcher | Danielle Flescher |
| Psychology | |
| Rachel Bradley | Patricia Roberts, Taylor Ferguson, Bernadette Silva |
| Sarah Conoyer | Brigette Skees, Joshua Foster, Luke Balassi, Kamryn Linskey, Jamirah Meeks, Mackenzie Kell |
| Catherine Daus | William Proffer, August Nugent, Edith Pointer |
| Jason Finley | Anna Hendricks, Rianna Roush, Justin Pfister, Sophia Mohsen, Adrien Vozenilek |
| David Fisher | Kaia Ford, Tayler Fusaro, Jessica Stroup |
| Carlee Hawkins | Lindsay Miles, Dallas Eicken, Carly Kampwerth, Alyssa Gerstenecker, Alex Hubbard |
| Jeremy Jewell | Madeline Dahl |
| Elizabeth McKenney | Emily Mutschler, Audrey Verge |
| Laura Pawlow | Peyton Williams, Sara VanEsler, Sydney Lucas, Ebonie Byrd, Jaydyn Zykan |
| Jonathan Pettibone | Melissa Henry, Maximilian Lenhart |
| Eunyoe Ro | Jafar Alkalaf, Kiya Rainey, Kayla Myers, Kaitlyn John, Teanna Cattani |
| Mitsuru Shimizu | Uranbaigali Bayarjargai |
| Teaching and Learning |
|
| Barbara Martin | Abigail DeLaurencio |
| Department and Mentor | Assistant(s) |
| Primary Care and Health Systems | |
| Angela Andrews | Adrienne Carril |
| Sheri Compton-McBride | Elizabeth Hellebusch |
| Amy Reed | Mary Gomez |
| Family Health and Community Health |
|
| Melissa Bogle | Makenzie Smith |
| Amelia Perez | Marian Edith Vazquez Arias |
| Annie Imboden | Olivia Davila |
| Department and Mentor | Assistant(s) |
| Pharmaceutical Sciences | |
| Marcelo Nieto | Jason Sienko |
| Department and Mentor | Assistant(s) |
| University Museum | |
| Erin Vigneau-Dimick | Mandy Lynn |
Click below to see a listing of past URCA Assistants and Mentors
For more information about the Undergraduate Research and Creative Activities Program,
contact Dr. Ariel Belasen at (618) 650-2940 or abelase@siue.edu.
