Research Bootcamp

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The Texas A&M International University Summer Research Bootcamp was created to help undergraduate students develop foundational knowledge and skills for research, to encourage them to consider graduate school. Graduate students were also allowed to attend the bootcamp if desired. All students were assigned a mentor to work with them on their research projects which ranged from subjects such as biology, to environmental science, to business, and to public health, among others. As well as working with mentors, all students completed exercises teaching them the R data management and statistical package. The bootcamp concluded with a session where all students presented their projects to the entire team.

 

Welcome Video

 

Completing the Application

 

Applications for the 2023 ARC Summer Bootcamp are now open!

 

Online Application

 

 

If you have any questions or concerns, please feel free to reach out the Program Manager, Tano Trevino at tano.trevino@tamiu.edu or 956.326.2499

 

 

 

The Agenda Will Include:

• Overview of scientific method & research 
• Review of data types & basic statistics 
• CV/Resume Writing 
• Critical assessment of journal articles
• Assessing quality of evidence 
• Ethics in publishing
• Writing a biographical statement 
• Drafting a research question 
• Work on research project and present

 

2021 BOOTCAMP COHORT

Feedback from Faculty Mentors agreed that summertime is ideal and the BootCamp is a strong program that has much to offer including: supplemental instruction leaders to assist students, a strong student cohort from different majors, a variety of different software. 

 

Students

Student Photos

Crystal Vasquez	Eva Sanchez
Hector Cardenas	Maritza Garcia

Student Participants (not pictured): Antonio Rosales, Asia Ho, Carlos Delgado, Diego Cardenas, Edwin Torres, Erick Cervantes, Franchesca Ramirez, Hector Cardenas, Jesus Rodriguez Jr., Kassandra Smith, Lissette Montemayor, Luisa Villareal, Melissa Villarreal, Miles Perez, Rachel Simon, Saliha Garcia, Sandra Garza

 

2020 BOOTCAMP COHORT

 

Feedback from the mentors included suggestions for improvement including earlier assignment of the students and being more directive with the exercises for the students. Overall, the mentors believed the bootcamp was a great structured opportunity for faculty and students to work together. A majority (more than 80%) of the student participants agreed or strongly agreed that the various topics covered in the bootcamp helped them. One stated “I love all the information and learning we were able to obtain throughout the course…” TAMIU was pleased with the bootcamp and hopes to repeat it in future summers.

 

Students

 

Student Photos

Alicia Segovia	Cynthia San Miguel	Jenna Arsuaga
Joseph Villarreal	Katherine Carrera	Norma Garcia
Prakash Aryal	Richard Esqueda	Sandra Garza
Mary Newton	Sugam Pokharel

 

Student Participants (not pictured): Richard Almedia, Maria Fernandez Astrain, Bertha L. Gallegos, Saliha Garcia, Aleah Gonzalez, Madeline Kilburn, Marshall Moncivais, Alejandra Pena, Daniela E. Ruiz, Jesus A. Sanchez, Rachel E. Simon, Paola Vidal, Luisa Villarreal, Melissa Villarreal

 

Mentors

 

Mentor Photos

Dr. Anwen Yin	Dr. Arthur Soto-Vasquez	Dr. Audrey Choh
Dr. Deepak Ganta	Dr. Fei Luo	Dr. Honwei Wang
Dr. Janamanchi Balaji	Dr. Jared Dmello	Dr. Kenneth Tobin
Dr. Miryoung Lee	Dr. Monica Mendez	Dr. Susan Fenton
Dr. Desi Vasquez	Dr. Kameron Jorgensen	Dr. Marcus Ynalvez
Dr. Monica Munoz	Dr. Mustafa Al-Lail

 

Mentors (not pictured): Dr. Jacqueline Mayfield, Dr. Milton Mayfield

TAMIU ARC Summer Research Bootcamp

 

Student Presentations

Student	Mentor	Presentation Title
Richard Almedia	Dr. Audrey Choh	Too Little or Too Much Sleep Influences Mental Health: Depressive Symptoms
Jenna Arsuaga	Dr. Munoz	Empathy Focused Interventions
Prakash Aryal	Dr. Jorgensen	Thermochemical Properties of Cyclic and Caged Nitrogen Containing Explosives: HMX, RDX, and Their Derivaties
Maria Astrain	Dr. Audrey Choh	Hypertension and the New Guidelines
Katherine Carrera	Dr. Hongwei Wang	The Effect of Music on Exercise Performance
Richard Esqueda	Dr. Ynalvez	Suicide Acceptability Among the Hispanic Population
Saliha Garcia	Dr. Luo	How Does Social Media Time Consumption Impact Student's Mental Health
Norma Garcia	Dr. S.K. Cho	Analyzing the Relationship Between Menopause and Heart Disease
Sandra V. Garza	Dr. Dmello	Just One of the Guys'?: An Examination of Women's Portrayal in Scholarly Gang-Related Research
Aleah Gonzalez	Dr. Mendez	Heterotrophic Bacterial Growth in Soil Microcosms Irrigated with Varying Triclosan Concentrations
Jessica Hernandez	Dr. Soto-Vasquez	COVID-19 : Contextualizing Transitional Misinformation Flows in U.S. Latina/o/x Border Communities (Media and Communication during COVID-19
Madeline Kilburn	Dr. Fenton	Sociodemographic Factors Related to Fetal Deaths in the United States
Marshal Moncivais	Dr. Al Lail	Resource Access Within A Generalized Spatio-Temporal Role-Based Access Control Mode
Mary Newton	Dr. S.K. Cho	Factors That Influence Depression in Hispanic Dementia Caregivers
Alejandra Pena	Dr. Jorgensen	Breaking Bonds: A Theoretical Study of Bromine Halocarbons
Sugam Pokharel	Dr. Tobin	Determining Relation Between Coccidioidomycosis (Valley Fever) and Soil Moisture Conditions of Arizona and California Using SMERGE
Daniella Ruiz	Dr. Miryoung Lee	The Predictability of Irregular Periods
Cynthia San Miguel	Dr. Hongwei Wang	Sex Differences in Cardiovascular Disease Risk Factors
Jesus A. Sanchez	Dr. Ganta	Analysis on COVID-19 Using Support Vector Machine
Alicia Segovia	Dr. Fenton	COVID-19 Deaths by Race, Ethnicity, and Age
Rachel Simon	Dr. Dmello	Predictors of Terrorism in the United States: An Exploratory Analysis
Paola Vidal	Dr. Miryoung Lee	Testing the Association Between Sarcopenia and Telomere Length
Joseph Villarreal	Drs. Mayfield	Examining Motivating Language (ML) Theory within Public and Private University's Mission Statements
Melissa Villarreal	Dr. Desi Vasquez	The Relationship Between Age and Friendship in Men
Luisa Villarreal	Dr. Monica Munoz	The Relationship Between the Dark Triad and Consideration of Future Consequence

 

BOOTCAMP PRESENTATIONS & PUBLICATIONS

 

Soto-Vásquez, A.D., Gonzalez, A., Shi, W., Garcia, N., Hernandez, J. In Review. COVID-19: Contextualizing Transnational Misinformation Flows in a U.S. Latinx Border Community. Paper in Howard Journal of Communications, Special Issue on Media and Communication during the COVID-19 Pandemic.

Tobin, K.J., Pokharel, S., Bennett, M.E., 2020. Discerning Relationships between Coccidioidomycosis (Valley Fever), Root Zone Soil Moisture, and El Nino Southern Oscillation in California and Arizona, Presentation at Fall Meeting American Geophysical Union, Virtual Meeting, December 1-17.,p. 

Blackburn, Angelique M. & Eva Sanchez, (2021) Adapting the Adaptive Control Hypothesis: Characterizing New Bilingual Contexts, Sept. 25, 2021. Oral Presentation at Southwestern Cognition and Cognitive Neuroscience Conference (ARMADILLO).

Blackburn, Angelique M. & Miles Perez, (2021) Anxiety in older and younger adults during the COVID-19 pandemic: Implications for Cognitive Research, November 4-7. Presentation at the Virtual 2021 Annual Meeting of the Psychonomic Society.

Blackburn, A. M., & Perez, M. (2021, June 28). Age-Specific Well-being Activities to Reduce Anxiety During a Health Crisis. Open Science Framework. Retrieved from osf.io/s8uer

Dmello, J. R., Garza, S., Simon, R. (2021). Guns N’ Roses: An Examination of Gang Violence Networks in New Jersey. American Society of Criminology - 76th Annual Meeting 2021

Wang, H., (2021). How did COVID-19 lockdown affect Hispanic University students' daily life?. Fall Southeastern Sectional Meeting 

Soto-Vásquez, A.D. & *Sánchez-Santos, M., “El Cabal, Vacunas, y Donald Trump: An Analysis of Spanish-Language Misinformation Leading Up to the U.S. Capitol Insurrection.” Cultural Studies <-> Critical Methodologies. https://doi.org/10.1177%2F15327086221093949