The Tomorrow’s Leaders Symposium serves as the launching pad for these successful conference submissions.
“USFSP, despite its size, almost certainly places among national leaders in sending its undergraduate students off to the top scientific conferences in their disciplines as lead authors on scientific reports." said James McHale, Ph.D.
Nemic's report was entitled: Toddlers from families low in coparenting solidarity dodge negative emotions.
Pellegrini & Liebling's report was entitled: Who’s at fault? How parents of infants characterize family mishaps.
Students presenting posters at the American Psychological Association in New Orleans, LA, August 2006 (4): Traci Landers, Lisa Zawistoski, Kim Desrochers, and Meredith Machler
Landers, Desrochers, Zawistowski, & Machler's report was entitled: Do maternal sensitivity or coparenting solidarity alter temperamental trajectories during infancy?
Students presenting posters at the Southeastern Psychological Association in Atlanta, GA, March 2006 (5): Lam Le, Aprel Davis, Neringa Bruzgyte, Daniel Alongi, and Spiro Kotsios
Bruzgyte & Alongi's report was entitled: The family context of toddlers’ behavioral and emotional adaptation.
Kotsios' report was entitled: The significance of parents’ portrayals of their partners during doll play with toddlers.
Le & Davis' report was entitled: What parents of different ethnic backgrounds look for in pre-schools.
Students presenting posters at the American Chemical Society in Atlanta, GA, March 2006 (4): Brittany Halle, Jenny Gum, Luke Talalaj, and Robyn Feuillebois
Feuillebois & Gum's report was entitled: TNT remediation with Lemna minor.
Halle & Talalaj's report was entitled: Dehalogenation of PCBs with zero valent bimetallic systems.
Students presenting posters at the meetings of the Association for Psychological Sciences, New York, NY, May 2006 (3): Chris Scull, Daniel Alongi, and Neringa Bruzgyte.
Scull, Alongi, & Bruzgyte's report was entitled: Infant and family process predictors of ADHD symptoms at 30 months.
Students presenting posters at the Southeastern Psychological Association, Nashville, TN, April 2005 (8): Crystal Cummins, Aldjenatu Romero, Tracey Landers, Meredith Machler, Jessica Thompson, Chris Scull, A. Soyka, and Symphony Thomas
Cummins & Romero's report was entitled: Coparenting solidarity and toddlers’ self-regulatory competencies
Landers, Machler, Thompson, & Scull's report was entitled: Temperament, parenting and co-parenting at three months post-partum.
Soyka's report was entitled: Family adjustment correlates of birth narratives told by new parents.
Thomas & Thompson's report was entitled: What would you want to change? Parents’ views of co-parenting.
Students presenting posters at the Society for Research in Child Development, Atlanta, GA, April 2005 (5): Nathalie Jean-Phillippe, Shauntel Davis, Derek Bell, Jessica Thompson, and Chris Scull
Jean-Philippe, Davis, & Bell's report was entitled: Urban adolescents perceptions of community problems and solutions.
Thompson & Scull's report was entitled: Coparenting behavior under duress is linked to perceived coparenting alliance strength.
Students presenting posters at the Biology of Marine Mammals conference in San Diego, CA, December 2005(1): Natalija Lace
Lace's report was entitled: Behavioral observations of diurnal rest in a rehabilitated West Indian Manatee (Trichechus manatus).
2007 marks the 4th year of USF St. Petersburg’s Tomorrow’s Leaders Symposium, which celebrates the scholarly and creative work of the university’s undergraduate students. Since the symposium’s inception in 2004, over two dozen USFSP students who first unveiled their work at the symposium have gone on to present their discoveries at major scientific conferences throughout the United States. 