David M. Culver Centre: Arts Internship Office - Faculty of Arts

Internship Spotlight: Nina Gardes – Rolland Sauvé Service Juridique (RSSJ)

Nina Gardes — Thu, 11 Sep 2025 20:20:57 +0000

I was honoured to receive the Faculty of Arts Internship Award, which helped make this internship experience possible. As a Political Science undergraduate at 51�Թ�� with aspirations of pursuing a career in law, this summer internship has been an incredibly meaningful step in my academic and professional journey. I’ve always been passionate about justice, advocacy, and legal structures, and this internship allowed me to begin exploring what life in the legal field truly entails.

ARIA Spotlight: Sarah Mugeni - Faculty of Social Work

Sarah Mugeni — Wed, 24 Sep 2025 17:49:59 +0000

I would like to begin by expressing my gratitude to the donors of the Arts Student Employment Fund (ASEF) for making this experience possible. This past summer, I had the privilege of working under the supervision of Professor Sarah Tarshis on the ARIA-funded research project, ‘Building a Simulation-Based Model of Trauma-Informed Practice with Survivors of Intimate Partner Violence (IPV) Who Are Immigrants’.

ARIA Spotlight: Estora Marshall - Department of Social Studies of Medicine

Estora Marshall — Wed, 24 Sep 2025 17:38:06 +0000

I want to begin by thanking Mr. Eric Maldoff, Mr. Gerry Maldoff, Mrs. Barbara Maldoff, and the late Mrs. Betty Maldoff for enabling me to pursue this ARIA. I was first introduced to the Maude Abbott Medical Museum (MAMM) as a volunteer, popping in between classes for an hour or two to clean and assist others in their research. I eventually began helping with initial provenance research that was being undertaken by another volunteer. We began to work out a system of recording provenance that would adapt to the unique challenges presented by working with human biological specimens.

ARIA Spotlight: Yanran Liu- Department of Mathematics and Statistics

Yanran Liu — Wed, 24 Sep 2025 16:48:53 +0000

I would like to begin by thanking the generous donors who made this incredible opportunity possible for me through the Arts Student Employment Fund. My ARIA project, Estimating the Ordered Lorenz Curve and Gini Index for Machine Learning-Based Risk Prediction, supervised by Professor Archer Yang, focuses on improving model evaluation in insurance pricing and financial risk prediction. Building on recent research by Frees, Mario V.

ARIA Spotlight: Joseph Liang- Department of Sociology

Joseph Liang — Wed, 24 Sep 2025 16:33:14 +0000

This summer, I worked on the project “Transforming the Teamsters: A Case Study on the Challenges of Union Revitalization” supervised by Prof. Barry Eidlin in the Department of Sociology. My main task involved conducting 30-minute structured monthly interviews with a handful of rank-and-file union organizers in the International Brotherhood of the Teamsters (IBT), asking about their organizing activities and feelings about the union.

ARIA Spotlight: Amelia Kemp – Department of Political Science

Amelia Kemp — Wed, 24 Sep 2025 15:09:29 +0000

This summer, I had the pleasure of assisting Professor Yann Allard-Tremblay with a chapter in his book project, titled “On Being Repeatedly Gobsmacked: Crises, White Ignorance, and Normalizing Western Civilization’s Death Path”.

ARIA Spotlight: Joyce Gerges – Department of Psychology

Joyce Gerges — Wed, 24 Sep 2025 15:00:14 +0000

This summer, thanks to the Undergraduate Experiential Learning Opportunities Support Fund, I worked on “Inferring cognitive variables from behavior” under Dr. Paul Masset at 51�Թ��, analyzing data from da Silva Castanheira et al. (2021) on how subjective confidence forms in uncertain, value-based decisions.

ARIA Spotlight: Ava-Udeane Ellis – Department of Political Science

Ava-Udeane Ellis — Tue, 23 Sep 2025 15:24:52 +0000

My Arts Undergraduate Research Internship (ARIA) research project: Adam Smith and the Separation of Powers, examined Adam Smith’s historical account of the separation of powers and its relationship with earlier articulations by Montesquieu and later formulations in the Federalist Papers by Publius. I worked with my supervisor, Professor Jacob Levy, to gather sources on the topic and incorporate them into a draft for an upcoming piece.

ARIA Spotlight: Mikael Nakamura Vernet - Department of Psychology

Mikael Nakamura Vernet — Mon, 22 Sep 2025 20:57:54 +0000

I would like to begin by thanking Mr. Harry Samuel for the Harry Samuel Arts Undergraduate Research Internship Award I received that made this project possible. The ARIA research project I pursued this summer with Professor Jean-Francois Poulin was titled: “Assessing how disruptions in cortical activity during a critical developmental period impairs murine social behavior”. The overarching goal of the project was to understand the neuronal mechanisms underlying the way early life-seizures lead to social impairments associated with autism spectrum disorder (ASD).

ARIA Spotlight: Ashlyn Do– Department of Political Science

Ashlyn Do — Mon, 22 Sep 2025 20:44:35 +0000

I would like to begin by thanking Mr. Eric Maldoff, Mr. Gerry Maldoff, Mrs. Barbara Maldoff, and the late Mrs. Betty Maldoff for funding my ARIA research internship through the Charles and Betty Maldoff Family Arts Research Internship Award. This award allowed me to have a thoroughly fulfilling internship experience that will positively impact my future academic career.