Poster Presentation
Lynn Domond, a 2022 graduate of UC Riverside, completed a paid internship in UCR’s Research in Science and Engineering (RISE) program. The 10-week summer program pairs undergraduate students with faculty mentors to gain research experience and STEM career preparation Lynn worked in the PADLAB with Dr. Franchak on a project using ecological momentary assessment to track infants’ everyday experiences from 4 to 7 months.
The culmination of the internship was a poster presentation at the RISE Undergraduate Research Symposium, where Lynn shared a poster entitled Relation Between Restraint and Infant Sitting Acquisition. In her poster, Lynn tested whether infants who could sit independently at 6 months compared to infants who could not sit at 6 months differed in how much time they spent restrained at 5 months. Preliminary results trended towards showing that less restrained time (either in a device or by a parent) may be linked with the acquisition of sitting, which will be confirmed when the final sample is collected.