Recent ELF Alumni

The Director's Chair

Mentor: Jake Batsell, Journalism

Texting and Driving PSA for Project Yellow Light 
Mentor: Mark Allen (Advertising)

I Want a Body of my Own [Film]. 
Mentor: Mark Kerins (Film)

Voice Disorders and Care
Mentor: Carolyn Smith-Morris (Anthropology)

Fabric
Mentor: Christopher Ham (Theater)

Assessing the feasibility of three sustainable roofing materials for use in rural Tanzania

Mentor: Jessie Zarazaga, Civil and Environmental Engineering

Reimagining Paradise: Kanaka Driven Tours

Mentors: Brad Klein, Human Rights, and Rebecca Flores, Film

Factors Affecting Romantic Partner Preferences
Mentor: Debra Branch (Sociology)

Egg Drop Soup

Mentor: Rebecca Flores (Film & Media Arts)

Mapping Informal Mining in Colombia
Mentor: Jessie Zarazaga (Civil and Environmental Engineering)

Am I My Brother's Keeper: A Rational Dissection into the Family Unit’s Political Response to Incarceration
Mentor: Kara Sutton (Sociology)

“Strategies for Coping with Peer Stress as Predictors of Emerging Adults’ Interpersonal Problems”

Mentor: Chrystyna Kouros (Psychology)

Unite America: Vote Third Party PSA

Mentor: Mark Allen (Advertising)

“Associations between Family Stress and Adolescents’ Risk for Depression”

Mentor: Dr. Chrystyna Kouros (Psychology)

SteadyLife: Mobile Device Enabled Quantitative Hand Tremor Measurement Software

Mentor: Bruce Snider

SMU Guildhall Capstone Recording Sessions: Year Two

Mentor: Rob Frank, Music

The Synthesis of HEMI and Biodegradable Polymers

Mentor: David Son, Chemistry

Children's Mental Health Awareness in Nepal

Early Interventions in STEM Education: Examining Spectrums of Youth Interest in Engineering
Mentor: Richard Duschl (Engineering Education)

A Comparative Analysis of Social Determinants in Health and the Efforts Done to Mitigate Them in South Africa and the United States

Mentor: Brad Klein (Human Rights)

Urgency in Chronic Disease Experience: An exploration of temporality and preventative care among Agape Clinic's diabetic patients
Mentor: Carolyn Smith-Morris (Anthropology)

Speculo (film)

Mentor: Rebecca Flores (Film)

Analyzing the Trend of Disabled Americans’ Access to Quality Healthcare as a Result of Various Political Legislation and its Impacts in the 2010-2019 Decade. 
Mentor: Gianna Englert (Political Science)

Prevention Against Texting While Driving 
Mentor: Mark Allen (Advertising)

I Want a Body of my Own [Film]. 
Mentor: Mark Kerins (Film)

The Gaga/Theatre Project. 
Mentor: Kara-Lynn Vaeni (Theatre)

SteadiSpoon
Mentor: Bruce Snider (Engineering Entrepreneurship)

Equity Ahead
Mentor: Kara-Lynn Vaeni (Theatre)

An ethnographic study of the effects of Zimbabwean and colonial patriarchal patterns on women’s rights.
Mentor: Jill Kelly (History)

English-native racial minority and ESL/EFL experiences of code-switching at Southern Methodist University 
Mentor: Holly Bowen (Psychology)

The Perception and Definition of Homeless Identity and its Effects on Homeless Pet Owners
Mentor: Matthew Keller (Psychology)

I Want a Body of my Own [Film]. 
Mentor: Mark Kerins (Film)

Texting and Driving PSA for Project Yellow Light 
Mentor: Mark Allen (Advertising)

Synthesis and modification of Maleimides to control properties of degradable adhesive networks

Mentor: David Son (Chemistry)

Excelling at English: A Podcast Featuring Tips and Success Stories from Non-Native Speakers of English
Mentor: Linda Evans (ESL)

SMU Guildhall Capstone Recording Sessions

Mentor: Rob Frank (Music)

Addictive Health Risk Behaviors of Undergraduate Students: A Cross-Sectional Study
Mentor: Austin Baldwin (Psychology)

Volumentric 3D Printing via Visible Light. 
Mentor: Alex Lippert (Chemistry)

Love in the Evening Thesis Films
Mentor: Sean Griffin (Film)

Children's Literature as a Health Education Tool

Mentor: Alicia Schortgen (Sociology)

The Dinner

Mentor: Troy Perkins (Film)

Indigenous Community Radio as Survival Strategy, Puyo, Ecuador. 
Mentor: Carolyn Smith-Morris (Anthropology)

Prevention Against Texting While Driving 
Mentor: Mark Allen (Advertising)

Copper Nanoclusters to Selectively Kill Cancer Cells
Mentor: Anindita Das (Chemistry)

Swipe Out Hunger SMU
Mentor: Brad Klein (Human Rights)

Associations between HiTOP Dimensions and Perseveration
Mentor: Michael Chmielewski (Psychology)

Foundations: The Roads to Success.
Mentor: Jake Batsell (Journalism)

Eds and Meds: Anchor Institutions, Public Policy, and Economic Development in American Cities
Mentor: Cullum Clark (Economics/Bush Institute)

id(entities) [dance/film]
Mentor: Mark Burrell (Dance)

Evaluating Potential Inhibitors for Breast Cancer Resistant Cells and Proteins.
Mentor: Pia Vogel (Biological Sciences)

Boppie [Film]
Mentor: David Sedman (Film)

SMU Pride - History/Research Team
Mentor: David Doyle (History)

Banneky, An Educational Platform for Cognitively Diverse Students
Mentors: Jake Batsell (Journalism)

Race, Pregnancy, and the Perception of Mental Health
Mentor: Andrea Laurent-Simpson (Sociology)

An Evaluation of Midwifery Practice in Rural Attock, Pakistan.
Mentor: Carolyn Smith-Morris (Anthropology)

Altered Thermal Pain Thresholds in Individuals with Multiple Sclerosis
Mentor: Scott Davis (Applied Physiology and Wellness)

Chemiluminescence Probe for Real-Time Drug Tracking and Real-Time Monitoring of Drug Release
Mentor: Alex Lippert (Chemistry)

SMU Pride Project: Intersectionality Team
Mentor: Brad Klein (Human Rights)

Evolution of Local Journalism: Changing the Tide
Mentor: Tony Pederson (Journalism)

Associations between School Format and Emotional Well-Being During the COVID-19 Pandemic among Adolescents on the Autism Spectrum
Mentor: Chrystyna Kouros (Psychology)

Ethnographic Study on Diabetes Management in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
Mentor: Carolyn Smith-Morris (Anthropology)

#Black@SMU (Film).
Mentor: Amber Bemak (Film)

Modeling of mitochondrial Complex 1 mutations in E. coli
Mentor: Steven Vik (Biological Sciences)