Elaine:

  • Group processes and intergroup relationships
  • COVID-19 affects people’s national identity certainty; immigration attitudes
  • Symbolic vs. Realistic threats
  • Partisan polarization

Abiodun:

  • Interaction of people’s behavior around food
  • Food environment in connection with diet and nutritional outcomes
  • Impact of food assistance programs (e.g., SNIP)
  • Regugee health (e.g., nutrition, nutrition education)

Ibukun

  • Problem solving, learning
  • Environmental factors (e.g., engineering)
  • Comparing online and F2F education

Marisa

  • Race, news, social media
  • News effects on policy support, stereotype endorsement

Richmond

1 Ideas:

  • Connecting immigration and education (i.e., STEM)
  • Minority participation of STEM students
  • What type of data?
    • Twitter
    • LexisNexus
    • US Census
    • US Bureau of Labor Statistics

2 Research Questions

  • RQ1: What immigrant populations are underrepresented in STEM?

  • RQ2: What immigrant populations are overrepresented in STEM?

  • FUTURE WORK

    • Implications on immigrants entering STEM field.
    • Implications on immigration attitudes and/or policy.

3 Sampling Frame

  • Sampling frame will be the last 10 years (2010 - 2020)
  • Before 2008 and After 2012 (i.e., 2015 census)
  • Five year intervals to see trend in policy and enrollment (e.g., takes 4 years to graduate): 2005, 2010, 2015, 2020
  • News inclusion rules:
    • Keywords: Optional practical training (OPT), F-1 Status, J-1 Status, green card, STEM, immigration policy, immigrant, science, engineering, mathematics, technology, medical school