Every year, the Center offers students -- from UCI and local, community members attending other colleges -- the opportunity to work closely with a Center faculty member. The two students above are pictured at the end of the summer party for Center interns. Altaf Saadi (pictured on the left) begins her third year at Yale as an International Studies student. While at the Center, she worked on a review of the literature on genocide. Alexis Etow (Lake Forest student at Princeton University, pictured on the right) is a senior studying psychology at Princeton.  Alexis worked on a review of the literature on altruism, Summer 2006.

Marissa Holmbach is a Biological Science student, working with Kristen Monroe as part of the SURF-It Calit2 program. Part of her internship is spent asking whether violent computer and video games encourage violence and aggression among players and, if so, whether we can foster more cooperative and altruistic behavior by developing computer and video games that require cooperation and altruism to play the game successfully.

Saba Ozyurt is a Turkish graduate student studying religion and politics, working with Cecelia Lynch, Shawn Rosenberg, Etel Solingen, and Kristen Monroe.  She is currently working on a project on Islamic women in Europe.

Ted Wrigley is a UCI graduate student in political science, working on deliberative democracy with Shawn Rosenberg and Kevin Olson. He and Saba Ozyurt worked on religious attitudes toward stem cell research and have a chapter in a forthcoming book from the University of California Press.

Alexis Etow also worked with Kristen Monroe on a chapter on altruism, which will appear next year in a book published by Routledge.

As part of their internship, Amy Alexander, Ted Wrigley and Saba Ozyurt presented  papers with Kristen Monroe at the Annual Meetings of the International Society of Political Psychology (Barcelona, Spain, July 2006) and at the Annual Meetings of the American Political Science Association, Philadelphia, August 2006).  Both papers dealt with gender equality in academia
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Altaf Saadi is an Irvine student entering her third year at Yale. Although she is majoring in International Studies and Psychology at Yale, Altaf hopes to attend Med School, and has just survived taking her MCATS. She worked on a project on genocide during her time at the Center.

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Adam Martin (no picture) is a UCI graduate student interested in the relationship between neurophysiology and ethics, with a focus on how religion related to shifts in the psychological boundaries of the self, giving the person who is religiously transformed a sense of connection with all humanity or, in less adaptive situations, result in the kind of suicide bombing that destroys human life.