Every year, LiLaC faculty and graduate students mentor undergraduate student research projects. Many of the students present their work at the annual University Undergraduate Research and Arts Forum (UURAF). Here are the projects that will be featured in UURAF 2026. For further details including project abstracts, see the UURAF 2026 program.
- Benni Ellis-Goertler / Exploring Alternatives to the Traditional Language Classroom / Dr. Emily Heidrich Uebel
- Mary Cavagnetto and Elle Jacobson / How do people talk about accents in Michigan’s Thumb and UP? / Betsy Sneller and Suzanne Wagner
- Chae Eun Park and Keira Wesley / Social perceptions of uh vs. um / Betsy Sneller and Suzanne Wagner
- Rachel Ross / “So, uhm, yeah”: A case study of uhm development between 5-9 years old / Betsy Sneller and Suzanne Wagner
- Lily Kwon and Bai Yang Clemens / Is “low-key” going low-key adverbial? / Suzanne Wagner and Betsy Sneller
- Connor Mason / A lowkey examination of lowkey in the MI Diaries corpus / Suzanne Wagner and Betsy Sneller
- Allison Phillips, Antony Tokrri, Jad Assaf / “Pretty” is pretty cool / Suzanne Wagner and Betsy Sneller
- Lin Cabada / Gender-marked occupational terms at the Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum / Suzanne Wagner
- Caleb Xiang/ Improving Beginner Chinese Outcomes through Online Pre-Class Preparation / Xuefei Hao
- Elizabeth Abel / Attitudes and Language Proficiency in Young Adult Russian Heritage Speakers / Jason Merrill
- David Rabinkov / Anti-Racism, Anti-Capitalism, and African Americans / Jason Merrill
- Caleb Miko / The Role of the Image-Text in Holocaust Representations: How Reinhard Kleist’s Der Boxer (The Boxer) Combines the Documentary and the Aesthetic / Lynn Wolff
- Heeryun Kim & Tenaya Henderson / Reimagining Curriculum Through K-Wave: A Multimodal Co-designed Project / Dr. Hala Sun
- Tenaya Henderson / From K-Pop to K-Blog: Understanding Korean Cultural Genres Through Creative Translation Project / Dr. Hala Sun
- Julia Malone / Retention in German Program / Senta Goertler and Katie McEwen
- Sarah Cromwell / Enrollment Decline in MSU’s German Program / Senta Goertler and Katie McEwen
- Kay Humpert / Does this problem needs solved or solving? / Alan Munn
- William McLaren / Mutual exclusivity in child language acquisition / Alan Munn, Cristina Schmitt, and John Ryan
- Guilherme Roda & Sophie Motawi / Analyzing children’s discourse relations in child language corpora / Cristina Schmitt and John Ryan
- Daniel Francisco Helo Puccini / Has baby talk changed? What have we learned from decades of parent speech data / Cristina Schmitt
