Lake Forest College Students of Naperville Honored with Research Scholarship

Rahul Tamta and Zoe Walts, class of 2021 of Naperville, Illinois were accepted into the Richter Scholar Summer Research Program at Lake Forest College.

Tamta will spend part of the summer researching alongside Assistant Professor of Finance Dimitra Papadovasilaki. He is looking at how manias, panics, and crashes are formed throughout the business cycle. To form an opinion as to whether markets are inherently unstable or not, Rahul is discussing texts with Professor Papadovasilaki as well as conducting financial experiments in a lab that examine human investment behavior under conditions of panic.

Walts will spend part of the summer researching alongside Professor of Psychology Matthew Kelley. She is exploring two counterintuitive memory phenomena-part-set cuing inhibition and collaborative inhibition-in relation to retrieval strategy disruption to see if certain cues impair memory performance. She will design, prepare, and potentially pilot two to three studies that will run during the fall term.

Academically excellent students with an interest in research are invited to apply for the Richter program in the early spring of their first year. During this time, they work one-on-one with a faculty member, doing independent research in one of a wide variety of fields. As the Richter Scholars live and work together and participate in a weekly colloquium, they become a community of peers, providing encouragement and support for one another's research endeavors. The result is a group of scholars motivated to continue their intellectual achievement in the future.

Lake Forest College is a national liberal arts institution located 30 miles north of downtown Chicago. The College has more than 1,500 students representing 44 states and 72 countries. For more information, visit www.lakeforest.edu.