{"id":946,"date":"2026-03-04T19:54:09","date_gmt":"2026-03-04T19:54:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cla.purdue.edu\/english\/francislab\/?p=946"},"modified":"2026-03-04T20:02:23","modified_gmt":"2026-03-04T20:02:23","slug":"wilke-scholars-win-high-distinction-for-their-research-presentation-mentored-by-dr-kyle-swanson-and-dr-vanessa-sheu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cla.purdue.edu\/english\/francislab\/wilke-scholars-win-high-distinction-for-their-research-presentation-mentored-by-dr-kyle-swanson-and-dr-vanessa-sheu\/","title":{"rendered":"Wilke scholars win &#8220;high distinction&#8221; for their research presentation mentored by Dr. Kyle Swanson and Dr. Vanessa Sheu"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Undergraduate Wilke scholars Lucia Lamagna, a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cla.purdue.edu\/undergradci\/degreeplus\/index.html\">Degree Plus<\/a> senior majoring in speech, language, and hearing sciences and Spanish; Sarah Wu, a Degree Plus sophomore majoring in economics and law and society; and Shayna Ramirez, a junior studying anthropology with a minor in linguistics, won a &#8220;high distinction&#8221; award from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.purdue.edu\/undergrad-research\/conferences\/fall\/index.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Purdue\u2019s Undergraduate Research Expo<\/a> last fall for their work on an ongoing project led by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/kswanson789\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Dr. Kyle Swanson<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/vsheu.weebly.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Dr. Vanessa Sheu<\/a>. This research examines how readers comprehend complex ambiguous English sentences in real time. Please read more about them in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cla.purdue.edu\/news\/college\/2026\/liberal-arts-research-studying-how-the-brain-interprets-ambiguous-language.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">this wonderful press release<\/a> from Purdue Liberal Arts!\u00a0<\/p>\n<figure style=\"width: 1200px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.cla.purdue.edu\/news\/college\/2026\/images\/brain-interprets-ambiguous-language.jpeg\" alt=\"Three students and their professor standing in front of their research poster.\" width=\"1200\" height=\"900\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Lucia Lamanga, Sarah Wu, Shayna Ramirez, and Kyle Swanson with their poster at the 2025 Purdue Fall Undergraduate Expo. Not pictured: Vanessa Sheu<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Undergraduate Wilke scholars Lucia Lamagna, a Degree Plus senior majoring in speech, language, and hearing sciences and Spanish; Sarah Wu, a Degree Plus sophomore majoring in economics and law and society; and Shayna Ramirez, a junior studying anthropology with a minor in linguistics, won a &#8220;high distinction&#8221; award from Purdue\u2019s Undergraduate Research Expo last fall [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-946","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cla.purdue.edu\/english\/francislab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/946","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cla.purdue.edu\/english\/francislab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cla.purdue.edu\/english\/francislab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cla.purdue.edu\/english\/francislab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cla.purdue.edu\/english\/francislab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=946"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/cla.purdue.edu\/english\/francislab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/946\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":951,"href":"https:\/\/cla.purdue.edu\/english\/francislab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/946\/revisions\/951"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cla.purdue.edu\/english\/francislab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=946"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cla.purdue.edu\/english\/francislab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=946"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cla.purdue.edu\/english\/francislab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=946"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}