2008 EURēCA Awardees
The university offers undergraduates the opportunity to reach beyond the classroom to pursue the excitement of original research and creative projects. Every spring, the Office of Research organizes the Exhibition of Undergraduate Research and Creative Achievement (EURēCA) -- a two-day exhibition and performance event for students. In 2008, some 290 students entered 162 projects from nine colleges, one school, and one department. The projects judged to be the best overall are recognized with Phi Kappa Phi Undergraduate Research and Creative Achievement Awards.
To see a list of 2007 EURēCA winners, click here.
College of Agricultural Sciences and Natural Resources
Joshua Jones
Project: Metal binding properties of chitosan films as affected by plasticizers and cross-linkers
Faculty Advisor: Lana Zivanovic
College of Architecture and Design
Joseph Watson
Project: Via Crucis
Faculty Advisor: Brian Ambroziak
Craig Reschke, Mikey Kenney, Michael Davis
Project: Preservation as Provocation: Rethinking Suarinen’s Cranbrook Academy of Art
Faculty Advisors: George Dodds & Dick Overton
School of Art
Aaron Benson
Project: Loss
Faculty Advisor: Sally Brogden
Kimberly Hunt
Project: Moving Forward
Faculty Advisor: Deb Shmeler
Nicholas Kania
Project: The Virgin Suicides
Faculty Advisor: Baldwin Lee
College of Arts & Science - Humanities
Therese Diroff
Project: Epazote and Holistic Health in Mexico
Faculty Advisor: Mille Gimmel
College of Arts & Science - Natural Sciences
Ian Campbell
Project: The Dynamic Oligomatic Status of the Cholroplast Translocon GTPasses as Revealed by Analytical Ultrascentrifugation
Faculty Advisor: Barry Bruce
Caroline Glyn Horner
Project: Directed Evolution and Osmolyte Studies of R67 Dihydrofolate Reductase
Faculty Advisor: Elizabeth Howell
Michael Jungwirth
Project: Interactions of the Cytoplasmic Domain of Lull1
Faculty Advisor: Rose Goodchild
Stephanie Nicoll
Project: Using chemically-zoned games to observe metamorphism in the Northern Appalachians: A case study from the Fall Mountain Nappe, New Hampshire
Faculty Advisor: Ted Labotka
Jenish Patel
Project: Impaired Expansion of Viral Specific CD8 T Cells in ST6Gal-I Deficient Mice Due to Cell Intrinsic Defects in Proliferation
Faculty Advisor: Thandi Onami
Jeffrey Tithof
Project: New Covariant Constrains for New Forces of Nature
Faculty Advisor: Yuri Kamyshkov
College of Arts & Science - Social Sciences
Nicole German and Amber Parsons
Project: Effects of trust on associations between depression, martial betrayal, and marital satisfaction
Faculty Advisor: Kristina Coop Gordon
College of Communication & Information - Research
Kassiah Johnson, Aaron Glover, Jennifer Cambell and Chelsea Hardin
Project: UT’s College of Rock: WUTK-FM
Faculty Advisor: Naeemah Clark
Tara Hoffman, Kelly McCune, Kristen Eddleman, Jeremiah Lewis and Angelia Guiliani
Project: Big Orange Buckle 2008
Faculty Advisor: Lisa Fall
Andrea List, Nicole Arnold, Samantha DeMange, Nicotsia Phillips and Justin Wiles
Project: OCS: What’s Your Missing Piece?
Faculty Advisor: Lisa Fall
College of Communication & Information - Creative
Samantha Thornton
Project: Photo Journalism Sound Slide Show
Faculty Advisor: Robert Heller
Tre Berney, Nathan Jones and Keith Holloway
Project: The Dealer
Faculty Advisor: Bob Legg
Katie Williams
Project: Our Night: A Constellation of Poems Inspired by Holocaust Literature
Faculty Advisor: Mark Luprecht
College of Education, Health, and Human Sciences
Abagale Reddy
Project: The roles of beta-hyroxybutyrate and glucose in the efficacy of a new experimental diet formulation for the treatment of epilepsy in the EF mouse model
Faculty Advisor: Melissa Hansen-Petrik
Maria Paz Ramirez-Gaston, Mary Alice Johnson, Hayley Riebeling, Adam Warren, and Brooke Wingo
Project: Are you Down with Downtown?
Faculty Advisor: Rachel JC Chen
Rebecca Davis
Project: A New and Nutritionally Improved "Food for Kids" Program as Second Harvest Food Bank
Faculty Advisor: Gary Truett
College of Engineering
Soumyo Dutta, Norman Rivera and Tyrone Phillips
Project: AIAA Design/Build/Fly – The life cycle of designing a remote-controlled airplane
Faculty Advisor: Robert Bond
Chance Donahue, Wayne Ferguson, Stuart Daniels, and Ben Shepard
Project: Selective Catalytic Reduction Retrofit for a Hybrid Application
Faculty Advisor: David Irick
Robyn Chaplin
Project: Solubility of Biomass in Ionic Liquids
Faculty Advisor: Douglas Hayes
College of Music
Georgia Sinko, cello
Performance: Bach - Preludes, Minuets, and Gigue from the First Suite
Faculty Mentor: Wesley Baldwin
Hallerin Hill, II, violin
Performance: Mozart - Violin Concerto No. 3 II Adagio
Faculty Mentor: Mark Zelmanovich
Rocky Sellers, baritone
Performance: Schubert - Der Jüngling auf dem Hügel
Faculty Mentor: Andrew Wentzel
Bridgette Orten, piano
Performance: Milhaud - Saudades do Brazil, Op. 67, Copacabana Sumaré
Faculty Advisor: David Northington
College of Nursing
Katherine Bentley, Anna Ruth Ross and Lauren Wright
Project: Observing in an Intensive Care Unit: Perspectives of Nursing Students
Faculty
Advisor: Allie Brown
College of Social Work
Carrie Creasy
Project: Birthmothers: Who They are in Our Community
Faculty Advisor: Sarah Craun
Brianna Tucci
Project: Does Specialized, Individual Guidance Work in Low-Performing Public Schools?: The Effectiveness of a Program in an Urban School System
Faculty Advisor: Sarah Craun
Andrea Prince
Project: The Impact of Small Group Sessions for People with Addictive Behaviors
Faculty Advisor: Sarah Craun
Rachel Gobert
Project: An Examination of Direct Service Workers’ Attitudes in the Area of Kinship Care
Faculty Advisor: Sarah Craun
Cassandra King
Project: A Study of Social Promotion in Public High Schools and its correlation to the student’s demographics
Faculty Advisor: Sarah Craun
Theatre
Lenae McKee
Project: The Vagina Monologues
Faculty Advisor: Casey Sams
Contact Information
Jane Taylor
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