Student Research.

Undergraduate Research

Undergraduate Research
Dr. Maynard Schaus
Associate Professor of Biology
Phone 757.455.3247

Dr. Robert Albertson
Associate Dean
Phone 757.455.3226

 

2008 Undergraduate Research Symposium Participants

Humanities Division's Featured Talks - April 28 at 7:30PM

Kim Fahle - "The Diverse Religious Art of the Nineteenth Century"
Kelli Karcher - "Women in Mathematics: Challenging Gender Typecasting in David Auburn's Proof"
Katherine Bradley - "It Was Our Duty: Motherhood and the German Nazi Regime"
David Weirich - "Formal analysis of 'Pantoum' from Ravel's Piano Trio"

Social Sciences Division's Featured Talks - April 29 at 4:30PM

Julie Maggioncalda - "The Drug and Alcohol Use of Female College Student Athletes and Sorority Women"
Krystle Kitchen - "College Student's Motivation to Volunteer: An Examination of Research and Values"
Desiree Lipinski - "Including or Excluding: Is Inclusion Really a Practical Practice for Special Education Students?"

Natural Sciences & Mathematics Division's Featured Talks - April 30 at 4:30PM

Tom Fletcher - "Building a Cluster Computer"
Francis Manno III - "A Review of Pseudoreplication in the Biomedical Literature"
John Ahigian - "Designing an Inventory Database System"
Nouman Rana - "Postembryonic Development in two Species of Neotropical Harvestman (Opiliones, Laniatores, Cranaidae)"

Natural Sciences & Mathematics Division's Poster Presentations - April 30 at 5:45PM

Mallory Offner - "Electrical and Olfactory Perception of the Stingray"
Paresa Taghavie-Moghadam - "A Comparative Study of Antioxidant Levels in Fresh, Frozen and Canned Vegetables"
David Curran - "Antibacterial/Antifungal properties of the nudibranch Doriopsilla pharpa and its sponge prey Cliona sp."
Stephanie Couture - "Dermal Morphology of Rhamphotyphlops braminus (Reptilia, Squamata, Scolecophidia)"
Kathleen Mabry - "Use of a Designed Highway Undercrossing by Wildlife Over the First Two Years of Use"
Kelli Karcher - "A study of Crystallographic Groups"
Rachel Fancher - "Conjugate Addition of Active Methylene Carbon Nucleophiles to Quinoline Vinylacetylines"
Paresa Taghavie-Moghadam - "Cytotoxicity of Opisthobranch Egg Masses"
Lynsey Main - "Diversity of Pulmonate Gastropods in Southeastern Virginia (Mollusca: Gastropoda: Pulmonata)"

Social Sciences Division's Featured Talks - May 1 at 4:30PM

Laura Jackson - "The Effects of an Independent Judiciary on Democracy"
Kaitlin Allison - "A Meta-Analysis of Diversity Programs in American Organizations"
Jennifer Brownell - "Bon Curè: the counter-revolution of the French Vendèe"

Academic Fair - May 2 at 3PM

Katherine Albert - "Emergency Contraceptives: Plan B"
Nathanael Swann - "Democracy Assistance: USAID in Bolivia and Uganda"
Mary Warnock - "Are We Dumbing Down America?"
Laura Jackson - "The Effects of an Independent Judiciary on Democracy"
James Cooke - " 'Everyman' Stage Make Up Design"
John Maravich - "The Evolution of Currency During the American Civil War"
Brandan Adams - "The Starving Time: Jamestown and Its Environment"
Eileen De La Cruz - "America's Minority Students Still Lag Behind: The Achievement Gap, Its Causes, and Possible Solutions"
Hunter Morgan - "The Role of Indian Scouts at Little Big Horn"
Kimberly Fahle - "'Everyman': A Look at Its Place in History and Its Sources"
Brad Jones - "An Investigation of the Effects of Volunteering with the Homeless on Life Satisfaction"
Jaclyn Boyce - "'Nothing but Smut': Addressing Misrepresentations of Pornography and Advancing its Positive Attributes"
Normal Tippens III, Tanya Tyson, and Taryn Jordan - "Development of the Rigidity Inventory "
Koren Robins - "Lifestyle of Chinese Buddhist Monastics"
Shannon Cassatt - "Design and Synthesis of New Indolizine Derivatives"
Antonia Woods - "Accelerated Reader: Diagnostic Teaching Tool or Supplemental Reading Program?"
Tamecka Melton and Telisa Holland - "Practical Synthesis of Pyrrolo [1, 2-a] Quinoxalines"
Lan Tran - "The Relationship Between Dioxin Exposure and Specific Genetic Disorders in Vietnam and Humanitarian Efforts to Aid Victims and the Community"
Shannon Agostino - "Comparative Images of Prostitution in Impressionist Art and After"
Kathleen Mabry - "Gender Bias and the 19th Century Criticism of the Sculpture of Camille Claudel"

VWC Undergraduate Research Award Recipients

Humanities Division

Kim Fahle - "The Diverse Religious Art of the Nineteenth Century" - Oral Presentation
Kelli Karcher - "Women in Mathematics: Challenging Gender Typecasting in David Auburn's Proof" - Oral Presentation
David Weirich - "Formal analysis of 'Pantoum' from Ravel's Piano Trio" - Oral Presentation

Social Sciences Division

Jennifer Brownell - "Bon Curè: the counter-revolution of the French Vendèe" - Oral Presentation
Mary Warnock - "Are We Dumbing Down America?" - Poster Presentation

Natural Sciences and Mathematics Division

Nouman Rana - "Postembryonic Development in two Species of Neotropical Harvestman (Opiliones, Laniatores, Cranaidae)" - Oral Presentation
Kelli Karcher - "A study of Crystallographic Groups" - Poster Presentation