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2011 Pembroke Undergraduate Research and Creativity Symposium
Awards

This year’s PURCS included 94 presentations by approximately 128 students representing 12 academic departments.  There were 46 faculty mentors for these projects.  A generous contribution from Progress Energy allowed to us award prizes for 1st and 2nd place entries in five categories.  The prizes included $100 UNCP Bookstore gift cards for first place and $50 gift cards for second place entries.   All the presenters are commended for participating in PURCS.
 

Art Exhibit:

1st – Caitlin McKone, “A Steampunk Self Portrait”
                                Mentor: John Labadie

2nd – Amber Fillhart, “Naughty or Nice”
                                Mentor: Adam Walls

Honorable Mention – Rachel Johnson, “Thoughts”
                                Mentor: Brandon Sanderson

 

Posters – Social Sciences and Business

1st – Daniel Davis, Stephanie Contestable-Grudier, Elizabeth Metzger, and Sara Pack
                 Mentor: Beverly King
“A cross-cultural examination of gender roles in American children”

2nd – April Sheppard
                  Mentor: Melanie Hoy
“Dinner’s Ready! The role of family meal times in later emotional eating behaviors”

Honorable Mention – Nicholas Faulkner, Ashlee Doughty, Jessica Tulud, Chris Williamson
                  Mentor: Beverly King
“Cross-cultural relationship comparisons”

 

Posters – Humanities and Mass Communications

1st – Karen Spady
                  Mentor – Susan Cannata
“Sympathy for Dracula: Beliefs in question”
 

2nd – Rachel Young
                  Mentor: Judy Curtis
“The Tiger Woods affair: Dichotomy between soft and hard news”

Honorable Mention – Hannah Simpson
                  Mentor: Judy Curtis
“U.S. media objectivity: Coverage focuses on opposition of the proposed “Ground Zero Mosque””

Honorable Mention – Lonnie Cox, Tre Howard, Ryan Wise, Kim Stepp, and Kimberly Brassard
                 Mentor: Teagan Decker
“Adapting to and accessing the needs of nontraditional students”

 

Posters – Sciences

1st – David Blake and Rebecca Panter
                 Mentors: William Brandon and Maria Pereira
“Physical methods to induce changes in plant growth and germination”

2nd – Stephanie Edwards
                 Mentor: Marilu Santos
“Qualitative and quantitative analysis of soli microorganisms from a biochar farm in Bladen County, North Carolina over three crop seasons”

Honorable Mention – Austin Griffin
                Mentor: William Brandon
“Integrated approach to amplitude modulated laser design”

 

Oral Presentations

1st – Austin Griffin
                Mentor: William Brandon
“On the electroluminescent quantum energy relation”

2nd – Maria Hockaday
                Mentor: Michele Fazio
“To share a skin: The truly tragic character of Edwidge Danticat’s Breath, Eyes, Memory”

Honorable Mention – Jamie Patterson
                Mentor: Valerie Austin
“Exploring percussion in early music”

Honorable Mention – Nina Bianca Oviedo
                Mentor: Lydia Gan
“Medical tourism in Mexico and the Philippines: A SWOT Analysis”

Honorable Mention – Yi Yang
                Mentor: Lydia Gan
“Medical tourism in the eyes of the insurance company”

 

This year’s judges included: Michael Alewine, Ryan Anderson, Robert Arndt, Shanna May Harrelson, Len Holmes, Maria Pereira, Jesse Peters, Nathan Phillippi, Lee Phillips, Bob Poage, Meredith Storms, Roland Stout, Jaki Tyson, and Paul Van Zandt.

 

 

Updated: Wednesday, April 20, 2011

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