Pembroke Undergraduate Research Center

Pembroke Undergraduate Research and Creativity Center
PO Box 1510
Pembroke, NC 28372

Phone: 910.521.6195
Fax: 910.521.6606
Email: purc@uncp.edu

Location: Old Main, Room 204
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Summer 2011 PURC-NASNTI Student Fellowships

The PURC Center and the Native American Serving NonTribal Intuitions (NASNTI) grant joined forces to offer paid summer internship/research assistantships for Summer 2011. Each proposal was qualified, interesting, and provided important opportunities for student engagement, which made selection very difficult. Thanks to all who applied.

Summer Fellowships

Mr. George Harrison, Dept. of Mass Communications
- Project: The Use of Native American Athletic Mascots, Nicknames, Logos, and Imagery in America's Universities: An Opportunity for Public Relations Practitioners to Build Mutual Understanding.
- Student Assistant:Elizabeth Locklear, Junior
  Major: Public Relations
Dr. Timothy Hayes, Dept. of Sociology and Criminal Justice

Project: Crime and Violence in North Carolina
Student Assistant: Kellie Van Dyke, Junior
Major: Criminal Justice
Student Assistant: Rebekah Oxendine, Senior

Dr. Mary Ann Jacobs, Dept. of American Indian Studies
- Project: Rural high school student's perception of the college application process
- Student Assistant: Lindsay Brock, Senior
  Major: Social Work
Dr. Jaime Martinez, Dept. of History
- Project: Wilmington During the Civil War
- Student Assistant: Rebecca Davis, Junior
  Major: History
Dr. Maria Pereira, Dept. of Biology
- Project: Staple Crops Germination and Growth Rates Affected by Ultrasound and Magnetic Fields
- Student Assistant: Maria Lea Chavis, Sophomore
  Major: Elementary Education
- Student Assistant: Rebecca F. Panter, Senior
Dr. Meredith Storms, Dept. of Chemistry and Physics
- Project: Ready, Set, Read: Teaching Science With Children’s Literature
- Student Assistant: Michelle Campbell, Junior
  Major: Elementary Education
Drs. Rose Stremlau and Jaime Martinez, Depts. of History and AIS
- Project: The Lumbee Veterans Project
- Student Assistant: James Brigman, Senior
  Major: History

2010-11 Student Travel Grants

STUDENT NAME	FACULTY MENTOR	MEETING
Joanna Cooper	Ben Bahr	Neuroscience 2010
Project Title: Amplitude-specific AMPA receptor modulator protects against excitotoxicity in hippocampus and is well tolerated with respect to stable GluR subunit levels after prolonged treatment.

Kimberly Brassard	Brian Postek	21st Biennial Conference on Chemical Education
Project Title: Catalyzing the reaction: high school seniors --> college chemists

Floyd Inman, III	Len Holmes	2010 Meeting of the North Carolina Branch of the American Society for Microbiology
Project Title: Symbiotic Properties of the Entomopathogenic Bacterium, Photorhabdus luminescens, and its Nematode Partner, Heterorhabditis bacteriophora.

Annette Hagens	Hanmer & Mandjiny	2010 Geological Society of America
Project Title: Sorption Characteristics of Imidacloprid on Biochar

Cheron McMullen	Teagan Decker	Writing Center Fall 2010 Conference
Project Title: Assessing and Adapting to the needs of Non-tradaitional Students in the Writing Center

Ryan Wise	Teagan Decker	Writing Center Fall 2010 Conference
Project Title: Assessing and Adapting to the needs of Non-tradaitional Students in the Writing Center

Lonnie Cox	Teagan Decker	Writing Center Fall 2010 Conference
Project Title: Assessing and Adapting to the needs of Non-tradaitional Students in the Writing Center

Kim Stepp	Teagan Decker	Writing Center Fall 2010 Conference
Project Title: Assessing and Adapting to the needs of Non-tradaitional Students in the Writing Center

Troy Cotten	Teagan Decker	Writing Center Fall 2010 Conference
Project Title: Assessing and Adapting to the needs of Non-tradaitional Students in the Writing Center

Wellington Howard	Teagan Decker	Writing Center Fall 2010 Conference
Project Title: Assessing and Adapting to the needs of Non-tradaitional Students in the Writing Center

Kim Brassard	Teagan Decker	Writing Center Fall 2010 Conference
Project Title: Assessing and Adapting to the needs of Non-tradaitional Students in the Writing Center

Stephanie Edwards	Marilu Santos	2010 Annual Biomedical Research Conference for Minority Students
Project Title: Prevalence of Phenol Resistant Bacteria in a Biochar Farm in Claden County, NC

Armando Corona, Cynthia Correa, Josh Ellerbe, Nicholus Faulkner, Austin Griffen, Rebecca Howell, Daisy Irra, Jasmine Rowlett	Bahr, Brandon, Flowers, Mandjiny, Poage, Sellers	2010 Annual Biomedical Research Conference for Minority Students


Laurie Bryant	Lee Phillips	Annual Meeting of the SE Section of the Geological Society of America
Project Title: Characterization of the Orangeburg Scarp boundary by mapping density and distribution of Carolina Bays in Hoke County, NC

Anna Sanford	Lee Phillips	Annual Meeting of the SE Section of the Geological Society of America
Project Title: Delineating the Orangeburg Scarp in Scotland County, NC by mapping the westernmost extent of Carolina Bays

Amanda Kuhfahl	Kally Charlton	2011 Association for Psychological Science Annual Convention
Project Title: That sexy elf: How do we evaluate online characters?

Updated: Monday, June 11, 2012

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