UROP Funding - College of Liberal Arts - University of Minnesota Duluth

UROPs are funding opportunities intended to support undergraduate research by supplying modest financial backing to subsidize research time and expenses. UROPs are funded twice yearly by UM central administration. More information about UROP is available at http://www.d.umn.edu/urop/. CLA students should direct all questions to Dr. Gerald Pepper, Associate Dean, College of Liberal Arts (gpepper or 726-7274). UROP coordinators for the other academic units are at http://www.d.umn.edu/urop/coordinators.html.

The following are UROPs that have been funded since 2005
Spring 2005 Funding
Name	Project Title	Amt	Advisor
Arlt, Sarah	Evaluation and Assessment of UMD's Consumption and Emission Patterns	$1,700	Mike Mageau
Brunello, Kate	Renewable Energy on Campus	$1,700	Steve Vanderheiden
Carpenter, Peter	Study of the Duluth News Market	$1,600	Drew Digby
Hartley, Mia	Mexican Immigration and the use of Remittannces	$1,636	Jennifer Jones
Johnson, Lynette	Evaluation and Assessment of UMD's Consumption and Emission Patterns	$1,700	Mike Mageau
Johnson, Rebecca	Expectancy, Mood, and Motive: the Driving Forces Behind Alcohol Consumption in College Students	$1,500	J. Clark Laundergan
Lindberg, Megan	Dakota City	$1,485	Eleanor Hannah
Lingl, Justin	Modern Anti-Semitism and the French Press	$1,700	Steven Matthews
Mohrbacher, Alex	G.I.F.T.S. (Global Issues For Today's Students)	$1,375	Dennis Falk
Pickar, Shantel	Do Magazines Reflect the Influence or Values of Adolescent Girls?	$1,570	Janelle Wilson
Sydejko, Jason	Building a Windmap for NE Minnesota	$1,560	Mike Mageau
Weilage, Drew	An Investigation of Message Types in Corporate Blogs	$1,629	Thomas Fediuk
Wilson, Christina	War Bond Drives During WWII	$1,700	Eleanor Hannah
Wojcik, Stefan	Snapshop of a Developing Nation: Peru	$1,700	Steve Vanderheiden
	total funds:	$22,555

Fall 2005 Funding
Name	Project Title	Amt	Advisor
Ewald, Brett	Archaeological Debitage Analysis of Harriet Jones Site	$1,512	Jennifer Jones
Irwin, Jessica	Capturing the Light Spectra of Binary Star Systems and Bright Galaxies	$1,700	Howard Mooers
Johnson, Bryn	The Evolution of Welsh Nationalism During the English Civil War	$1,700	Steven Matthews
Wolden, Caleb	Particle-Size Analysis of Archaeologically Significant Sibun River Valley Soils	$1,700	Pat Farrell
	total funds:	$6,612

Spring 2006 Funding
Name	Project Title	Amt	Advisor
Brockman, Matthew	The role, aspects and symbolic meanings of Monsters,Creatures, and Minor Deities in Classical Mythology	$881	Eve Browning
Handegaard, Matthew	Creating Community at Drop	$1,430	Bruce Mork
Hughes, Erin	Geo-physical Survey of Plataia	$300	Ron Marchese
Irving, Laura	Archaeological Study of Maya in Sibun River Valley, Belize, Using Soil Organic Matter Analysis	$1,470	Pat Farrell
Mertes, Aaron	Understanding Religious Experience	$1,265	Jason Ford
Messing, Vladimir	Nietzsche and the Ancient Greeks	$1,250	Jason Ford
Ostrander, Mindy	L'Interpretation des Fables de Jean de La Fontaine	$1,478	Milan Kovacovic
Paulson, Amanda	The Threat of Acid Deposition in Freshwater Lakes of Northern Minnesota	$1,380	Pat Farrell
Quinn, Katie	Multivariate Analysis of Alchohol Consumption and Consequences of UMD Students: Differences in Students Under 21 and Students 21 and Over	$1,425	J Clark Laundergan
Sather, Jeanna	Richard I. Bong World War II Heritage Center Exhibition Planning and Research Assistant	$1,400	Eleanor Hannah
Shelton, Ashleigh	A content analysis of online college social network use	$1,500	Paul Skalski
Tabatt, Zachary	Tlatelolco: 1968 to the Present, in History, Politics and Literature	$1,700	Eileen Zeitz
	total funds:	$15,479

Fall 2006 Funding
Name	Project Title	Amt	Advisor
Farchmin, Kurt	The Health Care of Diabetes in Germany and the United States: a Comparison Study	$1,570	Gesa Zinn
Maki, Alexander	Movements Towards Campus Sustainability	$1,646	Steve Vanderheiden
Peters, Stacy	Measuring Campus Sustainability: a Greenhouse Gas Emissions Inventory	$1,680	Steve Vanderheiden
Wojcik, Stefan	Campus Sustainability Project	$1,332	Steve Vanderheiden
	total funds:	$6,228

Spring 2007 Funding
Name	Project Title	Amt	Advisor
David, Anne	Marijuana Use and Conceptions of Race in Contemporary Cinema	$1,455	Michael Pfau
Day, Sarah	Nominal Uniformity and its Cognitive Implications	$1,630	Chongwon Park
Entinger, Nicholas	Economic Feasibility Study of Wind Turbine Installation at Lutsen Mountain	$1,530	Mike Mageau
Hinn, Renee	The Contested Shore: Land Use Conflict as an Arena of Place-Making	$1,630	David Syring
Jamison, Tatiana	Knowledge and Nonconceptual Content	$1,405	Mark Newman
McLees, Matt	Geographies of Hate - Examining the Contemporary Geographic Patterns of white Supremacism in the United States	$1,430	Olaf Kuhlke
Meiners, Jonathan	Labor Migration Patterns of Male Deployment from Sri Lanka to Overseas Destinations	$1,430	Olaf Kuhlke
Nagell, Peter	Knowledge of Rights and its Affect on Student Tenants	$1,590	Mary Currin-Percival
Nelson, Zachary	Bridging the Atlantic: From Finland to Minnesota	$1,520	Eleanor Hannah
Thurnau, Kody	Changes of Wildland-Urban Interface in Duluth, Minnesota	$1,470	Olaf Kuhlke
	total funds:	$15,090

Fall 2007 Funding
Name	Project Title	Amt	Advisor
Burns, Ellen	The Effectiveness of Grammar Education in Five Minnesota High Schools	$1,700	Chongwon Park
Johnson, Sheila	Second Language Acquisition and its Application to Teaching Spanish in the USA	$1,700	Eileen Zeitz
McDonnell, Joseph	The Changing Role of Literature in a Modern Technological Society	$1,510	John Schwetman
McKnight, Melody	Cuba: Manifestations of Reality	$1,700	Eileen Zeitz
Noll, Matthew	Effects of Acid Rain on Four Soil Types in England	$1,600	Pat Farrell
Peyton, Aili	The Effectiveness of Explicit and Implicit Apology Cue Messages	$1,700	Ryan Goei
Salo, Nick	North Shore Wind Monitoring and Mapping	$1,700	Mike Mageau
Schobert, Andrew	The Necessity of Determinism: Our Conceptual Limitations	$1,100	David Cole
Sunderland, Brody	Evaluating the Economic Feasibility of Wind Turbine Use on the North Shore	$1,700	Mike Mageau
Wanderski, Jeffrey	The Effect of Acid Rain on Four Soil Types of Great Britain	$1,700	Pat Farrell
Whalen, Erica	The Art of J.M.W. Turner and its Effect on British Soldiers on the Western Front in World War I	$1,500	Alexis Pogorelskin
	total funds:	$17,610

Spring 2008 Funding
Name	Project Title	Amt	Advisor
Brown Bull, Darrell	Litigating Justice: Lakota Oral History and the Black Hills	$1,700	Scott Laderman
Carlson, Jenna	Film Versus Family: The Hollywood Image of Prohibition contrasted with the Lived Experience of a Midwestern Family	$1,700	Janelle Wilson
Finley, Morgan	Jeremy Bentham and Communication After Death	$1,700	David Gore
Hellekant, Bo	Voting Rights in Territorial Minnesota	$1,700	Eleanor Hannah
Jodarski, Nicole	The Paradox of the Liberal-Religious Paradigm in Contemporary Spain	$1,700	Maureen Tobin-Stanley
Knezevich, Ruth	Defining Dativity	$1,700	Chongwon Park
Ness, Benjamin	The Lord Protector's Philo-Semitism: Oliver Cromwell and the Readmission of the Jews	$1,700	Steve Matthews
Scherer, Danielle	Philosophical Theories of Happiness from Western Thought: Is the Concept of Happpiness Relative or Objective?	$1,554	Eve Browning
Willis, Sarah	"Hinterhofmoscheen": The Hidden Islamic Culture of Germany	$1,550	Gesa Zinn
	total funds:	$15,004

Fall 2008 Funding
Name	Project Title	Amt	Advisor
Costello, David	Defining Intelligence: Melville's Whale and The Fugitive Slave Act of 1850	$1,450	Jeffrey Hole
Flynn, Katyi	Incorporating Secondary Agentivity in Conceptual Structure	$1,700	Chongwon Park
Krenz, Allison	Teaching "The Bard" 1809-2009: How Shakespeare Became an Integral Part of Modern American Education	$1,700	Paul Cannan
Roth, Spencer	The Pledge of Allegiance and Patriotism in the Classroom: An Analysis of K-12 Schools in the Duluth Area	$1,700	John Hamlin
Swalboski, Jennifer	Tactics & Strategies of Social Movements	$1,380	Daniel Martin
Whalen, Erica	Vera Brittain and the Lost Generation	$1,450	Alexis Pogorelskin
	total funds:	$9,380

Spring 2009 Funding
Name	Project Title	Amt	Advisor
Karlson, Katelyn	Obligatory Adjuncts in English and Spanish	$1,700	Chongwon Park
Klobuchar, Nicole	Discourses of "La Movida": Views and Trends on Post-Francoist Popular Culture	$1,665	Jake Caceres-Garcia
Landgrebe, Dayna	Community Journalism and Urban Media Studies in Duluth, Minnesota	$1,700	John Hatcher
Overby, Danae	The Rehabilitation of Juvenile Offenders in Minnesota: A Case Study of Woodland Hills, Duluth	$1,700	John Arthur
Paine, Dana	Hostility in the New Germany: Turks in Search of a Political and Cultural Identity	$1,425	Michael Mullins
Pelovsky, Joshua	Plataiai: Use of Science Technology into the Humanities	$1,700	Ronald Marchese
Quillien, Jean-Baptiste	Breton Rural Society of the Early 20th Century, as Seen Through Le Cheval d'Orgueil by Pierre Jakez-Helias	$1,700	Milan Kovacovic
Watson, Katia	English Possessive Construction	$1,700	Chongwon Park
Welch, Jessica	Toward a New Market: Ethnographic and Archival Research of the Duluth Farmer's Market	$1,322	Kathryn Milun
Whalen, Erica	Vera Brittain and the Canon of WWI Literature	$1,700	Alexis Pogorelskin
	total funds:	$16,312

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