UROP Funding
Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program (UROP) Funding Information
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. Olaf Kuhlke, Associate Dean, College of Liberal Arts (okuhlke or 726-7331). 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 | ||
| Fall 2009 Funding | |||
| Name | Project Title | Amt | Advisor |
| Anderson, Kristine | English Compounding | $1,700 | Chongwon Park |
| Himebaugh, Amanda | Patching the Holes in the Binding Principle | $1,700 | Chongwon Park |
| Kesti, Teri | Why Women Cease to Breastfeed Earlier than the Recommended 6 Months | $1,700 | John Hamlin |
| Lobby, Samuel | An Analysis of Governmental Influence Over its Markets vs The Health of Their Democracies: What Amount of Government Involvement is Necessary for Success? | $1,400 | Mike Mageau |
| Peterson, Erin | The Affect of Age and Perceived Threat on the Weapon Focus Effect | $1,700 | John Arthur |
| Powers, Marcia | The American Pin-Up: A History of Influence | $1,700 | Scott Laderman |
| Radecki, Simon | Kitzz | $1,700 | Mark Stanfield |
| Siegert, Samantha | A Comparative Study of Veinte poemas de amor y una cancion desesperada y Cien senetos de amor | $1,400 | Eileen Zeitz |
| Tennis, Mary | She Would be a Soldier: Gender Performance and American Identity on the Early American Stage | $1,700 | Rochelle Zuck |
| Tholl, Collin | Blake and the East: Raising into a Perception of the Infinite | $1,400 | Carol Bock |
| Woodworth, Blaise | Marxist Jurisprudence: A Construction and Analysis | $1,545 | Tristram McPherson |
| total funds: | $17,645 | ||
| Spring 2010 Funding | |||
| Name | Project Title | Amt | Advisor |
| Ausmus, Brett | Iron Range 2010: Who's Coming and Who's Going? | $1,700 | Adam Pine |
| Bassett, Rachel | The Paradox of Spain's Unity through Diversity as Seen in a Selection of Film and Literature | $1,500 | Maureen Tobin-Stanley |
| Beutz, Jason | Iron Range 2010: Who's Coming and Who's Going? | $1,682 | Adam Pine |
| Boettcher, Alexis | Effects of Campus Involvement on GPA | $1,650 | Melissa Walls |
| Brey, Elizabeth | In Defense of Fanfiction: Representative Texts from a Misread Genre | $1,700 | Juli Parrish |
| Dubbels, Kristofer | Connected Dissent: The Use of Network Technology by Social Movements | $1,700 | John Hamlin |
| Fuhrman, Kelsey | Human Sex Trafficking in Duluth: A Study of the Current Situation, Contributing Factors and Appropriate Adverse Action | $1,556 | Beth Bartlett |
| Haymond, John | American Victims of Stalin's Great Purge: The Experience of Emigres from Minnesota and Wisconsin in the Soviet Union, 1936-1938 | $1,700 | Ron Marchese/Alesis Pogorelskin |
| Kapala, Jeff | Iron Range 2010: Who's Coming and Who's Going? | $1,700 | Adam Pine |
| Khoury, Sarah | Effects of Campus Involvement on GPA | $1,670 | Melissa Walls |
| Kuehl, Clayton | The Bloom of Creative Self: A Metatemporal Analysis of the Political Chomsky | 1,693 | Juli Parrish |
| Lipps, James | The Quantifier "Most" and Pragmatic Halos | $1,700 | Chongwon Park |
| Montgomery, Jessica | Iron Range 2010: Who's Coming and Who's Going? | $1,700 | Adam Pine |
| Nelson, Courtney | The Category and Function Change of the English Particle "Like" | $1,700 | Chongwon Park |
| Perry, Shannon | Activity Patterns at Hilltop East: Late Paleoindian through Late Archaic Occupation of the Fish Lake Dam Site | $1,415 | Sue Mulholland |
| Peterson, Kaitlin | The Pagan Christian Woman: A Literary Analysis of the Impact of Christianity on the Famale Character | $1,450 | Krista Twu |
| Pexa, Kevin | Iron Range 2010: Who's Coming and Who's Going? | $1,700 | Adam Pine |
| Rosen, David | Iron Range 2010: Who's Coming and Who's Going? | $1,700 | Adam Pine |
| Sanford, Brittany | Broken Windows: A Photographic Study | $1,700 | Jeffrey Maahs |
| Schmidley, Scott | South African Community Reporting and Writing | $1,700 | John Hatcher |
| Schmiesing, Stacey | How Accessible are Museums Today? A Study of the Accessibility of a French and a Swiss Museum for the Physically Disabled | $1,700 | Eve Browning |
| Setala, Nina | The Effects of Joining the European Union on Spain | $1,535 | Andrew Snustad |
| Stromback, Cara | A Piece of the Puzzle | $1,700 | Chongwon Park |
| Wojciechowski, Erin | Understanding Women's Use of Violence Against Intimate Partners | $1,700 | Emily Gaarder |
| total funds: | $39,651 | ||
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