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2009-2010 Funded Projects

The following projects have been partially funded by the Office of Sponsored Awards and Research Support (SARS) during the 2009-2010 academic year. Student names are boldfaced and listed first, followed by their faculty advisor.

Research Assistantships

Adomian Decomposition Method for Solving Nonlinear Differential Equations in Non-Newtonian Fluid Mechanics
Brett Michaud
and Muhammad Hameed
  
Hispanic Children's Literature: Don't Think of Teaching Hispanic Culture Without It
Noemi Guerrero
and June Carter 
  
Promoting Braille Throughout South Carolina
David Pruitt
and Tina Herzberg 
  
The Effects of Childhood Exposure to Domestic Violence
Bobbi Jo Wilson
and Stefanie Keen
   
The Growth of Islam Among U.S. Latinos and Latinas
Seth Guest
and David Damrel
  
Presence and Persistence of Amphibian Populations: The North American amphibian monitoring program
Chelsea Kross
and Melissa Pilgrim
  
Sustainability Projects in Graphic Design as Professional, Academic, and Activist
Angela Dillinger
and Richard Mack

Social Security: Its Intent versus Application
Alyssa Mason
and Elizabeth Cole

On comparison of two survival functions
Brent McCracken
and Steve Hyun

Developing Best Practices for Making Scholarly Digital Archives Accessible to Visually Impaired Endusers
Cory Bohon
and George Williams

 

Student Travel

Alpha Mu Gamma XXXII National Convention
Noemi Guerrero
and June Carter

Extraordinary Affects: Cultural Politics of Emotion at the International Film / 2009 PCAS/ACAS Conference
Jason Funderburk and Lisa Johnson

Michael Scott-­‐ Motivational speaker: Wake up your Dunderheads and get your organization moving! at the National Association of Campus Activities National Conference
LaDarius Thompson and Khrystal Smith 

Street Credibility: The 'Badder', the Better at the Southern Sociological Society Annual Meeting.
Randi Hunton and Brigitte Neary

We Won't ‘Suffer and Be Still’: Victorian Feminists and the Fight toward Equality at the Southeastern Women’s Studies Association
Ashley Brown, Bronwyn Cunningham, Mallory Biering and Esther Godfrey

Washington, DC trip to Research Art
Thomas Brock Allen, Lane Christopher Brown, Rachel Marie Crow, Angela Lovejoy Dillinger, Kathryn Louise Garland, Anna Ruth Hall, Allyse Marie Ingraham, Dennis Keith Morrison, Jr., Derek James Ninneman, Kathryn Elisabeth Norsworthy, Kenneth Edward Norsworthy, John Sterling Osburn, Alexis Anne Rogers, Kyle Ernest Rogers
 and Henry Fagan

National Young Feminist Leadership Conference 
Brittany Brown and Lisa Johnson

Un-safe zones and collapsing tunnels of diversity: anti-bias approaches to higher education student affairs practice at  Southeastern Women's Studies Association
Adrienne Jones and Laura Jennings

Fashionably Femme: Shifting Paradigms of Presentation from Stone Butch Books to Power Lesbian  at  Southeastern Women's Studies Association
Candace Lamb and Andrea Davis

Hispanic Children’s Literature: Don’t Think of Teaching Hispanic Culture Without It!   at the 2010 SCOLT/FLANC/AATPS-NC/NNELL Conference
Noemi Guerrero and June Carter

Mini Grants

Diversity and Abundance of Small Mammals in Urban Greenways
Nada Hyatt
and Johnathon Storm

Benthic Ecology of the Blake Plateau
Eric Alexander
and Sarah Campbell

Stunted and Mentally Ill(iterate): The Politics of the Disgust and the Performativity of Spass in Lars Van Trier’s Idioterne
Jason Funderburk
and Lisa Johnson

Visually Representing Pitch/Frequency in Real-Time
Eric Cauble
and Dana Querim

Breast Cancer Beliefs and Mammography Screening Intention In African American Women
Crystal Humbert
and Lynette Gibson

Anti-Bias Approaches to Higher Education Student Activities
Adrienne Jones
and Laura Jennings

Independent Filmmaking Project: Untitled Pate-Moulder Film
Aaron Pate, Henry Moulder and Ray Merlock

2010 Senior Thesis Exhibition
Brittany Tuckfield
 and Lisa Anderson

Internship at Foreign Translations, Inc. – Vendor Manager Intern/ Accounting/Operations Dept
Williams Davis
 and Douglas Jackson

Magellan Scholars Program:
(offered by USC Columbia)

Faculty Advisors who won funds for their students are: Lynette Gibson, Angelina Tzacheva, Stephanie Keen and Wei Zhong.

 

 

Dr. Melissa Pilgrim

Melissa Pilgrim

Director of Research 
Admin Building, Room 222A
Phone: (864) 503-5457
mpilgrim@uscupstate.edu