Honors Students Win 6 UGRC Stipends for Sumer 2008

On April 26, 2008, Christopher Newport University’s Undergraduate/Graduate Research Council (UGRC) proudly announced the winners of this year’s Summer Research Stipends during the Seventh Annual Paideia Conference.  As part of its effort to encourage academic initiative and support undergraduate research, the UGRC offered seven $1100.00 stipends to help students (and faculty mentors) from all disciplines defray expenses connected with conducting research during the summer.  Each student received $700.00 and each faculty mentor $400.  The awards are generously supplied by CNU’s Office of the Provost and Alumni Society.
 
Listed below are the six Honors students who won research stipends and the title of their work; faculty mentor and department appear in parenthesis:

Joanna Andrusko: “The Immigration Debate in 21st Century Prince William County: VA as a Micro-history of the Century-old Latino Migration Movement” (Dr. William Connell, Dept. of History).
 
Andrew Berglund: “The Religious and Cultural Impact of the Early Moravian Church on Christianity in both Central Europe and the Southeast United States” (Dr. Kip Redick, Dept. of Philosophy & Religious Studies).
 
Frank Garmon: “Banking and Self Interest in Antebellum America” (Dr. Andrew Falk, Dept. of History).
 
Nicole Justice-Kleemann: “Solidifying the Construction of the Feminine in Folklore from the Lost Celtic Regions in Flanders and Wallonia” (Dr. Mai Lan Gustafsson, Dept. of Sociology & Anthropology).
 
Jacob Midkiff: “Children’s Early Experience of Rejection and Later Formation of Conduct Problems: A Continuation in Exploring Possible Treatments in Adventure Based Therapy” (Dr. Thomas Berry, Dept. of Psychology).
 
Alexandria Ruble: (Alumni Society Award) “Democratizing Gender: Effects of American Occupation on German Women, 1945-1949” (Dr. Brian Puaca, Dept. of History).
 
Congratulations to all!