The Office of Student Research (OSR) is pleased to announce selected participants in the 2019 Collegiate Undergraduate Research and Inquiry Opportunities (CURIO) program. OSR received 16 applications.
CURIO supports Goal 1 of Longwood University’s Quality Enhancement Plan (QEP), “to improve student learning by promoting their discovery of new knowledge through research” by making available a faculty-guided summer undergraduate research program in all disciplines (Action 1.2).
2019 CURIO Participants
Travis Bresnahan, Data Remanence in RAM
Mathematics and Computer Science
Faculty Mentor: Dr. Robert Marmorstein
Mya Chambers, The Communication of Literal and Abstract Ideas through Electro-Acoustic Composition
Music
Faculty Mentor: Mr. Roland Karnatz
Kaitlyn Crow
English and Modern Languages
Faculty Mentor: Dr. Mary Carroll-Hackett
Savannah Dyer, Women Police Officers’ Rhetorical Strategies to Establish Authority in Law Enforcement
English and Modern Languages
Faculty Mentor: Dr. Elif Guler
Adam Gyori, Thermal Safety of Children’s Outdoor Play Equipment
Biological and Environmental Sciences
Faculty Mentor: Dr. Christopher Labosier
Ibrahim Kante, The Development of Monarchy and Kingship in Precolonial Africa
History, Political Science and Philosophy
Faculty Mentor: Dr. Phillip Cantrell
William Kish, The Diversity and Distribution of Spiders (Arachnida: Aranae) Along an Urban Gradient
Biological and Environmental Sciences
Faculty Mentor: Dr. Sujan Henkanaththegedara
Kaitlyn McCleese, Sleep Paralysis
Sociology, Anthropology and Criminal Justice
Faculty Mentor: Dr. Debra Durham
Dallas Phelps
Special Education
Faculty Mentor: Dr. Karen Feathers
Rachael Poole, The Rhetorical Anatomy of Women’s Movements in the Contemporary American Public Sphere
English and Modern Languages
Faculty Mentor: Dr. Elif Guler
Sarah Saunders, The Philosophical Argument of Physician-Assisted Suicide
History, Political Science and Philosophy
Faculty Mentor: Dr. Adam Blincoe
Nicole Taylor, Laser Engraving
Theatre, Art and Graphic Design
Faculty Mentor: Ms. Kelly Nelson
Samuel Taylor, Artistic Expression Through Aural and Visual Domains
Music
Faculty Mentor: Mr. Roland Karnatz
Madison Trebour, Physiological Demands of Hard Shoe and Soft Shoe Irish Dancing
Health, Athletic Training, Recreation, and Kinesiology
Faculty Mentor: Dr. Jo Morrison
