Journal of Undergraduate Research

Geoffrey Griffard and Dr. Raisa Solovyova, Germanic and Slavic Languages First of all, I must say that it was a great honor and privilege to receive the ORCA award and the opportunity to set off on my own academic journey. I was able to work with two of my greatest loves—film and Russia. In the […]

Fabian Fulda and Dr. Randall Lund, Germanic and Slavic Languages Many people have difficulty learning foreign languages, especially when it comes to pronouncing words and phrases exactly.1 A 3-dimesional animated agent, in this case a computer animation which models the motions of important instruments of speech, can be an effective tool for teaching and learning […]

Amanda Rose Bingham and Dr. Cindy Brewer, German and Slavic Languages While women have received focused attention in the recent decades, the early romantic German writer, Dorothea Mendelssohn Veit Schlegel, has not had proportionate consideration from literary critics. Modern readers of German literature are likely to be most familiar with the canonical texts such as […]

William Badger and Professor Walter Whipple, Germanic and Slavic Languages During the Second World War, Poland’s occupiers ravaged whole collections of her folk art, alternatively destroying them or carting them off as wartime spoils. Then, in Communist times, the folk arts experienced an unexpected renaissance. The state fostered folk art through numerous incentive programs including […]

Jesse C. Wood and Dr. Michelle Stott James, Germanic and Slavic Languages Johann Christoph Gottsched is an extremely well-known figure in German literary history. He was a prominent author of the enlightenment, and scholars and casual readers of German drama and literature recognize him as one of eighteenth century Germany’s most read authurs. Unfortunately, the […]

Ruth Kirsten Seppi and Dr. Robert McFarland, Germanic and Slavic Languages Detail I spent the summer of 2002 scrolling through microfilm, cataloguing everything written by women between 1921 and 1926 in the Neue Freie Presse, one of the most influential Viennese newspapers then. On the front page of the morning edition, a line divided the […]

Christian Marchant and Dr. Michael Kelly, Germanic and Slavic Languages The Republic of Belarus, located in the very heart of Europe, is a relatively unknown country to many westerners. Belarus has an important role in the political future of Europe. Belarus is located in the geographic center of Europe and is a major corridor for […]

Jakob Jarvis and Dr. Michelle James, German & Slavic Languages The purpose of my project was to obtain original texts written by a woman named Maria Theresia Ledochowska. She was an Austrian woman, living at the turn of the nineteen century to the twentieth century. She was the foundress of an organization under the sanction […]

Daniel Josef Gashler and Professor Walter Whipple, Germanic and Slavic Languages The Celts and Slavs were widespread and important cultural phenomena in Iron-Age Europe. Their influence is still felt in contemporary Europe and the Americas. Many states and peoples speak modern languages derived from proto-Celtic and proto-Slavonic. The purpose of my research is to show that […]

Blaine Evanson and Dr. Michelle Stott James, German and Slavic languages I was first introduced to Sophie in September 2001 in my German Cultural History class. Dr. McFarland announced that there was some grant money left over and that some students who were interested in the research would be invited to work a few hours […]