Alex Jennings and Dr. Wendy Baker-Smemoe, Department of Linguistics and English Language Linguistic profiling1 has emerged as an area of research only within the last decade. Several researchers have shown that people who speak non-standard, ethnically-tied dialects are treated less favorably than their Standard American English (SAE)-speaking counterparts. However, no known studies have shown the […]
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How Performative are Ideophones in Pastaza Quechua?
Roseanna Hopper and Dr. Janis Nuckolls, Department of Linguistics and English Language With my ORCA grant, I set out to investigate the performance qualities of ideophones, a category of words marked by a specific speaking style in Ecuadorean Pastaza Quechua. I planned to use software to determine phonetic properties of the words and compare to […]
Noun-Preposition Collocations: The 2010 Chicago Manual of Style (CMS) Compared to the Corpus of Contemporary American English (COCA)
Christina Champenois and Professor Doris Dant, Department of Linguistics and English Language Merriam-Webster’s Collegiate Dictionary defines collocation as “a noticeable arrangement or conjoining of linguistic elements” (s.v. “collocation”). Collocational constructions may present difficulties to editors, translators, and second-language learners. Malgorzata Martyńska explains that collocations tend to be “one of the most problematic and error-generating area [sic] of vocabulary, especially for […]
The Chinese Name for God: Preserving Unity in the Protestant Term Controversy 1847-1890
Shayla Sturgess and Dr. Kirk Larsen, Department of History My project began as a supervision course for the Cambridge Direct Enrollment program. Although I initially had planned a project focused around Chinese history I was unable to find a supervisor with that area of expertise and therefore my project changed entirely from what I had […]
Change and Continuity in a South Indian Fishing Village
Andrew Pieper and Dr. Charles Nuckolls, Department of Anthropology Vasuvanipalem, a once isolated fishing village on the South Eastern coast of India has in recent years been absorbed in to the rapidly growing city of Visakhapatnam. The accompanying changes of urbanization and modernization within this community have changed dramatically the lives of fishermen within the […]
Do You Know How to Dance?: Mediating Identity Through Film and Dance in Visakhapatnam, India
Kaitlin Patterson and Dr. Charles Nuckolls, Department of Anthropology I went to India to study gender relations in the family, but as I spent more time there I came to know a group of striking individuals and instead focused my research on a similar topic, film as a mediator of culture, but in this case […]
Buzzwords without Borders: Three Field Experiments in Individual Donation Behavior
Scott Jackson and Dr. Joshua Gubler, Department of Political Science In 2009, the Pew Internet & American Life Project reported that over the preceding twelve months, 67% of Americans “contributed to a charity or non-profit organization other than their place of worship” (Smith et al., 2009). The study also found that 11% of Internet users […]
An Analysis of Music Specialist Principles and Practices in Hungarian Music Education
Christy Ripa and Professor Jerry Jaccard, Department of Elementary Music Education Contrary to what I expected when our team arrived in Budapest, Hungary, I found that it was not much different from our American cities. While they are speaking a different language and have different cultural expectations and norms, they wear modern clothes and live modern […]
Hungary’s Undeniable Success in Music Education: An Analysis of Public and Private Teaching Principles and Practices in Hungarian Music Education
Bethany Richards and Professor Jerry Jaccard, Department of Elementary Music Education The purpose of my trip to Hungary was to observe and analyze the Hungarian music education system, realize its strengths, and adapt what I learned into my teaching here in America. My specific research assignment was to investigate the relationship between private and public music […]
Development of a Fuel-efficient Stove to Reduce Particulate Emissions
Geoffrey Lemon and Dr. Randy Lewis, Department of Chemical Engineering Introduction According to the World Health Organization, one of the leading causes of death in developing countries is respiratory disease, caused by inhalation of particulates from cooking stoves.1 With this challenge in mind, our team of interdisciplinary engineering students worked for over two semesters on […]