Ellyn Hamm, a graduating senior in music therapy, and her faculty mentor, Professor Andrea Cevasco, have worked together on a project that combines research and service.  Their work documents the needs of new born babies in the intensive care unit of the local hospital, provides immediate care and attention to those infants through music therapy while they are in the hospital, and then through an exciting innovation offers recorded music to continue the helpful therapy available in the hospital for […]

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The Fourth Annual UA Undergraduate Research and Creative Activity Conference was held April 11, 2011. Below is the list of oral and poster presentation winners from College of Arts and Sciences. The winners, as well as all presenters, are to be congratulated. In addition to the A&S awards listed here, two of the top awards given by the College of Commerce and Business Administration went to Arts and Sciences’ students.  Nathaniel Corder, a senior mathematics major from Pickerington, Ohio, won […]

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The College of Arts and Sciences has several ways a student can become involved in research.  There are on-going programs in the college and at the University level; there are courses that have substantial research as part of the content of the course; and there are opportunities for a student to work with a faculty member on a volunteer or paid basis.  In fall 2011 for the first time, students who are awarded work-study funding can do research as their […]

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UA’s Fourth Annual Undergraduate Research and Creative Activity Conference will be held on April 11, 2011 at the Bryant Conference Center.  This is a wonderful opportunity for our undergraduates to present their projects and for students who are not yet involved in research to learn more about it.  The conference opens to all students at 2 PM and is open until 6 PM.  The Bryant Conference Center is located on Bryant Drive, near the Moody Music Building.  It is accessible […]

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The Office of Undergraduate Research honors Forrest Phillips and Prof. Albert Pionke, both of the Department of English,  as the undergraduate researcher and faculty mentor of the month.  Forrest is a senior, majoring in English, and going to the UA law school after graduation.  He participates in the English Honors Program that is directed by Professors Albert Pionke and Deborah Weiss.  As a member of that program, Forrest wrote an honors thesis, entitled “Navigating the Frame” under the guidance of Prof. […]

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