Joining the students on the bus trip were Brian Railsback, dean of WCU’s Honors College; Steve Carlisle, associate dean of the college; and Teegan Dykeman, a WCU student who went along as an assistant.

The WCU contingent will be staying in accommodations in Ocean City, Md., while attending NCUR sessions scheduled for Thursday, April 10, through Saturday, April 12, at Salisbury University in Salisbury, Md.

Although 37 students went on the trip to Maryland, a total of 47 students had their project abstracts accepted by NCUR this year, the sixth-highest total among the 306 colleges and universities that will be participating in the conference.

Aside from the cost of meals, the trip is free for the WCU students. During the conference, the students will present their research to students and college faculty from across the nation.

The WCU group will arrive back in Cullowhee late on April 12, Railsback said.

Students representing WCU at NCUR are listed, with the name of their presentations. Some research projects are being co-presented.

Katheryn D. Ballard – “Politics and Higher Education: Partisan Diversity Among Political Science Professors in the University of North Carolina System”

James Beaver – “Environmental Protection as a Moral Obligation”

Jonathan Bell – “The Axiology of Jean-Paul Sartre”

Katie Blumsack – “Ions at the Air/Water Interface: Inhibition or Enhancement of Neutral Solute Adsorption?”

Byron Burnette – “We Should All Gray: A Biased Society’s Portrayal of Genocide”

Kendra Coker – “I Hadde the Beste Quonyam Myghte Be: Feminine Sexuality, Chaucer and Lollardy”

Emily A. Collman – “ABC’s or Back to the Basics?”

Jessica Compton – “From the Mudpit to the Hearth: Exploring Cherokee Pottery Making”

Catherine Connor – “Dare I Eat a Peach? A Debate Over the Usage of Dante’s ‘Inferno’ in Eliot’s ‘The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock’”

Parker Cox – “Torture: An Unthinkable Crime or Necessary Survival Tactic?”

Jennie V. Dowdle – “A Premier University? Problems Facing the Ghanaian Education System”

Carrie Eidson – “Satan from Jewish Antiquity to Early Christianity”

Rebecca Frank – “‘Give the Devil His Due’: Portrayals of the Demonic in Music”

Linda Gardner – “Social Entrepreneurship: Programs for Prisoners and the Homeless”

Michaela Hall – “Evaluation of an Air Sampling Protocol for Nanoscale Particles”

Leia Hays – “From Coughs to Catastrophe: An Analysis of Ancient Egyptian Medical Practices”

Steven Hollenback – “Traditional Cherokee Medical Techniques: Antioxidant Properties”

Jason D. Hull – “Design of a Single Mode Active Waveguide Using Comsol Software”

Alisha Hunter – “Substrate Specificity of Soluable Quinoprotein Glucose Dehydrogenase”

Kirsten Huscusson – “Selkies and Fox Brides: The Dangers of Marriage”

Lami M. Kamba – “Design of a Single Mode Active Waveguide Using Comsol Software”

Matt Kirby – “Consciousness Shall Start the Revolution: The Role of Language and Consciousness Within the German Ideology”

Timothy McNeely – “Lonely Monsters”

Aaron Morgan – “Do Infants Think? Wittgenstein and the Problem of Other Minds”

Michael G. O’Shea – “The Origin of Our Species: Why Humans Are Not Analogous to Animals”

Maleah Pusz – “‘She Was Shy and Simple and Young’: Our Lady of Trilogy”

Kate N. Rath – “De-gendering God: The Relationship Between Culture and the Gender of Deity”

Shawn Rhodes – “The Transmigration of Values: Generational Shifts in American Educational Focus in the Latter Half of the 20th Century”

William E. Ritter – “Constructional Methods for the Musical Instruments of the Appalachian South”

Benjamin Sheehan – “The Myth of the TVA: The Tennessee Valley Authority and the Transformation of Mountaineer Culture, 1933-60”

Chad Simons – “William Holland Thomas: Protector of the North Carolina Cherokee”

Isaac Sturgill – “Hurston’s Ishmael: The Use of Biblical Narrative in ‘Jonah’s Gourd Vine’”

Cara Ward – “Encouraging Globalization Through the Exploration and Application of Japanese Theatrical Traditions”

Chele Whalen – “Mothers of the Road: Hope for the Future”

Kasey Wilson – “SDS: Demonstrations and Destruction”

David Young – “Hamlet’s Problem”

Students whose abstracts were accepted for presentation, but who will not be attending NCUR, are

John Barbacci – “The Impact of International Law on the Global Marketplace”

Alan D. Curtis – “Preliminary Work Toward Development of a DNAzyme for Probing RNA Secondary Structure”

Shawn S. Dowdell – “Design of a Single Mode Active Waveguide Using Comsol Software”

Judy L. Gregory – “Private Impartiality, Public Neutrality: A Look at the Idea of the Separation of Church and State”

Virgina S. Haas – “Investigating the Impacts of Global Warming in the Hospitality and Tourism Industry”

Laura Holler – “Human Embryonic Stem Cell Research: Its Promise for Future Regenerative Medicine”

Andy Horn – “Exploration of College Athletes: Through the Breaking of a Promise”

Stephanie Jamison – “Indian Killer”

James Picker (WCU graduate) – “Beyond Band-Aids: A Study of the Health Care Work Force Shortage in Western North Carolina”

Jennifer Slagle (WCU graduate) – “A Spatial Model Predicting Location of Winter Hibernacula and Summer Gestation Sites for Timber Rattlesnakes in Western North Carolina”

Dawn Treneman – “Museum Interaction: A Friendly Dialogue”

Jared Utecht – “Extraordinary Pursuits of Simple Psyches: An Integration of Psychoanalysis and Buddhism”

Rebecca B. Weddle – “Investigating the Impacts of Global Warming in the Hospitality and Tourism Industry”

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