Dean’s Undergraduate Research Prize

The Dean’s Undergraduate Research Prize recognizes excellence in research and creative activity.  Students are nominated by professors with whom they have worked and are selected by a committee.  Winning projects have come from disciplines across the arts, humanities, natural sciences, and social sciences.  Winners receive a cash prize and are recognized at our Honors Convocation.

Past winners

Year Name Project Faculty Sponsor Department
2007 Grace Keene “Magic and Christianity: A Secret Romance” John Wall Philosophy/Religion
2007 Philip Osborne “Ontological Arguments: The Impasse” Charles Jarrett Philosophy/Religion
2007 Sara Troxel “Curatorial Practice” Roberta Tarbell and Martin Rosenberg Fine Arts
2006 Charlene Dunkley “Development of Cultural Differences in Attention” Sean Duffy Psychology
2006 Christopher Savcak “A Fully Automatic Generator of Short Cut Fusion Rule Pragmas for User-Defined Data Types” Patricia Johann Computer Science
2005 Heather Fishman “A Qualitative and Quantitative Examination of Romantic Relationships and Health” Charlotte Markey Psychology
2005 Walter Kim  “An Analysis and Evaluation of John Searle’s The Construction of Social Reality Charles Jarrett Philosophy
2005 Jon Pospischil “Outermost Fusion for Strategy-Based Programming Languages” Patricia Johann Computer Science
2005 Sheryl A. Rabinowitz “Unambiguous Assignment of the NMR of OFP-NH2” Alex Roche Chemistry
2004 David Healy “Reforming Automobile Insurance in New Jersey” Alan Tarr Political Science
2004 Vicki Hewitt “Pacifists Abroad in a Total War:  The American Friends Service Committee and Its Allies in Germany, 1919-1947” Andrew Lees History
2004 Stephen Gardiner “Animating Printmaking” LiQin Tan Fine Arts
2003 Christine Evans  “Theological Perspectives on Child Rearing from Philadelphia-Area Pastors” John Wall Religion
2003  Anne Loyle “CF3-PPV:  Toward Novel Display Technologies” Alex Roche Chemistry
2003 Robert Wuilfe, Bruce Massey, and Shaun B. Jennings “Animating Art History:  Building a Bridge between Disciplines” LiQin Tan and Roberta Tarbell Fine Arts
2002 Susan Cheetham “Walt Whitman’s Kitchen” Carol Singley American Studies
2002 Carol Connolly “Daniel Defoe, Benjamin Franklin, Walt Whitman: The Link that Binds Them” Geoffrey Sill English
2002 Kristi Hohenstein “Cloning the ATP synthase beta subunit in the ice worm, Mesenchytraeus solifugus” Dan Shain Biology
2002 Tracy L. Moral “Edith Wharton, War, and Expatriation” Carol Singley English
2002 Margaret Vitalie  “Marian Anderson and the DAR Incident” Janet Golden History
2002 Carrie K. Wilson “The Separation and Identification of Catalase, Superoxide Dismutase and Their Effect on Sperm Pathology, Fertilization Rates and Pregnancy Rates in an In Vitro Fertilization Cycle” Nancy Hopkins Chemistry
2001 Michael A. Lawandy “Rational Design and Synthesis of Magnetic Coordination Polymers” Jing Li Chemistry
2001 Vanessa McNamara “The Effects of the AIDS Epidemic on the United States Military” Janet Golden History
2001 Michele Robinson “Stephen Dedalus’s Disillusionment in Ulysses:  Paris as a Portal of Discovery” Tim Martin English