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Student Senior Projects

Class of 2011

Cassandra Adams

Thesis: "Proof of a Problem"

Major: Mathematics and Computer Science

Faculty Mentor: Ms. Mary Klinikowski

Natasha Bacon

Thesis: "Comparative Analysis of Trace Soil Evidence by Infrared Spectrometry"

Major: Chemistry

Faculty Mentor: Dr. Rachel Smith

Kimberly Brassard

Thesis: "Catalyzing the Reaction: High School Seniors => College Chemists"

Major: Chemistry

Faculty Mentor: Dr. Brian Postek

Jennifer Cooper

Thesis: "The Quest: The History of the Pentecostal Fire Baptized Holiness Church"

Major: History

Faculty Mentor: Dr. Scott Billingsly

Nick Faulkner

Thesis: "The Interference of Microsomal Triglyceride Transfer Protein through the use of RNAi for the use of Downregulating Apolipophorin II/I in the S2 Drosophila Melanogaster Cell Line"

Major: Biology

Faculty Mentor: Dr. Jeremy Sellers

Nathaniel Kingsbury

Thesis: "Synthesis of Biodiesel Using Liquid Morpholines: A Homogeneous Basic Catalyst"

Major: Chemistry

Faculty Mentor: Dr. Cornelia Tirla

Grant Merritt

Thesis: "The Effects of Humor and Non-Humor Techniques in Television Commercials Placed In Different Program Environments: An Experiment with Car Insurance Commercials"

Major: Mass Communications

Faculty Mentor: Dr. DanDan Liu

Nina Oviedo

Thesis: "Consumer Perception on Genetically Modified Salmon"

Major: Economics

Faculty Mentor: Dr. Cliff Mensah

Sara Pack

Thesis: "Constructions of Innocence in Philip Pullman's His Dark Materials"

Major: English

Faculty Mentor: Dr. Susan Cannata

Anna Queen

Creative Project: "Beyond the Beakers"

Mentor: Dr. Jennifer Bonds-Raacke (Psychology)

Thesis: "Mutational Analysis of HTZ1 in Transcription Elongation"

Major: Biology

Faculty Mentor: Dr. Maria Santisteban

Ed Ricker

Thesis: "Seeing is Not Always Believing: Photo Manipulation in Photo Journalism"

Major: Mass Communications

Faculty Mentor: Mr. Terrance Dollard

Hannah Simpson

Thesis: "The Effects of Governance on Development: Access to Economic and Social Opportunities in Post-Communist Rural Mongolia"

Major: Political Science and Mass Communications

Faculty Mentor: Dr. Kevin Freeman

 

Class of 2010

Whitney Hanlin

Thesis: “International Marketing: Panera Bread in Italy”

Major: Marketing, Management, and International Business

Faculty Mentor: Dr. John Spillan

Samantha Kinder

Thesis: “Bridging the Gap”

Major: Mass Communication

Faculty Mentor: Dr. Susan Cannata

Kelly Niccum

Thesis: “Coaches and Professors: Who has More Authority?”

Major: Psychology

Faculty Mentor: Dr. John Raacke

Ashley Pabst

Thesis: “An Integrative Approach to Teaching Spanish as a Foreign Language”

Major: Spanish

Mentor: Dr. Liliana Wendorff

Jorge Piocuda

Thesis: “The Interaction between Music and Task Performance: The Tower of Hanoi & Missionaries and Cannibals”

Major: Psychology

Faculty Mentors: Dr. John Raacke

Creative Project: What Do You See?: The Psychology Behind Optical Art

Mentor: Dr. John Labadie (Art)

Tiffany Schmidt

Thesis: “Agenda Setting: the Media’s Role in Abolishing the Death Penalty in New Jersey ”

Major: Mass Communication

Faculty Mentor: Dr. Tony Curtis & Dr. Jenifer Bonds-Raacke (Psychology)

Anitra Williams

Thesis: “National Health Insurance: Truly Taking Care of a Nation”

Major: Health, PE, and Recreation

Faculty Mentor: Dr. Sonia Tinsley

 

Class of 2009

Alyssa Johnson

Thesis: “Fun=Learning: Teaching Strategies for the Early Elementary Curriculum”

Major: Education

Faculty Mentors: Dr. Suwanee Dixon & Ms. Genemma Lowery (Union Chapel Elementary)

Ashley Bowman

Thesis: “Cloning and Characterization of the Amino Terminal 30% of Retinoid and Fatty Acid Binding Glycoprotein in Schneider's S2 Cells”

Major: Biology

Faculty Mentor: Dr. Jeremy Sellers

Sean Kelly

Thesis: “International Implications of Revolution”

Major: Political Science

Faculty Mentor: Dr. Kevin Freeman

Amanda Swinton

Thesis: “Knights and their Ladies Fair': Comparing Courtship from the Seventeenth Century to Today”

Major: History

Mentor: Dr. Rose Stremlau

Hannah Woriax

Thesis: “A Study on Fractal Morphogenesis in Bacteria as an Adaptive Response to Environmental Stress”

Major: Biology

Faculty Mentor: Dr. Marilu Santos

 

Class of 2008

Dan Kelly

Thesis: Pembroke Pigskin: A Practical Application of Convergence

Major: Mass Communication

Faculty Mentor: Dr. Anthony Curtis

Amy Averitt

Thesis: Solid-Phase Extraction and HPLC Determination of Dextromethorphan in Hair After Exposure to Cosmetic Treatment

Major: Chemistry

Faculty Mentor: Dr. Meredith Storms

Colleen Griffiths

Thesis: Recapturing the Past: Digitally Archiving UNCP's Student Newspaper

Major: Mass Communication

Faculty Mentor: Dr. Robert Brown

Rachel Oke

Thesis: UNCP Train Kiln Construction 2007-2008

Major: Art

Faculty Mentor: Mr. Stephen Robison

Amanda Perrin

Thesis: Perceptions of Art: Man and Nature - A Study Through Collaboration

Major: Art

Faculty Mentor: Dr. Richard Gay

Katie Smith

Thesis: Forming and Protecting the Middle Class Victorian Ideal: Holmes and Watson

Major: English

Faculty Mentor: Dr. Susan Cannata 

Wesley Gibbs

Thesis: Philo: An Introduction to the Man and His Methods

Major: Philosophy

Faculty Mentor: Dr. Jeffery Geller

 

Class of 2007

Megan Grimsley

Thesis: A War on the Home Front:  Would a National Health Plan Benefit Americans’ Health?

Major: Biology

Faculty Mentor: Dr. Bob Poage

Jessica Ortiz

Thesis: Transesterification of Waste Oil to Produce Biodiesel and Cost Efficient Removal of Residues

Major: Chemistry & Physics

Faculty Mentor:  Dr. Siva Mandjiny

Kelly Griffith

Thesis: Media and the Public: The New York Times Coverage of Weapons of Mass Destruction from 2002 to 2005 and Its Correlation with Public  Opinion

Major: Mass Communications

Faculty Mentor: Dr. Anthony R. Curtis

Danielle Chavis

Thesis: High-Performance Liquid Chromatographic Determination of Metformin in Human Serum Using Solid-Phase Extraction

Major: Chemistry and Physics

Faculty Mentor: Dr. Meredith Storms

Beth Butler

Thesis: Career Decision-Making

Major: Psychology

Faculty Mentor:  Dr. John Raacke

Rachel Loflin

Thesis: UNCP Tobacco Use

Major: Health, PE & Recreation

Faculty Mentor: Dr. Sonia Tinsley

Christelle Lebeau

Thesis: Concretely: Working With Concrete Manipulatives in the Classroom

Major: Education

Faculty Mentor: Dr. Carol Higy

Mary Gyves

Thesis: Ireland's Path to Freedom with Eamon de Valera and Michael Collins 1916-1923

Major: History

Faculty Mentor: Dr. Robert Brown

 

Class of 2006

Lidsay Barthoff

Thesis: Obesity's Claim on America

Major: Health Promotion

Faculty Mentor: Dr. Sandra Cross

Rachel Harbert

Thesis: Mirror, Mirror, on the Wall: Does Capital Punishment Protect Us Or is Revenge to Fault?: Exposing the Real Debate Behind the Death Penalty

Major: Criminal Justice w/ minor in Social Welfare

Faculty Mentor: Dr. Mario Paparozzi

Thomas Martin

Thesis:  Antietam a Failure to Achieve Victory

Majors:  History; Philosophy and Religion

Faculty Mentors:  Dr. Jeff Frederick, History;  Dr. Merril Miller, Religion 

Hong Tran

Thesis: Sorption Studies of Cu2+ Ion on Various Solid Matrices Such as Gel and Membranes

Major: Chemistry with a Biomedical concentration

Faculty Mentor: Dr. Siva Mandjiny

Michael Zimmermann

Thesis: Academic Achievement: The Interaction between Personality and Mental Health

Major: Psychology w/ minor in Philosophy and Religion

Faculty Mentor: Dr. Shilpa Pai

Justin Hall

Thesis: CCD Astronomy

Major: Physics

Faculty Mentor: Dr. Jose D’Arruda

Jamie McCall

Thesis: The Changing Two-Part Political System: The Evolution of the Libertarian Party in the Context of Philosophy, History, & Politics

Major: Political Science

Faculty Mentor: Dr. Carolyn Thompson

Blake Tyner (Graduated December 2005)

Thesis: Bridging the Generations: A Pictorial History of UNCP

Major: History w/ minor in Public Relations

Faculty Mentor:

Updated: Thursday, September 1, 2011

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