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Pembroke Undergraduate Research and Creativity Symposium

Progress Energy supported the 2010 Pembroke Undergraduate Research and Creativity (PURC) Symposium, which included a wide range of subjects from drama and creative writing to business and science.


 Recreation Research Team – From left: Kyle Cooper, Christy Chavis, Jason Martin, Kadeem Genwright and Christina Crovetti
Recreation Research Team – From left: Kyle Cooper, Christy Chavis, Jason Martin, Kadeem Genwright and Christina Crovetti

UNC Pembroke’s 4th annual PURC Symposium was staged on April 7 with 63 poster entries and five pre- sentations. Information about continuing research and graduate education was also part of the event, said Dr. Lee Phillips, associate director for undergraduate research.
“I am very pleased with the turnout this year,” said Dr. Phillips. “On display today is art, drama, business and more. It’s great to see so many departments represented.

Winners

Art Exhibit:

  • Winner: Trisha Dooling, “Fright Flight” Mentor: Brandon Sanderson
  • Honorable Mention:
    • Kendra Daniel, “Simply Simple” Mentor: Adam Walls
    • Candace Johnson, “Rembrandt’s Wandering Hand” Mentor: Brandon Sanderson

Oral Presentation:

  • Winner: Megan Alexander, “Development of a Spectro-electrochemical Assay for Serum Billirubin” Mentor: Paul Flowers
  • Honorable Mention:
    • Yanissa Perez de Leon, “Aaron Stallworth” Mentor: Dr. Scott Hicks
    • Samantha Hutcheson and Stuart Hamner, “The Band Gap of Liquid Water Based on the Dispersion of the Verdet Constant”  Mentors: Drs. Bill Brandon and Tom Dooling

Posters – Humanities and Business

  • Winner:Sharon Paz, “Hemmed in: An Examination of Women of the 19th Century American Middle Class and Kate Chopin’s The Awakening” Mentor: Dr. Susan Cannata
  • Honorable Mention:
    • Daniel Davis, “Blurring the Border: Male vs. Female in Bram Stoker’s “Dracula”  Mentor: Dr. Susan Cannata
    • Christine Sabina, “The Journey to Find Independence and Freedom in “The Awakening” Mentor: Dr. Susan Cannata

Posters – Sciences

  • Winner: Floyd Inman, III, “Mass Production of the Beneficial Nematode, Heterohabditis Bacteriophora, in Submerged Culture” Mentor: Dr. Len Holmes
  • Honorable Mention:
    • Tiffany Dial, “Hormones in Artificial Media Incite Variable Responses in Tobacco Callus and Regenerated Plantlets” Mentor: Velinda Woriax
    • Alexandria Ferrer and Thelietha Smith, “Dextromethorphan: Developing a Solid-Phase Extraction Method”  Mentor: Dr. Meredith Storms

For more information about the Pembroke Undergraduate Research and Creativity Center or the symposium, please call 910.521.6841 or email lee.phillips@uncp.edu.

Updated: Thursday, October 14, 2010

 

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