Letter from the Editor:
Focus on Research Paper Competition and Symposium
In its next two issues, the Journal of Undergraduate Research will highlight work entered in the 2005 Research Paper Competition and presented at the University Scholars Symposium. This issue is especially exciting because it includes the first of this year’s research by the 2005 USP participants.
The research represented here comes from a variety of disciplines, from the social sciences to engineering to medicine. As diverse as it is in topic, the work is consistent in its quality. Most impressive is the scholars’ ability to gather and interpret complex sets of data, whether it be the qualitative study of ethnographic data or quantitative analysis of statistical information. Also impressive is the degree to which these scholars have learned the forms of presentation required of their disciplines. In many ways, this work is a model for undergraduates nationwide.
This issue of JUR is also significant in that it is the first of a new format of double issues to be published bi-monthly. This schedule will allow the editors of JUR greater opportunity to review submissions, gathering feedback from authors, and to assemble thematically arranged publications. Topics planned for the summer and fall include focuses on the arts, business innovations, and new technology.
-Creed Greer, Editor
Journal of Undergraduate Research
Featured Scholar: Abigail Sewell
Abigail Sewell has always wanted to obtain her doctoral degree and the sociology senior has already been admitted into nine of the country’s best sociology graduate programs. But, the young researcher has looked up the death rates of black female professors and found they are extremely high in her demographic. For her USP project, Abigail examined anger suppression in the workplace among black Americans and the ramifications it has on mental and physical health.
Papers
Abigail Sewell, Honors Program (Mentor: Kendal Broad)
The Impact of Workplace Isolation, Occupational
Stress, and Stereotypes on the Experience and Expression of Anger Among
Black Workers
Belle Phillip, College
of Liberal Arts and Sciences (Mentor: Greg Moreland)
The Effect of Ethnicity on the Development
of Cultural Awareness and Identity in a Study Abroad Setting
Natalie Rios, College
of Medicine (Mentor: John Aris)
An Episomal Model for Aging in Saccharomyces
cerevisae
Mason Grower, College
of Liberal Arts and Sciences (Mentor: Joseph Meert)
Closing Pandora’s Box: Additional
Insights on Inclination Bias Using a Random Walk Approach
Brian Triplett, College
of Engineering (Mentor: Alireza Haghighat)
Neutron Diffusion Solutions for Homeland
Security Applications
Rizwan Kalani, College of Health and Human Performance
(Mentor: Christiaan Leeuwenburgh)
C-Reactive Protein as a Biomarker for
Aging
Lindsey Koss, College
of Agricultural and Life Sciences, (Mentor: Mitch Knutson)
Hepcidin Decreases Ferroportin 1 Expression
in a Mouse Macrophage Cell Line
