AWARD-WINNING UNDERGRADUATE RESEARCH
Several UMW students have earned recognition for their research. Here’s a list of a few of the honors earned recently by recipients of Undergraduate Research Grants:
2009 JMM Student Poster Award for Excellence in Statistics presented at Joint Mathematics Meetings, January 2009 (Washington, DC)
Thomas Wolfe for his poster
"Modification and Investigation of the Akaike Information Criterion for Models in the Natural Log of Y. '
Psi Chi National Convention Research Award for Research Presented at the Annual Meeting of the Association for Psychological Science, May, 2008 (Chicago, IL)
Sarah J. Axelson, Sabrina F. Askari, Samantha E. Staebell, Mindy J. Erchull, & Miriam Liss
"Misperceptions of Social Norms about Marriage, Children, and Division of Household Labor"
National Undergraduate Poster Competition Winner, Joint Mathematics Meeting, January 2007, New Orleans, LA
Sean Droms for his poster
"The Minimum Rank Problem"
Mathematical Association of America, August 2006 ( Knoxville, Tennessee)
Gardner Marshall, for his presentation
"An Investigation of the Spin Groups."
Psi Chi National Convention Research Award for Research Presented at the Annual Meeting of the Association for Psychological Science, May, 2006 (New York, NY)
Laura Ramsey, Megan Haines, Molly Hurt, Jaclyn Nelson, & Dixie Turner
"Thinking of Others: Feminist Identification and Perceptions of Others' Beliefs"
Virginia Academy of Sciences Meeting, May 2006 (Blacksburg, Virginia)
Yelena Lazdun, Honorable Mention (Botany Section)
Frederick B. Rowe Undergraduate Paper Award, Virginia Psychological Association, April 2006 (Virginia Beach, Virginia)
Alex M. Mejia, Karen Sturm, J. Ryan Phelps, Jennifer Moore, and Elizabeth Randall for
“Internet vs. Face-to-Face Interaction: The Influence on Identity Formation”
Best Essay by an Undergraduate Student, Mid-Atlantic Council of Latin American Studies Conference, March 2006 (Ponce, Puerto Rico)
Susanna Thornton, for
“Immigration of Chinese Workers to Cuba in the 19th Century”; presentation at the Mid-Atlantic Council of Latin American Studies Conference
Top Prize for Undergraduate Research Paper, annual meeting of the Southern Anthropological Society, February 2006 (Pensacola Beach, FL)
Megan Haines and Jaclyn Nelson for
“The Liberating Impact of the Slash/Yaoi Community on Participant’s Gender and Sexual Identity Formation”
National Undergraduate Poster Competition Winner, Joint Mathematics Meeting, January 2006, San Antonio, TX
Chris Meyer and Sean Droms for their poster
"LDPC codes generated by conics in the classical projective plane"