Student Opportunities for Academic Research
SOAR (Student
Opportunities
for Academic Research) is a Moravian
College program which provides stipends, travel allowances, and
research
expenses to support students, in any discipline, who are engaged
in scholarly or creative activity with faculty members. Since
scholarship
takes different forms in different disciplines, SOAR is
designed
to be as general and inclusive as possible.
SOAR also serves the Moravian College community by
keeping
it in touch with organizations that develop and support undergraduate
research.
Major funding
for SOAR is provided by the Ervin J.
Rokke Endowment for
Student-Faculty Research,
established
by a gift from Mrs. Priscilla Payne Hurd in honor of his
service to Moravian College as President. From 1997 to 2006 Dr.
Rokke lead the College with distinction, and he and his wife Pam
contributed to the life and spirit of the College in many ways.
Supplemental
funding for SOAR comes from
Moravian College.
There are two types of proposals to
the SOAR program: research proposals
and travel proposals.
Research
proposals support the work
of a student with a faculty mentor. During the academic year,
students
may work with faculty for up to eight hours each week. Stipends during
the academic year are limited to $850 per semester. SOAR
stipends
are also available for full-time work during the summer.
Full-time summer stipends are limited to $3000. Campus housing is
provided to SOAR students during the summer.
***** Links
to previously funded research
proposals are located at the bottom of
this page.
Travel
proposals are available to
support students who travel to a state,
regional, or national meeting
to
report on the results of their research or scholarly work. A
project does not have to have been originally funded by SOAR to receive travel support;
reports about projects that began as an independent study, an Honors
project, or even a summer internship can also receive travel support. Up to
$300 may be requested by a student in one academic year.
Students or faculty members
interested
in SOAR are encouraged to contact the SOAR Coordinator,
Carl
Salter, or send email to soar@cs.moravian.edu
for more information.
SOAR
Documentation
Program
Description and
Proposal
Guidelines
SOAR
COVER SHEET required for submitting summer research proposals
Calendar of SOAR actions
Revised SOAR Proposal
submitted to
the Planning and Budget Committee (Spring 1998)
Useful
Undergraduate Research Links across the campus and the country
Moravian College Honors
Program
Moravian
College Scholarship
and Creative Arts Day
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Moravian College poster template appropriate for science, adaptable to other disciplines
Poster
advice and template from Swarthmore (C. Purrington)
poster advice
and examples from NCSU (K. Tosney)
Links
to to publishing and poster advice from NIH scroll to the
bottom
for poster links
Undergraduate Research at the
Capitol-Pennsylvania (Poster Conference in Harrisburg)
CUR The Council on
Undergraduate
Research
NCUR The National
Conferences on
Undergraduate Research
Funded SOAR Research Proposals
Fall 2009
Katerine
Prichett (Prof. Erica Yozell)
Cultural Agency in Latin America
Jessica Andersen (Prof. Joanne
McKeown)
The Revision of Conference Paper "Translation as Scholarship: The Story
of Estelle Retold as New" for Publication
Summer 2009 Rokke Research Scholars
Jim Drago, Jason Ginther, Erik Wicklund,
Phil Viglione (Prof. Ben Coleman)
Seismology Software Meeting the Needs of Educators
Gabriella Haddad (Prof. Dan Libby)
Characterization of
Intermediates in the Reactions of
N-benzyldihydropyridine as Models for Nicotinamide Coenzyme Mediated
Reduction Reactions
Katelyn Chando (Prof. Dan Libby)
Characterization of
Intermediates in the Reactions of
N-pentyldihydropyridine as Models for Nicotinamide Coenzyme Mediated
Reduction Reactions
Jennifer Mead, John Corbin (Prof.
Frank Kuserk)
Measuring the Effectiveness of
Stream and Riparian Zone Restoration
Efforts in the Lehigh River Watershed
John Reese (Prof. Chris Jones)
Plasmid Transformation of Drosophila
melangaster
Stephen Kaster (Prof. Carl Salter)
Error Bands
in Calibration Curves
Jaime Renninger (Prof. Sarah Johnson)
About
Face: Exploring the Special Processes Involved
in Everyday Face Perception and Recognition
Phil Weiser, Christine McCarl (Prof.
Carl Salter)
Kinetics of Iron (III) and
Thiosulfate: Measuring the Rate of an
Inorganic Redox Reaction
Sarabeth Brockley, Molly DuVall
(Prof. John Bevington)
An Investigation of the Effects
of Elevation on the Mutualistic
Relationship between the Amazonian Myrmecophyte Cecropia and
Its Azteca
Body Guard Ants
Sarabeth Brockley (Prof Diane Husic)
Analysis of Succession and
Habitat Enhancement and Deer Browsing in
Enclosed and Control Plots at the Lehigh Gap Wildlife Refuge (PA)
Meredith Wright (Prof. Diane Husic)
An Interdisciplinary
Project at the Lehigh Gap Wildlife Refuge
& Palmerton Superfund Site: Development of a Comprehensive
Bibliography of
the History
and Restoration of the Lehigh Gap and
Participation in a new Habitat Enhancement and Plant Community
Microclimate Study
Summer 2008 Rokke Research Scholars
Jasmine DeFranco (Prof. Art Lyons)
Developing a Holistic Model
for Educational Evaluation
Stephanie Mount, Nicole Shamy (Prof.
Angela Fraleigh)
After:
A Series of Paintings
Questioning Issues of Gender, Power, and Identity
Jason Cote (Prof. Paula Zerkle)
Editing the Orchestral Score of
Amy Beach's Mass in E-flat Major
Marisa Vargo (Prof. Erica Yozell)
Contemporary
Post-dictatorship Film in Argentina and
Chile
Angela Geosits (Prof. Joel Wingard)
Assessment of Student Learning Outcomes and Intentional Learning in
Writing-Across-the-Curriculum Courses
Emily Gibbons (Prof. Joel Nathan
Rosen)
Contemporary Society and the
Way We Teach
Carolyn Raufer, Meredith Kluk (Prof.
Carol Moeller)
Minoritized Identities, Politics, and Knowledge
Stephanie Miller, Kayla Teeling
(Prof. Joe Shosh)
Playing with Words: An Historical Examination of Language and
Literature Exploration through Play in the Secondary School Classroom
Chris Leiby (Prof. James Paxton)
Canajoharie: An Eighteenth-Century Mohawk Village
Adam Partington, Michael Padasak
(Prof. Heikki Lempa)
Honor and Economics: The Ideologies of the Nazi-SS and Their Uses in
Germany, 1926-1941
Jacqueline Baker (Prof. Michelle
Schmidt)
Peer Relations and Friendship in Childhood
Xiuzhu Lin (Prof. Gary Kaskowitz)
Stories from Beijing: An Archetypal Analysis of Chinese Consumers
Debra Evans
(Profs. Shari Dunhan and Stephen Dunham)
Isolation
and Identification of DNA adducts formed
by Rhodium Antitumor Agents
Sarabeth Brockley
(Prof. Diane Husic)
Analysis
of Succession, Biodiversity, and the Impact
of Heavy Metal Contamination Surrounding Seeps and Springs within the
Superfund Site at
the Lehigh
Gap (Pennsylvania)
Natalie Zedalis
(Prof. Carl Salter)
Synthesis
of Guaizuleneiminodiacetic Acid: A
Possible Visual Metal-ion Indicator
Phillip Gaudreau (Prof. Nathan Shank)
Network Analysis
Steve Defazio, Erik Wicklund (Profs.
Ben Coleman and Frank Kuserk)
Developing Stand-alone Software for Biological Models
Kanizeh Fatema Visram (Prof. Cecelia
Fox)
The Effect of Long Term Selenium Exposure in the Striatal
6-Hydroxydopamine Model of Parkinson's Disease: A Cell Survival and
Behavior Study
Vivian Clarke-Ruiz, Andrew Mashintonio
(Prof. Frank Kuserk)
Remediation Effects on Forest Soil Microflora and Aquatic Biota
Affected by Zinc Smelter Emissions near Palmerton, Pennsylvania
Fall 2007
Debra Young (Prof. Joel Nathan Rosen)
From New Lanark to Mound Bayou: Owenitism
on the Mississippi Delta
Kelly Schmidt (Prof. Hilde Binford)
Cataloguing of the Music Collection at the
Schwenkfelder Museum
Kristen Wiggins (Prof. Shari Dunham)
Characterization of DNA-adducts Formed by
Antitumor-active Rhodium Compounds
Jamie Hirner, Teriane Johns, Shana Synder
(Prof. Charlotte Zales)
Effective Teaching Behaviors:
Documenting, Analyzing, and Demonstrating the Findings of Educational
Research
Summer 2007 Rokke Research Scholars
Clint
Brody (Prof. Dana Dunn)
Teaching about Disability as Diversity
and Understanding the Good Life
Following Acquired Disability
Christopher Schilling (Prof.
Sarah Johnson)
Backward Inhibition of Semantic
Memories: Temporary Forgetting of
General Knowledge
Rachel Fast (Prof. Gary
Kaskowitz)
Retail Loyalty: An Exploration of
Archetypal Identification among Small
Businesses and Their Customers
Andrea Millheim, Krystle Willing
(Profs. Joe Shosh and Charlote Zales)
A
Qualitative Study of the Transformation from Teacher to Teacher Action
Researcher to Teacher as Agent of Systemic Change
Zachary Perry (Prof. Carol
Moeller)
Ethics, Identities, and Realist
Philosophies
Christina Townsend (Prof. Curt
Keim)
Mistaking Africa: American Popular
Culture Myths
Danielle Corvacchioli (Prof.
Daniel Jasper)
The
Rhetoric of Violence
Josh Beri (Prof. Carl Salter)
The
Heat of Reaction of Luminol: Energy Flow in a Chemiluminscent Reaction
Jennifer Novatnack (Profs.
Steve and Shari Dunham)
Determination of Selenium in Rat Tissue
and Rat Diet Samples
Allen Wong (Profs Steve and
Shari Dunham)
DNA
Interactions of Antitumor-Active Rhodium and Ruthenium Compounds
Allan Fatzinger, Benjamin Mizack
(Prof. Nathan Shank)
Probabilistic Aspects of Networks
Kelly Latourette (Prof.
Michael Fraboni)
Unique
Dominating Sets
Simon Tabchi, Nathaniel Tussey
(Prof. Christopher Jones)
Mapping Drosophila Bang-sensitive
Mutations
Jamie Long, Tim Mills (Prof. Ben
Coleman)
Enhancing Mathematics and Computer
Science Education Using the Game
SET®
Armando Villafane (Prof. Frank
Kuserk)
Remediation Effects on the Forest Soil
microflora affected by
Zinc-smelter Emissions near Palmerton, PA
Brian Birchak (Prof. Frank
Kuserk)
Remediation effects on Aquatic
Macroinvertebrates affected by
Zinc-smelter Emissions near Palmerton, PA
Casey Jackson (Prof. Dan Libby)
Substrate Specificity in Model Reactions
for Nicotinimide Mediated
Reduction Reactions
Yi Li, Gregory Niehoff (Prof.
Diane Husic)
Analysis of the Uptake and Biochemical
Impact of Heavy Metals (Zinc,
Lead, and Cadmium) on Four Plant Species in the Lehigh Gap
(Pennsylvania)
Todd Remalay (Profs. Steve and
Shari Dunham)
Isomer
Separation and DNA Binding of a Dirhodium Compound
Spring 2007
Tiffany Jamann (Prof. Heikki Lempa)
The
Method of Healing: The Concept of Vital Force in Samuel Hahnemann's Organon (1810)
Emma Grigore (Prof. Josef Glowa)
Coping with
the Past: The Legacy of Witch Hunts in German Culture Today
Wesley Moser (Prof. Ben Coleman)
Robotic Map
Generation
Stefanie Risko and Lydia Zarrella
(Prof. Michelle Schmidt)
Friendship,
Popularity, and Victimization among School-aged Children
Rachael Beard, Jason Cote, Kelly Schmidt
(Prof. Hilde Binford)
Inventory and
Cataloguing of the Music Collection at the Schwenkfelder Museum
Fall 2006
Lauren Anderson
(Prof. Joanne McKeown)
Translation
of Biographie d'Antoine Despine
(1777-1852) - Part II
Laura Sahlender (Prof. Robert Brill)
Assessment of
Best Practices in Teaching Applied Psychology at the Undergraduate Level
Stephanie Anderson, Lana Khoury, Krystle
Willing (Profs. Joyce Hinnefeld, Joel Wingard, Dorothy Glew)
Linking
Writing and Information Literacy: A Collaboration Whose Time Has Come
Summer 2006 Rokke Research Scholars
Josh
Beri (Prof. Carl Salter)
The Heat of
Reaction of Luminol: Energy Flow in a Chemiluminescent Reaction
Peter Slivka (Prof. Carl Salter)
Synthesis and
Reactions of 1-Aminoazulene: A Possible Visual Metal-Ion Indicator
Valerie Phillips and Debra Evans
(Profs. Stephen and Shari Dunham)
Investigations of DNA Rhodium Binding Interactions
Lisa Morkowchuk (Prof. Shari Dunham)
Method
Development for Determination of Selenium in Biological Samples
Tiffany Jamann (Prof. Chris
Jones)
Effects of
Seizure on Drosophila melanogaster
Jennifer Gillard (Prof. Kevin
Hartshorn)
The Cultural
Roots of Mathematics
Rebecca Angstadt, Kelly Latourette, Jamie
Long (Profs. Michael Fraboni and Alicia Sevilla)
Explorations
of the 3x +1 Problems
Scott Weaver (Prof. Stephen
Corbesero)
Music
Recognition by Signal Analysis
Wesley Moser (Prof. Ben Coleman)
Robotic
Path-Finding with Limited Information
Anastasia Yemelyanova (Prof.
Chris Jones)
Effects of
Alzhiemer Mutations in Drosophila
presenilin
Stephanie Miller (Prof. Mark
Will-Weber)
Diamonds in
the Rough: 100 Years of Racing in Berwick, Pennsylvania
Danielle Corvacchioli (Prof. Daniel
Jasper)
The Cultural
Sociology of Hip-Hop
Pamela Fitzgerald (Prof. Robert
Brill)
Antecedent
Factors Impacting Upon Nursing Retention and Horizontal Violence
Mike DiCindio (Prof. Gary Kaskowitz)
Bands as
Brands: An Exploration of Archtypes and Brand Concepts Maps for Music
Jennifer Bajczyk (Profs. James
Skalnik and Diane Radycki)
Albrecht
Durer and the Influence of the Italian Renaissance on Northern Europe
Lydia Zarrella and Stefanie Risko
(Prof. Michelle Schmidt)
Friendships
and Peer Relations in Childhood: Leadership Curriculum Research
Kelly Steward (Prof. Joseph Shosh)
Closing the
Achievement Gap in Urban English Language Arts Secondary School
Classrooms: Summer School Students' Prespectives
Spring 2006 Receipients
Kimberly Mabry
(Prof. Joanne McKeown)
Translation of Biographie
d'Antoine Despine (1777-1852)
(proposal)
Chris
Morgan (Prof. Kelly Denton-Borhaug)
Ethical
Deliberation and War: An Anthology of Religious Responses
(proposal)
Brittany
McVaugh (Prof. Michelle Schmidt)
Social-Emotional Development in Middle Childhood
(proposal)
Sarah
Kalish (Profs. Carmen Ferrero and Nilsa Lasso-von Lang)
Comparative
Study
of ESL (English as a Second Language) Programs in New York, New Jersey
and
Pennsylvania
(proposal)
Fall 2005 Receipients
Yi Li (Prof. Diane Husic)
The Interplay between Oxygen and Photosynthetic Organisms:
Photorespiration,
Enzymes of Oxidation-Reduction Reactions, and Photo-oxidative Stress in
Unicellular
Green Algae.
(proposal)
Brittany McVaugh (Prof. Michelle Schmidt)
Ethnicity, Friendship, and Victimization
(proposal)
Caitlin Benfield (Prof. Carl Salter)
Synthesis and Reactions of 1-Aminoazulene: A Possible Visual Metal-ion
Indicator
(proposal)
Peter Slivka (Prof. Dan Libby)
Mechanistic Model for Nicotinamide Coenzyme Mediated Reduction Reactions
(proposal)
Summer 2005 Recipients
Jeff Feist (Prof. Ben Coleman)
A Moderate-Sized Chess Engine in an Online Chess Community
(proposal)
Neil Dobracki (Prof. Kelly Krieble)
Computer Interfacing of a Granular Flow Experiment
(proposal)
Rachel Siegfried, Paras Varvarelis (Prof. Stacy Zaremba,
Prof. Cecelia M. Fox)
The Protective Effects of Long Term Selenium Treatment in Aged 6-OHDA
Lesioned Animals
(proposal)
Jennifer Jacobi (Prof. Michelle Schmidt)
title
(proposal)
Fall 2004 Recipients
Tyler Worman (Prof. Stephen Corbesero)
Applying Software Engineering to Seismic Internet Monitoring
(proposal)
Summer 2004 Recipients
Melissa Drost (Dr. Cecilia Fox)
The Protective Effects of Selenium in the Rat Model of Parkinson’s
Disease
(proposal)
Allison McBride (Dr. Carmen Ferrero-Pino, Dr. Nilsa Lasso-von
Lang)
Variedades Lingüísticas y Lenguas en contacto en el Mundo
de habla Hispana
(Linguistic Varieties and Languages in Contact in the Hispanic World)
(proposal)
Kara Mergl (Dr. Michelle Schmidt)
Peer Relations, Friendship, and Victimization in the Schools
(proposal)
Umer Khan Baloch (Dr. George Brower)
Game Theory & the Airline Industry
(proposal)
Aditya Khanna (Dr. Gordon Williams)
Exploring Petrie Schemes
(proposal
)
Spring 2004 Recipients
Jamie
Marks (Dr. Michelle Schmidt)
Two
Longitudinal Examinations: Mentoring & Victimization
(proposal)
Alyssa
DeSimone, Andrea Frankenfield, Brynn Saltzer (Dr. Joyce Hinnefeld)
Navigating the
Plagiarism
Minefield: Peer Tutors as Instructors and Guides
(proposal)
Jennifer
Kahl, Ruth Moyer, Laura Werner (Dr. Hilde Binford)
The Haunts of
Moravian
College: A Photographic Essay of Attics & Catacombs Dating Back to
the
Revolutionary War
(proposal)
Fall 2003 Recipients
Jana Havranova
(Dr. Chris Jones)
Isolation of Mutants
in the Putative Thioredoxin Reductase Gene trxr-2 in Drosophila
melanogaster
(proposal)
Summer 2003 Recipients
Allison McBride (Dr. Kym Morrison)
Race and Family Formation on the Eve of Cuban Slave Emancipation
(proposal
)
Jaime Marks (Dr. Michelle Schmidt)
A Longitudinal Examination of Mentoring High Risk Children
(proposal
)
Nicole Sabaliauskas (Dr. Chris Jones)
Exploration of Factors affecting Courtship in Drosophila
melanogaster
(proposal
)
Sarah Dougherty (Dr. Dana Dunn)
Social Psychological Processes and Adaptation to Rehabilitation
(proposal
)
Laura Strattan (Dr. Hilde Binford)
Creating Editions and Teaching Materials from Moravian Manuscripts
(proposal
)
Summer 2002 Recipients
Alyson Dobracki (Dr. Frank Kuserk)
Isolation and Enumeration of Chitinolytic Bacteria from
Northern Pitcher Plant, Sarracenia purpurea
(proposal
)
Aditya Khanna (Dr. Kelly Krieble)
The Dynamics of a Sputtering (Under Powered) Laser
(proposal)
Fei Sun (Mr. Stephen Corbesero)
Robotic Software Development
(proposal
)
Spring 2002 Recipients
Michelle Lewis (Dr. Carmen Ferrero)
Contemporary Culture of Spain
(proposal)
Leigh Caruso (Dr. Heikki Lempa)
Emotional Culture in Eighteenth Century Moravian Communities
()
Summer 2001 Recipients
Brian Carey (Dr. Frank Kuserk)
Post-Restoration Habitat Analysis of the Monacacy Creek, Lower Nazareth
Township, Northampton County
(proposal
)
Michele Leiby (Dr. Mildred Rivera-Martinez)
History and Traditions of Indigenous Mexican Laborers
(proposal)
Spring 2001 Recipients
Kristen Holcomb (Mrs. Anne Dutlinger)
Developing a Slide Collection for a Graphic Design History
(proposal)
Julie Jones (Dr. Carl Salter)
Visual Basic Programs for Weighted Least Squares Analysis
(proposal)
Erica Miller (Dr. Paige Thompson)
The Feasibility of Expressive Writing and Maintaining a Diary of
Symptoms in Breast Cancer Patients
(proposal)
Summer 2000 Recipients
Hilary Constable (Dr. Robert Brill)
Work, Family, and Spirituality: Individual Needs,
Business
and Community Programs
(proposal)
Cory Lowe (Dr. Kelly Krieble)
Investigation of Pattern Formation Phenomena in Fluid
Dynamics - The Hydraulic Jump
(proposal)
Genevieve
Williamson (Dr. Christopher Jones)
Is the
Arabidopsis presenilin gene really a presenilin gene?
(proposal)
Spring 2000 Recipients
Marta Coppola (Dr. Theresa Dougal)
Mary Wollstonecraft: The Life and Writing of an Eighteenth Century
Feminist
(proposal)
Amy Kingdom and Rachel O'Donnell (Drs. Joyce Hinnefeld and
Joel Wingard)
Students as Leaders in Curricular Reform: The Role of the Writing
Center
in Writing-across-the-Curriculum Initiatives at Small Liberal Arts
Colleges
(proposal)
Fall 1999 Recipients
Julie Jones (Dr. Carl Salter)
Excel Macro Programs for Least-Squares and Bootstrap
Error Analysis
(proposal)
Tricia Salomonsen (Dr. Clif Kussmaul)
Tools and Techniques for Digital Signal Processing
(proposal)
Summer 1999 Recipients
Charles Gero (Dr. Joseph Gerencher)
Network Distribution of Seismic Data and Event
Registration
(proposal)
Jennifer Mietzler (Dr.
Dan Libby)
Development of Organic Laboratory Experiments
Involving
Nonlinear Optical Polymers
(proposal)
Marta Coppola (Dr. Theresa Dougal)
Mary Wollstonecraft: The Life and Writings of an
Eighteenth
Century Feminist
(proposal)
Spring 1999 Recipients
Natalie Giancamilli (Dr. Carmen
Ferrero)
Shannan Smith (Dr. Mildred Rivera-Martinez)
Cultural Aspects and Traditions of the
Spanish-speaking
World
(proposal)
Kate Mackay (Dr. Stacey Zaremba)
The Relationship of Menstrual Attitudes and Knowledge
to Feminist Identification Level in Women
(proposal)
Summer 1998 Recipients
Ivett Almaguer and Carol Moeller,
Hearing Different Voices, Building Our Communities
(proposal)
Michael Babwahsingh and Anne Dutlinger,
Computer Literacy Manuals: Research, Design, and
Production
(proposal)
Michael Harrison and Lori
Toedter,
Cognitive Changes in Patients Undergoing Carotid
Endarterectomy
(proposal)
Katie Kelleman and Carl Salter,
Visual Basic Programs for Least-Squares and
Bootstrap
Error Analysis
(proposal)
Ed Smiley and David McGee,
A Study of Near-Infrared Sensitized
Photorefractive
Polymer Composites
(proposal)
Sarah Soden and Curt Keim,
Mistaking Africa. Curiosities and Inventions of
the
American Mind
(proposal)
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Last updated August 1, 2009.
