Camille Elmore was named a 2009-10 Mary Gates Scholar for her work “Summer Institute: Cultural Form in the Imperial Field.” The scholarships are awarded by Undergraduate Academic Affairs and the Mary Gates Endowment for Students. Elmore will receive a research scholarship of $4,000.
On April 15, 2010, Communication major Kristy Hogue presented her work at the 24th annual National Conference for Undergraduate Research (NCUR) in Missoula, Mont. Kristy is one of only six UW students attending this year’s NCUR conference. Hogue is an Honors student in the Department working under the mentorship of Crispin Thurlow on a project titled “Short-Term Study Abroad: Road to Global Citizenship?” Her thesis uses critical discourse analysis to examine how students recall and make sense of their interactions with local people while studying abroad.
2010 Jody Deering Nyquist Awards for Excellence in Undergraduate Research
Andrew Ng
Area: Social Interaction
Nick Trost
Title: “How Should We Remember The Inaugural Address Of Barack Obama? Let JFK Show Us How”
Area: Rhetoric and Critical / Cultural Studies
Kaetlyn Cordingley
Area: Political Communication
Kelsey Hurter, Tylen Johnson, Alyssa Sibal, Aliena Smith
Area: Media Institutions, Organization, and Structure
UW Undergraduate Research Symposium (2010)
Nicholas Trost, Senior, Communication
Mentor: Leah Ceccarelli
Andrew Ng, Senior, Communication, Biochemistry
Mentor: Valerie Manusov
Anisa Khaleel, Senior, Communication, Individualized Studies
Mentor: LeiLani Nishime
Tannaz Motarjemi, Senior, Communication, Political Science
Mentor: David Domke
Janiece Jenkins, Senior, Communication, Business Administration (Finance)
Mentor: John Hammerback
Evan Carlos, Communication, Biology (General)
Mentor: John Neumaier, Psychiatry, and Daniel Eskenazi, Psychiatry and Behaviorial Sciences
Anna Noble, Senior, Communication
Mentor: Holly Barker, Anthropology
Tiana Nizamic, Senior, Environmental Health, Communication
Mentor: Joel Kaufman, Environmental & Occupational Health Sciences
Wanju Yu, Senior, Communication, English
Mentor: Philip Howard, Valerie Manusov
Tia Lee, Junior, Economics, Communication
Mentor: Ken Yasuhara, Center for Engineering Learning & Teaching
