Ithaca College

The following is submitted on behalf of Wade Pickren, Ph.D., Sponsored Research Director:

Congratulations to the students who participated in the National Conference on Undergraduate Research (NCUR) at Eastern Washington University in Cheney, Washington on April 4/16 – 4/18, 2015.

As a program of the Council on Undergraduate Research (CUR) the National Conference on Undergraduate Research (NCUR), established in 1987, promotes undergraduate research, scholarship and creative activity in all fields of study through an annual conference for students. The first conference drew more than 400 participants from schools across the country. Now in existence for over twenty-five years, the conference regularly hosts more than 3,000 students and their faculty mentors to present their research through posters, oral presentations, visual arts and performances. NCUR was held at Ithaca College in 2011.

Associate Professor/Chair Robert Sullivan, Communication Studies accompanied the following students to NCUR 2015:

Erika Bucior, Environmental Studies and Sciences

Poster- Use of Dendrochronology to Reconstruct Past Environmental Conditions of Prehispanic Mexico

Sarah Casola, Biology

Poster - A Novel High-throughput Method using Chlorophyll Fluorescence Imaging to Determine Freezing Damage in Plants

Jonathon Cummings, Communication Studies

One Love: A Rhetorical Analysis of Bob Marley's Music

Out of Many One People

Holland Garbacz, Biology

Cryptic Carbohydrates: An Analysis of the Carbohydrates in Defensive Glue Secreted by Arion Subfuscus

Reyal Hoxie, Biochemistry

Poster - The Role of the Carboxy-Terminal Domain of RNA Polymerase II in Region and Gene Family Specific Modes of Gene Regulation in Schizosaccharomyces pombe

Ellen Jackson, Music

"Oh, The Humanity!:" John Adams's Treatment of Palestinian Hijackers in The Death of Klinghoffer

Samuel Kuperman, Journalism

Ethics in Fantasy Sports Journalism

Kathyann Lee, Biology

Comparative Analysis of Cart Peptide Expression and Function

Curt McConnell, Environmental Studies and Sciences

Testing the Efficacy of Swistrack for Detecting Alterations in Fish Behavior from Pyschoactive Pharmaceuticals

Sarah Pearson, Politics

Changing the world in 140 characters

Sean Themea, Communication Studies

Time to Get Off Track

"The Race Question": A Case Study on Ideological Rhetoric

Upcoming NCUR Conferences:   NCUR 2016: University of North Carolina-Asheville, April 7-9 (30th Anniversary)

NCUR 2017: University of Memphis, April 6-8 NCUR 2018: University of Central Oklahoma, April 4-7 

Additional information regarding the 2016 Conference will be posted on the website at 
www.ithaca.edu/sponsored-research/ncur during the fall semester.