NCUR - THE NATIONAL CONFERENCE ON UNDERGRADUATE RESEARCH

NCUR 2009Since 2002 nearly 80 Christ College students have had their undergraduate research selected for presentation at the National Conference on Undergraduate Research (NCUR), the largest, most competitive, and most prestigious venue for undergraduate scholarship in the United States. Generous contributions of alumni and friends to the Christ College Dean's Annual Fund makes possible travel to NCUR conference sites such as Washington D.C., Indianapolis, Asheville N.C., Salt Lake City, and the San Francisco Bay area.  See all our pictures in the NCUR picture gallery.

NCUR 2010 Missula

Christ College 2009 NCUR Participants at University of Wisconsin at La Crosse: 

Sarah Beckerman The Weight of His Actions: Dante's Purpose in Purgatory

Kelly Bylica International Education: A Journey under the Water's Surface

Emerald Davis Storytelling in Homer's Odyssey: Negotiating Meaning between Narrator and Audience

Jonathan Eaton Understanding History: Interpreting the Past through the Interpretations of Others

Justin Egge  A Christian Response to Preimplantation Genetic Diagnosis

Courtney Heitkamp  A Case for Federalism: How Wind Energy is Best Adopted and Implemented at the State Level

Zachary King  Do a Little Wrong: Making Things Right in the Merchant of Venice

Abigail Lange  Countering Iconoclasm: A Defense for a Pro-Image Early Christian Church

Robin Lehninger The Importance of the Garths in Middlemarch to Evaluating the Flawed Educational Systems in the Victorian Domestic Sphere

John Lindstrom  Human Goodness and the Morals of Motion in As I Lay Dying

Paula Maust Body and Mind as One: An Exploration of the Effects of a Dualistic View of the Body

Ruth Moberg Foster All American Girls Playing the All American Game: Understanding American Identity through the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League, 1943-1954

Lilia Oakey Windstruck: Tales of Chicago from the Sidewalks Up

Scott Rehbein The Ensuing Conflict of Regarding Healthcare as both an Industry and a Social Health Right

Molly Reynolds Consumerism in Assisted Fertilization

Kathryn Schmidt  There's No "Eye" in Nexus 6

Kristy Shew  Helping Children at Risk: Reconciling Purpose with Practice in International Faith-Based Relief Organizations

Rebekka Sneed  Concepts of Medical Missions in Albert Schweitzer and Paul Farmer-A Critical Comparison

Megan Telligman Determination of the Genetic Loci Involved in Male Nonrandom Mating of Arabidopsis thatliana

Kurt Woock  We Are Merely Players