Summer 2008 Stipend Winners

On April 26, 2008, Christopher Newport University’s Undergraduate/Graduate Research Council  
(UGRC) proudly announced the winners of this year’s Summer Research Stipends during the  
Seventh Annual Paideia Conference.  As part of its effort to encourage academic initiative and
support undergraduate research, the UGRC offered seven $1100 stipends to help students  
(and faculty mentors) from all disciplines defray expenses connected with conducting  research
during the summer.  Each student received $700 and each faculty mentor $400.   The awards
are generously supplied by CNU’s Office of the Provost and Alumni Society.

Listed below are the seven students who won research stipends and the title of their work; faculty
mentor and department appear in parenthesis:

  Joanna Andrusko: “The Immigration Debate in 21st Century Prince William County: VA as a Micro-
  history  of  the Century-old Latino Migration Movement” (Dr. William Connell, Dept. of   History).

  Andrew Berglund: “The Religious and Cultural Impact of the Early Moravian Church on Christianity in
  both  Central Europe and the Southeast United States” (Dr. Kip Redick,
  Dept. of Philosophy & Religious Studies).

  Frank Garmon: “Banking and Self Interest in Antebellum America” (Dr.  Andrew Falk, Dept. of History).

  Nicole Justice-Kleemann: “Solidifying the Construction of the Feminine in Folklore from the Lost Celtic
  Regions  in Flanders and Wallonia” (Dr. Mai Lan Gustafsson, Dept. of Sociology & Anthropology).

  Raychel Loney: “Euripides’ Medea and the Chorus” (Dr. Bradley Buszard, Dept. of Modern & Classical
  Languages & Literatures).

  Jacob Midkiff: “Children’s Early Experience of Rejection and Later Formation of Conduct Problems: A
  Continuation in Exploring Possible Treatments in Adventure Based Therapy” (Dr. Thomas Berry, Dept.
  of  Psychology).

  Alexandria Ruble: “Democratizing Gender: Effects of American Occupation on German Women,
  1945-1949”   (Dr. Brian Puaca, Dept. of History).