Students research as PC Summer Fellows
June 2, 2009
Nineteen PC students will conduct research on campus this summer during the PC Summer Fellows program, beginning June 8.
This year, students will delve further into their academic interests, researching topics such as “The influence of mass media upon popular American attitudes toward China,” “Doppelgangers and the creation of monstrosity,” and “The effect of plasmid DNA size on binding to Ag and Au nanoparticles.” A complete list of researchers, topics, and advisors is below.
“This is a unique opportunity that PC offers to our students,” said history professor Dr. Anita Gustafson. “The new focus on senior capstones has increased the emphasis on student research.”
The PC Summer Fellows program also provides students the opportunity to collaborate with professors while learning about the research process.
Further, the program affords students the opportunity to present research to various audiences. More than half of last year’s researchers were selected to present Summer Fellows research at various local, regional, and national conferences.
The 2009 PC Summer Fellows, along with their advisors and topics, include:
| Fellow | Research Advisor | Project Title |
| Olivia Hightower | Clint Harshaw | An analysis of nonparametric and resampling methods used to investigate potential hybridization of “Asimina triloba and “asimina paryilora” within the piedmont of South Carolina |
| Erica Deahl | Clint Harshaw | An investigation and statistical analysis of exposure time in intercollegiate athletics using parametric, non-parametric, and resampling methods |
| Natalie Arnold | Booker Ingram | The human rights of non-citizens: The moral teachings of the Presbyterian Church |
| Caitlin Basnight | Ron Zimmerman | Detecting the spread of genetic modification to non-genetically modified plants |
| Luke Thomas | Jim Thompson | The ethical doctrines of St. Augustine and Friedrich Nietzche |
| Sean Wise | Tom Weaver | United States and Russian Relations |
| Taylor Newton | Lynne Simpson | “Face the thing you most dread”: Doppelgangers and the creation of monstrosity |
| Kirsten Hallman | Anita Gustafson | The effects of the great depression on South Carolina’s mill workers |
| Katie German | Laura Crary | Religious Syncretism: Finding the Aztec in modern Mexican Catholicism |
| Justin Conklin | Jon Smith | The influence of mass media upon popular American attitudes towards China |
| Edwin Breeden | Roy Campbell | Confucianism and the West: an historical overview and contemporary issues |
| Thomas Bitner | Chad Rodekohr | Analysis of tin whiskers and the relation to internal stress caused by background Ar pressure during sputter deposition |
| Thomas Ard | Julie Meadows | Transcendentalism and social ethics |
| Jonny Clay Crocker | Latha Gearheart | The effect of plasmid DNA size on binding to Au and Ag nanoparticles |
| Anthony Chatham | Latha Gearheart | The effect of soil conditions on the Chinese tallow tree |
| Rosie Knotts | Latha Gearheart | Detecting pigments in art using surface-enhanced Raman spectroscopy |
| John Mark Dias | Latha Gearheart | Development of novel surface-enhanced Raman scattering substrates for solids and liquids |
| Andrew Myers | Jim Thompson | One nation, under God we trust |
| Jacob Street | Chad Rodekohr | Analysis of tin whiskers and the relation to internal stress caused by background Ar pressure during sputter deposition |
posted by Stacy Dyer '96
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