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2012 Scholars' Day Scholarship and Scholarly Award Winners


The Scholars’ Day Committee would like to extend a ‘Thank You’ to all the departments, divisions, faculty, staff, and students who worked so hard and contributed of their time and other resources to make this year’s program of events an incredible success.  This year a record number of student entries and a week-long series of activities across multiple campuses promoted the creative scholarly work of nearly 100 students and faculty in front of audiences totaling more than 500 people.

This year we also were able to award eight $1,000 scholarships on behalf of the MCC Foundation, as well as 16 additional awards recognizing strong student presentation and research. 

We hope you will consider submitting your creative scholarly work and/or working with an interested student or faculty member on a scholarly project for submission to our 5th Annual Scholars’ Day.  Deadlines for submission will be in the early spring semester 2013.

Please join us in congratulating this year’s Scholarship and Scholarly Award Winners:

Natural Science

Individual Category

1  David Dingeldine – “The Design and Fabrication of Unmanned Vehicles”
2  Greg Borden – “The Making of a National Champion Robot”
3  Lucas Bushen – “The Lone Bridge”

Team Category

1  Andrew Wronski, Andy Litzinger, Chad Pickering – “Mobile Brace”
2  Steven Powers, Alec Vozzy – “Design Build Fly”
3  Kelsey Mason, Shari Zimmerman “An examination of marine debris and trash washed ashore in the swash zone of selected beaches on San Salvador Island, Bahamas”

Social Science

Individual Category

1  Christopher Morris – “The Thing That Makes Bumps in the Night:  Why No One is Safe from the Bed Bug Epidemic”
2  Elizabeth Capozzi – “King Tut: Secrets, Mysteries, and Rewriting History through the Science of DNA”
3  Anna Price – “Witches, Vampires, and Satanists: An Exploration of Modern Alternative Religious Practices and the Existential Condition”

Team Category

1  Junot France, Tyrone Jones, Marcus Elliot, Anthony Wilson, William Rudolph, Arnell Lawson – “African-American Male Academic Crisis:  A Call to Action”
2  Alton Calloway, Paul Drake, Karl Moreland – “Feeling the Future Again: Can Psi Phenomena be Replicated?”
3  Saul Schuster, Chloe Vazzana, Lauren Paiz – “Analysis of the Pros and Cons of Propaganda”

Humanities

Individual Category

1  Jonathan Davidsson – “The Labyrinth of the Heart in the Merchant of Venice”
2  Anna Price – “’Wild Women Don’t Get the Blues’: Angela Carter’s Feminist Reinterpretation of Little Red Riding Hood in The Company of Wolves”
3  Catriona Robson – “Artistic Censorship:  How Centuries of Censorship Contributed to the Actions of the Comics Code Authority from 1954 to the 1980s”

Poster Presentations

1  Chris Katz, “Rock Climb New York:  Using Geographical Information Systems to Map New York Climbing Locations”
2  Mary Ivette Barroso “Surface Water Temperatures and the Thermophile Identification of Hydrothermal Features in Upper Geyser Basin, Yellowstone National Park, WY”
3  Annabella Efinger, Ashley Inclema – “EDU 150 and Service-Learning”

Matthew Hachee
On Behalf of the Scholars' Day Committee
05/07/2012