This collection of UNH Undergraduate Research Conference (URC) presentations has been created by the University Library in collaboration with the Hamel Center for Undergraduate Research, the administrative home of the URC. To add your oral or poster presentation, please click the "Submit Research" link on the left sidebar. If you are unable to contribute your entire research presentation, you may submit just an abstract either by entering it into the submission form or uploading a document.
URC event programs, which list the schedule of students’ presentations at specific URC events, may be found on the URC website, www.unh.edu/urc.
Submissions from 2009
Home Power Monitoring, Timothy April, Dylan Farnsway, and Jesse Taylor
The Loss of the Breton Language: the Clash of National Identity and Minority Languages, David Bornstein
Euskal Herria: A Filmic Exploration of Basque Identity and Culture, Anna Bruning
UNH Precision Racing - Formula SAE Team 2009 - Car #86, Carin Campbell, Jeremy Seiferth, Kyle Tierney, Keith Matthews, Kurth Raisanen, Brendan Rickard, Joshua Spaulding, Benjamin Lewis, Phillipe Lord, Derek Smith, Erik McKenzie, Matthew Borowski, David Garneau, and Michael DeGaetano
Successful Measures of Peacekeeping: Does Peacekeeping Work?, Diana Chiang
Jules Simon: sans colère et sans amertume, Claire Churchill
SASS in the Classroom, Erica Clemens
Tourism’s Impact on Economic Growth and Development in Spain, Jessica Dennis
Winter Flounder Stock Enhancement: Examining the Onset of Wild Weaning in Pellet-Reared Fish, Stacy Farina
Poverty and Democracy: Peru Revisited, Colleen Flaherty
The Carnal Economy: Sex for Sale on the Global Marketplace, Sarah Gormandy
A Descriptive Study of Team-Based Well-Child Care in the Netherlands, Lauren Gurschick
Somatic Growth of Strongylocentrotus droebachiensis Artificial Feeds of Varying Nutritional Composition, Sauwai Hung
A Life Between: Reflections of Immigrant Culture in Modern German Cinema, Katrina Ingraham
The Secret Lives of Roses: the Latin American Flower Industry, Sheila Jarnes
Pre-participation Athletic Screening Forms, Olivia Karpinski
The Effects of Polarized Pluralism on the Democratic transition of Spain and Italy, Allison Krause
A Study of Speech Perception: The Psychological Reality of the Obligatory Contour Principle, Julie Langevin
What are the causative factors that allow militant movements to renounce their paramilitary wing: An examination of the IRA and the Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood, Jennifer McArdle
The Experiences of Nurses Using Rapid Response Teams, Aimee Milliken
Holy Oil and Water: The Economics of a Theocratic Nation, Johanna Murphy
Use of the Moon with the IBEX-Lo Star Sensor: Precision Pointing in the Sky for IBEX Interstellar Flow Observations, Morgan O'Neill
Air-sea Carbon Flux During Hurricanes, Morgan O'Neill and Virginia Sawyer
Volunteer Best Practices, Catherine Plante
The Rhetoric of Retail: Understanding the Function of Retail Therapy, Elizabeth Reny
Prostitution & Sex Trafficking in Spain, Brittany Rittenberry
The Cyprus Problem and Turkey’s Accession to the EU, Cem Savoglu
College Outdoor Orientation Program Sustainability: A grounded theory investigation of program discontinuation at four-year colleges in the United States, Calvin Vaillancourt
Self Financed Candidates in U.S. Elections, Eric Wind
Submissions from 2008
Are You Being Served?: Implications of Public Health Care in Spain, Sara Arnoudse
Little People Big World: The entrapment of marked bodies and visibility, Emma Baillargeon
The Shanghai Six: Military Threat or Economic Alliance?, Anna Brown
The Strength of the Uni-Multipolar System: The Concert of Europe, Jeffrey Brunelle
WildCatSat: 2008, Ryan Carney, Christopher Famolare, Christopher Hill, Zachart Kelton, Jeffrey Kite, Melissa Minuti, Robert Terry, James Gealy, Patrick Lee, and Davide Levine
Star Sensor Flight Calibration for the Interstellar Boundary Explorer, George Clark
African-American Portrayals in Musical Theatre 1920's-1930's, Darlene Delano
The Rhetoric of Dover's Tax Cap Campaign, Christopher Feeney, Ross Tinkham, and Michael Soha
Critical Care Nurses Perspectives Toward End-of-Life Care in the Intensive Care Unit, Marisha Florissant
Geochemical Constraints on the Origin of a Shallow Ash Occurrence: in the Mahanadi Basin, offshore India, Janine Fraschetti
The Feminist Health Center of Portsmouth, Cara Gadapee
Patagonia: Trouble in Paradise, Emily Gifford
Outcome Measures for the New Hampshire Special Olympics Healthy Hearing Program, Lauren Hardies
A Gender Comparison of Lower Extremity Landing Biomechanics Utilizing Different Tasks: Implications in ACL Injury Research, Adam E. Hernandez
Active Noise Cancellation (ANC) Headsets Using Fixed Analog & Adaptive Neural Controllers, Muhammad Islam
In the Arms of the Community, Elizabeth Joseph
Developing a Climate Action Plan for UNH: Analysis, Collaboration and Implementation, Rebecca Lehr
Business as Usual: China's Infatuation with the Oil of the Genocidal Regime of Sudan, Jacqueline Lewis
College Students' Knowledge, Attitudes, and Testing Behaviors in Regard to HIV/AIDS, Skye MacKay
Medication Use of Young Adults: Are Medication Users at Risk for Chronic Disease?, Jenna Madore
Tracking the Timeline of Verticillium Infection of Mint, Margaret Mansfield
Monarchical Suppression of the Legislature: Morocco 1996-2007, Trevor Mauck
Virtual Volunteering: A Personal Volunteer Experience, Kyle J. McAdam
Moroccan Migration Into Spain, Ryann Mead
The Dred Scott Legacy: Pre-Civil War Citizenship & Blacks, Lisa Merrill
Security Interests Trump Humanitarian Concerns: China’s Economic Relations with Sudan, Brenna O'Connor
Reviving Russia: Can a Legacy of Limited Economic Stability Be Broken?, Caitlin O'Connor
UNH - Alternative Break Challange, Michelle Pizzillo
Why Jihad?: A Study of What Drives Individuals to Wage Jihad, Catherine H. Reno
Case Study on the Lawyers' Environmental Action Team and Their Position on the Usangu Eviction Case, Lauren Schweizer
A Material Sketch: Glimpsing into the Life of Temperence Pickering Knight, Emily Silfies
Real Life on the Stage: The Story of a Macedonian Immigrant, Laura Smetana
Seaing Green:, Thadeaus Webster and Benjamin Chiang
Submissions from 2007
The Effects of Sociodemographic Variations on the Self-Concept of Single Rural Mothers, Jessica A. Bean
Dependence of Crystal Orientation on Composition in Silver-Silicon Composite Thin Films, Amanda Brown, Don Carlson, and Dana Filoti
Verb Tense as a Predictor of Reader Reactions to Autobiographical Narratives, Emily Carter
The Effect of the Invasive Species Caulerpa taxifolia on Native Species, Lena Collins
Shared Living Environment A Healthy Serving of Greens: The Role of the Green Party in Germany's Renewable Energy Policy, Nicole Eckert
Sexually Explicit Advertisements: Does Belief in Rape Myth Differ?, Nicole Guenard
CAFTA: Reasons for Resistance, Derek Hubbard
The Severing of the Relationship Between the Catholic Church and the French State, Dan Jasinski
Expelling Dictatorial Influences from Chilean Education: the 2006 student movement demanding change, Elyse Johnson
The Weight of Words: the Construction and Implications of Genocide Discourse in Bosnia and Sudan, Myra Kahn
The Three People You'll Meet at a Hockey Game, Adrian Kerrison
Dating Abuse in College Relationships: A Qualitative Study, Melissa Mangold
Living on the Edge: the Staffordshire Moorlands Pan and Life Along Hadrian's Wall, Elizabeth McFadden
That's What He Said: Expanding Education Around Men's Sexual Decision Making, Katharine Mooney
The Effects of a Long Distance Run on Creatine Kinase Levels 24, 48, and 72 Hours Post-Run, Laura Polombo
Bringing up Incentives: A Look at the Determinants of Poverty, Alice Sheehan
Determining the Feasibility of a UNH Maple Sugaring Operation, Michael J. Simmons
Political Participation in Democratic States - The Rise of the Far-Right: The French Answer to its Identity Crisis, Emily Soderman
Bio-adhesion: Search for Vitronectin in Caulerpa mexicana, Jennifer Towle
Submissions from 2006
The Effects of Norepinephrine and Dopamine in Remediating Selective Attention Deficits, Nicholas Adams and Jenna Darling
Electronic journal writing: Communicative Freedom for Adults with Brain Injury, Magdalen Balz
The Locomotor Behavior of Limulus polyphemus and the Existence of Endogenous Biological Rhythms, Lisa Bedford
Bad Girls: Romantic Feminine Rebellion in Renaissance Drama, Molly Cooper
Eileen Wournos and the Public Sphere, Emily Demers
Non-medical Use of Prescription Drugs on College Campuses: Student Use of Adderall and Ritalin at UNH, Emily Duynstee
The Censorship has Sailed: Spanish Media and Democracy, Michelle Giguere
Cytokeratin 8/18 Intermediate Filaments and their Role in Regression of the Bovine Corpus Luteum, Sarah Grieve and Nicole Young
Can Kant Accommodate Supererogation?: Supererogation and Duty in Immanuel Kant’s Ethical Framework, Mark Andrew Joseph
Attitudes of Gender Roles in the Family, Gina Lalli
Fluxus as Fragmentation and Continuity, Kraig Lamper
Changing Ethnic Identities in Post-National Germany: A Study of Turkish-German Literature, Politics and Society, Nora Larkin
Detained in The Land of the Free: The Japanese American Internment as a Contradiction to Individual Liberty in America, Meghann McCluskey
Site Occupancy of Hochstetter’s Frogs (Leiopelma hochstetteri) in the Hunua Ranges, New Zealand, Heather Moulton
Perinatal Loss:Possible Caregiver Barriers - Implications for training, Catherine Overson
The Misleading of the American Public through Deceptive Crime Tactics, Sarah V. Raymond