2005 Emerson Foundation Grant Recipients

• Sara Bert '06 and Assistant Professor of Theatre Mark Cryer
  "Racial Hatred and the Need to Reach an Understanding of all Peoples
  


• Julia Brandt '07 and Professor of Biology Jinnie Garrett
  "Strategies Used by Pharmaceutical Companies to Market Their Products to Physicians and Patients
  


• Heather Comforto '06 and Professor of Anthropology Henry Rutz
  "Creating Social Economies with a Market Economy
  


• Mary Beth Day '07 and Associate Professor of Geosciences David Bailey
  "Chemical Characterization of Lithic Artifact Source Material
  


• Sarah Felder '07 and Associate Professor of Art Ella Gant
  "Documenting a Disappearing Culture: The Small Farming Community in Oneida County
  
  
• Adam Gordon '06 and Carl Rubino, the Edward North Professor of Classics, and Frank Anechiarico, the Maynard-Knox Professor of Government and Law
  "Alexander Hamilton: A Commitment to Education
  


• Sarah-Marie Gross '06 and Professor of Chinese Hong Gang Ji
  "Beijing's Transportation Planning for the 2008 Olympic Games and its Environmental Impact on Local Beijing Residents
  


• Young Han '06 and Visiting Professor of Communication John Adams
  "Single Transferable Vote Initiatives and the Rhetoric of Electoral Reform
  


• Elisabeth Krainer  '06 and Professor of Anthropology Douglas Raybeck
  "How the Subculture of Emergency Medical Technicians Influences Emergency Pre-hospital Care
  


• Mike Mortimer '07 and Douglas Ambrose, the Sidney Wertimer Associate Professor of History
  "Hamilton and Washington: The Genesis of an Epic Friendship
  


• Laura Oman '07 and Assistant Professor of English Steven Yao
  "Chineseness in Ezra Pound's Cathay and the Construction of Race in Early Twentieth Century Discourse"
  


• Haley Reimbold '06 and Vivyan Adair, the Elihu Root Peace Fund Associate Professor of Women's Studies
  "Equal Opportunity for All: A Comparative Study of Education in Germany, Sweden, and the United States
  


• Brian Sweeney '06 and Professor of English Patricia O'Neill
  "Peter Pan and the Making of a Modern Myth
  


• Ingrid Tharasook '07 and Richard Werner, the John Stewart Kennedy Professor of Philosophy
  "The Haunted Islands: How Post-Tsunami Ghost Stories Have Halted Asia's Tourism
  


• Ntokozo Xaba '08 and Professor of English Vincent Odamtten
  "Protests or Praise-Songs Ten Years After: A Critical Examination of Post-Apartheid Literature
  


• Dongyue Zhang '07 and Assistant Professor of Psychology Tara McKee
  "Levels of ADHD Symptomatology Among Chinese College Students

Featured Projects

Sarah Felder '07 worked on a summer-long photography project titled, "Documenting a Disappearing Culture: The Small Farming Community in Oneida County."


Yejun Qian '08 returned to his native China to conduct research for his project on e-waste and globalization.


Advised by Associate Professor of Chemistry Karen Brewer, Jodi Raymond '08, Kim Roe '08, Elizabeth Faroh '08 (pictured) and LeAnne Pasquini ’07 are continuing an investigation of the optical properties, the synthesis and spectroscopy of rare earth based solid materials.



Erik Goulding '06, Mike Gruen '06 and Aram Kudurshian '06 are working to create a system in which people can work in the same computer files in different places and use a programmed Bluetooth cell phone to automatically synchronize the data.


William Hoffman '07 spent two weeks in the Great Basin of Central Nevada collecting chert samples before returning to campus to prepare them for geochemical analysis.