This program gives students the opportunity to present undergraduate research at national conferences by providing the funding to cover the costs of their travel and attendance.

This year, Hendrix-Murphy will fund the following conference presentations:

National Conference on Undergraduate Research, University of Wisconsin- LaCrosse, April 16-18, 2009

• "Revolutionizing Schools: Patterns of Marginalization and New Directions for ESL Education" (Sarah Elizabeth Hughes)

• "Cyclical Relations Between Dramaturgy and Stigmatization of Erotic Dancers" (Lara Catherine Morrow)
  

• "Parental Surrogate and Surrogates of Action in Wuthering Heights" (Rae Leia Hamaker)
  

• "Human Nature Reduced in Search of an Ideal" (Drew Elizabeth Tillis)

• "The Personal is Political: Colonialism and Patriarch in Elizabeth Bowen's The Last September" (Cameron Shea Yeates)

• "The Narcissist and the Woman in E.T.A. Hoffmann's The Sandman with Reference to Faust" (Caelan Elizabeth O'Sullivan)

• "The Jacobin Legacy: Social Influence, Moral Education, and Rhetoric" (Lauren Ashley Henry)

• "Twinning in Plautus' Menaechmi" (Kevin Autry)
  

In previous years, students have presented their work at such conferences as:

ACS British Studies Symposium, Birmingham-Southern College, Birmingham, Alabama, February 15-18, 2008

•    “Virginia Woolf and the Female Modernist” (Amy Elkins)

National Conference on Undergraduate Research, Salisbury University, Salisbury, Maryland, April 10-12, 2008
    
•    “Anxiety of Agency in Nella Larsen’s Quicksand”  (Tara B. Allison)

•    “Jane Austen and the Mentor-Lover: A Survey of Governance and Affection in Emma, Pride and Prejudice, Sense & Sensibility and Persuasion” (Amanda D. Brooks)

•    “A Qualitative Analysis of Implementing Shared Reading in Elementary Classrooms” (Alissan Jones)

•    “It’s Hard out there for a Maiden” (Samantha Lester)

•    “Connections Between Men: Homoerotic Desire and Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice and Emma (Jonathan Nichols)

•    “Video Games as Digital Literature” (Andy Posterick)
    

Copies of students’ research are kept on file in the Murphy House following their presentation for reference purposes.  To apply,  click here .