School of Arts and Sciences Awards for NCUR® 22
The School Arts and Sciences Office of Experiential Learning will grant awards to five Arts and Sciences undergraduates to pay for their transportation, attendance, food, and lodging at the 22nd National Conference on Undergraduate Research, which will be held at Salisbury University in Salisbury, MD, April 10-12, 2008.
NCUR® 2008 will bring together undergraduates involved in scholarly and artistic activities from more than 300 colleges and universities in the nation. Since the first conference in 1987, NCUR® has grown to become a major annual event drawing well over 2200 undergraduates, faculty and administrators to promote undergraduate research in all fields of study.
To be considered for an award, the research project must have been undertaken at the University of Pittsburgh with a University of Pittsburgh faculty member.
NCUR® is an opportunity for students to present their work in the performing arts, humanities, social sciences as well as the natural sciences. Students from all disciplines are encouraged to apply.
Students may select one method of presentation of their work at the conference – Oral, Poster, Performing or Visual Arts Exhibit with Gallery Talk and Slides, or Performing or Visual Arts Presentation with Slides.
How to Apply
To apply for the A&S funding award, submit an e-mail with abstract attached to Margaret Heely, PhD, Director of OEL, heely@as.pitt.edu, by Thursday, November 15, 2007. In the e-mail, abstract submission, include author’s phone number and e-mail address.
Applicants should provide information in the attachment in MS Word format and save the file so that the information can be resubmitted to NCUR®.
Guidelines for abstract submissions
- Title must be in capital letters
- Include first name, middle initial and last name of author and co-authors
- Include name of research sponsor in parentheses
- Include department, University of Pittsburgh and University of Pittsburgh address where research was conducted
- Abstracts must be 250-350 words in length (including title, etc.)
Sample Abstract
Abstract Title:
ODORIFEROUS WALLPAPER
Name of Author(s), Research Sponsor, Department, Institution and Institutional Address:
Monique C. Schuster (Judith Pike) Department of English, Salisbury University, Salisbury, MD 21801
Abstract:
Many Gilman critics, particularly Treichler, Shumaker, and Fetterley have come to the consensus that the physical wallpaper of Gilman's "The Yellow Wallpaper" (1892) is representative of the narrator, and femininity. While a more recent critic, Hume, briefly recognizes the phallic symbolism within the paper, she does not elaborate any further on how this pattern contributes to the paper being a form of masculinity rather than femininity. I propose that the wallpaper, in fact, is not "a metaphor for women's discourse," (Treichler 63) or femininity, but rather symbolizes the dominating male force that encompasses the narrator within the house. Moreover, critics of Hume have ignored the smell emanating from the yellow wallpaper. The paper projects itself on the narrator not only by color, but also smell, spreading throughout her clothes, her hair, and even the house. At first it is described as "awful," but eventually she becomes accustomed to it, as she is to become accustomed to the male dominance within her culture at the time. While being held prisoner in this male created edifice she closely examines the paper, finding that it is full of contradictions (just like her husband), and that its pattern is revealing "new shoots on the fungus," a masculinity that is spreading at the fast rate of a contagious sickness. She becomes angry at John's and Jennie's apparent interests in the paper because it represents their alignment with the masculine text, something she so desperately tries to defy. The climactic ending, in which she rips the paper from the wall, represents her attempt to rid herself of the masculine force that surrounds her. She can remove the wallpaper, but the smell lingers, foreshadowing that this defeat is only temporary. Not only will the smell continue, but John will awaken from his fainting spell, and her son (begot of her) will eventually become a man.
For more information, please contact OEL (B-4 Thaw Hall, 624-6828)
or visit www.salisbury.edu/ncur22/sampleabstractform.html
