2009 Community Based Undergraduate Research Grants Recipients

Student Researcher: Michael Mahoney, 3rd year English major (poetry)
Faculty Advisor: Victor Luftig, English
Community Partner: St. Paul’s Memorial Church

Student Researcher: Laura McLaughlin, 3rd year Human Biology major
Faculty Advisor: Tanya Wanchek, Weldon Cooper Center
Community Partners: Southwest Virginia Health Authority and The Healthy Appalachia Institute

Student Researcher: Hannah Pocock, 3rd year English major (Modern Studies)
Faculty Advisor: Ellen Fuller, East Asian Studies and Studies in Women and Gender
Community Partner: Children of Vietnam

Student Researcher: Sarah Munford, 2nd year in Global Development Studies, and Ishraga Eltahir, Political and Social Thought and African-American and African Studies
Faculty Advisor: Cynthia Hoehler-Fatton, Religious Studies
Community Partner: South Africa Migration Project

Student Researchers: Robin Kendall, 2nd year Finance and Global Development Studies major Virginia Ruddock, graduate student in Clinical Nursing Leadership
Faculty Advisor: Brad Brown, Commerce
Community Partner: Casa Materna

Student Researcher: Ethan Heil, 2nd year, Civil Engineering
Faculty Advisor: James Smith, Civil Engineering
Community Partner: University of Venda’s Global Sustainability Club

Student Researcher: Michael Downey, 2nd year, Anthropology major and a team of students from environmental sciences and engineering, Environmental Thought and Practice
Faculty Advisor: Janet Herman, Environmental Sciences
Community Partner: City of Charlottesville, Dept. of Public Works

Student Researcher: Matthew Bowyer, 3rd year, Interdisciplinary Studies Chase Sparling-Beckley, graduate student Architecture
Faculty Advisor: John Quale, Architecture and Ralph Allen, Chemistry
Community Partner: Piedmont Housing Alliance