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poking arpund the third
floor of the Anthropology
department. She was looking
in the archives and found a
study by Buxhoeveden.
“I wanted money to do
what I was already wanting
to do. I thought if they
want to give it, I’ll take
it,” McWilliams said of the
OUR’s grant offer. “Since
I’m only doing this for
one semester, a part of the
money will be used as a lab
stipend for me.”
Morris said students have
received up to $3,000, and
the money can be divided in
anv wav.
“It’s all up the student
and mentor,” she said,
meaning that students can
compensate themselves
for time they invest in the
research.
Contrary** to popular
belief, “undergraduate
research” is not confined
only to the hard sciences,
Morris said.
Fourth-year English
student Kathleen Curtin will
use her winnings to process
a piece of poetry by English
poet Edmund Spenser.
Curtin will be transferring
one canto of Spenser’s “The
Faerie Queene,” about a
thousand lines of poetry, to
a Web site. She will also be
converting select words in
to hypertext, or manually
linking particular words to
other relevant Web sites.
“I’ve already done the
research, I’ve studied the
words. Spenser’s language
• is not only 16th century
language, but he used
language that was old
fashioned even in his time,”
she said.
Curtin said her project is
challenging.
“For modern readers,
it’s difficult language,” she
said.
Unfazed by the difficulty
of the language, Curtin has
begun work on the project
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relationship between Bush
and Rumsfeld.
Biden said that to make
Iraq an effective democracy,
its government must be
made up of representatives
from all parties. The U.S.
should work with the
U.N. to create institutions
of democracy instead of
focusing on elections, he
said.
“Just having elections
doesn’t make a democracy,”
Biden said. “It’s the second,
third, fourth elections.”
The final part of Biden’s
plan is to encourage better
international relations. If
the enemy builds a network
of terrorists, the U.S. should
build a network of allies to
share intelligence, he said.
Where the Bush doctrine
says that the U.S. should
follow its own agenda if
other nations don’t support
military action, Biden
said the U.S. should build
alliances and work with
international organizations.
“We need to recapture
the totality of America’s
strength,” Biden said.
“We’ve squandered our
military power.
In addition to damaging
foreign relations, Biden said
the Iraq war has instilled in
America a fear of war, and
any future involvement
. in foreign wars by this or
future administrations would
likely be met with political
opposition internally.
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and is passionate about the
subject.
“It’s an obscure text,
but not really for English
majors,” she said. “It’s an
allegory and it’s full 'of
dragons and knights and
interesting abandoned
mansions. Its symbolism
is irresistible to English
majors.”
Curtin will be working
with English professor
David Miller, one of four
editors working on a new
Oxford edition of the
collected works of the poet.
“What I’m doing is just
a prototype of the larger
project,” Curtin said. She
will be working from home
on her personal computer
and will present her project
at the National Conference
for Undergraduate Research
in Asheville, N.C., in April.
-Part of her grant money
will go to .cover the expenses
of the conference, and part
of the money will go to
compensate Curtin for her
time.
“My project has several
parts,” she said. “One is
doing the hypertext and I’ll
be paid for my time. The
other is doing research for
Dr. Miller. I’ll be helping
him with his research and
his undergraduate classes.”
“Only some words (will
be converted to hypertext),
only words that I’ve decided
to gloss or the name of a
character; I’ll have a link,”
Curtin said.
She’ll be creating links to
words that she feels needs
further explanation.
“Spenser used a lot of
sources — classical texts,
Italian literature, Chaucer.
When I list one of these
sources, the users can click
on it instead of having to
dig around in the library,”
she said. “I’m still figuring
out how to do that. I’ve got
a lot to figure out.”
Curtin said this project
aligns with her immediate
goals for next year.
“I’m excited about
the possibility of using
technology in the
humanities. In the fall I’ll
be going to grad school.
I want to continue using
these skills. Technology can
be a way of preserving texts
and making them accessible.
IT can also be a way for
scholars to communicate
with each other,” she said.
Keshia Rice, first-year
electronic journalism
student and Capstone
Scholar will be conducting
a study about race and
credibility in journalistic
reporting.
“I can’t say much about
my project,” she said.
Rice will be conducting a
double blind study. “The
focus will be the effect of
a reporter’s race on the
perceived credibility of news
reporters.”
Rice said she will
mostly use interviews and
questionnaires for her
research, relying on student
volunteers.
“I plan on asking for
volunteers,” she said.
“I’ll put up flyers and
announcements. I want
to have volunteers watch
different news segments that
I’ve created. The money
will go into making those
segments, hiring reporters,
things like that.”
Morris said she feels the
Magellan program is an
excellent way for students to
get a hands-on experience
in their undergraduate
education. For potential
applicants, she recommends
OUR’s Web site at www.
sc.edu/OUR.
“It has background and
tips and hints on how to
write proposals,” Morris
said. “It has some sample
proposals. Students are
always welcome to contact
me if they have questions.
Morris said OUR is
looking to fund student
projects and wants students
to be successful.
Morris also recommends
calling the Office of
Undergraduate Research
with questions regarding
applying for the spring,
summer or fall grants.
“The process of writing a
grant proposal is relatively
unknown to students,” she
said. “It is not something
taught in the classroom. We
are here to help.”
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WINNERS
FIRST-YEAR
STUDENTS:
Michael Morehead:
Capstone scholar, Sport
and Entertainment
Management
Keshia Rice:
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