Undergraduate Research and Creative Activities Program

Prospective URCA Associates

Sample Proposals

  

   URCA Associates come from nearly all disciplines on the SIUE campus. Presented here are a variety of  proposals that received funding in recent years. These model proposals are available here as a resource for future URCA Associate applicants, as well as to demonstrate the full breadth of URCA Associates and their research. Links to the proposals can be found by clicking on the student's name. Some proposals are in PDF files, while others are in Microsoft Word. The format is indicated by each proposal.

    If you are interested in submitting a URCA Associate proposal, take time to view several of the ones presented here, even those outside of your discipline, to get a feel for the variety of ways that they can be written. Pay particular attention to budgets and timelines, which are becoming delineating areas as the URCA proposals becoming stronger and more sophisticated each year.

   One special note: the proposal format was slightly altered beginning with the 2007-2008 academic year. Please keep in mind that these proposals should serve as samples of successful URCA Associate proposals, and not templates for new applicants. 

Elizabeth Adams Marks, 2004-2005   Art and Design (Fibers) Handmade Paper from the Crops of Madison County

Sara Barry, 2004-2005   Nursing Maternal-Newborn Nurses’ Attitudes and Beliefs Toward Adolescent Mothers Who Breastfeed

Marquetta Brown, 2006-07  Psychology Behavioral Consequences of Self-Oppression for African-Americans: Relationship among African Self-Consciousness, Self-Responsibility, and Life Satisfaction

A. Bradley Duthie, 2006-2007   Biological Sciences The Effects of Seed Dormancy and Mass on Germination and Viability in Federally Threatened Floodplain Species, Boltonia decurrens

Whitney Elmore, 2002-2003    Theater and Dance (Theater Performance) Exploring and Developing Stage Combat Methodologies

Andrew Givens, 2006-2007   Political Science The Impact of Failed States on Terrorism in the Middle East

Bryan Grubaugh, 2004-2005    Computer Science and Psychology The Effects of the Testing Environment on User Performance in Software Usability Testing

Dustin Hancks, 2005-2006   Biological Sciences Single Nucleotide Polymorphisms within Fundulus notatus and Fundulus olivaceus

Erin Marks, 2006-2007   Anthropology Who Fed Cahokia?

Ross Mead, 2005-2006  Computer Science Algorithms for Control and Interaction of Large Formations of Robots

Amber Myers, 2001-2002  Historical Studies Garden of Delight: A Comparative Study of the Love Poetry of Ancient Egypt and its Historical Context

Shari Pray, 2005-2006   Art and Design (Metalsmithing) Aesthetic and Conceptual Coloring of Metal Through Patination

Amy Rogers, 2004-2005    Biological Sciences Strategies for Efficient Control of Euonymus fortunei Based on Physiological Status

Mircea Sauciuc, 2005-2006   English Language and Literature Direction Types in Romanian

Nellie Shaul, 2004-2005    Chemistry Synthesis of 2-Substituted Benzofurans

Matt Warren, 2003-2004  Philosophy The Evolution of Ethics

Jennifer Wilkey, 2003-2004   Anthropology and Art and Design (Ceramics) Determining the Function of Stumpware in the American Bottom through Experimental Archaeology

Amy Winkler, 2004-2005  Physics and Electrical Engineering Design of a Laser Using Trivalent Europium Doped Silicate Glass

Mary Witte, 2004-2005     Speech-Language Pathology (Special Education and Communication Disorders) The Effects of Linear Predictive Coding Analysis/Resynthesis of the Dysarthric Speech for Persons with Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis

    For more information on the Undergraduate Research and Creative Activities Program, contact Dr. Laura Pawlow at (618) 650-2608 or lpawlow@siue.edu.