The Faces of Undergraduate Research

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The Faces of Undergraduate Research
Providing the Education Students Want and the
Attention They Deserve

• Fostering Intellectual Excellence
• Students develop the ability to critically
  evaluate issues, an enthusiasm for learning,
  resourcefulness, problem solving,
  self-motivation, self-confidence, self-efficacy,
  originality, creativity, and intellectual
  curiosity.
• Their work contributes to our understanding of
  the universe.

Faculty Mentor Terry D. Lahm with Naomi Hake The
Effects of Quarrying on Wells in Southern
Franklin County, Ohio

• Realizing Mentoring Relationships
• The Protégé learns important intellectual skills,
  professional networks, and personal ethics.
• The Mentor refines professional skills and
  re-engages in the discipline.
• The Institution achieves higher retention,
  improved campus morale, and a healthier
  intellectual climate.

Melanie Copenhaver Prevalence of Genetic
Modification in Organic and Non-Organic Foods
Sold in the United States(co-authored with
Margaret Likins)
Chris Moran The Influence of Nineteenth Century
French Poetry on English Modernism
Ryan Scovanner and Stacy Lauer Homelessness
Stressors and Services

• Forging Social Bonds
• Student researchers create a community of
  scholars and serve as an important social support
  system for each other.
• The students-faculty relationship broadens and
  deepens through academic collaboration.
• Student researchers also have closer ties to
  Capital University and to their discipline.

Jessica R. Heschel Adult Attachment Style as
Related to Quantity and Quality of Romantic
Relationships
Daniel Lichtenberger Understanding in the Gospel
of Mark
Faculty Mentor Jennifer Hodge with Kevin I. Pisle
Effects of Physical and Mental Stress on Soccer
Players Motor Skills
Sarah Rhode Strength of Party Identification and
Vote Choice