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Our Students are Competitive and
Active Scholars…
Communication Studies students at the University
of Montevallo (UM) are encouraged to conduct independent research projects
and to present the resulting papers at academic conferences. Our
undergraduates have presented at the Southern States Communication
Association's Undergraduate Honors Conference and are regular
participants in UM's Undergraduate Research Day and the McNair Scholars
Program. A few examples of our
students' research include:
| Kimberly Godsey |
Quality of Life
and Oral Health: Encouraging Community Engagement in Promoting Oral
Health on a Local Level |
2011 McNair Scholar |
| Mikia Carter |
The Role of Anticipatory
Socialization and Communication Competency in Leadership Development |
2011 McNair Scholar |
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Megan Traweek |
Factors Affecting Mathematics
Performance |
2010 McNair Scholar |
| Ashley Burge |
Ethnic Identification's Effects on
Academic Achievement in Women |
2008 McNair Scholar |
| Josh Barronton |
The Rhetorical Significance of the Debates Between Pushmataha and
Tecumseh |
2007 SSCA UHC |
| Kristina Kuzma |
Framing Morality: A History of Metaphor and the Future of
Progressive Language in Modern Politics |
2007 SSCA UHC |
| Tyesha Fuller |
To Play or Not to Play: Factors
Affecting Students’ Decisions to Participate in a University-Wide
Tradition |
2007 McNair Scholar |
| Teresa Whiting |
The Influence of Character and
Religiousness on Argumentativeness and Verbal Aggression Among
Adolescents |
2007 McNair Scholar |
| Lindsey Sherrill |
’Bitch, Get In My Car’: 50 Cent, Hip-Hop, and the Patriarchal
Dividend |
2006 SSCA UHC |
| Eva Hammock |
Relational Dialectics: Making
Connections Within Opposition |
2005 SSCA UHC |
| Emilee Weatherspoon |
Education for Health—A Fair
Trade?: Corporate America’s Support of African-American Youths and
the Advertising Strategies and Products they Promote |
2005 SSCA UHC |
| Lynsey Weatherspoon |
Grand Theft Auto - San Andreas: A
Content Analysis of Its Messages |
2005 McNair Scholar |
| Lindsey Sexton |
Opposing Rhetorics:
How Two Female Country Singers Attempted to Create Community and
Justice for All Women in Second Wave Feminism |
2004 SSCA UHC |
| Linda R. Thomas |
Use of Metaphors in Sun-Tzu’s Art
of War: A Metaphoric Criticism |
2004 SSCA UHC |
| Susie Beth Humber |
Imagined Interaction &
Decision-Making: The Intrapersonal Communication Processes of
First-Time Mothers Returning to Work |
2004 McNair Scholar |
Quotes from students who have attended and presented papers at SSCA:
I think the conference experience is kind of one
of the best kept secrets of college, so to speak -- for all the effort
so many students put into academic papers, it's surprising how little attention
the conference experience gets! I was really lucky Dr. Ford and Dr. Bell
are so encouraging for the Communication students; I met a lot of really
interesting people, and getting a chance to present an academic paper on
a topic that was really near and dear to my heart meant a great deal to
me. I learned a lot attending the SSCA conference, and I'm hoping I can
attend again next year. –Kristina Kuzma
The SSCA Conference was an amazing experience! Going
allowed me to meet with some of the top people in my field, and learn about
the different types of research going on in the world of Communication
Studies, as well as to interact with students my own age who were working
on very similar projects to my own. Perhaps most importantly, I was able
to meet professors I might one day be studying with in graduate school. –Josh
Barronton
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