STUDENT RESEARCH
A. Undergraduate Symposium Student Presentations
The German section has been very visible in the UG symposium since 2002. Since then German Section Faculty members have actively recruited and sponsored numerous Undergraduate Symposium presentations. Indeed we have had the largest number of student participants than the other FLABS language sections put together (including ESL). Several German students have received prestigious UG Symposium scholarship awards: Lindsay Buckman (2003), (Adrienne Muncy (2004), and most recently Polly Ricciardo (2007). One German student, Adrienne Muncy, was named to the highest honor of Master of Ceremonies for the 2004 event. German Section Faculty Sponsors and Student Presenters by Year: YEAR Faculty Sponsor Student PresenterS 2003 Damiano Lyndsay Buckman, Adrienne Muncy
Lyndsay Buckman received the prestigious “Honors Senior Thesis and UG Symposium XXIII (2003) Award” [$2500] for her Honors Thesis on German literature. Title: "Dealing with Guilt: Second-Generation Germany Confronts the Holocaust". Thesis Advisor: Damiano
2004 Damiano Adrienne MuncyAdrienne Muncy received the most prestigious honor of Master of Ceremonies of the 2004 Undergraduate Symposium for her Honors Senior Thesis on German literature. Title: “Postmodern Mythology: Globalization, Environmental Degradation and Sorbian Folklore in the Works of Jurij Brezan”. Thesis Adviser: Damiano
2005 Damiano Philip Francis III, Jason Cole, Brandon Robinson, Gretchen Toth-Fejel 2006 Zinggeler Jason Johnson + Chris Rinderknecht, Damiano Philip Francis III, Gretchen Toth-Fejel, Chris Rinderknecht 2007 Zinggeler Carmen Henry, Jason Cole + Chris Stauffer, Damiano Katie Gregory, Carmen Henry, Polly Ricciardo 2008 Zinggeler Emily Besch, Amanda Lund Damiano Allen Kopicko, Caitlin Long 2009 Zinggeler Ian Jurica, Allison Bowman, Heather Huber Damiano Michael Vianueva, Mary DeLong, Geoffrey Krempa For more information on the Undergraduate Symposium event please see: http://www.emich.edu/symposium/index.htm For the titles and abstracts of student presentations please see the following link: http://www.emich.edu/symposium/abstracts.phpB. Graduate Research Fair
The German Section also has a small but growing graduate program. Faculty also sponsor graduate students who wish to present their research on a German topic at this campus-wide event: 2008 Damiano Polly Ricciardo 2009 Damiano Polly Ricciardo For further information on EMU’s Graduate Research Fair see: http://www.gradschool.emich.edu/student/student_subdir/stud_research/researchfair/resfair.html The German Section has the highest record of student presentations and faculty sponsorship in these events in the Department of World Languages (formerly Department of Foreign Languages & Bilingual studies) since 2003. __________________ For the titles and abstracts of student presentations please see the following link: http://www.emich.edu/symposium/abstracts.php