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Volume 2 (2006)

The Undergraduate Review, published yearly, showcases student research and creative work done as part of a class or under the mentorship of Bridgewater State College faculty. The goal is to disseminate this outstanding scholarship to a local, regional, and national audience.

Entire Issue

Undergraduate Review, Vol. 2, 2005/2006

Front Matter

Letter from the Editors
Stacy Nistendirk, Nichole Wilson, and Tim Colwell

Table of Contents, Vol. 2, 2005/2006

Faculty Advisor's Note
Lee Torda

Adrian Tinsley Program Grants (ATP)

Trial by Fire: A Study of Soda-Fire Kiln Construction and Glaze Formation
Kristina Stafford

Exploring the Tradition of the Soda Firing Process
Derek T. Hambly

Microstructural Analysis of a Drill Core from the Rhode Island Formation: Upper 750 Feet
Ashlee Kirkwood

Development of Dirhodium Sugar-Substituted Carboxylate and Acetamide Complexes and Evaluation of their Potential as Lectin Inhibitors
Bethany Masten

The Initial Formation of Independent Cultural Consciousness in British Colonials in the Caribbean During the Eighteenth Century Through Poetry Written by Colonials in the Caribbean
Adam Stilgoe

Separate Lives and Shared Legacies: Privilege and Hardships in the Lives of Twenty Women who Made a Difference
Mary Cleary

Monosaccharide Interactions with Rh(III) cis-Bipyridine Complexes
Sarah M. Lane

Origin of Gabbroic Xenoliths within the Lone Mountain Dacite Intrusion, Big Sky, Montana: A Field and Petrographic Analysis
Emily Clement

Microstructural Analysis of the Rhode Island Formation, Narragansett Basin, MA
Elizabeth Connell

National Conference on Undergraduate Research (NCUR)

Problems with Steve Pinker's Mentalese: On the Implications of Bilingualism
Marino Fernandes

The Scientific Aspect of Melodrama: The Mind/Body Connection in the Late Eighteenth Century Seduction Novel
Nichole Wilson

We Don't Need No Water: Joyce and O'Brien Burning the Roof of High Art
Robert J. Cannata

Coursework

No Ordinary English: Gertrude Stein Defines Literacy
Nicole Williams and Amanda Morrish

Read to a Child and Change the World
Dorothy Famolare

So That's What It's Like
Laura O'Connell

One Ring to Rule Them All: Power and Surveillance in the Film Adaptation of The Lord of the Rings
Cherylynn Silva

Pieces of Virginia: Post-Impressionaism and Cubism in the Works of Virginia Woolf
Corie Dias

Inherent Instability: Disproving Luttwak's Thesis of Defense in Depth
Adam Stilgoe

Cambridge Rocky Horror: A Tale of Silk, Silliness, and Sexual Shenanigans
Robert J. Cannata

Unraveling the Geologic History of the Avalon Terrane in MA
Erin Nevens

Field, Petrographic, and Geochemical Characteristics of Price Creek
Russ McCormack

Honors Theses

Letters Within Jane Austen's Novels: A Bridge Towards Romantic Communication
Mary Butler

Painters of a Changing New World: James Fenimore Cooper and Thomas Cole
Corie Dias

Charles Francis Adams, Great Britain, and the American Question in 1861
Ian Delahanty

Undergraduate Review Vol. 2, 2005/2006

Editors

Student Editors: Stacy Nistendirk; Nichole Wilson; Tim Colwell