The Office of Research and Creative Activity is pleased to announce the return of Research and Travel Grants for our students, mentored by faculty members, working on research or creative activity beyond the classroom. Proposal acceptance for the 2018-2019 academic year closed on January 23, 2020. A new round of grant opportunities will open at the start of the Fall 2020 semester. Before you begin your submissions on this Digital Commons page, be sure to download and complete either the Travel Grant form (click to access) or the Research Grant form (click to access). Once the appropriate document is completed, submit it to this page by going to "Author Corner" in the left sidebar and clicking on "Submit Research and Travel Grant Application." Accepted award funding information will be displayed on this page, including the student's name, faculty mentor name, and a brief student-submitted abstract or summary of the research or creative activity. Read more about the grants here.
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Research and Travel Grant Applications from 2020
The Role and Effect of Instagram Advertising on Young Women in Saudi Arabia, Al-hnouf Al-harbi
Searching for evidence of a global catastrophe in the East African Rift Basin: Did the Toba supereruption alter paleoflora at Gona, Ethiopia?, Kevin K. Takashita-Bynum and Gary E. Stinchcomb
Bookbinding for Puerto Rico: Culture, Food, Folklore, Savannah Jane Walton, Cameron Daryl Savage, Norma Luann Colby Ms., Sarah Catherine Cox Ms., Roby Joe Blackwell Mr., Malcom Mathison Fife Mr., Ashley Nicole Shell Ms., and Autumn Taylor Brown
Site Formation Processes of the Yaalu Archaeological Site during a Period of Anatomically Modern Human Migration, Marie N. White and Gary E. Stinchcomb
Research and Travel Grant Applications from 2019
Introduction and discussion about diverse EFL curricula in Asian countries, Lamia Abudaoud, Ho Ryong Park Dr., and Norah Alshehri
Assessing the Influence of Telecommunication Towers on Osprey (Pandion haliaetus) Nesting Productivity and Behaviors in Western Kentucky, Gage Barnes and Andrea K. Darracq
Assessing the Influence of Telecommunication Towers on Osprey (Pandion haliaetus) Nesting and Behaviors in Western Kentucky, Gage Barnes, John Hewlett, and Andrea Darracq
Expecting to be poor: economic threat, desperation, and spending behaviors., Ashley-Lauren Barrett and Jana Hackathorn
Is sexism taking on new forms in movies? An ambivalent sexism perspective, Morgan Brewington
Whose Anxiety Is It Anyway? Helping Students Overcome the Crisis of Communication Apprehension in the Classroom, Ryan Goke and Emeline Hecht
Life Without Borders: Adapting Communication to Transcend the Permeable Boundaries Surrounding the Roles of a Graduate Student, Ryan Goke, Rebekah M. Thomas, and Logan Copeland
Perceptions of Adult-Sex Industry 2019, Jessica Hodges
Evaluating Soil Organic Matter Pools and Earthworm Counts in Response to Land Restoration, Mackenzie Hoffman
Gender and Representation: Economic Performance and the Emergence of Women in State Politics, Chris Jackson
Students Attitude toward Using Facebook for Enhancing Writing Skill, Naser Maliar
Reassessing Postclassic Settlement Data from the Cerro el Vigia Hinterland of Tres Zapotes, Veracruz, Matthew Meyer and Marcie L. Venter
Prevalence of Synthetic Opioids, Cathinones, and Cannabinoids in Four U.S. Communities, Catherine O'Rourke and Bikram Subedi
Arduino Digital Synthesizer, James Paschall
Pornography and Casual Sex, Tully Pritchett
Hutson School of Ag and Nutrition Department Homegrown Ingredients Collaboration, Brandt James Ramsey
Presentations: Language and Culture, Rakhshanda Sartaj
Building a Responsive Transparency for Diversity and Equity in the College Classroom, Kevin Shields
21st Century Warm-ups: Beginning Lessons with Engagement, Kendyl Suess and Miguel Gomez
Consumer Attitude toward Foundations and Corporate Company Partnerships, Amanda Swift and Ismail Karabas
I’ll Have What He’s Having: Acceptability of Mate-Poaching Behaviors, Eileen Tam
An Examination of Middle Formative through Early Classic Ceramic Attributes from Stratified Contexts at Matacanela, Veracruz, Kevin William Wann and Lacy Ernestine Risner
Evidence of Late Pleistocene and Holocene paleo-Critical Zones at Gona, Ethiopia, Marie White, Kevin K. Takashita-Bynum, Gary E. Stinchcomb, Jay Quade, Naomi Levin, Nels Iverson, Nelia Dunbar, William McIntosh, Lee Arnold, Mathieu Duval, Mike Rogers, and Sileshi Semaw
LADDER: A Multimodal Composing Task For Second Language Classrooms, Yiding Zhao
Research and Travel Grant Applications from 2018
Display Behavior in Male Siamese Fighting Fish in the Presence and Absence of a Female, Alyssa J. Allen
“A Nostro Modo”: Transnational Influences of Early Jesuit Scholars and Explorers in the New World, Lydia K. Biggs Ms.
We Can Be Teachers Too: Empowering Students with Disabilities to Create Their Own River of Dreams., Clare Curran, Leigh Anne Pool, Grace Conrad, and Cindy Clemson
Two, Four, Six, Eight, How Many Ingredients Do You Appreciate? An Exploration of Cocktail Ingredients, Hannah Daab, Sarah Lefebvre, and Marissa Orlowski
Losing My Religion: Examining the Effects of Religion and Mortality Salience, Thomas DeRossett and Tommy DeRossett
Twin Teachers: Breaking Down Barriers between High School and College Instructors Through Individual Connections (working title), Zachary Garrett
Overly Casual Emails in the Workplace, Emeline Hecht and Geoffrey Luurs
Reducing the Impact of Early Childhood Stressors on Problem Behaviors, Kyler Joachim and Dr. Esther K. Malm
Picture Word Induction Model (PWIM): Come and Learn about this Picture-Perfect Strategy!, Tiffany Kunik and Savana Jones
Horse Care and Management in Horse Clubs in China, Zhen Li and Shea Porr
Evaluating the effects of handmade cards on hospitalized patient's health, Abigail Prins and Dina Byers
Underwater Archaeology of Bluefields Bay Jamaica, Lacy Risner and Kevin Wann
Technological Media and Human Behavior, Veronica Ruby
Online Dictionaries in ESL/EFL Education: Three Guidelines for Literacy Tasks, Liliia Shaekhova, Christopher W. Buck, Naser Maliar, and JiaJia Li
Past as Future/Past Rhetorics as Repurposing., Virginia Sisemore and Paul Walker
The persistence of salt-affected paleosols at Gona, Ethiopia: A sedimentary archive of Middle to Late Pleistocene soil salinity within a corridor of early human migration, Kevin K. Takashita-Bynum, Gary Stinchcomb, Naomi E. Levin, Jay Quade, Nels Iverson, William C. McIntosh, Nelia Dunbar, Lee Arnold, Mathieu Duval, Michael Rogers, and Sileshi Semaw
Exploring the impacts of past environments and climates on the initial dispersal of humans out of Africa, Kevin Takashita-Bynum and Gary Stinchcomb
Physical and chemical analysis of paleosols before, during and after periods of Anatomically Modern Human migration at Gona, Ethiopia, Kevin Takashita-Bynum, Gary Stinchcomb, Marie N. White, Steven G. Driese, Steve Dworkin, Naomi E. Levin, Jay Quade, Nels Iverson, William C. McIntosh, Nelia Dunbar, Lee Arnold, Mathieu Duval, Margaret E. Peck, Michael Rogers, and Sileshi Semaw
Research and Travel Grant Applications from 2017
Culture in Chaos: Kyoto in the Warring States Period, Benjamin James Ashby
The Impacts of Short-Term Agricultural Study Abroad Programs, Anthony G. Bittel III
Improving the Recyclability of PET-PE Mixed Waste Streams, Abigail Bratton
Impact of Family Structure on Economic Activity during the Early Modern Period in England and Scotland, Chloe Chaplin and Kathy Callahan Dr.
Evaluating the Impact of Continuous Grazing in Pastures on Soil Quality in Central and Western Kentucky, Emily Cook
Occurrence of parasites and zoonotic diseases in feral and privately-owned cats in Murray KY, Nicole A. Creeden
DEOMI Organization Climate Survey: An Assessment of Locally Developed Questions, David I. Crittendon
Redistributive Market Changes that May Arise if a Big Four Accounting Firm Fails, Charles Graves, Elizabeth Donovan, Amanda Grossman, and Daniel Harris
Research Strategies: Why, What, Where, and When, bailey green, MacKenzie Meyers, Whitney Ellington, Mason Robinson, and Christina Grant
A Graphical Game, Southwesterly Snakes, Emily Hoard
Political Affiliation and Attitudes, Jessica Hodges and Jana Hackathorn
Student Engagement and the Reading Classroom, Elizabeth Hunter
Research-Based Reading Strategies: Why, What, Where, When?, Whitney Kilcoyne, Morgan Mayer, Mason Robinson, Bailey Green, and Christina Grant
Imperial Anglicanism in Colonial America, Jack Lee
Research-Based Reading Strategies: Why, What, Where, When?, Morgan Mayer, Bailey Green, Mason Robinson, Christina Grant, and Whitney Kilcoyne
Utilizing Municipal Compost and Equine Stall Waste as Potential Economic Alternatives in an In-Ground Pot-in-Pot Production System, Ashley H. Robert and Alyx Shultz
Research Stategies: What, Where, When, How, Mason Robinson, Morgan Mayer, bailey green, Whitney Kilcoyne, and Christina E. Grant
Murray State University Mock Trial Tournament, Kelsey Yates
Research and Travel Grant Applications from 2016
Comparing inner ear morphologies of globicephaline (Odontoceti: Delphinidae: Globicephalinae) dolphins, Abigail Glass, Rachel Ann Racicot, Simon Darroch, and Michelle Casey
Financial Aid as a Recruitment Tool for Transfer Students, Megan Gullett
Transforming Students' Sense of Entitlement Through Engaging Curriculum, Kalyn Niehoff and Miguel Gomez
Research and Travel Grant Applications from 2015
Transnational Influences of Early Jesuit Scholars and Explorers in the New World From 1560-1700, Lydia K. Biggs Ms.
Miscanthus and hemp as alternative bedding material for horses, Jamie Wolfzorn, Shea Porr, Danielle Harding, Amanda Davis, and Michelle Santiago
Research and Travel Grant Applications from 2014
The Imperial Legacy: An Investigation of the Connective Trends of Empire and Genocide in Modern German History, Laura Guebert