91制片厂

The Graduate Research Conference (GRC) takes place April 11-12听at the Whittemore Center Arena (Monday) and Holloway Commons breakout rooms (Tuesday).

Curious about the feeding frequency of an invasive sea anemone or the preparation of semiconducting nanoparticles to taverns and their roles in 18th-century New Hampshire society?听More than 300 91制片厂 graduate students from all academic disciplines will make oral or poster presentations at the13th annual GRC. This year鈥檚 symposium will also feature a new type of presentation 鈥� the 3-Minute Thesis.

Curious about the graduate students on the homepage? Here鈥檚 what they will present. Find them at the GRC!

Michael Verney is a Ph.D. candidate in the department of history. His dissertation, "Our Field of Fame: Naval Exploration and Empire in the Early American Republic, 1815-1860,鈥� examines the 15 global exploring expeditions of the antebellum United States Navy.听

鈥淚t scrutinizes the origins, courses and consequences of these voyages and studies their relationships to contemporaneous issues within the United States and its borderlands,鈥� says Verney. 鈥淚t seeks to put antebellum American expansionism into a global context and shows that the United States had imperial ambitions far beyond the North American West before the Civil War.鈥�

Verney will present a听3-Minute Thesis at the GRC. Preview

Te-Hsin Chang is a Ph.D. candidate in the department of education with a concentration on outdoor education. She is researching adventure education, student-teacher relationships and, in particular, the role of the ethics of care in these relationships.

鈥淐urrently, I am investigating, in a longitudinal study, the ways in which adventure education may enhance student-teacher caring relationships,鈥� she says. 鈥淚n this exploration, I am developing a quantitative measurement to assess caring.听My long-term goal is to use the instrument to better understand student-teacher caring relationships in other educational contexts."

Myles Lynch is a Ph.D. candidate in the department of education. His focus area is children and youth in communities.

Lynch is exploring environments that help to promote the capacity for creative thinking in children.

鈥淢y research focuses on individuals, or groups, within a social context and their ability to think of multiple solutions to complex problems, otherwise known as divergent thinking,鈥� he says. 鈥淢y hope is to develop programs that help enhance creative thinking as a remedy to the heavy demands of high-stakes testing practices that permeate modern traditional school settings.鈥�

Felicia Fowler is a graduate student in the department of recreation management and policy, with a focus on therapeutic recreation administration.

Adolescent identity development plays an important role in how adolescents process and make meaning of their summer camp听experiences.

Fowler鈥檚 research explores to听what extent听narrative听meaning-making patterns among youth campers with and听without serious听illnesses differ within and across identity听statuses.

鈥淭he听restorative qualities of the summer camp environment coupled with the social context of camp programming provide a logical foundation to explore identity and illness within the camp experience,鈥� she says. 鈥淭he听results of this study听will provide听summer camp听programmers听with听specific facilitation tools听to听produce听transferable skills for听adolescents with听and without serious听illness in different identity-development stages.鈥�

听

听

听

听

听