2008 CLA Forum on Faculty-Student Research

The College of Liberal Arts is committed to outstanding teaching and cutting-edge research as these papers, from the 2008 Forum, make clear.  Whether it is through class projects, term papers, or collaborative research projects, Liberal Arts student research builds on, responds to, or contributes to faculty research—and this is true across all CLA disciplines and departments.

Select papers from the 2008 Forum are available for download as PDF files below. For the free Adobe Acrobat Reader, click here.

Rochester Safe & Sound
Applying Action Research to a
Local Anti-Gang Strategy
Prof. Tom Castellano & Prof. Jason Scott, Criminal Justice

Gang Prevention:
The Application of a School-Based Curriculum to Address Risk and Protective Factors
Michaela Conrad, Criminal Justice

Urban Gangs:
Defining the Problem and a Review of Law Enforcement Strategies
Matthew Davis & Kristofer Nystrom, Criminal Justice

Gang Offender Re-entry:
Utilizing the Principles of Risk, Needs,
and Responsivity
Helen Syme, Criminal Justice

Some Recent Undergraduate Research in Economics
Prof. Jeffrey Wagner, Economics

A Marketable Permit Approach
to Interstate Municipal Solid Waste Disposal
Christine Longo, Economics

Getting the Carbon Tax Right:
Issues in Carbon Tax Design
Jonathan Thomas, Economics

A Path Dependent Model of Course Selection
Arthur Johnston, Economics

Conduit and the Digital Archive
Dean Ganskop, English

Understanding French Culture through Film
Prof. Philippe Chavasse, Foreign Languages

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L’Appel Téléphonique / The Phone Call:
Creation of Sequences of a French Film and its American Remake
Andrew Davidson, Erin Rogers, Kent Weaver,
Megan Miller & Steve Rosenberg

Garbage Archaeology
Prof. Martha Morgan Material Culture Sciences

RIT Recycles, Or Do We?
David Vaughn, Material Culture Science

Temporal Awareness and Human Performance
in Engineering Psychology
Prof. Esa M. Rantanen, Psychology

Temporal Awareness and Rhythmic Performance
Daniel Colombo, Psychology

Effect of Emergency Department
Crowding on Medical Staff Workload
Kathryn Coles, Psychology

Time Delays and System Response
Time Display in Human-Computer Interaction
Noah Stupak, Psychology

Lift Every Voice and Speak:
Focus Group Discussions among Urban Women in the City of Rochester, New York
Prof. Danielle Smith & Mavis C. Santiago, Sociology and Anthropology