URECA PROJECTS

The Office of Undergraduate Research and Creative Activities (URECA) sponsors the annual URECA Art Exhibition working with Professor Toby Buonagurio; and the annual URECA Student Music Recital, working with Associate Professor Perry Goldstein. Outside sponsors in past years have included Gallery North, and the Ridotto Series (Huntington).

Students also present at our annual URECA Celebration on a range of topics (women’s studies, political science, economics, etc.) who have not received funding but have done independent study under the supervision of faculty. In addition, the URECA Celebration also features departmental conferences in English, and History where undergraduates give oral presentations of papers/research and creative work (poetry). Faculty involved this year with the departmental conferences include: Professor Bente Videbaek (English), and Professor Wolf Schäfer (History). Some of the events of the Celebration are also coordinated with the annual SSK Student Arts Festival.

URECA also funds Summer Fellowships and Small Grants. The last few years of funding are listed below.

URECA Summer Fellowships 2005:

• Miriam Dominguez, Anthropology/French major
  Mentor: David Bernstein, Anthropology
  Project: Subsistence and Settlement in the Puna de Atacana
• Leo Le, Spanish/Art major
  Mentors: Adrian Perez-Melgosa, Hispanic Languages / Christa Erickson, Art
  Project: digital artwork / research on Latino immigrants (Salvadorans)
• Madel Soriano, Linguistics/Spanish Literature major
  Mentor: Gabriela Polit, Hispanic Languages
  Project: Melville library collections of Latin American poet Jorge Carrera Andrade

High School Research 2005:

• Stephanie Leventhal, Hauppauge HS (Intel semi-finalist)
  Mentor: Judith Tanur, Sociology
  Project: Value Differences in the Age of the Internet

URECA Small Grants 2005:

• Catherine Katsafouros and Olesya Ianovitch, Duality Art Exhibition
  Mentor: Christa Erickson, Art
• Harry Weil and Athena, Fine Arts Newsletter (FAN)
  Mentor: Christa Erickson, Art

URECA Summer Fellowships 2004:

• Catherine Katsafouros, Studio Art major
  Mentor: Christa Erickson, Art
  Project:  interactive video installation, “She Does Not”
• Ji Lee, Anthropology major
  Mentor: Elizabeth Stone, Anthropology
  Project: Spatial Organization of Ancient Lagash
• Alison Rowland, Linguistics major
  Mentor: Ellen Broselow, Linguistics
  Project: Gemination in French loanwords in Japanese: Structure vs. Perception
• Michelle Wenderlich, music major
  Mentor: J. Carver, Music
  Project: Double-bass study
• Philip Rafferty, English major
  Mentor: Paul Dolan, English
  Project: Yeats/study of Melville library collections

URECA Travel Grants 2004:

• Adina Buxbaum, Middle Atlantic Archaeological Conference in Delaware
  Mentor: Daria Merwin, Anthropology
• Kurt Simbron and Todd Van Slambrouck, International Conference on Dance in Portugal
  Mentor: Alice Sullivan, Theatre (Dance)

URECA Summer Fellowships 2003:

• Shannon Benes, Biology/Anthropology major
  Mentor: Lawrence Martin & Tanya Smith, Anthropology
  Project: Primate Dental Development
• Cathleen Kuczynski, Biology major
  Mentor: Ivan Chase, Sociology
  Project: Formation of Dominance Hierarchies in Fish
• Ji Lee, Anthropology
  Mentor: Elizabeth Stone, Anthropology
  Project: Surface analysis of Ancient Lagash Using Geographic Information Systems
• Kazuyo Murata, Religious studies/philosophy
  Mentor: William Chittick, Comparative Literature
  Project: The Role of Imagination in the Theoretical Sufism of Ibn al-Arabi

URECA Small Grants 2003:

• Alexsandr Degtyarev,
  Project: Juxtaposed (short film)
  Mentor: Christa Erickson, Art

URECA Summer Fellowships 2002:

• Jill Jermyn, Music
  Mentor: Susan Deaver, Music
  Project: Violin study
• Chris Vivas, Art major
  Mentor: Toby Buonagurio, Art
  Project: Ceramic Sculpture

URECA Small/Travel Grants 2002:

• Grant to Theatre Department to support Irene Ryan Acting Competition/American College Theatre Festival
  Mentors: Paul Kassel, Deborah Mayo, Theatre
• Lawrence Bender and Adam Jagich, Anthropology majors
  Mentor: John Shea, Anthropology
  Project: Paleoanthropology of the Omo River Kibish Formation, Southwestern Ethiopia (2003 Field Season)
• Alexsandr Degtyarev
  Project: Knownothing in Knownothing Land (short film)
  Mentor: Christa Erickson, Art

URECA Art Exhibition 2005

URECA Celebration Posters 2005