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A sampling of NCUR 2005 submissions:

ENGINEERING -  E-mails from your refrigerator?  Cadets from VMI’s engineering program have created a special refrigerator that will send messages through a pager or via e-mail to families of diabetic children when the prescribed dosage of insulin has not been taken.

MARKETING -  Here comes the bride.  Broke!  Wedding services and products have become a multi-billion dollar industry in the United States.  Berry College’s Meredith Godwin’s research suggests that goods and services marked “wedding” are often priced differently than similar, even identical products.

PSYCHOLOGY -  You’re bumming me out. No, really.  Karin Rasmussen of the University of Wisconsin, Eau Claire explored the link between advertisements for antidepressants by pharmaceutical companies and college students’ perceptions of their own depression and their likelihood to recommend antidepressants to others.  Is need creating product, or product creating need? 

POLITICAL SCIENCE -  Cultural Divide.  UCLA’s Claudia Sandoval examines cultural characteristics among African- Americans and Latinos which are impediments to political cooperation between the two communities.  Though both groups generally fall on the left of the American political spectrum, they have not been able to fully cooperate on commonly-held positions.

THEATRE -   Poetry in Emotion.  In her study of drama therapy Rosa Aleman from Bridgewater State Colleg euses a collection of seven spoken word performance pieces, “Born Into This,” to address deeply personal issues of cultural identity, family and sexuality through rhythm, rhyme, tone and movement.

ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING -  The Effect of Fill Cell Size on Planar Inductors. Columbia University’s Sebastian Sorgenfrei investigated the insertion of fill cells into integrated inductors, studying the relationship between the fill cell size and the quality factor degradation through the use of electromagnetics.