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SURF 2006
Social Sciences Students Win Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowships (SURF)
August 2006
For the second summer in a row, Social Sciences majors were among those selected as recipients of the University’s Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowships for 2006. These competitive awards allow students to undertake research projects with faculty mentors by providing funding in the form of a stipend to the winners.
This program offers an important opportunity for students to learn first-hand what it means to conduct research at a professional level. During summer of 2005, Gerald Greer became the first SS major to be selected to participate when he worked with Dr. Carol MacLennan of Social Sciences and Dr. Krista Walck of the School of Business in the development of a land use history of the Huron Creek watershed in Houghton. During the summer of 2006, two more SS majors were selected for SURF awards.
Julie Matijega worked with Alison Hoagland on a project on the history of architecture.
Craig Wilson spent most of the summer at the site of the Department’s summer archaeology field school in Cold Spring, NY.
"This summer, I worked at Michigan Tech's industrial archaeology field school in Cold Spring, New York. For my research. I worked in the cannon boring mill to expose many undiscovered architectural elements. Working with Bode Morin, a Ph.D student in industrial heritage and preservation, and under the direction of Dr. Patrick Martin, I exposed several new room additions to the previously studied portions of the boring mill. I then used laser surveying equipment (a Total Station) to record the newly exposed futures. Finally, I used this electronic data to construct a more complete map of the West Point Foundry boring mill complex." -CW
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