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Annual Student Research Symposium
This Year's Winners
2008 Competition details
2007 Symposium
This Year's Winners
Global Studies is pleased to announce this year's winners of the 2008 Student Research Symposium. Lynette Miller was selected for documentation of her summer's research in Africa in the paper "Examination of the support of AIDS orphans in the Karagwe District in Northwestern Tanzania." Kara Snitger earned praise from the selection committee for her investigation of "The Face of Berlin: Interpretations of the Communicative Architectural Façade."
At noon on Tuesday, April 1, 2008, acting director Larry Feick introduced these two Symposium winners who presented highlights of their research to students and faculty of the Pitt academic community. Following a question and answer session, each student was awarded a certificate of recognition and a $300 check for excellent scholarship in the field of global studies. Distinguished keynote speaker Salvatore Babones then addressed the audience regarding his research on "Income Inequality, Population Health, and the Rationalization of Society." Babones is assistant professor of sociology, public health, and public and international affairs at the University of Pittsburgh. A lunch reception followed.
2008 Student Research Symposium
This annual competition is designed to provide recognition for excellent student scholarship in the field of Global Studies and a forum for students and faculty to discuss critical global issues. All students at the University of Pittsburgh, in any major and including regional campuses, are eligible to submit a research paper for consideration in the competition. Finalists are selected by a panel of judges drawn from the Global Studies Affiliated Faculty. Awards for Best Undergraduate paper and Best Graduate Paper will be made at the annual Symposium in April 2008, where students present their papers and receive cash prizes. To compete, students must submit a research paper on an eligible topic by no later than January 31, 2008. Finalists should be available to present their paper at the April Symposium (details TBA). The Symposium event is open to the public and will feature an invited keynote speaker.
To compete, students must submit a research paper on an eligible topic by no later than January 31, 2008, following the guidelines set out below.
Eligible topics include research relating to one of the following global issues:
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Sustainable development
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Global
economy and global governance
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Changing identities in a global world
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Technology, communication, and society
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Conflict and conflict resolution
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Global
health
Guidelines for undergraduate students:
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The research paper must have been prepared for a course, seminar, independent study or internship at this University. Entries may be revised from their original form.
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Length: minimum of 10 pages double spaced, maximum of 20 pages double spaced.
Guidelines for graduate students:
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The research paper must have been prepared for a course, seminar, directed study, thesis, dissertation, or as a piece of independent research completed at this University. Entries may be revised from their original form.
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Length: minimum of 15 pages double spaced, maximum of 30 pages double spaced.
General guidelines (for undergraduates and graduates):
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Limit one submission per year per student.
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To ensure blind review, the author’s name should appear only on the cover sheet. The cover sheet must include the following information:
- Full name
- PeopleSoft number
- School (e.g. CAS, CGS, Law, GSPIA)
- Department/division (e.g. history, sociology, etc.)
- Degree objective (e.g., BA; MA; PhD)
- Expected year of graduation
- Title of research paper
- Course for which paper was written (number, title, instructor, term, year)
- Current contact info (address, phone, e-mail)
- Permanent contact info (address, phone, e-mail)
- Abstract (no longer than one paragraph)
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Submit three printed copies with cover sheets to ...
Global
Studies Program
4100 Wesley W. Posvar Hall
University
of
Pittsburgh
Pittsburgh
,
PA
15260
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Submissions must be received no later than January 31 to receive full consideration.
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2007 Symposium
  
Dr. Nancy Condee, keynote speaker; Katharine Bradley; Alyssa Ribeiro
On April 10 the
Global
Studies Program
held its third annual Student Research Symposium. The symposium is designed to provide recognition for excellent student scholarship in the field of
Global
Studies and a forum for students and faculty to discuss critical global issues. The symposium this year featured keynote speaker Dr.
Nancy Condee
, professor in the Slavic department here at the University of Pittsburgh. She is a senior associate member at St. Antony
'
s (Oxford), and from 2000 to 2006 she served as chair of the Board of Directors of the National Council on Eurasian and East European Research (NCEEER), the largest U.S. grant agency for federal funding of basic research in the former second world. In her presentation, Dr. Condee discussed issues of modernity in the second world.
Winners of the Best Student Paper awards presented their work and received cash prizes in support of their work in global studies. The Award for Best Undergraduate Paper in
Global
Studies went to Katharine Bradley for her paper, "Western Medicine Meets Rural Africa: an assessment of a HIV mother-child transmission program in rural
Tanzania
and related biocultural issues." Katie is a senior completing a major in anthropology as well as a certificate in
Global
Studies, with concentrations in Changing Identities and
Latin America
. The Award for Best Graduate Paper in
Global
Studies went to Alyssa Ribeiro, for her paper, "The World Population Conference in
Bucharest
, 1974." Alyssa is a PhD student in history, specializing in twentieth century
United States
history with an emphasis on urban history and race.
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