Researchers of Emory

 Ramsey Baden  is a senior majoring in English and Creative  Writing . He was awarded a Spring 2019 Independent Grant which he used to conduct research on the Taiwanese White Terror under Dr. Joonna Trapp.  There are few experiences as isolating as being separated from your home. When I started college, I began realizing just how much I missed my home in Taiwan. I began devoting massive amounts of energy to my new quest: I was to find out what it meant to be Taiwanese-American. It was a scheme that became daunting when I realized I had started just a moment too late, and that I was already physically removed from the island that in many ways feels more like home than anywhere else on this planet.

Courtney Shin  is a junior majoring in English. She was awarded a Spring 2018 Conference Grant which she used to attend the Native American Literary Symposium . This March, I was honored to attend the Native American Literary Symposium (NALS, nativelit.com ) held in Lake Prior, Minnesota. The previous fall, Professor Mandy Suhr-Sytsma, had encouraged me to apply for the conference with a paper I had written for her Contemporary Multiethnic American Literature course. My research explored Susan Power’s most recent novel, Sacred Wilderness, and how holistic self-understanding results in the deconstruction of narrative borders . With a letter of acceptance, an essay, and a generous conference grant from URP, I found myself with a round-trip plane ticket to Minnesota. However, after months of excitement, a sense of dread filled the final weeks before my flight. I had never attended a conference before, never presented any research, never even been to Minnesota. It seemed that whi...

Kate Norton  is a sophomore double majoring in Psychology and English. She was awarded a Spring 2018 Conference Grant which she used to attend the American Southeastern Writing Center Association Conference. My colleague Lauren and I attended the  Southeastern Writing Center Association’s  2018 conference in Richmond, Virginia. At Virginia Commonwealth University, we presented original research about the  Emory Writing Center  to a group of confederates who were interested in our particular topic, which was “Exploring Attitudes About Conventional Writing Center Sessions and Workshops.” When we began our research, we didn’t have a good handle on what our purpose was, but as we analyzed our data, we came to enlightening conclusions concerning our Writing Center and steps we would like to take to improve it.