Research and Interpretive partnership with Historic Stagville in Durham County NC.
HIST 404, Advanced Public History Practice, will build an on-going research and interpretive partnership with Historic Stagville in Durham County, NC. Stagville was a plantation using enslaved labor until1865, and then a tenant-farming site until the 1970s. Housing units survive that sheltered first enslaved people fand then tenant farmers into the 1970s. Descendants of those tenant families remain in the area as both oral and documentary resources for researching this experience. There are also research resources from the years of enslavement collected by the WPA in the 1930s.
Students will have access to all of these information sources for the project. They will also work with the site manager for the state at Stagville, to consider interpretive, restoration, and other possibilities to enrich the site itself.
Students will also explore a second plantation site in nearby Oxford, NC, the county seat of neighboring Granville County. There they will also have access to living descendants of slavery and tenant farming, and a Rosenwald school originally funded in part by local freedpeople.
Requirements: Contact Faculty mentor.
Duration: Spring 2022, Fall 2022, Spring 2023
Faculty: Sharon Ann Holt ([email protected]
Investigating antisite defects in WS2 via TEM image analysis.
Project Description: It is critical to understand the laws of quantum mechanics in transformative new technologies for computation and quantum information science applications to enable the ongoing second quantum revolution calls. Recently, spin qubits based on point defects have gain great attention since these qubits can be initiated selectively controlled and readout with high precision at ambient temperatures. The major challenge in these systems is being able to controllably generate multiqubit systems while also properly coupling the defects. Transitional metal dichalcogenides (TMDs) have a lot of potential in this field because it's easy to controllably manufacture and alter defects for scalable samples. Defects can be created in 2D materials using a variety of methods. In this research we have used proton irradiation at various energies changing between 100 keV to 4 MeV to controllably create and modulate the antisite defects on CVD-grown monolayer WS2 materials. In this project the student will identify these antisite defects by analyzing the TEM images.
Requirements: Contact faculty mentor.
Duration: Spring 2022, Fall 2022, Spring 2023
Faculty: Burcu Ozden ([email protected])
Learning International Management with Blockbuster Films
This project aims to expand the use of films in learning international management topics such as globalization, political, legal, economic, ethical and technological environments, cultural dimensions, strategic predispositions for managing across cultures, organizational culture, diversity, cross-cultural communication and negotiation, internationalization strategies, entry strategies, multinational organizational structures, and so on and so forth. This project seeks to identify films and/or TV shows that offer examples of national and/or business cultures of major regions around the world, and connects them with international business pedagogy practices.
Requirements: Hard-working; good oral and written communication skills; passionate about international business and movies.
Spring 2022, Fall 2022, Spring 2023 (no requirement to present in ACURA fair 2022)
Faculty: Feng Zhang ([email protected])
Pulsars Studies with Radio Astronomy
Pulsars are the remnants of exploding giant stars. Because pulsars rotate rapidly they produce a periodic signals (pulses) that can be detected with large radio telescopes. In our projects, we use a 20 meter diameter radio telescope at the Green Bank Observatory in West Virginia to detect pulsars. Our research projects support three goals: searching for undiscovered pulsars, studying the properties of pulsars and using collections of pulsars as a galaxy size gravitational wave detector.
Requirements: Competency in Algebra and Trigonometry. Experience with EXCEL and some background introductory physics is preferred. Advanced projects are aided by an introductory knowledge of python.
Duration: Spring 2022, Fall 2022, Spring 2023
Faculty: Ann Schmiedekamp ([email protected])
