Even at the undergraduate level, research opportunities abound for motivated students. Through its honors and undergraduate research programs, nearly 100 Arts and Sciences students have had the opportunity to work one-on-one with individual faculty members during the past three years alone. Some also presented the findings of their research at national conventions such as the annual meeting of the American Chemical Society and the Society for Research in Child Development. A summer research grant fund exists to supplement work done during the academic year.

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A sampling of some of our undergraduates' recent research interests:

• Southern Writers and their Worlds
• Synthesis and Characterization of Equilateral Nickel Triangular Complexes
• Rheumatoid Arthritis - Characteristics of the Disease and the Relationship between Anti-Tumor Necrosis Factor Medications and the Body Cell Mass of Rheumatoid Patients
• The Effects of Mood on Cognitive Performace
• Russian Roulette: East and West in Russian Literature and Culture
• Infant Perception of Maternal Affect
• Graphical Problems and Maple Algorithms
• Fan Websites and their Creators
• Racial Segregation and Displacement in Colombia
• Light Wave 3D Modeling and Animation
• The Role of Social Work in the Inner City Catholic Church
• Data Mining of Community Data Using the Nearest Neighbor Approach and Machine Learning
• Identity Torn - American Cultural and Ntional Identity issues in Literature Arising out of the Japanese Internment and the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution
• Andy Warhol and the Campbell's Soup Can
• Effectiveness and Efficiency of Embedding and Distributing Constant Time Delay Procedures Across Instructional Times as well as Transition Times
• Beyond Assault, the Many Faces of Intimate Partner Abuse

For information about the Undergraduate Research Program at
La Salle contact: Dr. James Butler in the Department of English.