Journal of Undergraduate Research (jur), Volume 2, Issue 1, Fall 2003

The Journal of Undergraduate Research (JUR) is an organization dedicated to providing the University of Rochester student body with intellectual perspectives from various academic disciplines. JUR serves as a forum for the presentation of original research, thereby encouraging the pursuit of significant scholarly endeavors.

Table of Contents:

• Faculty interview with Drs. Thomas Hand and Richard Kaeuper, medieval history and literature.
• Fairy Stories: A psychological examination of the dual audiences for fantasy literature by Laura Cantone.
• Cell Adhesion Molecules in Asthma VLA-1 and VLA-2 Expression on CD4+ T cells in OVA Induced Asthma by David Messenheimer
• Insights into the Patterns of Sounds: Stress in Tondano by Douglass Ball
• Epilepsy and Neurogenesis: A Profile of Hippocampal Neurogenesis after Induced Temporal Lobe Epileptic Seizures by Matthew Tremblay
• Digging up the Truth: The History of the De Jongh Family Monument by Hannah Newborn
• The Riemannian Metric and Curvature Tensor on a Manifold by Niles G. Johson et al.
• Grassroots and Government Conflict by Emily Miyamoto Faber
• Tissue Engineering Advances in Cardiac Tissue Engineering and Cardiac Tissue Replacement Modalities by Nicholas Krebs.