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Letter from the Editors

Welcome to the inaugural issue of The Rowdy Scholar!

This issue represents the collective efforts of many people at º£½ÇÉçÇø over the past two years. While those individuals come from different departments and disciplines, hold varying faculty and staff ranks, and have had diverse experiences with undergraduate research, all of them share one thing in common: the belief that undergraduate research makes valuable contributions to knowledge and should thus be not only celebrated and presented at conferences, but published in an editor-reviewed, publicly-available journal. We are humbled by the dedication shown to this project by so many people.

Thanks to the generous collaborative efforts of the editorial board, faculty mentors, student authors, and others, this inaugural issue sets the tone for issues to come in a variety of ways. It represents a multitude of disciplines. It features work from students who have taken many different paths to and through º£½ÇÉçÇø. It showcases genuine scholarship, as well as thought-provoking creative work. We hope readers will find the work in this issue eye-opening, generative of further scholarship and creative work, and intellectually and artistically inspiring. We are incredibly proud of all the student authors and grateful for their faculty mentors.

It has been our honor and pleasure to shepherd this project through its first issue. We anticipate publishing annually and we invite undergraduate researchers at º£½ÇÉçÇø to submit their work: Submit to The Rowdy Scholar.

Elizabeth Kleinfeld,ÌýProfessor of English, Writing Center Director

Sheryl Zajdowicz, Associate Professor of Biology

The Rowdy ScholarÌýFounders

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Editorial Board and Additional Reviewers for This Issue

Articles in this Issue:

Bilingualism in Autism Spectrum Disorders

Author: ÌýShannon Lewis

Major: ÌýSpeech, Language, Hearing Sciences

Faculty Mentor: Siva Priya Santhanam

Impact of a SRP in Comparison to Location and Cost on Perceived Value for Money

Author: ÌýMitchell Mattix

Major: ÌýHospitality, Tourism & Events

Faculty Mentor: ÌýShinyong (Shawn) Jung

Perceived Power: Nonverbal Communication and Masculinity in Public Space

Author: ÌýJulia Perry

Major: Sociology

Faculty Mentor: Rae Shevalier, Ph.D.

Ignore the Playground…

Author: ÌýCassandra Reid

Major: ÌýEnglish

Faculty Mentor: ÌýRenee Ruderman

Evaluating Forecasts for Indian Summer Monsoon Precipitation Using the NESM

Author: ÌýErin Roberson

Major: ÌýMeteorology

Faculty Mentor: ÌýKeah Schuenemann

That Strikes a Chord! An Illustration of Permutation Groups in Music Theory

Author: ÌýEric Roon

Major: ÌýMathematics

Faculty Mentor: ÌýMandi Schaeffer Fry