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Undergraduate Research and Poster Symposium 2008 Winners

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BEST ABSTRACT WINNERS

Abstract award for Humanities/Social Sciences: Ryan Crane – “Management Strategies in Farm Business” - #4

Abstract award for Innovative Technology/Entrepreneurship/Design:
Anurag Garg – “Post-Release Displacement Uncertainty of Micro-Cantilevers due to Over/Under Etching” - #43

Abstract award for Life Science: Katie Crosley – “Diurnal Butterfly Biodiversity in Live Fences” - #77

Abstract award for Mathematics/Computational Science: Rob Gevers – “Function Guided Clustering of Protein-Protein Interaction Networks” – #125

Abstract award for Physical Science: Allen Yan – “Thrust Stand Calibration Using Electrostatic Fins” - #154

CATEGORY WINNERS

Humanities/Social Science  

1st Place: Tom Adler – “An Examination of Economic Behavior and Risk Aversion on Deal or No Deal” - #5

Innovative Technology/Entrepreneurship/Design

1st Place: Alex Huang – “Viewing Australian Geology with Time Scale Creator” - #48

2nd Place:  Christoph Zaseck – “Propellant Burn Rate Modification Using Transition Metal-BTA Complexes” - #50

 3rd Place:  Chia-Yiaw Chong – “Distributed Amplifier Design and Optimization for UWB Technology” - #35

Life Science

1st Place: Jacob Shreve – “Genetic variation of Hessian fly populations from Manitoba Canada” - #114

2nd Place:  Andrew Pierce – “THIN FILM SILICA SOL-GEL COATINGS FOR CHRONICALLY IMPLANTED NEURAL RECORDING MICROELECTRODES” - #109

3rd Place:  Benjamin Miller – “Effects of brominated flame retardants on lake whitefish (Coregonus clupeaformis) growth” - #138

Mathematics/Computational Science  
          
1st Place: Ashlee Kilpatrick – “Landscape reconstruction using aerial photography:  The advent of historical landscape ecology” - #128

Physical Science
           
1st Place:  Kimberly Peters – “Stratigraphy and Depositional Environment of the Pine Mountain Thrust Sheet:  Implications for Proximal Foreland Basin Development:  Pound Gap, Virginia” - #150
           
2nd Place:  Anant Handa – “NEUTRON BEAM FILTER DESIGN FOR THE BNCT TREATMENT OF BREAST CANCERS” - #146

COLLEGE AWARDS

College of Agriculture Awards

Katy Klem – “Glycerol Improves Glucose Metabolism in Fructose Fed Rats” - #121

Terri Hoctor – “Comparison of indigenous and commercial strains of the nematode Heterorhabditis bacteriophora” - #100

College of Engineering
           
Steve Higbee – “A Proteomic Approach to Gliosis Treatment:  Inhibition of MAPKAP Kinase II” - #87
                       
Stephen Strinka – “Blast Wave Mitigation - #144

College of Science

Dean’s Choice Award:  John Colletti – “A Sex Determining Marker for the Sashin Population of Oncorhynchus mykiss” - #115
           
Students’ Choice Award:  Dawn Taylor – “Genetic and Pathogenic Diversity of the Rice Blast Fungus, Pyricularia oryzae, in Brazil” - #119

College of Technology

Dean’s Choice Award:  Adam Christ, Frank Garofalo, Brian Michael McCreight, Alex Porter – “Developing Rich Internet Applications using Adobe AIR” - #32
Students’ Choice Award:  Kate Plew – “S.M.ART” - #3

 

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