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Undergraduate Research Day

Thursday, May 7, 2009
127 West Plaza Room

Session I
Welcome, Oral Presentations
Philosophy
10:00 Christopher Valencia, "Hume: How Wisdom and Miracles clash."
(Faculty Advisor: Ira Singer)
10:30 Poster Set-up
Session II
Lunch will be served
11:00 - 1:00 Poster Presentations
 
Speech Language-Hearing Science
  • Allison Dreyer, "Narratives of Internationally Adopted Children: Cohesion"
    (Faculty Advisor: Kathleen Scott)
  • Jacqueline Schmieder, "Narrative Analysis of Internationally Adopted Children: Story Grammar."
    (Faculty Advisor: Kathleen Scott)
Chemistry
  • James Mitchell, "Synthesis of 2-Hydroxychalcones by Claisen-Schmidt Condensation"
    (Faculty Advisor: Nanette Wachter)
Biology
  • Mitchell Alexis, "Determining the timing of pharyngeal detachment in lim-7(tm674) mutants"
    (Faculty Advisor: Laura Vallier)
  • Alexandra Amaitis,  "Asexual reproduction by architomy in the polychaete worm Polydora colonia (Polychaeta: Spionidae)"
    (Faculty Advisor: Jason Williams)
  • Calvin Carter, "Is Chemosensory-Mediated Antennular Waving Behavior in Panulirus argus (Caribbean spiny lobster) Driven by the Olfactory or the Non-Olfactory Pathway?"
    (Faculty Advisor: Peter Daniel)
  • Gina Destefano, "Searching for suppressors of the lim-7(tm674) lethality via RNAi"
    (Faculty Advisor: Laura Vallier)
  • Sarah Hess, "Octopine Dehydrogenase is highly conserved in scallops:  isolation and characterization of the Odh gene from Argopecten irradians".
    (Faculty Advisor: Maureen Krause)
  • Tomoki Nomakuchi, "Investigation of the genetic diversity of Florida burrowing owl populations utilizing microsatellite markers"
    (Faculty Advisor: Ronald Sarno)
  • Andrumedia Persaud, "Confirmation of gonadal sheath loss in RNAi candidates using fluorescent microscopic techniques"
    (Faculty Advisor: Laura Vallier)
  • Vincent Ricigliano, "Construction of a genomic library using embryonic Chelydra serpentine DNA"
    (Faculty Advisor: Beverly  Clendening)
  • Tiffany Thalappillil, "Gobiosoma schultz (garmannia): Assessment of the validity of the Venezuelan Species"
    (Faculty Advisor: James Van Tassell)
  • Stephanie Wells, Evidence of extracellular signals that govern production of a streptomycete morphogen
    (Faculty Advisor: Joanne Willey)
  • Dionna Williams,  "Purification and characterization of recombinant Histone H1 from Mytilus edulis"
    (Faculty Advisor: Maureen Krause)
English
  • Jenna Appelbaum, "The Ways of the Wives: Marriage Dynamics in Chaucer’s The Canterbury Tales "(1387)
Session III
Oral Presentations
Philosophy
1:00 Alex Ehrlich and A.J. Durwin, "Knowing Knowledge."
(Faculty Advisors: Professors Dardis, McEvoy, and Singer)
Computer Science, WiSeMAN Research Lab
1:30 John A. Giudici, "On the Connected k-Coverage Problem in Heterogeneous Sensor Nets"
(Faculty Advisor: Habib M. Ammari)
Political Science
2:00 Catherine Legnetti,  "The New Christian Right and Political Realignment"
(Faculty advisor: Rosanna Perotti)
2:30 Lindsey Ross, "The Power and the Privilege: The Making of the Unitary Executive."
(Faculty Advisor: Meena Bose)
Economics
3:00 Peter Wang, "International Business Cycles: Divergent Paths amidst integrated markets"
(Faculty Advisor: Constantine Alexandrakis)
Political Science
3:30 Melissa Calderone, "With Liberty and Justice for All" * An Analysis of Presidential Rhetoric and Civil Rights*
(Faculty Advisor: Meena Bose)
Spanish
4:00 Franshuas Rodriguez, "A Story for 'Soneo'." Salsa in Music and Literature"
(Faculty Advisor: María José Anastasio, Spanish)
 
 
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