Hofstra at the CAA Undergraduate Research Conference

April 2007

The Hofstra contingent at the Colonial Academic Alliance Undergraduate Research Conference last weekend at UNC Wilmington. Pictured are Rashina Mondesir, Matthew Bisanz, Melody Perlberg, Dean Stephen Russell, Michael LaFemina, and Lara Luzak.

The conference is held each Spring on the campus of a CAA school; Hofstra hosted the event in 2005. The twelve schools of the CAA are invited to bring up to 10 students to showcase undergraduate research in poster sessions and oral presentations.

The Hofstra contingent consisted of the following students and presentations:

Michael LaFemina
Faculty Advisor: Dr. Sally Charnow (History)
Opening Windows To Gernika

Melody Perlberg
Faculty Advisor: Dr. Dorothy Pumo (Biology)
Evidence for both adaptive evolution and splicing or allelic differences in well known conserved B-type lamins.

Lara D. Luzak
Faculty Advisor: Dr. Jason Williams (Biology)
Influence of host presence on the palp morphology of Dipolydora commensalis (Polychaeta: Spionidae)

Rashina Mondesir
Faculty Advisor: Dr. Guillermo Caliendo (Speech Communication)
Deconstructing Black Feminism

Matt Bisanz
Faculty Advisor: Dr. Mark Landis (Political Science)
The Question of Dividing the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals