8th Annual Undergraduate Research Fair
Tuesday, April 13, 2010
Slep Student Center
Presentations and Winners
Engineering
Poster #1 (First prize)
Student: Jeremy Koeck and Nathaniel Conlin
Title: Effect of a high-voltage electric field on burning rate of solid fuels
Project Adviser: Grant Risha
Poster #2 (First prize)
Student: Amber Miller
Title: Characterization of combustion and propulsion performance
Project Adviser: Grant Risha
Poster #3 (Second prize)
Student: Russell Glass
Title: Regression rate characterization of hydroxyl-terminated polybutadiene-based solid fuels containing high nitrogen materials
Project Adviser: Grant Risha
Physical Sciences
Poster #4 (Second prize)
Student: Andrea Knab
Title: Essential oil composition and biological activities of Coleus Ambionicus
Project Adviser: Marta Maurer
Poster #5
Student: Rachel Bilka
Title: Homemade Van de Graaff Generator (Physics 251 Honors Project)
Project Adviser: Frances Mateycik
Poster #6 (Third prize)
Student: Brian Glunt
Title: Anodization of aluminum to create porous aluminum oxide template for nanowire production
Project Adviser: Richard Bell
Poster #7 (Third prize)
Student: Louis Gan
Title: Magnetorheological joystick
Project Adviser: Richard Bell
Poster #8
Student: Jeremy Walsh
Title: S3H: Seasonal storage for solar heating
Project Adviser: Richard Flarend
Health & Life Sciences
Poster #9
Student: Carol Opiela
Title: An examination of the influence of shell armature in the photokinetic behavior of a freshwater snail
Project Adviser: Edward Levri
Poster #10 (Second prize)
Student: Rachel Bilka
Title: Is the invasive New Zealand mud snail in Lake St. Clair?
Project Adviser: Edward Levri
Poster #11 (First prize)
Student: Kelly Brossman
Title: Effect of Salinity on green frog tadpole (Rana Clamitans) body size
Project Adviser: Matthew Weeg
Poster #12
Student: Bryan Koronowski
Title: Rational design of a biological sensor for ATP
Project Adviser: Amy Diegelman-Parente
Poster #13
Student: Andrew Catherine
Title: The use of HT-ITC and HT-DSC to investigate the effects of ligand binding on DNA aptamers.
Project Adviser: Amy Diegelman-Parente
Humanities and Social Sciences
Poster #14 (Second prize)
Students: Christina Seymour and Mark Singer
Title: Godlessness in American Newspapers: Patterned discourses of non-religiousity, 1999-2009.
Project Adviser: Nicholas Rowland
Poster #15 (Third prize)
Student: Michelle Pope
Title: A Logo selection method
Project Adviser: Tulay Girard
Poster #16
Student: Cassie Brelsford
Title: Femicide in Guatemala
Project Adviser: Roselyn Costantino
Poster #17 (Third prize)
Student: Megan Tichonevicz
Title: Human Trafficking in our Backyard
Project Adviser: Roselyn Costantino
Poster #18 (First prize)
Student: Christopher Baker
Title: Is the Wii to blame? No! Moderating factors of control style on aggression
Project Adviser: Eric Charles
Information Technology and Computing
Poster #19
Student: Todd Bodnar
Title: Project GENESIS (Gene, Environment, Nutrition, Evolution, Sporogenesis, and Impregnation Simulation)
Project Adviser: Tim Leso
Poster #20 (Third prize)
Student: Kyung Ae Lim and Hyun Dong Kim
Title: The impact of IT: pedagogical perspectives in the university education setting
Project Adviser: Yeonsun Ellie Ro
Poster #21
Student: Cassandra Baumgardner
Title: Emerging online game services: countries connected through online gaming
Project Adviser: Jungwoo Ryoo
Poster #22 (Third prize)
Student: Adam Capatch
Title: Broadband connectivity: wired and wireless internet technologies in South Korea and the United States
Project Adviser: Jungwoo Ryoo
Poster #23
Student: Rashard Murdock
Title: A comparative analysis of competitive gaming in the U.S. and Korea
Project Adviser: Charlotte McConn
Judges
Many thanks to our judges for 2010
- Eric Charles (social sciences)
- Nicholas Rowland (social sciences)
- Yeonsun Ellie Ro (social sciences)
- Tulay Girard (social sciences)
- Marc Orlitzky (social sciences)
- Charlotte McConn (social sciences)
- Lucinda Hatton (criminal justice)
- Brad Pinter (psychology)
- Roselyn Costantino (humanities)
- Mark McNicholas (humanities)
- Mary DeJong (humanities)
- Andrea Boito (mathematics)
- Wojciech Dorabiala (mathematics)
- Mihai Comanescu (engineering)
- Jungwoo Ryoo (engineering)
- Richard Bell (physical science)
- Tim Hooper (physical science)
- Fran Mateycik (physical science)
- Richard Bell (physical science)
- Lisa Emili (geoscience)
- Carolyn Mahan (biology)
- Esther Siegfried (biology)
- Matt Weeg (biology)
- Mary Kananen (biology)
- Tracey Elkin (kinesiology)