2011 Exhibition of Student Research and Scholarship

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College of Arts and Sciences

Undergraduate Exhibitions

Engaging Afghanistan

Ana I. Alexandrescu, Levi I. Arevalo, Brittany A. Bartlett, Katherine E. Beattie, Darius L. Callier, Casey R. Eldemire, Jacob T. Fry, Holly M. Fuhrman, Jessica N. Garcia, Nowell C. Kahie, Jacob P. Kennon, Haydee K. Lopez, James L. Hughes, Marissa A. Mastrionni, Meagan M. Mcdonald, Jesse S. Mcdonough, Michael J. Mutch, Kyle D. Pahowka, Connor Skutches, Ryan C. Stillwagon, Gregory M. Such, Courtney S. Weintraub

Faculty Sponsor: Nandini Deo

Garbage to Gold

Camille S. Delavaux

Faculty Sponsor: Dork Sahagian

SAR of NSAID conjugates for Treatment of Sulfur Mustard Exposure

Meredith P. Harman

Faculty Sponsors: Robert A. Flowers and Ned D. Heindel

The Notions of Motions

Gwendolyn L. Johnson

Faculty Sponsors: Padraig G. O’Seaghdha and Barbara C. Malt

The future of the cement industry in the United States: An Investigation of Environmental Policy in the United States and European Union

Hilary J. Lewis

Faculty Sponsor: Dork Sahagian

Analysis, Abstraction, and Aggregation: Translation of a 2D Artwork into a Unit-Based 3D System

Thomas M. Mcmurtrie

Faculty Sponsor: Nikolai P. Nikolov

Green Sunset

Margaret G. Moran

Faculty Sponsor: Lucy C. Gans

An analysis of the film Andrei Rublev by director Andrei Tarkovsky

Daria Okhrimtchouk

Faculty Sponsor: Mary A. Nicholas

Two Love Songs on poems by e.e. cummings Music by James Casey Rule

James Casey Rule, Piano Elizabeth L. Woods, Soprano

Faculty Sponsor: Paul F. Salerni

Confronting Habit

Deborah A. Streahle

Faculty Sponsor: Gordon C. Bearn

Graduate Exhibitions

Modeling Fission-Yeast Growth Partitioning and Oscillating cortical Cdc42 Populations

Tyler G. Drake

Faculty Sponsor: Dmitrios Vavylonis

Electric Field Swing Adsorption for Carbon Capture Applications

Nina K. Finamore, Cong Liu

Faculty Sponsors: David T. Moore and Kai M. Landskron

Sorting Synaptic Inputs: Novel Inhibitory Function in Neural Circuits for Sound Localization

Matthew J. Fischl

Faculty Sponsor: R. Michael Burger

How old are the Appalachians? Preliminary insights from new applications of apatite U-Th/He thermochronometry

Ryan E. Mckeon

Faculty Sponsor: Peter K. Zeitler

Sequencing by pulling genomic DNA

Piercen M. Oliver

Faculty Sponsor: Dmitri V. Vezenov

The Roles of Semaphorin3d (Sema3d) Signaling in Fin Regenerations

Quynh V. Ton

Faculty Sponsor: Mary Kathryn Iovine

 

College of Business and Economics

Undergraduate

The Icelandic Fishing Experience

Mark F. Degenhart

LaPro Lasso

Richard J. Giles, Julie A. Frehafer, Adam T. Snee, Alan E. Freeman, Michelle L. Lapierre, Robert D. Peckman

Faculty Sponsor: Pasquale J. Costa

I2Sock, by IBE Puritek Group

Yousef F. Janajri

Faculty Sponsor: Pasquale J. Costa

Graduate

Mother’s and Father’s Presence Does Matter: Evidence from Taiwan

Lea R. Giménez-duarte, Jin-tan Liu, Jin-long Liu

Faculty Sponsor: Shin-Yi Chou

How do Medicaid Mothers do under HealthChoices program?

Tianyan Hu

Faculty Sponsor: Shin-Yi Chou

 

College of Education

Graduate Exhibitions

Education for Human Rights in South Africa: An Analysis of the Revised National Curriculum and the Impact on Teachers’ Professional Development

Emily C. Anderson

Faculty Sponsor: Alexander W. Wiseman

Perceived Sexist Events and Psychological Distress: The Moderating Role of Feminist Identity

Kristin N. Bertsch

Faculty Sponsor: Cirleen DeBlaere

Best Practices in Transition to Adult Life for Youth with Intellectual Disabilities: A National Perspective Using the National Longitudinal Transition Study-2

Clare K. Papay

Faculty Sponsor: Linda M. Bambara

The Technical Adequacy of a General Outcome Measure of Geometry for Preschool Children

Joy C. Polignano

Faculty Sponsor: Robin L. Hojnoski

Rescripting Your Story: Reaching Non-Traditional Learners with Social Studies

Sarah E. Stanlick

Faculty Sponsor: Thomas C. Hammond

Distributed Leadership as a Form of Work Redesign: Exploring its Development and Implementation in High Schools in Slovenia

Sonja Sentocnik

 

P.C. Rossin College of Engineering and Applied Science

Undergraduate Exhibitions

Free energy landscapes of intrinsically disordered proteins

Alexander J. Bourque, Jonathan S. Rosen

Faculty Sponsor: Jeetain Mittal

Greenway in Bethlehem

Daniel M. Cohen, Mary L. Nunley, Kyle L. Schreiner, Andrew T. Woodward

Faculty Sponsor: Richard N. Weisman

Neuronal Outgrowth and Differentiation on Poly(glycerol sebacate)

Meghan E. Casey

Faculty Sponsor: Sabrina S. Jedlicka

Bond Management Under Uncertainty

Katherine Glass-hardenbergh, Sushan Zheng

Faculty Sponsor: Aurélie Thiele

Formula SAE

Jacob B. Patterson

Faculty Sponsor: Joachim L. Grenestedt

Increasing the Potential of Bioactive Glass as a Scaffold for Bone Tissue Engineering

Colin J. Przybylowski

Faculty Sponsor: Sabrina S. Jedlicka

Analysis of the Machinability of PM Steel

Anthony P. Ventura

Faculty Sponsor: Wojciech Z. Misiolek

Graduate Exhibitions

Burn Control in Nuclear Fusion Reactors

Mark D. Boyer

Faculty Sponsor: Eugenio Schuster

Seismic Hazard Mitigation of Structures Using Magneto-Rheological (MR) Dampers

Yunbyeong Chae

Faculty Sponsor: James M. Ricles

Robust Optimization with Multiple Ranges

Ruken Duzgun

Faculty Sponsor: Aurélie Thiele

Nanoscale Plasmonic Mach-Zehnder Interferometer (PMZI) on a Microfluidic Chip For Sensitive Biosensing

Yongkang Gao

Faculty Sponsor: Filbert J. Bartoli

Engineering Compliant Polymeric Substrata For Myocardial Contractility

Courtney E. Leblon

Faculty Sponsor: Sabrina S. Jedlicka

Object Boundary Finding Guided by User Interactions

Yaoyao Zhu

Faculty Sponsors: Xiaolei Huang, Daniel P. Lopresti

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