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13th Annual Symposium on Undergraduate Research
Atrium and Auditorium (Room 1011)
Bailey Science Center
Thursday, April 12, 2007
6:00 p.m. – 6:45 p.m. Poster Session I and Reception
7:00 p.m. Opening Plenary Session
Welcome Dr. Linda Calendrillo, Dean
College of Arts and Sciences
Remarks Dr. Louis H. Levy
Vice President for Academic Affairs
Remembering Dr. David O’Drobinak, Assistant Professor, Biology
Dr. Chris Meyers, Department of History
Invited Address on A Century of Research: Service Learning
Dr. Susan Wehling
Department of Modern and Classical Languages
Outstanding Student in Arts and Sciences: Katheryn E. Klimko
Presentation of Arts and Sciences Awards and CUR Certificates
by Department Heads and Program Directors
Friday, April 13, 2007
8:00 a.m. – 9:30 a.m. Paper Session I
Moderator: Dr. Yakov Woldman, Chemistry
Welcome Dr. Linda Calendrillo, Dean
College of Arts and Sciences
Remarks Dr. Mary Block
Chair, Council on Undergraduate Research
“Slavery the Result of Racism? A New Approach
to the Origin of Slavery in Early America”
Jake Newsome
African American Studies Program
Dr. Okete Shiroya, Faculty Adviser
“Soil Electrical Conductivity for Different Soil Types”
Matthew David Lovett
Department of Mathematics and Computer Science
Drs. Andreas Lazari and Eric Brevik, Faculty Advisers
“The Presence of Music in Spanish Cinema”
Dawn Johnson
Department of Modern and Classical Languages
Dr. Ellen Friedrich, Faculty Adviser
“In Search of the True Nature of Antebellum Georgia Crackers”
Hendry Miller
Department of History
Dr. John Crowley, Faculty Adviser
“Political Polarization and the Culture War: Are Red States Really More Moral?”
Amy Purvis
Department of Political Science
Dr. James LaPlant, Faculty Adviser
9:30 – 10:00 a.m. Poster Session II and Refreshments
10:00 a.m. – 11:30 a.m. Paper Session II
Moderator: Dr. Barry Hojjatie; Physics, Astronomy and Geosciences
“The Novel’s Heroine and How She Transformed”
Nikki Diana Smith
Department of English
Dr. Marta Kvande, Faculty Adviser
“The Ethics of International Business: A Hobbesian Analysis and Model”
Christopher Parker
Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies
Dr. Ari Santas, Faculty Adviser
“The Relationship Between Executives: Presidential and
Gubernatorial Job Approval Ratings”
Jud Seymour
Department of Political Science
Dr. James LaPlant, Faculty Adviser
“Estimating Food Temperature”
Katheryn Klimko and Matthew Sumrall
Department of Mathematics and Computer Science
Dr. Denise Reid, Faculty Adviser
Transsexual Marriages in the United States”
Jessica Darsey
Women’s Studies Program
Dr. Tracy Meyers, Faculty Adviser
11:30 a.m. – 12:00 p.m. Break
12:00 p.m. – 1:30 p.m. Paper Session III
Moderator: Dr. Fred Knowles; Sociology, Anthropology and Criminal Justice
“Equine Cushing’s Disease and Its Interactions with Infertility”
Amanda Bunnell
Department of Biology
Dr. Leslie Jones, Faculty Adviser
“What a Federal Shield Law Should Encompass to Ensure Democracy”
Holly McCarthy
Department of English
Dr. Pat Miller, Faculty Adviser
“Sarcasm, Suaveness, and Starships: James Bond and Han Solo
as American Folk Heroes”
Rachel Wayne
Honors Program
Drs. Stephen Childs and Ofelia Nikolova, Faculty Advisers
“Pharmaceutical Aquaculture: Growing Drugs in the Gulf of Mexico”
Karly Bishop, Gunter Bulloch, Devin Grant, Kristen McLeod,
Om Patel, and Shanda Sermons
Department of Chemistry
Dr. Thomas Manning, Faculty Adviser
“A Brief Biography of Empress Taitu of Ethiopia”
Ashley Henderson
African American Studies Program
Dr. Okete Shiroya, Faculty Adviser
1:45 p.m. – 3:15 p.m. Paper Session IV
Moderator: Dr. Marta Kvande, English
“Midwifery and Witchcraft in Early Modern Europe”Jennifer Melissa Keene
Women’s Studies ProgramDr. Tracy Meyers, Faculty Adviser
“Converting the Franck Hertz Experiment to a Computerized Data Acquisition System Allowing the Application of a Deconvolution Routine”Chase Vann Johnson
Department of Physics, Astronomy and GeosciencesDr. Frank Flaherty, Faculty Adviser
“Eminent Domain in the United States: An Analysis of Public Use vs. Public Purpose in Kelo vs. New London”
Crystal Parten
Department of History
Drs. Mary Block and Christine James, Faculty Advisers
“Electronic Qualitative Analysis Schemes: Student Developed Chemical Riddles Cross Borders”
Sofia Ullah, Peter Vu, Landon Lassiter, Vineet Kumar,
Jeff Felton, and CJ Mock
Department of Chemistry
Dr. Thomas Manning, Faculty Adviser
“Internet Phishing and Containment”
Anthony Robert Stroik
Department of Sociology, Anthropology and Criminal Justice
Dr. Wilson Huang, Faculty Adviser
3:30 – 4:30 p.m. Paper Session V
Moderator: Dr. Christine James, Philosophy and Religious Studies
“The Incompatibilities of Christian Faith and Evolution”
Daniel Moore
Department of Biology
Dr. Leslie Jones, Faculty Adviser
“The Culture of Death: An Aesthetic Analysis”
Luke McMurray
Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies
Dr. Christine James, Faculty Adviser
“The Long and Winding Road: An Ethnography of American Truck Drivers”
Rusty Furlow
Department of Sociology, Anthropology and Criminal Justice
Dr. Matthew Richard, Faculty Adviser
Posters
Biology
“Distribution of Arrenurid Water Mites on Adult Mosquitoes”
Jessica Thomas
Dr. Mark Blackmore, Faculty Adviser
“Effect of Catalase on Gamma Interferon-Mediated Inhibition of the
Growth of Rickettsia prowazekii”
Ebony Weems and Shelbie Dixon
Dr. Jenifer Turco, Faculty Adviser
“Optimization of a Densitometric Technique to Determine Calsequestrin Expression Patterns in Fish Fast Twitch Muscle”
Richard Harris and Brooke Bailey
Dr. Theresa Grove, Faculty Adviser
“Per1 Gene Expression in the Hamster Suprachiasmatic Nucleus”
Elizabeth Castillo
Dr. Robert Gannon, Faculty Adviser
“Species-Specific Relationships Between Bacteria and Nematodes”
Hillery Hall and Tanisha Jackson
Dr. Archna Bhasin, Faculty Adviser
Chemistry
“Aerosol Assisted Vapor Synthesis as a Method for
Producing Aluminum Nitride”
Thomas Shaw
Dr. Gary Wood, Faculty Adviser
“Carbon Nanotubes as a Skeleton in Computational Studies of
Peptide and Protein Folding”
Om Patel et al.
Dr. Thomas Manning, Faculty Adviser
“Computational and Experimental Studies: Can Hydrogenated Aza-Fullerenes Be Produced in a High Voltage Discharge?”
Roderick Turner and Giso Abadi
Dr. Thomas Manning, Faculty Adviser
“Computational and Experimental Studies of the Hydrolysis of Bryostatin”
Jessica Thomas
Dr. Thomas Manning, Faculty Adviser
“Computational Studies of Ferric Complexes of Bryostatin”
Justin Smith
Dr. Thomas Manning, Faculty Adviser
“Controlled Potential and Controlled Current Techniques for
Semiconductor Electrodeposition”
Chiharu Konda
Dr. Linda de la Garza, Faculty Adviser
“Fluorescence Characterization of Natural Extracts”
Sonya Fulp and Mallory Bates
Dr. Linda de la Garza, Faculty Adviser
“Marine Sediment as a Fuel Additive”
Jason Lackey
Dr. Thomas Manning, Faculty Adviser
“Natural Extracts Fluorescence and Semiconductor Films Studies”
Mallory Bates, Sonya Fulp and Pavielle Lockhart
Dr. Linda de la Garza, Faculty Adviser
“Peptide Folding in a Nanotube”
Matt Channell
Dr. Thomas Manning, Faculty Adviser
“Phytochemical Investigation of Opuntia ficus-indica (Prickly Pear)”
Brandi Gardner
Dr. Jim Baxter, Faculty Adviser
“Semiconductor Thin Films Obtained by a Process of Electrodeposition”
Pavielle Lockhart
Drs. Linda de la Garza and Russell Goddard, Faculty Advisers
“Synthesis and Application of Layered Inorganic Compounds”
Kylah Charae Smith
Dr. Tolulope Salami, Faculty Adviser
Honors
“A Complex History: A Brief Overview of German Reaction to Its Nazi Past”
Jake Newsome
Dr. Ofelia Nikolova, Faculty Adviser
“Medicinal Uses of Bryostatin”
Monica Chana and Jordan Hancock
Drs. Thomas Manning and Ofelia Nikolova, Faculty Advisers
Mathematics and Computer Science
“Flexible Software Design Using Design Patterns for an Animated
Ecosystem Simulation”
Michael B. Walsh
Dr. Dave Gibson, Faculty Adviser
“It Is Fun to Learn Data Structure with jMUSIC!”
Carlos Diaz
Dr. Zhiguang Xu, Faculty Adviser
“The Scheme Programming Language”
Maxim Lyashok and Amelia Harmon
Dr. Sherry Feng, Faculty Adviser
Oasis Center for Advising and First Year Programs
“The Real Deal on Leadership”
Brandi Antoinette Gardner, Bethany Brett and Brittany Lotito
Dr. Patrick Burns, Faculty Adviser
Physics, Astronomy and Geosciences
“Analysis of the Coastal Plain Unconformity, Central Georgia”
Richard B. Davis
Dr. Mark Groszos, Faculty Adviser
“Analysis of Transient Heat Conduction Process and the Introduction of the Laplace Transform for the Undergraduate Student”
Chase Vann Johnson
Dr. Barry Hojjatie, Faculty Adviser
“Applications of Engineering Software with Emphasis on 3-D Design”
Wesley Anderson
Dr. Barry Hojjatie, Faculty Adviser
“Beryl Mineralization in the Cochran Pegmatite, Ball Ground, Georgia”
Kristen M. Longfellow
Dr. Mark Groszos, Faculty Adviser
“Comparison of Two Methods for Estimating Carbon in the Soil”
John Kevin Luke
Dr. Eric Brevik, Faculty Adviser
“Development of Tutorial Programs for Engineering Mechanics Using Tablet PC and Camtasia”
Kyle Lovan and Miguel Pena
Dr. Barry Hojjatie, Faculty Adviser
“Evaluation of Time Domain Reflectometer Readings for Finding Volumetric Water Content in Sandy South Georgia Soils”
Richard Alan Batten
Drs. Eric Brevik and Judith Grable, Faculty Advisers
“Measurement and Analysis of Soil Temperature Using Tablet PC Technology”
Matthew Stokley and Alan A. Gavel II
Dr. Barry Hojjatie, Faculty Adviser
“Spatial Analysis of Bird-Aircraft Strike Hazard (BASH) for Moody Air Force Base Aircraft in the State of Georgia”
Katie Marie Gard
Dr. Mark Groszos, Faculty Adviser
“Stellar Spectra”
Alan A. Gavel II
Dr. Martha Leake, Faculty Adviser
“The Night Sky Engulfed by City Lights: Astrophotography
Catches the Culprit”
Kyle William Culpepper
Dr. Martha Leake, Faculty Adviser
Political Science
“Infant Mortality Rates Across Nations”
David Morgan
Dr. James LaPlant, Faculty Adviser
Sociology, Anthropology and Criminal Justice
“Assessment of Youth Drug Usage in Lowndes County”
Danielle Williams
Dr. Shani Gray, Faculty Adviser
“Maya Identity: Reforming Education and Changing the Political Landscape”
(video presentation)
Seth Gunning, Melissa Selman, Kat Johnson, Kathleen Johnson, Catherine Thomas, Melissa Coleman, and Anthony J. Brantley
Dr. Matthew Richard, Faculty Adviser