2010 Student Research Symposium (SRS) Abstract Book

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2010

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Undergraduate research; Student Research Symposium; Graduate research; Student scholarship

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The Student Research Symposium is an event for the presentation and recognition of student scholarship (both graduate and undergraduate). Students with any major in the university, in any college or school of the university, graduate or undergraduate are invited to participate. All students who have participated with faculty or under faculty supervision -- for example, as part of a senior seminar, independent study, or supervised work -- in original, independent research, critical reviews, laboratory projects or field studies eligible to present their work as a poster presentation.

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Dental health in 19th century New York State / Victoria Nichols (Anthropology) Faculty Mentor: Kenneth C. Nystrom (Anthropology) -- The effects of deet on fly development / Hana Akimoto (Anthropology, Biology) Faculty Mentors: Kenneth Nystrom, Aaron Haselton (Anthropology, Biology) -- M.O.R.E- meanings of race and ethnicity / Heather Slivko-Bathurst, Kathleen Fox (Anthropology/Black Studies, undergraduate) Faculty Mentor: Professor Benjamin Junge (Anthropology) -- Fashion as propaganda in the French Revolution / Caryn Schuster (Art History, undergraduate) Faculty Mentor: Andrea Varga (Theater) -- Private and public in Andy Warhol’s photography / Lauren Levine (Art History, undergraduate) Faculty Mentor: Reva Wolf (Art History) -- Purification of nuclear receptor protein construct / Aaron Reed (Biology, undergraduate) Faculty Mentor: Jeffrey. Reinking (Biology) -- Effects of adipokinetic hormone on crop funcitions / Aruna Puthota, Leila Crisson (Biology) Faculty Mentor: Aaron Haselton (Biology) -- Bis-phenol a inhibits and disrupts regeneration in / Elena Oldendorf, Tyler Carson (Biology, graduate) Faculty Mentor: Spencer Mass (Biology) -- Effects of xeno estrogens on regeneration / Tyler Carson, Elena Oldendorf (Biology, undergraduate) Faculty Mentor: Spencer Mass (Biology) -- Biochemical properties in dad3 protein / Abiola Gittens (Biology, undergraduate) Faculty Mentor: Jennifer Waldo (Genetics, Biology) -- New macrocycles as chiral shift reagents / Thomas Quinn (Biology, undergraduate) Faculty Mentor: Frantz Folmer-Andersen (Chemistry) -- Repellency of pinenes against the house fly, musca / Jacob Kuruvilla, Eric Werner (Biology and Chemistry) Faculty Mentors: Preeti Dhar and Aaron Haselton (Chemistry and Biology) -- Elucidating the central dogma in an undergrad lab / Kara DeSantis (Biology, graduate) Faculty Mentor: Jeffrey Reinking (Biology) -- Marine bacteria in south pacific coral reefs / Denni Catalano Mentor: Jason Valens -- Biochemical and biophysical properties of dad-1 / Aruba Iqbal (Biology, undergraduate) Faculty Mentor: Jennifer Waldo (Biology) -- An evolution of the pharmacy / Kelcey Noble (Biology, undergraduate) Faculty Mentor: Thomas Nolen (Biology) -- Cytotoxicity of ru complexes against a549 cells / Leesha Alex (Biology, undergraduate) Faculty Mentor: Maureen Morrow (Biology) -- Plant extract toxicity against escherichia coli / Mary Ann Joseph (Biology, undergraduate) Faculty Mentors: Maureen Morrow, Preeti Dhar (Biology, Chemistry) -- Fluorescence assay for receptor-ligand binding / Raneen Rahhal, Xia Weng (Biology, undergraduate) Faculty Mentor: Pamela St. John (Chemistry) -- Isolation of compounds from psoralea coryilfolia / David Samuel, Ingrid Walfish, (Biology, Chemistry, undergraduate) Faculty Mentor: Preeti Dhar (Chemistry) -- Tumor cell cytotoxicity of ru(ii)-arene complexes / Olivia Gliserman, Juan DeJesus, Sanjana Reddy, Danielle Del Re (Biology and Chemistry, undergraduate) Faculty Mentors: Maureen Morrow and Daniel Freedman (Chemistry and Biology) -- Analysis of the workflow of physicians' rounds / Molly Duguid, Chih-Yang Tsai, Paul Pancoast, Naila Shereen, Christine Seward, Renju Vattasseril (Business, undergraduate) Faculty Mentors: Chih-Yang Tsai (School of Business) -- Conformational isomerism in ruthenium complex / Juan De Jesus, (Chemistry, undergraduate) Faculty Mentor: Daniel. Freedman (Chemistry) -- Acylhydrazone equilibrium constant in water by NMR / Tyler Moore (Chemistry, undergraduate) Faculty Mentor: Frantz Andersen (Chemistry) -- [Ru(bpy)2(-ketoiminate)][pf6]: a new complex / Jordan Sumliner (Chemistry, undergraduate) Faculty Mentor: Daniel Freedman (Chemistry) -- Synthesis of diaminocyclohexane based macrocycles / Philip Atwood (Chemistry, undergraduate) Faculty Mentor: Frantz Folmer-Andersen (Chemistry) -- Cell surface properties of pseudomonas putida / Danielle Kloster (Chemistry, undergraduate) Faculty Mentor: Megan Ferguson (Chemistry) -- Stability/solubility tests on s13/r13 / Varun Talanki (Chemistry, undergraduate) Faculty Mentor: Preeti Dhar (Chemistry) -- Synthesis of monocyclic and bicyclic -lactams / Maria Rodolis, Destiny Rivera (Chemistry, undergraduate) Faculty Mentor: Preeti Dhar (Chemistry) -- Is FYI correlated with higher retention and GPA? / Jessie Ostrow, (Communication, undergraduate) Faculty Mentor: Robin Cohen-La Valle (Psychology, Student Development) -- Between language interaction in bilingual phonology / Rebecca Shuriff, Leah Fabiano-Smith, Jessica A. Barlow, and Brian A. Goldstein (Communication Disorders) Faculty Mentor: Leah Fabiano (Communication Disorders) -- Making an operating system / Younghyuk Kim (Computer Science, graduate) Faculty Mentor: Keqin Li (Computer Science) -- The Federal Reserve and the Taylor Rule 1999-2009 / Nilo F. Alvarado (Economics, undergraduate) Faculty Mentor: Mona Ali (Economics) -- Teaching tolerance through literature / Bridget Corso (Education/English, undergraduate) Faculty Mentors: Tim Dewar, Jan Schmidt (Secondary Education, English) -- The most effective methods for teaching science / Millicent Guido (Education- Secondary, Biology, undergraduate) Faculty Mentors: Rosemary Millham, Aaron Haselton (Secondary Education, Biology) -- An introduction to comics theory: 1960-1980 / Sean Murphy (English, undergraduate) Faculty Mentor: Pauline Uchmanowicz (English) -- Sexism in the lives and works of the beat poets / Jennifer Bernstein (English, undergraduate) Faculty Mentors: Fiona Paton and Anne Roschelle (English and Sociology) -- A Middle Devonian Terrestrial Arthropod Trackway- Catskill Delta / Hanson, Kathleen M Bartholomew, Alexander J., Geology Department -- Experimental taphonomy of coiled cephalopods / Gahn, Christopher T, Bartholomew, Alex J., Geology -- Biofacies Analysis along a Middle Devonian Paleogradient / Martin, Jaclyn B., Bartholomew, Alexander J., Geology Department -- Black republicans since the civil rights era / Peter Zweig (History, undergraduate) Faculty Mentors: Palencsar, John and Bernstein, Lee (History) -- The development of caste under the British Raj / William Borchert (History/Asian Studies, undergraduate) Faculty Mentors: Akira Shimada, Kristine Harris (History/Asian Studies) -- The new woman in contention with traditional men / Tiffany French (History, undergraduate) Faculty Mentors: Lee Bernstein, Susan Lewis (History) -- Historical research paper / Molly Squires, (History, undergraduate) Faculty Mentors: Louis Roper, Akira Shimada (History) -- Aaron Douglas: illustrating the new Negro / Christina Alch (History, Honors, undergraduate) Faculty Mentors: Lee Bernstein, Susan Lewis (History) -- Saying nyet to the Russian language in Ukraine / Katherine Cossolotto (International Relations/Art History, undergraduate) Faculty Mentor: Kathleen Dowley (Political Science/International Relations) -- Fourth-generation warfare and today's terrorist / Michelle Feldstein (International Relations, undergraduate) Faculty Mentors: Lewis Brownstein, Glenn Geher (International Relations, Psychology) -- Nutrition security via urban agriculture in Cuba / Caitlyn Van Damm (Latin American Studies, undergraduate) Faculty Mentor: Linda Greenow (Latin American Studies, Geography) -- How the strong lose wars / Anna Dluzniewska (Political Science, undergraduate) Faculty Mentor: Kathleen Dowley (Political Science) -- Dread: the reluctance to face challenges / Ginette Maitre, Jayson Brito (Psychology, undergraduate) Faculty Mentor: Maryalice Citera (Psychology) -- Non-adjacent bigrams in letter identification / Nolan Conaway, Denise Donatien-Coder, Jesse Siegel (Psychology, undergraduate) Faculty Mentor: Giordana Grossi (Psychology) -- The hedonic value of philanthropy / Storey Day (Psychology, undergraduate) Faculty Mentor: Maryalice Citera (Psychology) -- The effect of shadowing on letter recognition / Eric Herskowitz (Psychology Department, undergraduate) Faculty Mentor: Giordana Grossi (Psychology Department) -- When interest aids vs. hinders mastery-oriented st / Brenna Fearey (Psychology, undergraduate) Faculty Mentor: Corwin Senko (Psychology) -- Conflict resolution in adolescent relationships / Alicia Trapini (Psychology, undergraduate) Faculty Mentor: Kathleen Tillman (Psychology) -- Domestic violence in India: community and autonomy / Darian Pucciarelli (Sociology, undergraduate) Faculty Mentor: Sunita Bose (Sociology) -- Women in Latin American cinema / Alma Santana (Spanish /Latin American Studies, undergraduate) Faculty Mentor: Ligia Aldana (Foreign Languages) -- Theatrical hair & makeup design for Metamorphoses / Rachael Brandt (Theatre Arts, undergraduate) Faculty Mentor: Andrea Varga (Theatre Arts) -- The Irish and blackface minstrelsy / Annette Storckman (Theater Arts, Creative writing, undergraduate) Faculty Mentor: Anita Gonzalez (Theater Arts) -- Transgender childhood in print journalism / Sarah Ruth Lindner (Women Studies, undergraduate) Faculty Mentor: Karl Bryant (Sociology/Women Studies).