2011 Student Research Symposium (SRS) Abstract Book
Abstract
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.Description
Isotpic Gio-geochemistry of the Mid-Hudson Valley / Linda Amato, (Anthropology/Geology, undergraduate) Faculty Mentor: Ken Nystrom, Alex Bartholomew (Anthropology, Geology) -- The Industrial Revolution and Bio-geochemistry / Lindsay Jankovitz (Anthropology, undergraduate) Faculty Mentor: Kenneth C. Nystrom (Anthropology) -- Processing and Advanced Networking in Art / Shotaro Nakano (Art/Sculpture, undergraduate) Faculty Mentor: Emily Puthoff (Sculpture) -- Nothing Changes: Satirical Prints by Hank Virgona / Adam Gordon (Art History, undergraduate) Faculty Mentor: Reva Wolf -- Little Brother and Sister are Watching / Emily Sobel (Asian Studies, undergraduate) Faculty Mentor: Jonathan Schwartz, Kristine Harris (Political Science/Asian Studies, History/Asian Studies) -- Music and Dance in the African Diaspora / Fredrick Fernandez (New Paltz Honors Program, undergraduate) Faculty Mentor: Karanja Carrol (Black Studies) -- Active Components of the Defensive Ink of Aplysia / Ester Sherman (Biology, undergraduate) Faculty Mentor: Thomas Nolen (Biology) -- Crystallization of Dash Complex Proteins / Richard Jean-Louis (Biology and African Studies, undergraduate) Faculty Mentor: Jennifer Waldo (Biology) -- Analysis of Dam1 Complex with Proteases / Tsering Dolma (Biology, undergraduate) Faculty Mentor: Jennifer Waldo (Biology) -- Dami Complex Gene Expression in C. albicans / Corinna Ridgeway (Biology, undergraduate) Faculty Mentor: Jennifer Waldo (Biology) -- Bio-chemical Characterization of the Dam1 Complex / Aruba Iqbal (Biology, undergraduate) Faculty Mentor: Jennifer Waldo (Biology) -- 4- OP Profoundly Disrupts Regeneration in Planaria / Mevluda Arifova, Tyler Carson, Mary Schappert, Elena Oldendorf (Biology, undergraduate) Faculty Mentor: Spencer Mass (Biology) -- Dos Dependent Alternation of Regeneration with BPA / Tyler Carson, Mevlude Arifova, Mary Schappert, Elena Oldendorf (Biology, undergraduate) Faculty Mentor: Spencer Mass (Biology) -- Biometrics of Metamorphosed Andneotenic Axolotls / Thomas Quinn, Michael Minicozzi (Biology, undergraduate) Faculty Mentor: Spencer Mass (Biology) -- Extract Toxicity: Gram-Neg. and Gram-Pos. Bacteria / Michael Rich (Biology, undergraduate) Faculty Mentor: Maureen Morrow (Biology) -- Cell Death in A549 Treated with Ru-Based Complexes / Sanjana Reddy, Aisha Saleem (Biology, undergraduate) Faculty Mentor: Maureen Morrow, Daniel Freedman (Biology, Chemistry) -- Dietary Restriction in Musca domestica / Sushma Kasinathan (Biology, undergraduate) Faculty Mentor: Aaron T. Haselton -- Fruit Fly Blue-Belly Beats & Adipokinetic Hormone / Leila Crisson, Aruna Puthota (Biology, undergraduate) Faculty Mentor: Aaron Haselton (Biology) -- The Study of Marine Bacteria / Denni Catalano, Jessica Mason (Biology, graduate) Faculty Mentor: Jason Valens (Biology) -- Identification of Microbes in Anoxic marine Niches / Jessica Mason (Biology, undergraduate) Faculty Mentor: Jason Valens (Biology) -- A Novel Assay to Identify Nuclear Receptor Ligands / Kara DeSantis, Aaron Reed (Biology, graduate) Faculty Mentor: Jeff Reinking (Biology) -- Ligation Independent Cloning of NR LBDS / Marissa Magerkurth, Nicholas DiPaola (Biology, undergraduate) Faculty Mentor: Jeffrey Reinking (Biology) -- Soil Bioremediation Strategy Using Native Fungi / Laurel Okorofsky (Biology, undergraduate) Faculty Mentor: Hon Ho, Megan Ferguson (Biology/Chemistry) -- Forest Dynamics / Alicia Fahrner, (Biology, undergraduate) Faculty Mentor: Carol Rietsma (Biology) -- The Threat of Invasive Plants to the Watersheds / Janice Rich (Biology, undergraduate) Faculty Mentor: Carol Reitsma (Biology) -- Didymophenia geminata: An Algae that Seizes Creeks / Shaina Beirne, Nathaniel Rigolino (Biology, undergraduate) Faculty Mentor: David Richardson (Biology) -- Water Quality of the Wallkill River / Steven DiFalco, Ashley Crinieri and Aisha Saleem (Biology, undergraduate) Faculty Mentor: David Richardson (Biology) -- The Repellency of Pineness Against the House Fly / Eric Werner, Jacob Kuruvilla (Biology/Chemistry, undergraduate) Faculty Mentor: Aaron Haselton, Preeti Dhar (Biology/Chemistry) -- Conversion of (P-CYM) RU(II) L2 Complexes to (RU(BPY) / Danielle Del Re, Ghady Rahhal, Olivia Gliserman (Biology, Chemistry, undergraduate) Faculty Mentor: Daniel Freedman (Chemistry) -- Understanding the Melting of a GAAA Hairpin / Cynthia Chow, Lauren Parry (Biology, undergraduate) Faculty Mentor: Pamela M. St. John (Chemistry) -- Exploring the Hardy Weinberg Equilibrium / Lucia Milla (Biology, undergraduate) Faculty Mentor: Diego Dominici (Mathematics) -- Redox and Structural Stability of Oxyvita Hemoglobin / Raneen Rahhal, Joe Branco (Chemistry, undergraduate) Faculty Mentor: John Harrington (Chemistry and Engineering) -- Surface Properties of Bdellovibrio bacteriovorus / Michael Wengen (Chemistry) Faculty Mentor: Megan A. Ferguson (Chemistry) -- Comparison of P. putida in the Breakdown of PAHs / Ryan Taylor (Chemistry, undergraduate) Faculty Mentor: Megan Ferguson (Chemistry) -- Facile Synthesis of Azetidiness/Pyrrolidines / Varun Talanki, Hashim Al-Mashat, Kara Heard, Juan De Jesus (Biology, undergraduate) Faculty Mentor: Preeti Dhar (Chemistry) -- Shark Project Study of V and Ti Mixed Metal Oxides / James Sutherland, Nicholas Hanson, Darryl Steffen, Tatiana Yeargin, Rachel Kaminski, Fatima Hosain (Chemistry) Faculty Mentor: Daniel Freedman (Chemistry) -- The Effects of Terminalia arjuna on Phytophthora / Orooj Shahid (Chemistry, undergraduate) Faculty Mentor: Preeti Dhar and Hon Ho (Chemistry and Biology) -- The Insecticidal Properties Ofterminalia arjuna / Miles Marnell, Yan Li (Chemistry, undergraduate) Faculty Mentor: Preeti Dhar, Aaron Haselton (Chemistry) -- Hammett Correlation for Hydrolyticst Ability Const / Mary Schappert, Erik Van Vlack (Chemistry, undergraduate) Faculty Mentor: Frantz Folmer-Andersen (Chemistry) -- Toward the Synthesis of New Chiral Macrocycles / Shaun Ben-Ari (Chemistry, undergraduate) Faculty Mentor: Frantz Andersen -- Relationship Building through Social Networking / Ericka Vales (Communication and Media, undergraduate) Faculty Mentor: Daniel Schackman and Patricia Sullivan (Communication and Media) -- Steven Barnes: Guilty until Proven Innocent / Stephanie Inserra (Communication and Media: Concentration in TV/Radio, undergraduate) Faculty Mentor: Gregory Bray; Eve Waltermaurer; Jeff Miller (Communication and Media; Sociology; Honors Program) -- Simulation of Power Allocation and Task Scheduling / Yanzhao Yang (Computer Science, graduate) Faculty Mentor: Keqin Li (Computer Science) -- Does the Invariance Principle Hold in Baseball / Geoffrey Rohan (Economics, undergraduate) Faculty Mentor: Hamid Azari-Rad (Economics) -- Effect of Mentor Quality on Mentee Retention / Whitney Dudley (Economics, undergraduate) Faculty Mentor: Azari-Rad (Economics) -- Privatization in the Water Sector and Child Health / Sandra Davis (Economics, undergraduate) Faculty Mentor: Hamid Azari-Rad (Economics) -- The Effects of Factory Farms on the Environment / Daniel Santoro, Dana Gioia (Education, undergraduate) Faculty Mentor: Brian Obach (Sociology) -- The Study of Heroin Through Popular Discourse / Molly Cohn (Education- Elementary, undergraduate) Faculty Mentor: Kate McCoy (Educational Studies) -- Medieval Spain’s Arabic Poetry / Fatima Elmouchtari (Education-Secondary / Spanish) Faculty Mentor: Isidoro Janeiro (Foreign Language) -- Wave Propagation in Dispersive Media / Olga Stulov (Electrical and Computer Engineering, Mathematics) Faculty Mentor: Mohammad R. Zunoubi, Natalie Cartwright (Engineering & Mathematics) -- Kennedy Influence Throughout the 1960’s and Beyond / Kara McDermott (English, undergraduate) Faculty Mentor: Fiona Paton, Susan Lewis (English, History) -- The Sedimentary Record of Louisa Pond, Esopus, NY / Chris Callinan (Environmental Geochemical Science) Faculty Mentor: John Rayburn (Geology) -- SUNY New Paltz’s Drive for Local Food / Genevieve Marino (Environmental Studies Minor/ Music Major, undergraduate) Faculty Mentor: Brian Obach (Sociology) -- Accent Change in Spanish-English Bilinguals / Janna Losow (Foreign Languages, undergraduate) Faculty Mentor: Navin Viswanathan (Psychology) -- Mid-Devonian Arthropod Trackway from the Catskills / Kathleen Hanson, Lauren Parry (Geology and Biology, undergraduate) Faculty Mentor: Alex Bartholomew and Aaron Haselton (Geology and Biology) -- An Exercise in Racial Discourse / Grace Watson (History, undergraduate) Faculty Mentor: Reynolds Scott-Childress, Beth Wilson (History, Art History) -- Pilgrimage and Santiago De Compostela / Alana Donocoff (History, undergraduate) Faculty Mentor: Hamilton Stapell (History) -- Understanding Language Loss: Heritage Japanese / Hikari Kawamura (Linguistics, undergraduate) Faculty Mentor: Oksana Laleko (Linguistics) -- Computer Model of Mickey Mantel’s Famous Homeroom / Elijah Nazzaro (Physics, undergraduate) Faculty Mentor: Richard Halpern (Physics) -- No Child Left Behind and Social Studies Education / James Hadley (Political Science, undergraduate) Faculty Mentor: Sue Books and Joel Lefkowitz (Secondary Education and Political Science) -- Post-Conflict Gender Equality in BiH / Elizabeth Dovell (Political Science and International Relations, undergraduate) Faculty Mentor: Kathleen Dowley (Political Science and International Relations) -- The Development of Russian Counterinsurgency / Anna Dluzniewska (Political Science & International Relations, undergraduate) Faculty Mentor: Lewis Brownstein (Political Science & International Relations) -- The Effectiveness of NGOS at the Security Council / Winnie Hagemeyer Leonardo-Pereira (Political Science, undergraduate) Faculty Mentor: Serife Ilgu Ozler (Political Science) -- Deserving or Delusional: Job Over-Qualification / Elena Brondolo, Carrie Sauer (Psychology, undergraduate) Faculty Mentor: Doug Maynard (Psychology) -- Eastern Philosophy Meets Western Medicine / Rebecca Marcus (Psychology, undergraduate) Faculty Mentor: Raymond Schwarz, Alice Andrews (Student Affairs/Psychology) -- Exploring Hook-up Experiences of Heterosexuals / Lindsay Ruckel, Ashley Stauffer, Emily Phelan, Rebecca Rodriguez, Megan Kenney, Dan Wyld, Julia Donato (Psychology, graduate) Faculty Mentor: Melanie Hill (Psychology) -- Exploring Hook-up Experiences of LGBTQ Individuals / Eli Mann, Nikki Venezia, Nicole Giordano, Jacob Julian (Psychology, undergraduate) Faculty Mentor: Melanie Hill (Psychology) -- Gestural Drift in Indian-English Multi-linguals / Susan Mason, Karen Kessler, Sean Picinich (Psychology, undergraduate) Faculty Mentor: Navin Viswanathan (Psychology) -- The Effects of Sinewave Speech on the Irrelevants / Josh Dorsi, Stephenie George (Psychology, undergraduate) Faculty Mentor: Navin Viswanathan (Psychology) -- Is Evolution just a Theory? New Paltz says... / Brenna Fearey (Psychology/Biology, undergraduate) Faculty Mentor: Spencer Mass (Biology) -- Production Management / Gayle Riess (Theatre Arts, undergraduate) Faculty Mentor: Ken Goldstein (Theatre Arts) -- Rendering Techniques in Costume Design for Theatre / Colleen Heaney (Theatre Arts, undergraduate) Faculty Mentor: Andrea Varga (Theatre Arts).Collections
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