Summary of Research Day 2003
The Third Annual Graduate Student Research Day was held on Friday, March 21st and benefited from another year of growth in participation. This year, the format of Research Day was altered so that participants would be able to enjoy both oral and poster presentations.
Toril Moi, James B. Duke Professor of Literature and Romance Studies, gave a keynote address at lunch titled "Finding a Voice: How to Survive in Graduate School." The keynote speaker for the dinner was William M. Reichert, Professor of Biomedical Engineering, Associate Professor of Biochemical Engineering, and Chair of the Executive Committee of the Graduate Faculty, who spoke on "Publish or Perish."
Watch your e-mail at the beginning of spring semester for news of the Fourth Annual Graduate Student Research Day, and keep it in mind as you do research and prepare papers this year.
PARTICIPANTS IN THE THIRD ANNUAL GRADUATE STUDENT RESEARCH DAY
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BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES
Julia Bowsher, Biology
EVOLUTION OF NOVELTY: MALE ABDOMINAL BRUSHES IN SEPSID FLIES.
Christine Camblin, Psychological and Brain Sciences
COREFERENTIAL PROCESSING IN THE RIGHT HEMISPHERE: AN ERP STUDY.
Catherine Clark, Pharmacology
DEVELOPMENT AND TESTING OF A PAN-SPECIFIC DOMINANT-NEGATIVE GLYCOGEN TARGETING SUBUNIT OF PROTEIN PHOSPHATASE-1.
Heather Dean, Neurobiology
SPATIAL REPRESENTATIONS IN POSTERIOR CINGULATE CORTEX.
Elizabeth Derryberry, Biology
THE EFFECTS OF TWO HAEMATOZOA ON REPRODUCTIVE SUCCESS IN MOUNTAIN WHITE-CROWNED SPARROWS.
Michele Diaz, Psychological and Brain Sciences
FUNCTIONAL MRI ACTIVATIONS INVOLVED IN PROCESSING WORDS AND NONWORDS.
Tracy Feldman, Biology
WHEN CAN TWO PLANT SPECIES FACILITATE EACH OTHER'S POLLINATION?
Jeff Kovacs, Pharmacology
A NOVEL UBIQUITIN BINDING-ZINC FINGER IS ESSENTIAL FOR HDAC6-INDUCED CHEMOTAXIS AND LINKS THE ACETYLATION AND UBIQUITINATION NETWORK.
Yulong Li, Neurobiology
PROBING THE TIMING OF NSF ACTION IN THE SYNAPTIC VESICLE EXOCYTOSIS.
Mario Vallejo-Marin, Biology
THE EFFECT OF POLLEN LIMITATION ON THE EVOLUTIONARY COSTS OF SELF-INCOMPATIBILITY.
PHYSICAL SCIENCES
Benjamin Adei, Civil and Environmental Engineering
PREDICTING THE ENGINEERING PROPERTIES OF SOILS FROM NON-INVASIVE GEOPHYSICAL TECHNIQUES.
Ninita Brown, Biomedical Engineering
DESIGN AND TESTING OF AN OPTICAL RECEIVER FOR TRANSMURAL CARDIAC MAPPING.
Ben Cooke, Mathematics
A MULTIGRID MONTE CARLO ALGORITHM FOR MULTI-RESOLUTION PROTEIN FOLDING.
Luke Dollar, Environment
INFANTICIDE IN THE FLORIDA PANTHER POPULATION BOTTLENECK.
John Greer, Mathematics
FOURTH ORDER TRAVELING WAVES IN IMAGE PROCESSING.
Joseph Gyamfi, Civil and Environmental Engineering
ASSESSING THE VULNERABILITY OF GROUNDWATER TO PESTICIDE CONTAMINATION USING GEOPHYSICAL METHODS: A CASE STUDY IN GHANA.
Trina Hedrick, Environment
PROPOSAL TO INTRODUCE GILA TROUT (Oncorhynchus gilae) TO THE WEST FORK OF OAK CREEK, SEDONA, ARIZONA.
Yee Lam, Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science
Woo Lee, Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science
Rob Saunders, Physics
IMPACT OF RESOLUTION AND NOISE CHARACTERISTICS OF DIGITAL RADIOGRAPHIC SYSTEMS ON THE DETECTION OF SUBTLE LUNG NODULES IN CHEST RADIOGRAPHS.
Renato Silva, Civil and Environmental Engineering
THE ICE STORM.
Varun Swamy, Environment
THE BIRDS AND THE BEES REVISITED: POLLINATION ECOLOGY IN A FRAGMENTED ECOSYSTEM.
Alexia Valiaev, Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science
FORCE SPECTROSCOPY STUDY OF ELASTIN LIKE POLYPEPTIDES (ELP) SINGLE MOLECULES.
Kyle Van Houtan, Ecology
BEHAVIOR AND CONSERVATION OF BIRD POPULATIONS IN FRAGMENTED HABITAT.
SOCIAL SCIENCES
Alexis Franzese, Sociology
ACCOUNTS OF MEDICAL EDUCATION: IMPLICATIONS FOR MEDICAL PRACTICE.
Sharron Hunter-Rainey, Business Administration
HUMAN CAPITAL AND SOCIAL CAPITAL EXPLANATIONS FOR DIFFERENTIAL INCOMES.
Julia Litvinova, Economics
VOLATILITY ASYMMETRY IN HIGH-FREQUENCY DATA.
Shayla Nunnally, Political Science
RACIAL TRUST IN THE PREDICTION OF SOCIAL TRUST: THE EFFECT OF RACE ON TRUST IN SOCIAL CONTEXTS.
Nicole Polanichka, Psychology: Social and Health Sciences
YOUNG CHILDREN'S PERCEPTIONS OF PARENTING: DEVELOPMENTAL PATTERNS AND PREDICTIVE VALIDITY.
Ranak Trivedi, Psychology: Social and Health Sciences
POSTMENOPAUSAL WOMEN SHOW ELEVATED SYSTEMIC VASCULAR RESISTANCE AT REST AND DURING STRESS.
HUMANITIES
Erica Edwards, Literature
"CYANIDE IN THE KOOL-AID": COMEDY AND THE DISCOURSE OF BLACK LEADERSHIP IN CONTEMPORARY AMERICAN CULTURE.
Sylvie Fortin, Art History
FATIMAH TUGGAR'S DIGITAL TRAFFICKINGS.
Barbara Lechleitner, German Studies
SHOWGIRLS IN GOLDDIGGERS OF 1933: WOMEN'S BODIES AS COMMODITY AND EUGENIC PROMISE.
Kinohi Nishikawa, Literature
TIME IS ON MY SIDE: ENLIGHTENMENT ANALOGICS AND POSTCOLONIAL CRITIQUE.
Anne-Lise St-Phard, Romance Studies
TEMPESTUOUS DECISIONS: CHOOSING THE MONSTER IN WORKS FROM GREAT BRITAIN TO THE CARIBBEAN
Sandrine Teixidor, Romance Studies
"LA PAROLE DE NUIT" AND THE STORYTELLER IN A BRETON LITERATURE: TRANSGRESSION OF THE FORBIDDEN.
Betsy Thomas, Master of Arts in Liberal Studies
WOMEN ENTREPRENEURS: A NEW, GROWING SEGMENT IN THE AMERICAN ECONOMY.
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