FURF 2010 Award Winners
fall undergraduate research festival
poster presentation awards 2010
Arts and Humanities
Outstanding Poster Presentation:
Kallie Holt- The Daily Palette
Mentor - Jon Winet, Intermedia
Distinguished Poster Presentation:
Lindsay Morecraft - When in Rome, Reuse as the Romans Do: Moving Statues Around the Ancient Roman Empire
Mentor - Brenda Longfellow, Art History
Distinguished Poster Presentation:
Erica Blair - A Study of Material Culture i 18th-Centry Midwest
Mentor - Barbara Mooney, Art History
Commended Poster Presentation:
Jill Kacere - Seeking Justice Through Maternal bonds: Argentina's Mothers of the Plazo de Mayo
Mentor - Tom Lewis, Spanish
Mathematics and Engineering
Outstanding Poster Presentation:
Patrick Kyei - Assimilation of Iron in the Ocean: Acid dissolution of Micro snd Nano Goethite in the Presence of Inorganiz Oxyanions
Mentor - Vicki Grassian, Chemical and Biochemical Engineering
Distinguished Poster Presentation:
Karthik Ramachrandran - The Effect of Oligomer Structure of Photopolymerization Kinetics of Acrylates
Mentor -Alec Scranton, Chemical and Biochemical Engineering
Commended Poster Presentation:
Philip Hawbaker - PCB Prototyping Using Negative and Positive Photoresists
Mentor - Geb Thomas, Industrial Engineering
Commended Poster Presentation:
Kenneth Mineart and Brian Dillman - The Effects of Dual Initiators on Hybrid Photo-Polymerization
Mentor - Julie Jessop, Chemical and Biochemical Engineering
Natural Sciences
Outstanding Poster Presentation:
Xiaoye Ma - Wetting hydophobic nanopores using cyclodextrins
Mentor - Lei Geng, Chemistry
Distinguished Poster Presentation:
Minjung Choi - Anti-viof IF in mouse brain
Mentor - John Houtman, Microbiology
Distinguished Poster Presentation:
Jenny Donar - Funcionalization of High Molecular Weight Biosynthetic Polmers
Mentor - Ned Bowden, Chemistry
Distinguished Poster Presentation:
Amanda Jones - Monitoring Anti-Cnacer Drug Metabolism iwth Capillary Electrophoresis
Mentor - Amanda Haes, Chemistry
Distinguished Poster Presentation:
Bhavatharini Kasinathan - DeBAFfling Nuclear Organization: A Structure-Function Anlaysis of a Chromatin Bridging Protein
Mentor - Pam Geyer, Biochemistry
Distinguished Poster Presentation:
Ashley O'Brien - Prevalence of S. aureus in Retail Pork
Mentor - Tara Smith, Epidemiology
Distinguished Poster Presentation:
Annie Tye - Literature Review: Alternative Splicing
Mentor - Daniel Tranel, Neuroscience
Commended Poster Presentation:
Lance Platt - Effects of RGS6 in 4-OH BBN Induced Bladder Cancer in Mice
Mentor - Rory A. Fisher, Pharmacology
Social Sciences
Outstanding Poster Presentation:
Allison Momany - Neonatal Negative Emotionality Predicts Childhood Psychopathology
Mentor - Beth Troutman, Psychiatry
Distinguished Poster Presentation:
Alex Einfeldt - Maternal Responses to Prelinguistic Vocalizations: Dirfferential Effects of Response Complexity and Style on Infant Behavior
Mentor - Julie Gros-Louis, Psychology
Commended Poster Presentation:
Tom Harmon - Developmental Emergence of Trace Eyeblink Conditioning with a Vibration or Tone Conditioned Stimulus
Mentor - John Freeman, Psychology
Commended Poster Presentation:
Kayla Schmalle - Grounded Stone Artifacts from Scott country Pueblo (14SC1)
Mentor - Margaret Beck, Anthropology
Commended Poster Presentation:
Megan Thies - GIS, Taphonomy, and the Mortuary Rockshelter of Bolores, Torres Vedras, Portugal
Mentor - Joe A. Artz, Office of the State ARchaeologist of Iowa