spring undergraduate research festival
poster presentation awards 2009
Arts and Humanities
Distinguished Poster Presentation
Eliana Trenam -
Orientalism in 19th Century Ballet
Mentor - Rebejah Kowal, Dance
Outstanding Poster Presentation
VentaraDillon - Racialism in the Media
Mentor - Venise Berry, African American Studies & Journalism and Mass Communications
Mathematics and Engineering
Outstanding Poster Presentation:
John Foster - The Clear Creek Environmental Hydrologic Observatory
Mentor - Craig Just, Environmental Engineering
Ross Johnson - Virtual Human Posture Prediction with Applied Loads
Mentor - Karim Abdel-Malek and Timothy Marler, Biomedical Engineering
Rachael Levine - Photopolymer Micropatterns to Enhance Nerve Growth in Cochlear Implants
Mentor - Allan Guymon, Chemical and Biochemical Engineering
John Meusch - The Effect of Sitting Posture on human Discomfort in Whole Body Vibration
Mentor - Salam Rahmatalla, Civil and Environmental Engineering
Peter Pellegrino - Automated Bayesian Classification for the Segmentation of Lesions in Vascular Disease
Mentor - Vincent Magnotta, Radiology
Natural Sciences
Outstanding Poster Presentation:
Kelly Salm & Krista Young - Low Glucose Concentration in the Airway Surface Liquid is Important to Maintain a Sterile Airway Surface
Mentor - Joseph Zabner and Alejandro Pezzulo, Internal Medicine
Eric Mou - Specific Identification of Cyclin G2 Upregulation Implicates Its Role in Cell Cycle Arrest
Mentor - Mary Horne, Pharmacology
David Nelms - Assessment of Three Dead Detector Correction Methods for Cone Beam Computed Tomography
Mentor - Ryan Flynn, Radiation Oncology
Maria Drout - The Magnetixed Interstellar Medium and Massive Star Formation in the Galactic Center
Mentor - Cornelia Lang, Physics and Astronomy
Zachary Stecklin - A Genome-Wide Forward Genetic Screen has Identified Fenomic Regions that Likely Contain Genes Functioning in Concert with Shu
Mentor - Toshihiro Kitamoto, Junko Kasuya & Garrett Kaas, Anesthesia
Kevin Kremer - Increasing Amounts of Ebola Virus Glycoprotein on the Sruface of Ebola Virus Pseudo-typed Virions causes Transfection Efficiency to be Reduced
Mentor - Wendy Maury, Microbiology
Atulya Iyengar - Smell-O-Vision: In-flight Opical Control of Olfactory Receptor Neurons via Transgenic Expression of Channelrhodopsin-2
Mentor - Chun-Fang Wu, Biology
Social Sciences
Distinguished Poster Presentation
Alex Einfeldt - Stimulation Enhances Limb Activity and Promotes Rapid Motor Learning in the Neonatal Rat
Mentor - Scott Robinson, Psychology
Outstanding Poster Presentation:
Kevin Flaherty - Long-term Changes in Prehistoric Hunting on the Great Plains (8000-500 years ago): Trends in Diet Breadth and human Impacts to Wildlife Populations
Mentor - Matthew Hill, Anthropology
Amanda Irish- The Agricultural Workers' Role in Pandemic Avian Influenza Spread
Mentor - Gregory Gray, Epidemiology
Raymond Scheibel - Prevalence, Antibiotic Resistance, and Molecular Characterization of Staphylococcus Aureus in state Fair Swine
Mentor - Tara Smith, Epidemology
Sarah Wittig Galgano - Barriers to Reintegration: The Effect of Race and Criminal Record on Employment Opportunties for Women
Mentor - Mary Campbell, Sociology
Roberto Paniagua - A Look at Campus Climate at The University of Iowa
Mentor - Johnnie Sims, Center for Diversity and Enrichment