2008 Presenters

SPRING 2008 STUDENT PRESENTERS


Corey Ashby, electrical and computer engineering, '08
John Brunhaver, electrical and computer engineering, '08
Stephen Guerrera, electrical and computer engineering, '08
"CAANS - Configurable Airborne Ad-Hoc Network of Sensors"

Vrinda Bhat, pharmacy, '09
"Bridge to Patient Safety: Development of a Model for Interdisciplinary Collaboration Using Simulated Patients"

Nicole Bouyea, nursing, '08
"Development of Nutrition Program to Decrease Weight Gain in Women During Drug Recovery"

Kristen Daley, nursing, '08
"Smoking Behaviors in Adults with Cancer"

Michael Doran, electrical and computer engineering, '08
Michael Maker, electrical engineering, '08
"iPulse"

Kristen Flowers, physics, '08
"A Search for the Steukelberg Mechanism at DO"

Sean Fortier, biology, '09
"Base Excision Repair in Early Development"

David Hildebrand, biology, '08
"Reinstatement of Cocaine Self-Administration in Rats"

Tierney Holmes, health sciences, '08
"Childhood Obesity in Low Socioeconomic Status Populations: Current Trends and Future Implications"

Eunice Lee, biology, '08
"Determination of a Molecule Required to Rescue Knocked-Down Zebrafish Embryo of AP Endonuclease"

Brittany Leeman, nursing, '08
"Developing a Teen Program"

Carly Maverick, marketing, '08
"Business Consulting Practicum: Pine Street Inn Holiday Card Program"

Robin Ortiz, biology, '08
"Intransasal Gene Delivery Using Cationic Lipsomes: A Novel Treatment Strategy for Parkinson's Disease"

Sarah Robey, history, '08
"'Migrant Mother': An American Icon"

Kathryn Rowan, psychology, '09
"Prolonged Symptoms of Post Traumatic Stress Disorder Mediated by Endogenous Kappa Opioid Activity"

Basma Sadaka, pharmacy, '09
"Influenza and Pneumococcal Vaccination Rates in an Urban Community Health Center Pharmacist Run Clinic"

Kelly Seitz, mechanical engineering, '08
Matthew Whalen, mechanical engineering, '08
"Assessment of Cognitive Workload, Perception, and Effects of the Use of Mobile Phones While Driving"

Michael Trautwein, biology, '08
"Phylogenetic Analysis of Bacteria in an Enrichment Culture Grown From Vinyl-Chloride Contaminated Groundwater"

Honors Seminar Research

Eating and the Environment
Prof. Jennifer Cole

Mollie Stone, English, '11
"Obesity and Demographics"

Microfinance: The Business of Alleviating Extreme Poverty in Developing Countries
Prof. Dennis Shaughnessy

Andrew Cabasso, business, '09
Gary Price, business, '10
"Soul of Africa"

Jeff Cumplido, biology, '11
Mark Hevert, English, '11
"Haitian Microcredit Program"

Popular Culture, Business, and the Cold War
Prof. Bert Spector

Apatsara Veeraplin, business, '11
"I Dreamed...In My Maidenform Bra"

Lisa Wolff, biochemistry, '11
"Democracy, Capitalism, and Monopolies: How American Ideals Shaped Postwar Antitrust Policy"

A History of Espionage
Prof. Jeffrey Burds

Elise Ramsey, psychology, '11
"The Psychology of Betrayal"

Matthew Evola, history, '11
"Pirates as Non-State Agents"

Hong Long, chemical engineering, '11
"Japanese Unit 371"

Special Guests

Jay Cinq-Mars, history and Spanish, '10
"'Spanish Boys': The Story of Experimental Detachment G-3"

Chika Uchiyama, Medical Laboratory Science, '08
"Assessment of Usage of Infant HIV Testing, Dried Blood Spot PCR, at Township Clinics in Port Elizabeth, South Africa"

Matilda Urie, mechanical engineering, '09
"Nanotechnology and Society Research Group"

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