CONGRATULATIONS
TO THE
2005 STUDENT SCHOLARSHIP EXPO WINNERS!

Graduate / College of Engineering and Technology (2 winners)

Deepak K. Gaddipati and Kriranga Kalyan Agili: Surgical Simulation Coupling 3-D Medical Imaging with Haptics (Faculty Mentor: Dr. Thomas Stewart)

Joseph Faivre: Development of Force Control Capability for a Backhoe Loader Test Bed (Faculty Mentor: Dr. Gary Dempsey)

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Graduate / College of Liberal Arts and Sciences

Anna Sasser and Crystal Schulte: The Influence of Pyrene on Muscle Metabolism and Contractile Ability in Rana Pipiens (Faculty Mentor: Dr. Erich K. Stabenau)

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Undergraduate / Biological Sciences

1st Place - Richard Lee and Joseph Wych: Growth Responses of Soybeans to Nighttime Carbon Dioxide Enrichment (Faculty Mentors: Dr. Sherri Morris and Dr. Kelly McConnaughay)

2nd Place - Collin R. Diedrich and Pamela R. Hesker: Mitochondrial Oxygen Consumption in Fischer Rats Following Cocaine/Hypoxic Exposure (Faculty Mentor: Dr. Erich K. Stabenau)

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Undergraduate / Communications

1st Place - Kelly Kolton, Kristin Lacklore, Justin Phelps, Amanda Welsh, Brian Shoemaker, Emily Hubbell, and John Goefert: Magazine Prototype (Faculty Mentor: Dr. Sharon Murphy)

2nd Place - Jeff Okazaki and Amanda Welsh: Disclosure Standards for Opinion Poll Reporting Prior to the 2004 Election (Faculty Mentors: Dr. Michael Thurwanger and Dr. Gregory Pitts)

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Undergraduate / Education

1st Place - Kaylee Dittbenner: Child Abuse: Identification Methods and Action Steps for Current and Future Mandated Reporters (Mentor: Kelli Billesbach, RN)

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Undergraduate / Engineering

1st Place -Stephen Friederichs: Fuzzy Logic Control of a Magnetic Suspension System Using xPC Target (Faculty Mentors: Dr. Windred Anakwa and Dr. In Soo Ahn)

2nd Place - Adam Vaccari and Kain Osterholt: Simulink-Based Control Workstation (Faculty Mentor: Dr. Gary Dempsey)

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Undergraduate / Family and Consumer Sciences

1st Place -Laura Wettergren: Mini-Nutritional Assessment Tool: Risk and Assessment Scores and Their Correlation to the Incidence of Depression, Presence of Central Obesity, and the Amount of Fat Free Mass in Peoria County Elderly (Faculty Mentor: Dr. Jeannette Davidson)

2nd Place - Katie-Marie Parker: Parent Child Shopping/Behavior (Faculty Mentor: Dr. Chang-Ok Choi)

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Undergraduate / Fine and Performing Arts

1st Place -Justin Koszarek: An Analysis of Mozart's Symphony #29 in A Major, K.201 (Faculty Mentor: Dr. Stephen Heinemann)

2nd Place - Anna Price: Non-Functional Harmony in Mozart's Fantasia in C Minor, K.475 (Faculty Mentor: Dr. Stephen Heinemann)

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Undergraduate / Humanities and Social Sciences

1st Place -Seth Langevin, Tracy Cleveland, Sarah Mancuso, Michael Maida, Hanna Spangler, and Nicole Kasl: The Perception of Age in Human Faces (Faculty Mentor: Dr. Patricia Costello)

2nd Place - Kerrie Armstrong and Brittany Flaherty: Best of the Best? (Faculty Mentor: Dr. Claire Etaugh)

2nd Place - Allison Lee: Cleaning Up Campaign Finance (Faculty Mentors: Dr. Larry Aspin and Dr. William Hall)

2nd Place - Elizabeth Uhl, Maren Anderson, and Rosalinda Barragan: The Development of Inhibitory Control (Faculty Mentor: Dr. Derek Montgomery)

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Undergraduate / Mathematics and Computer Science

1st Place -Jack Sigan: Complex Decision Making with Neural Networks: Learning Chess (Faculty Mentor: Dr. Aleksander Malinowski)

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Click here to view the 2004 Student Research and Creative Acheivement Exhibition Winners

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