Congratulations to the 2006 Student Scholarship Exposition Award Winners!

College of Liberal Arts and Sciences
Biology
1st Place: Kaylee M. Rosenbaum
Rodent Brain Neurotrophic Factors are Altered by Cocaine/Hypoxic Exposure
Faculty Mentor: Dr. Erich K. Stabenau

2nd Place: Ashlyn Borges
Nutrient dynamic differences in former wetland soils following 80+ years of agriculture
Faculty Mentors: Dr. Sherry Morris and Dr. Kelly McConnaughay

Humanities & Social Sciences (1st place tie)
1st Place: April Bailye
Why Is There A Shortage Of Foster Parents?
Faculty Mentor: Dr. Nancy Amos

1st Place: Melissa A. Carter
19th Century Romantic Racialism in Harriet Beecher Stowe’s Uncle Tom’s Cabin
Faculty Mentor: Dr. Peter Dusenbery

2nd Place: Sarah M. Brooks
Negro Spirituals: Their Origins and Their Development
Faculty Mentor: Peter F. Dusenbery

Physical Sciences
1st Place: John R. Ludeman
The acidic resin catalyzed dehydration of alcohols
Faculty Mentor: Dr. Kurt W. Field

2nd Place: David Baudo and Jessica Gereg
A New Method of Synthesizing 5-aryl-3-oxo-d-lactone
Faculty Mentor: Dr. Brad Andersh

Psychological Sciences
1st Place: Austin Chapman and Andrea Schoch
Secondary Task Measures of Workload Imposed by a Supervisory Monitoring Task
Faculty Mentor: Dr. DeMaris Montgomery

2nd Place: Anthony Vuckovich, Heather Wilcoxen, Shyla Williamson and Kara Witz
The influence of college major on health behaviors of undergraduate students
Faculty Mentor: Dr. Marjorie Getz

LAS Graduate
College Winner: Anna J. Abts and Kimberly A. Lang
Intergenerational Differences in Defensive Chemical Production in Alliaria petiolata
Faculty Mentors: Dr. Sherri J. Morris and Dr. Kelly D. McConnaughay

College of Education and Health Sciences
Family and Consumer Sciences
1st Place: Lisa Esposito
Food Attitudes and Physical Dimension of Middle School Students
Faculty Mentor: Dr. Jeanette Davidson

2nd Place: Laura Thompson, Jonathan Scott, Heather Herbst, Lisa Esposito, and Katie Fedota
Evaluating Sensory Characteristics of Fruits and Vegetables Using Various Cookware
Faculty Mentors: Dr. Nina Collins and Dr. Alexey Sverdlin

Health Sciences
1st Place: Kacy Firmand
The influence of obesity on motor performance in school children aged 6-7
Faculty Mentor: Dr. Stacie Bertram

2nd Place: Becky Lawrence and Heather Wilcoxen
The Relationship Between Hypermobility Syndrome and Orthopedic Injuries in College-Aged Females
Faculty Mentor: Dr. Rob Bertram

EHS Graduate
College Winner: Kathleen Meranda
Exploration of Outcomes in Infants Diagnosed with Idiopathic Hypotonia
Faculty Mentor: Dr. Andrew Strubhar

College of Engineering and Technology
Electrical and Computer Engineering
1st Place: Josh Mason and Bader Al-Kandari
Synchronization in Digital Communication
Faculty Mentors: Dr. In Soo Ahn and Dr. Thomas Stewart

2nd Place: Stephanie Luft
Self-Mapping Mobile Robot
Faculty Mentor: Aleksander Malinowski

Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering and Technology
1st Place: Anna Louise J. Book
Cooking with Cast Iron
Faculty Mentor: Dr. Alexey Sverdlin

2nd Place: Adam Costello, Khanh Trinh, Laura Thompson, Jonathon Scott, Heather Herbst, Lisa Esposito, and Katie Fedota
Characteristics of Cookware Materials
Faculty Mentors: Dr. Alexey Sverdlin and Dr. Nina Collins

Mechanical Engineering
1st Place: Jeff Hohlfeldt
Powdered Metal and its Applications
Faculty Mentor: Dr. Alexey Sverdlin

Graduate Engineering
Award Winner: Peter Petrany
Quantization Techniques of the Myocardium in Myocardial Perfusion Studies: A Precurser to Motion Correction
Faculty Mentors: Dr. John Engdahl and Dr. Thomas Stewart

Slane College of Communications and Fine Arts
Communications
1st Place: Mya Weisz, Holly Maenhout, and Monica Rutkowski
Mackinaw Valley Vineyard 2006 PR Campaign
Faculty Mentor: Dr. Michael Thurwanger

2nd Place: Paige Morrill and Matt Parrilli
The Effectiveness of Internet Advertising
Faculty Mentor: Dr. Margaret Young

Fine and Performing Arts (2nd Place tie)
1st Place: Stephen Heroux
Requiem
Faculty Mentor: Dr. Martha Craig

2nd Place: Jeremy Bell
Speak – an a capella work
Faculty Mentor: Dr. Heinemann

2nd Place: Anna Price
Motivic Development in Schoenberg’s Drei Klavierstücke, Op. 11, No. 2
Faculty Mentor: Dr. Stephen Heinemann

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