5^th Annual Student Research Symposium

April 27, 2005

Medal Winners

Award Studentπs Name Research Title Mentor

Sciences (Undergraduate)

1^st Place Lauren Beezley Environmentally Benign Susuki Mark Arant

Couplings

2^nd. Place Rebel Fornea Regulation of Nematode Diapause by a Chris Gissendanner

Nuclear Receptor Transcription Factor

3^rd. Place Amity Bird Reproductive Ecology of the Smooth Softshell John Carr

Turtle (Apalone Mutica) in Louisiana

Sciences (Graduate) Oral

1^st. Place Janet Gregory Effect of an auditory disturbance on velocity Frank Pezold

utilization and spatial distribution of pallid sturgeon

scaphirhynchus albus in a laboratory experiment

2^nd. Place Amanda D. Carroll The effects of wildlife management practices on Kim Marie Tolson

avifaunal communities

3^rd. Place Jason D. Olszak An inventory of small mammals and breeding birds Kim Marie Tolson

on Bayou Macon Wildlife Management Area

Sciences (Graduate) Poster

1^st. Place Michael Baranski Seasonal abundance of avian species on two wildlife Kim Marie Tolson

management areas in northeast Louisiana

2^nd. Place Shenouda S. Yacoub Central ATP sensitive K+ channels and sulfonylurea David S. Roan

receptors: a potential drug target

Occupational Therapy

1^st. Place April Evans Habits and Routines at School and Home Concerning Angela Franklin

LaTeshia McDade Obesity of Young Children and Adolescents

Emily Brown

Kellie Schulingkamp

2^nd. Place Delisha Smith Perceptions of Quality of Life in Retirement Jessica Dolecheck

Chad Guerrero

Leslie Citizen

Michael Morgan

Education & Human Development

1^st Place Ashley Roberts Modern vs. ballet dance variations in muscle Lisa Colvin

damage levels as measured by myofibril protein

creatine kinase levels

2^nd. Place Prosanna Meenakshi An examination of the behavioral differences in Jack Palmer

Hindu castes

3^rd. Place Davina Bonner The effects of gender on word recall when using Jean Low

different types of mnemonics

Honorable Mention:

Lacinda Norman The effect of the menstraul cycle on athletic Wilson Campbell

Performances in division I softball players

Colleen Speed Perception of being happily married among Wendel Ray

Heterosexual African American married couples

Jennifer Decker A preliminary examination of the relationship Jean Low

Between health identity and health behavior

Business Administration:

1^st. Place Nicoletta Athini Online classes and Blackboard: Weapons for Tammy Parker

Better Education Delivery

2^nd. Place Arif Qayyum Electronic Banking in Finland and the Effect on Tammy Parker

Money Velocity Mike Parker

Arts (poster)

1^st. Place Kainea Jones ≥Faith-Based treatment: A dual analysis of race Robert Hanser

and voluntary participation versus mandatory

participation of clients≤

Arts (platform)

1^st. Place Allison Loftin Mythologizing religion: Benjy Compson as Helen Lock

Modernist Christ Figure

2^nd. Place Patricia Bonner Cuckoldry Mirth and Power: How Behavior Larue Sloan

Defines Women in Shakespeareπs

≥Merry Wives of Windsor≤

3^rd. Place Julia J. Barnhill ≥Looking for something to fix it: An analysis of Turner Steckline

sibling grief across narratives of self film and short

story≤

3^rd Place Katie Rob Ambrose ≥Mother/monster: The role of Ursula Iguaran Helen Lock

Buendia Gabriel Garcia Marquezπs One Hundred

Years of Solutude

Communicative Disorders

1^st. Place Mary Guillot The Hearing Aid Effect: Current Trends Lorra Petit

Angie Hudnall

Holly Frisby

2^nd. Place Duane Trahan University StudentsπPerceptions of Deafness Lorra Pettit

2^nd. Place Martha Knesel Kiley

Pharmacy

Basic Pharmaceutical Sciences (posters)

1^st. Place Ganesh V. Samant Vitamin E Inhibition of Malignant Mammary Paul Sylvester

Epithelial Cell Growth is Mediated Through the

Supression of P13K/PDK/AktMitogenic Signaling

2^nd. Place Shibu Thomas Calcitonin (CT) is a Potent Inducer of Prostate Girish V. Shah

Cancer Cell Proliferation and Tumor Progression

3^rd. Place Ning Li Controlled Release of Dexamethasone from Melgardt M. de Villiers

Microcapsules Produced by Polyelectrolyte

Layer-by-Layer Nanoassembly

Toxicology (posters)

1^st. Place Ankur V. Dnyanmote Role of Diatebes-Induced Advancement of Cell Harihara M. Medhendale

Cycle in Lower Progression of ECVC-Initiated

Renal Injury and Survival

2^nd. Place Vishakha S. Bhave Calpastatin Over-Expression Protects Against Harihara M. Medhendale

Toxicant-Induced Progression of Injury Associated

With Acute Liver Failure in Mice

Pharmacy Administration (poster)

1^st. Place Ravi Iyer Physical Inactivity is Associated with Increased Harvey Rappaport

Healthcare Use and Expenditures in Individuals

With Hypertension

Basic Pharmaceutical Sciences and Toxicology (platform presentations)

1^st. Place Sachin S. Devi Molecular Mechanisms of Inhibited Compensatory Harihara M. Mehendale

Liver Repair upon Thioacetamide Challenge in Type

1 Diabetic Rats

1^st. Place Swapnali S. Sewant Development of Bioative Leads from the Red Sea Khalid A. El Sayed

Soft Coral Sarophyton glaucum Cembranoids

Basic Pharmaceutical Sciences (poster)

1^st. Place Lance A. Miller Calcitonin (CT) Induces Chemoprotective Girish V. Shah

Mechanisms in PC-3M Prostate Cancer Cells

2^nd. Place Ashley Barbo Latrunculins Revisited: New Semisynthetic Khalid El Sayed

Bioactive Latrunculins

2^nd. Place Mark McBride Bioconversion Studies of the Bioactive Marine Khalid El Sayed

Sesterterpene Palinurin