2007 Undergraduate Research Day at the Capitol abstracts
Sexual appeal ads and risky behavior
Student: Rachel Bailey
Faculty Mentor: Paul Bolls, journalism
Give a dog a bone: Developing a molecular tool to identify and analyze dystrophic dog satellite cells
Student: Lucas Beffa
Faculty Mentor: Dawn Cornelison, biological sciences
Gasification of biomass in supercritical water to produce fuel gas
Student: Karen Blaha
Faculty Mentor: William Jacoby, chemical engineering
The influence of family and friends on an inmate's pathway to prison
Student: Adam Boessen
Faculty Mentor: Joan Hermsen and Wayne Brekhus, sociology
Does puberty really begin with a KISS?
Student: Sarah Hackman
Faculty Mentor: Cathy Kovarik, veterinary biomedical sciences
Predicting the value of forage fed to cattle
Student: Timothy Hackmann
Faculty Mentor: James Spain, animal sciences
Hydrogen cars from cornfields
Student: Lacy Hardcastle
Faculty Mentor: Peter Pfeifer, physics and astronomy
Blast resisting wall retrofits
Student: Nick Harvey
Faculty Mentor: Hani Salim, civil engineering
Designing a test to determine physical changes in explanted hernia meshes
Student: Philip Kelchen
Faculty Mentor: Sheila Grant, PhD, Biological Engineering
Gasification of biomass in supercritical water to produce fuel gas
Student: Shannon Klaus
Faculty Mentor: William Jacoby, chemical engineering
Making Latin education accessible to all schools
Student: Tiffany Lee
Faculty Mentor: Barbara Wallach, classical studies
Improving telecommunications through semiconductor characterization
Student: Adam Mummert
Faculty Mentor: Gregory Triplett, electrical and computer engineering
Developing new vaccine strategies for newborns
Student: Austin Ostermeier
Faculty Mentor: Habib Zaghouani, molecular microbiology and immunology
Development of tumor-targeting imaging agents for diagnosis of human cancers
Student: Adam Prasanphanich
Faculty Mentor: Charles Smith, radiology
Discovering how the body naturally fights heart disease
Student: Mike Puricelli
Faculty Mentor: Marc Hamilton, biomedical sciences
Improving chemotherapy: Targeting proteins involved in drug resistance
Student: Jean Randall
Faculty Mentor: Stephen Alexander, biological sciences
Exposure to everyday chemicals early in life may alter the immune system and promote endometriosis in adulthood
Student: Jake Redel
Faculty Mentor: Susan Nagel
Developmental exposure to synthetic estrogen increases cell division in endometriosis
Student: Amy Schroder
Faculty Mentor: Susan Nagel
Developing new approaches for resistance to soybean cyst nematode: The number one pathogen of soybean
Student: Dante Smith
Faculty Mentor: Melissa Goellner-Mitchum, plant sciences
Improving the power of energetic materials with nano-technology
Student: Daniel Tappmeyer
Faculty Mentor: Shubhra Gangopadhyay, electrical and computer engineering