Presentations

Caleb Shannon, Music Performance
DuoKratos Saxophone Recital
Mentor: Leo Saguiguit, PhD, Music

Chad Tucker, Music Performance
DuoKratos Saxophone Recital
Mentor: Leo Saguiguit, PhD, Music

Nathan Moore, Interior Design
Personal Learning Environments of Students in Wireless Coffee Shops
Mentor: Newton D'souza, PhD, Architectural Studies

Various students, Communication Science & Disorders
Ten students presented their research at the Missouri Speech & Hearing Association convention in Osage Beach, MO; April 2012.
Mentor: Teresa Lever, PhD, Communication Science & Disorders

Christian Friedman, Political Science/German Studies
The Cycle of Protest in Egypt: A Quantitative Assessment
Mentor: Moises Arce, PhD, Political Science

Meredith Hayford, Journalism
Road Kill: The Impact of Aversive Highway Safety Videos on Message Processing
Mentor: Paul Bolls, PhD, Journalism

Brittani Bungart, Biological Engineering
Nanoparticle-emitted Light on Alzheimer's Disease-Related Pathways
Mentor: James Lee, PhD, Biological Engineering

Nathan Thompson, Biological Sciences
Dynamic adjustment of pulse rate in a katydid(Neoconocephalus ensiger)
Mentor: Johannes Schul, PhD, Biological Sciences

Curtis Atkisson, Psychology/Anthroplogy
Exploring the analogy between horizontal gene transfer and cultural information exchange
Mentor: Johannes Schul, PhD, Biological Sciences

David deRoode, Biologlical Sciences
Acute Effects of Alcohol on Cirdadian Genes in the Rat Brain
Mentor: Mahesh Thakkar, PhD, Neurology

Steve Douglas, Nutritional Sciences
The effects of low, moderate, or high protein yogurt snacks on appetite control and subsequent eating in healthy women
Mentor: Heather Leidy, PhD, Nutrition & Exercise Physiology

Kelly Stromsdorfer, Nutritional Sciences
Metabolic comparison of weight matched obese male and female mice
Mentor: James Perfield, PhD, Nutrition & Exercise Physiology

Michael Matson, Biological Sciences
Environmentally produced polyploid cells in primary root tips
Mentor: James Birchler, PhD, Biological Sciences

Various students, Theatre
24 Mizzou Theatre undergraduates attended the Region V Kennedy Center American College Theatre Festival to participate in the Irene Ryan Acting Scholarship in January 2012.
Mentor: David Crespy, PhD, Theatre

Cortaiga Gant, English/Biological Sciences
Alligators near and far: using the Maps in Medicine: Inside Alligators high school workshop and 3D Alligator website as education tools in anatomy and evolution
Mentor: Casey Holliday, PhD, Pathology & Anatomical Sciences

Amanda Prasuhn, Biological Sciences
Inference of phylogenetic interrelationships of African elepants (Loxodonta africana) using nuclear introns
Mentor: Lori Eggert, PhD, Biological Sciences

Luke Pauley, Fisheries & Wildlife
Effects of predation and commercial mosquito insecticides on the gray treefrog tadpoles
Mentor: Ray Semlitsch, PhD, Biological Sciences

Emily Rigden, Biochemistry
The Pattern of Peri-Ovulatory Ovarian Thecal Cell TIMP-1 Protein Localization, but not TIMP-1 mRNA levels, in a Rat Model for Endometriosis Differs Significantly from Controls: a Mechanism for Reduced Ovulation in Endometriosis?
Mentor: Kathy Timms, PhD, OB Gyn/Women's Health

Hayley Esther, English
Reviving Ophelia, Rejecting Juliet: Rewriting the Heroines in Young Adult Novelizations of Shakespeare
Mentor: Sarah Barber, PhD, English

Lauren Norton, English
Deadly Sensations: The Femme Fatale in "Lady Audley's Secret" and Victorian Newspapers
Mentor: Nancy West, PhD, English

Curtis Atkisson, Anthropology & Psychology
How do kin impact reproduction? A comparison of kin support and kin influence models
Mentor: Mary Shenk, PhD, Anthropology

Various students, Theatre
Fourteen Mizzou Theatre undergraduates attended the Region V Kennedy Center American College Theatre Festival to participate in the Irene Ryan Acting Scholarship in Spring 2011.
Mentor: David Crespy, PhD, Theatre

Julia Hartman, English
Estradiol modulates GnRH mRNA expression in isolated neurons from young, but not aged, mice
Mentor: M. Cathleen Kuehl-Kovarik, PhD, Biomedical Sciences

Arwa Mohammad, Biological Sciences
Green tea epigallocatechin-3-gallate (EGCG) inhibits cytokine-insuced nitric oxide and sPLA2-IIA in glial cells
Mentor: Grace Sun, PhD, Biochemistry

Adam Drewery, Electrical Engineering
Photorefractive Two-Wave Mixing for Adaptive Coherence Domain Detections
Mentor: Ping Yu, Physics

Christine O'Brien, Biological Engineering
Detection and capture of single circulating melanoma cells using photoacoustic flowmetry
Mentor: John Viator, PhD, Biological Engineering

Ben Christ, Spanish/Fisheries & Wildlife
Testing for extra-pair paternity in Bell's Vireos (Vireo bellii bellii) across multiple habitats within central Missouri
Mentor: John Faaborg, PhD, Biological Sciences

Emily Tewes, Environmental Science
Investigating seasonal fluctuations in nest success of the Acadian Flycatcher (Empidonax Virescens)
Mentor: John Faaborg, PhD, Biological Sciences

John Matera, Biochemistry
Changes in mitochondrial genomes associated with reversions of S-type cytoplasmic male serility in maize
Mentor: Kathy Newton, PhD, Biological Sciences

Lauren Hediger, Biological Sciences
The neuroethology of bat detection in complex auditory scenes
Mentor: Johannes Schul, PhD, Biological Sciences

Arooj Mohsin, Biological Sciences
Sexual dimorphism of directional hearing in a katydid with duetting communication
Mentor: Johannes Schul, PhD, Biological Sciences

Samantha Warren, Math
The Pearls of Swine Flu: The structural and sequence evolution of H1N1 proteome
Mentor: Dmitry Korkin, PhD, Informatics Institute & Computer Science

Nathan Bruning, Department of Psychological Sciences
Emotion regulation styles and the process of emotional images: An ERP investigation
Mentor: Bruce Bartholow, PhD, Department of Psychological Sciences

Mandy Watkins, Department of Religious Studies
Magic, religion, and disdain after the Thirty Years War
Mentor: Rabia Gregory, Department of Religious Studies

Christopher Kirkendall, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Liquid damping isolation on quartz crystal microbalance for effective preservation of high quality factor and sensitivity in liquid
Mentor: Jae Wan Kwon, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering

Denise Warzak, Animal Sciences

Mentor: Cheryl Rosenfeld, Life Science Center

Alexander Lohman, Biochemistry

Mentor: William Fay, PhD, Biochemistry

Si Yol Yi, Biological Sciences

Mentor: Carl H. Gerhardt, PhD, Biological Sciences

Mitch Tucker, Biological Sciences

Mentor: Carl H. Gerhardt, PhD, Biological Sciences

Curtis Atkisson, Psychology

Mentor: Mary Shenk, PhD, Anthropology

Stephen Messenger,

Mentor: Angela Speck, PhD, Department of Physics

Amanda McCambridge,

Mentor: Charlotte Phillips, PhD, Biochemistry

Emily Ryan, Biological Sciences
Novel inhibition mechanism and potent antiviral activity of Translocation-Deficient Reverse Transcriptase Inhibitors
Travel funding provided by MU Undergraduate Research Travel Grant
Mentor: Stefan Sarafianos, PhD, Molecular Microbiology and Immunology

Miriam Galenas, Geological Sciences

Mentor: Alan Whittington, PhD, Geological Sciences

Katherine Smith, Music

Mentor: Judith Mabary, PhD, School of Music

Satchel Gaddie, Soil, Environmental & Atmospheric Sciences

Mentor: Peter Motavalli, PhD, Soil, Environmental & Atmospheric Sciences

Jason Smyth,

Mentor: Walter Wehtje, PhD, Fisheries & Wildlife Sciences

David Aguayo,

Mentor: Keith Herman, PhD, Education, School and Counseling Psychology

Michelle Clark, Communication Science and Disorders

Mentor: Judith Goodman, PhD, Communication Science and Disorders

Daniel Tappmeyer,

Mentor: Shubra Gangopadhyay, PhD, Electrical and Computer Engineering

Jesca Geary,

Mentor: Barbara Wallach, PhD, Classical Studies

Meghan Mercier, Political Science
Public perceptions of the environment: The role of mass media
Mentor: David A. Konisky, PhD, Truman School of Public Affairs

Various students, Theatre
Three Mizzou theatre undergraduates attended the Region V Kennedy Center American College Theatre Festival to participate in the Irene Ryan Acting Scholarship in Omaha, Neb., Spring 2008.
Travel funding provided by MU Undergraduate Research Travel Award
Mentor: David Crespy, PhD, Theatre