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April 25, 2002

ULM Awards Students At Syposium

The University of Louisiana at Monroe awarded students at the 2nd Annual Student Research Symposium held on Monday, April 22, 2002 at 4:00 p.m. at the ULM Conference Center on the 7th Floor of the ULM Library.

COLLEGE OF ALLIED HEALTH AND REHABILITATION PROFESSIONS

Graduate Winners

1st Place: Laurie Hanson, Jennifer Hodge and Lacey Lewis--"Nursing Students' Knowledge of Speech-Language Pathologists' Roles in Hospitals"--Dean David Irwin, mentor.

2nd Place: Tommie Rasor, Summer Sewell and Tobi Denyer--"Teacher Awareness of CAPD and its Relationship to ADHD"-Dean David Irwin, mentor.

3rd Place: Wendy Matherne, Sejal Patel and Stephanie Pieroni--"Children's Self-Perceptions of Their Stuttering While Receiving Therapy"--Dean David Irwin, mentor.

Undergraduate Winners

Jessica Patrick, Virginia Woodall and Julie Strozier--"Evaluating Client and Caregiver Perceptions of the Use of the Client-Centered Approach at The University of Louisiana at Monroe Occupational Therapy Clinics"--Jessica Dolecheck, mentor.

COLLEGE OF EDUCATION AND HUMAN DEVELOPMENT

Graduate Winners

1st Place: Chris Meyers, Lindsey Stafford, Krista Hauglie and Mica Senn--"Effects of Different Forms of Cryotherapy Followed by Static Stretching of the Hamstring to Determine Hamstring Flexibility"--Dr. Chris Washam, mentor.

2nd Place: Danny Nevala--"Cognitive Incubation: Are Spreading-Activation and Fixation-Forgetting Viable Hypotheses"--Dr. Joe
McGahan, mentor.

3rd Place: Sara Lindsey and Tonja Fillippino--"The Effects of Poverty, Ethnicity, and Special Education Status on School Performance Scores"--Dr. Carolyn Minder, mentor.

COLLEGE OF LIBERAL ARTS

Graduate Winners

1st Place: Rick Capezza--" 'What's Love Got To Do With It?' Milton's Rule of Charity: The Hazy Hermeneutic of Doctrine and Discipline of Divorce"--Dr. Julia Guernsey-Shaw, mentor.

2nd Place: Courtney Huntington--"Cultural Permanence: Meaning in Stone"--Dr. Jeff Galle, mentor.

3rd Place (tie): Kevin Oliver--"Emerson's Transcendentalism and the Stoic Tradition"--Dr. Helen Lock, mentor.

3rd Place (tie): Gerald A. Miller--"Humbert's Own Search for Lost Time: Vladimir Nabokov's Lolita as a Late Modernist Novel"--Dr. Helen Lock, mentor.

COLLEGE OF PHARMACY

Graduate Winners

1st Place: Sumit Shah--"Caspase-8 Pathway Mediaes the Apoptotic Effects of Tocotrienols on Neoplastic (+SA) Mouse Mammary Epithelial Cells"--Dr. Paul Sylvester, mentor.

2nd Place: Ankur Dnyamote--"Streptozotocin (STZ)-Induced Diabetic Mice are Protected from S-Dichlorovinyl-L-Cysteine (DCVC)-Induced Acute Renal Failure and Mortality--Dr. Harihara Mehendale, mentor.

3rd Place: Jerry Nesamony--"Microemulsion Formulations and Size Characterization by Dynamic Laser Light Scattering"--Dr.William M. Kolling, mentor.

COLLEGE OF PURE AND APPLIED SCIENCES

Graduate Winners

1st Place (tie): Ronak Rughani--"Chemical Behavior of Substituted Anthracenes"--Dr. Mark Arant, mentor.

1st Place (tie): Cynthia Doffitt and Joy M. Holt--"Early Carbohydrate Metabolism and Aerobic Enzyme Analysis of Spraguea Iophii (Microsporidia)"--Dr. Ann Findley, mentor.

3rd Place:--Nadi Wickramasekera, Mary Lazarus and Rachel Scott--"Importance of Collagenase and Calpane as Predictors of Tenderness in Beef Cattle"--Dr. Ann Findley, mentor.

Undergraduate Winners

1st Place: Matt Williams--"Preparations and Analyses of Naphtho[r,s,t]pentaphene Derivatives"--Dr. Mark Arant, mentor.

2nd Place: Brian Lawton and Melanie Tucker--"Molecular Analysis of Heterozygosity and MHC Variation in the Wild Turkey"--Dr.
Ann Findley, mentor.

3rd Place: Greta J. Saunders--"Age and Growth of Crappies in Lake D'Arbonne"--Dr. Peter Aku, mentor.

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