Twelfth Annual Student Research Symposium

Tuesday, April 26, 2011

Program Schedule

Student Research

Session 2
Pendergraft Library

Presenter	Mentor	Title	Time

Whitney Hardin	Ivan H. Still	Analysis of candidate factors involved in TACC2s arrested myogenic differentiation	9:00 - 9:15
Nikki Jean Scott	Cynthia Jacobs	Examining Non-Western Medicine: Comparing the Effect of Acupuncture on Change in Salivary Cortisol Levels in the Dog between a Control Treatment, Acupuncture Treatment, and Sham Treatment	9:15 - 9:30
Jaehwan J. Lee	Anwar A. Bhuiyan	SYNTHESIS AND CHARACTERIZATION OF RUTHENIUM COMPLEX CONTAINING PHENANTHROLINE AND CHLORO-PHENANTHROLINE	9:30 - 9:45
Sim M. Barrow	Tom Nupp	EFFECTS OF CLIMATE CHANGE ON WINTER ROOSTING ECOLOGY OF EASTERN RED BATS, LASIURUS BOREALIS	9:45 - 10:00
Elliott Bell	Bruce Tedford	Chronic Toxicity of Diuron on Daphnia Magna	10:00 - 10:15
Devon Terrell	Molly Brant and Alvin Williams	Price Comparison of Ozark, Ola, and Conway livestock auctions for 5-6 weight, large, number 1 steers and heifers	10:15 - 10:30
Brannon Broadfoot and Heather Dollar	Tsunemi Yamashita	Scorpion Toxin Gene Variability Among Populations	10:30 - 10:45
Kyle Shepherd	Franklin D. Hardcastle	ELECTROPHORETIC DEPOSITION OF TITANIA FILMS	10:45 - 11:00
William Childs	Mostafa Hemmati	FLUID EQUATIONS FOR CURRENT BEARING ELECTRON SHOCK WAVES	11:00 - 11:15
Dacen Waters	Mostafa Hemmati	BOUNDARY CONDITIONS FOR CURRENT BEARING ELECTRON SHOCK WAVES	11:15 - 11:30
Amber Acord	Scott Kirkconnell	EFFECTIVENESS OF NEUROSCIENCE FINDINGS FOR ENHANCING ACADEMIC PERFORMANCE	11:30 - 11:45
Jacob C. Smith	Ronald J. Tackett	Simulation of Powder X-Ray Diffraction using a Polycrystalline Film of Spherical Colloids	11:45 - 12:00
LUNCH BREAK			12:00 - 1:00
Charlette Felton and Francis Poole	Charles Mebi	Synthesis and Photochemistry of a water-soluble Ruthenium Nitrosyl Complex	1:00 - 1:15
Andrew Williams Derek Karr and Ruixiao Gao	Charles Mebi	Iron-Clusters Containing Electroactive Groups	1:15 - 1:30
Joshua Trujillo and Britney Rosenthal	Charles Mebi	Tuning the Electrocatalytic Properties of Diiron Complexes	1:30 - 1:45
David Mangus	Carlos L. Castillo	OBSTACLE AVOIDANCE ALGORITHMS	1:45 - 2:00
Sam Stanage	Jim Steuber	SYNERGISTIC MODELING OF METALLIC FOAMS	2:00 - 2:15
Marvin W. Suggs	Patricia S. Buford	THE GEOLOGICAL AND CLIMATE HISTORY ON MARS	2:15 - 2:30
Chenoa Houle and James Smylie	Hamed Shojaei	A MODEL OF INTERACTING DARK ENERGY MODELS TO EXPLAIN THE COSMIC COINCIDENCE PROBLEM	2:30 - 2:45
Michael Massery, Charlotte Moore and Stuart Zurga	Carlos Castillo	HUMAN MOTION CAPTURE SYSTEM	2:45 - 3:00
			3:00 - 3:15

Twelfth Annual Senior Honors Symposium

Program Schedule
Senior Honors
Tuesday, April 26, 2011

Session 1 - Pendergraft Library 300 North

Time	Presenter	Title	Project Director

9:00 – 9:15	Caitlin Harris	Manuel Gutiérrez Nájera: Style, Lyricism, and Translation	Dr. Cory Shaman, English
9:20 – 9:35	Alanna Brooke Corbitt	Corporate Social Responsibility	Dr. Sherman Alexander, Accounting/Economics
9:40 – 9:55	Nathan Williamson	Head Injuries and Heat Illnesses in College Athletics	Ms. Noma Kellner, Biological Sciences
10:00 –10:15	James Roberts	Inquiry and Field Experiences in Science Education	Dr. Jackie Bowman, Biological Sciences
10:20 – 10:35	Erica Kaufman Roberts	The New Madrid Earthquake: The Force that Shook Arkansas	Dr. Diane Gleason, History/Political Science
10:40 – 10:55	Erin Taylor	No Pet Left Behind: A Business Plan for a Doggy Daycare	Dr. Pam Carr, Accounting/Economics
11:00 – 11:15	Heath Gober	Music for the Eye: Representing Music Visually	Mr. Neal Harrington, Art
11:20 – 11:35	Amber Acord	Effectiveness of Neuroscience Findings for Enhancing Academic Performance	Dr. Scott Kirkconnell, Biological Sciences
11:40 – 11:55	Chris Buehler	Bringing Down the House: An Analysis of the CIA’s Role in the Overthrow of the Cuban, Vietnamese, and Chilean Governments	Dr. Jeff Woods, History/Political Science
12:00 -- 1:00	Lunch Break
1:00 -- 1:15	Amos Gregory	Travels of Abraham O Smoot: Reactions to a Southern Latter-Day Saint Missionary 1836-1842	Dr. Carey Roberts, History/Political Science
1:20 -- 1:35	Jeffrey Mumert	Efficiently Reconfiguring the PC² System for Use with the ACM International Collegiate Programming Contest	Dr. David Hoelzeman, Computer/Information Science
1:40 -- 1:55	John Thurman	Stretchable Electronics: A Survey	Dr. Florian Misoc, Electrical Engineering
2:00 -- 2:15	Kent Butler	Rhetorically Speaking: Archetypal Metaphor in the Boston Tea Party and Tea Party Movement	Dr. Thomas Vaughn, Speech, Theatre, Journalism
2:20 -- 2:35	Samantha Hurley	Art Therapy: Should it be Standard?	Dr. Cathy Caldwell, Art
2:40 -- 2:55	Nicole McElhaney	Quapaw: From Allies to Aliens	Dr. Diane Gleason, History/Political Science