42nd Annual WKU Student Research Conference Session Winners
March 24, 2012
Graduate Students
Damian Wirth, Masters of Business Administration Program
Best Graduate Business/Interdisciplinary Paper, Session 1
Extended Drive-Thru Staffing (Dr. Zubair Mohamed)
Wesley Waddle, Department of Educational Administration, Leadership, and Research
Best Graduate Paper in the Social Sciences/Services, Session 2
An Analysis of Factors Impacting K-12 Technology-Infused Lesson Design (Dr. William Schlinker)
Gilman Ouellette, Department of Geography and Geology
Best Graduate Paper in the Natural Sciences, Session 3
Paleohydrology and Climate Change in the Eastern Caribbean from Barbadian Speleothems (Dr. Jason Polk)
Amanda Campbell, Department of Biology
Best Graduate Paper in the Natural Sciences, Session 4
Tracing the Evolution of Telomerase for an Ancestral Precursor to Define and Suggest Cancer Therapeutics (Dr. Chandrakanth Emani)
Chandra Pranav, Department of Biology
Best Graduate Paper in the Natural Sciences, Session 5
Effect of Coconut Oil (Cocos nucifera) on Ulcerative Colitis in a Mouse Model (Dr. Nilesh Sharma)
Linda Baizel, Department of Geography and Geology
Best Graduate Paper in the Natural Sciences, Session 6
Use of the Handheld Gamma-Ray Scintillometer for Correlation of Outcrops and Subsurface Mississippian and Pennsylvanian Rocks of Northern Warren County, Kentucky (Dr. Michael May)
Andrea Toll, Department of Chemistry
Best Graduate Paper in the Natural Sciences, Session 7
Racemization of Amino Acids in Teeth for the Determination of Age (Dr. Darwin Dahl)
Gopinath Rajadinakaran, Department of Biology
Best Graduate Paper in the Natural Sciences, Session 8
Cell Proliferation and Apoptotic Pathways Regulated in Zebrafish Auditory Hair Cell Regeneration Using Next Generation Sequencing (Dr. Michael Smith)
Rachel Hopkin, Department of Folk Studies and Anthropology
Best Graduate Paper in the Humanities, Session 9
The Bottle Artist (Dr. Tim Evans)
Mitchell Gaines, Department of Geography and Geology
Best Graduate Paper in the Natural Sciences, Session 10
WRF Modeling of the January 29th and 30th 2008 Ohio Valley Squall Line (Dr. Rezaul Mahmood)
Rebecca Wilson, Department of Folk Studies and Anthropology
Best Graduate Paper in the Humanities, Session 11
Miracle on Any Street (Dr. Ann Ferrell)
Amanda Seaton, Department of Biology
Best Graduate Poster in the Natural Sciences, Session 1
Defining the Essential Components of Bacteriophage HK639 Early Gene Expression (Dr. Rodney King)
Begum Fouzia, Department of Chemistry
Best Graduate Poster in the Natural Sciences, Session 2
Calcium and Rubidium Based Metal Organic Frameworks (Dr. Bangbo Yan)
Lauren Weathers, Department of Psychology
Best Graduate Poster in the Social Sciences/Services, Session 3
Attention, Support, and Face-to-Face Self-Disclosure as Predictors of Self-Disclosure on Facebook (Dr. Pitt Derryberry)
Josh Moncrief, Department of Psychology
Best Graduate Poster in the Social Sciences/Services, Session 4
Thinking of Home and the Effects of Willpower (Dr. Aaron Wichman)
Undergraduate Students
Jessica Williams, Department of Theatre and Dance
Best Undergraduate Performance in the Humanities, Session 1 [tie]
Rhythm of My Sole (Prof. Amanda Clark)
Kyle MacDonald, Department of Music
Best Undergraduate Performance in the Humanities, Session 1 [tie]
Olympia, a Musical Composition for Wind Ensemble (Dr. Michael Kallstrom)
Victoria Gilkison, Department of Biology
Best Undergraduate Paper in the Natural Sciences, Session 1
Stable Isotopic Analysis of the Upper Green River in Hart County, Kentucky (Dr. Albert Meier)
Leah Frazier, Department of Biology
Best Undergraduate Paper in the Natural Sciences, Session 2
Stimulation of Cell Migration in Corneal Endothelial Cells (Dr. Ken Crawford)
Ashley Coulter, Department of English
Best Undergraduate Paper in the Humanities, Session 3
Pale in Comparison: Dissent within Alice Walker's In Search of Our Mothers' Gardens (Dr. Sandra Hughes)
Cody Nimmo, Department of Art
Best Undergraduate Paper in the Humanities, Session 4
Change: Altering How We Perceive an Environment through Sculpture (Prof. David Marquez)
John “Jack” LeSieur, Department of Folk Studies and Anthropology
Best Undergraduate Paper in the Social Sciences/Services, Session 5
Cultural Resources at Kyrock, Kentucky: An Initial Assessment (Dr. Darlene Applegate)
Brenna Tinsley, Department of Biology
Best Undergraduate Paper in the Natural Sciences, Session 6
The Ecological Roles of Podostemum ceratophyllum and Cladophora in the Habitat and Dietary Preferences of the Riverine Caddisfly Hydropsyche simulans (Dr. Scott Grubbs)
Rebecca Crouch, Department of Mathematics and Computer Science
Best Undergraduate Paper in the Natural Sciences, Session 7
Chutes and Ladders with Markov Chains (Dr. Melanie Autin)
Shelby Rader, Department of Geography and Geology
Best Undergraduate Paper in the Natural Sciences, Session 8
Ion Selectivity Studies on Umbite (Dr. Aaron Celestian)
Anne Walsh, Department of Art
Best Undergraduate Paper in the Humanities, Session 9
Call Me Ishmael? The Subject of Jackson Pollock’s Portrait of H.M. (Dr. Guy Jordan)
Nathan Bishop, Department of History
Best Undergraduate Paper in the Humanities, Session 10
Willis v. Walker: Good Faith Alone Is Not the Test (Dr. Patricia Minter)
Taylor Sang, Department of English
Best Undergraduate Paper in the Humanities, Session 11
Crusader for Transparency (Dr. Sandra Hughes)
Armando Sanchez, Department of Interdisciplinary Studies
Best Undergraduate Interdisciplinary Paper, Session 12
Truth and Photography (Dr. Sara Northerner)
Shelby Overstreet, Department of Psychology
Best Undergraduate Paper in the Social Sciences/Services, Session 13
STEM Career Switchers: Why Education? (Dr. Lisa Duffin)
Steven Calhoun, Department of Chemistry
Best Undergraduate Paper in the Natural Sciences, Session 14
Synthesis, Structure, and Characterization of Two Polyoxometalate-Photosensitizer Hybrid Materials (Dr. Bangbo Yan)
Henry Uradu, Department of Biology
Best Undergraduate Paper in the Natural Sciences, Session 15
The Winter-Active Dung Beetle Fauna of a Costa Rican Cloud Forest (Dr. Keith Phillips)
Jarrod Connally, Department of Economics
Best Undergraduate Business/Interdisciplinary Poster, Session 1
Managerial Turnover in the English Premiership and the Subsequent Results (Dr. Dennis Wilson)
Ann-Alan Callahan and Paige Roberts, Department of Consumer and Family Sciences
Best Undergraduate Poster in the Humanities, Session 2
Beading 'til They're Cured (Ms. Sheila Flener)
Jesse Hazel, Department of Art
Best Undergraduate Poster in the Humanities, Session 3
Humbling (Prof. Laurin Notheisen)
Wesley Miller, Department of Art
Best Undergraduate Poster in the Humanities, Session 4
Secular Nativity in Print – Exploring Origin (Prof. Laurin Notheisen)
Akhil Ghanta, Department of Physics and Astronomy
Best Undergraduate Poster in the Natural Sciences, Session 5
Dynamical Field Equations That Couple a Morris-Thorne Wormhole to an Expanding Cosmology (Dr. Keith Andrew)
Elizabeth Gatten, Department of Biology
Best Undergraduate Poster in the Natural Sciences, Session 6
Isolation and Characterization of Bacteriophage Magnolia (Dr. Rodney King)
Cynthia Tope, Department of Chemistry
Best Undergraduate Poster in the Natural Sciences, Session 7 [tie]
Reactions of the Amino Acid Cysteine with Analogs of the Anticancer Drug Cisplatin (Dr. Kevin Williams)
Lori Lovell, Department of Biology
Best Undergraduate Poster in the Natural Sciences, Session 7 [tie]
Land Use and E. Coli / Fecal Coliform Violations in the Upper Green Watershed (Dr. Ouida Meier)
David Brown, Department of Chemistry
Best Undergraduate Poster in the Natural Sciences, Session 8
Novel Î-Conjugated Organic Macromolecules for Electronic Devices (Dr. Hemali Rathnayake)
Andrea Eastes, Department of Biology
Best Undergraduate Poster in the Natural Sciences, Session 9
Nitric Oxide Synthase 3 Gene Regulation in Pulmonary Myofibroblasts (Dr. Nancy Rice)
Charles Coomer, Department of Biology
Best Undergraduate Poster in the Natural Sciences, Session 10
Bacteriophage Classification Via PCR Analysis: An Alternative to Complete Genome Sequencing (Dr. Rodney King)
Brittany Crowley, Department of Psychology
Best Undergraduate Poster in the Social Sciences/Services, Session 11
Examination of Self-Regulation Constructs as Explanatory Variables for Attendance and Performance (Dr. Steven Wininger)
Cortney Scott, Department of Agriculture
Best Undergraduate Poster in the Social Sciences/Services, Session 12
Student Influences to Become an Agriculture Major at Western Kentucky University (Prof. Thomas Kingery)
Kristin Wallace, Department of Consumer and Family Sciences
Best Undergraduate Poster in the Social Sciences/Services, Session 13
Sephora: Men: A Pop-up Marketing Concept (Ms. Kristina Goff)
Caitlin Reyes, Department of Modern Languages
Best Undergraduate Poster in the Social Sciences/Services, Session 14
Hispanic Outreach in Bowling Green, Kentucky: Defining the Needs of the Hispanic Community (Dr. Sonia Lenk)