THE COLLEGE OF BASIC AND APPLIED SCIENCES PRESENTS
THE SEVENTH ANNUAL UNDERGRADUATE RESEARCH SYMPOSIUM
APRIL 5, 2002, 3:00 - 5:00 PM

ROOM 322 KEATHLY UNIVERSITY CENTER

 

Poster                                                                  Title/Presenter(s)

1.             A PROBLEM WITH ANTHROPOMORPHIC SOILS-THE GRASS WON’T GROW, A SITE  ASSESSMENT PROBLEM.  J. Busey, L. Henley, T. Hilton, G. Kirven, A. McClintock, C. Moore, J.  Rader, A. Seals, L. Weaver, J. Wiles, A. Willmore, and W. Anderson.  Department of Agribusiness and  Agriscience.

2.             COLOR-RELATED ULTRA VIOLET PROTECTION IN Saccharomyces cervisiae.  Shelly Bouton, Joy Haynes, Jessica May, and Rebecca Seipelt.  Department of Biology.

3.             USING A THREE-HYBRID GENETIC SCREEN TO IDENTIFY snRNA MATURITION PROTEINS.  Zaid Brifkani and Rebecca Seipelt.  Department of Biology.

4.                CHARACTERIZATION OF REOVIRUS REPLICATION IN A HUMAN MONOCYTE CELL LINE.  W.B. Bryant and A. L. Farone.  Department of Biology.

5.             SPECTROSCOPIC AND CHROMATOGRAPHIC ANALYSIS OF CIGARETTE SMOKE.  John Paul Johnson and Ngee-Sing Chong. Department of Chemistry.

6.             AN INTRODUCTION TO INORGANIC MATERIALS RESEARCH.  Joanna Velasquez and Judith M. Iriarte-Gross. Department of Chemistry.

7.                SYNTHESIS AND ANALYSIS OF SELENIUM ALKOXIDES.  Sorawit Timothy Decha-Umphai, and Judith M. Iriarte-Gross.  Department of Chemistry.

8.                SYNTHESIS AND QUANTITATIVE STUDIES OF TELLURIUM SILICATE SOL-GEL MATERIALS.   A PROJECT SEED I RESEARCH SUMMER AT MTSU.  Valencia Smartt, Judith M. Iriarte-Gross, and William Ilsley.  Department of Chemistry.

9.                EVERYTHING YOU EVER WANTED TO KNOW ABOUT WATER BUT WERE AFRAID TO ASK.  Dara Grissom and Dr. Judith Iriarte-Gross.  Department of Chemistry.

10.           A PORTABLE DEMONSTRATION OF VAT DYEING SIMULATED WITH INDIGO CARMINE.  David G. Figueredo and Martin V. Stewart. Department of Chemistry.

11.           A POTENTIALLY LIQUID CRYSTAL DONOR GROUP FOR DONOR-ACCEPTER POLYENE DYES.  Robert W. Tilford and Andrienne C. Friedli.  Department of Chemistry.

12.           ATOMIC FORCE MICROSCOPY (AFM) AS A TOOL FOR GUIDING BIOSENSOR DEVELOPMENT.  Cameron K. Gren and Andrienne C. Friedli.  Department of Chemistry.

13.           SEEKING SYNTHETIC OPALS.  Cynthia R. Allison, Marion R. Wells and Andrienne C. Friedli.  Department of Chemistry.

14.                ASSESSMENT OF USING NEW  TECHNOLOGIES TO TEACH STATISTICS.   Ileah McKee, Leann Hooge and Ginger Holmes Rowell.  Department of Mathematical Sciences.

15.                ASSESSMENT OF GENDER DIFFERENCES IN MTSU STUDENT ATTITUDES ABOUT SCIENCE AND MATH. Students from Math 2050 (Probability and Statistics) AND Math 2110 (Data Analysis) and Ginger Holmes Rowell.  Department of Mathematical Sciences.

16.                ACOUSTIC BAND GAPS AND DEFECT MODES IN PERIODICALLY-STRUCTURED WAVE GUIDES.  J.N. Munday, C. Brad Bennett, and W.M.Robertson.  Department of Physics and Astronomy.

17.    INVESTIGATION OF METAL-DIELECTRIC MULTILAYER AS AN IMPROVED BIOCHEMICAL SENSOR.  C. Brad Bennett, J. N. Munday, and W.M. Robertson.  Department of Physics and Astronomy.

18.           EFFECT OF PHASE ON FAST FOURIER TRANSFORMS WITH APPLICATION TO TIME-SERIES PHOTOMETRY.  Travis Laurance and Eric Klumpe.  Department of Physics and Astronomy.

19.                TODAY’S TECHNOLOGY IMPLEMENTED INTO YESTERDAY’S TRADITION.  Russell White and B.S. Sridhara. Department of Engineering Technology and Industrial Studies.