2011 Participants & Winners

Profiles of some of the participants are available below. The winning posters at 7th annual expo are:

Undergraduate Division

• First Place: Nick Weires (Chemistry)
  Multi Component Clay-Catalyzed Syntheses of Pharmaceutically Relevant Heterocycles
• Second Place: Amanda Williams (Microbiology)
  Phase Variation Anomallies Resulting from Disruption of Hybrid Histidine Kinase Response Regulator hhkY in Myxoccocus xanthus

Graduate Division

• First Place: Yaqun Xie with co-authors Isaiah Gyan and Haoyu (Chemistry)
  Graphene Paper Synthesized by Thermolyzed Asphalt Reaction (TAR)
• Second Place: Roxana Hickey (Bioinformatics & Computational Biology)
  Investigating Diversity and Ecology of Lactobacillus iners in the Vaginal Microbiota

Sigma Xi Scientific Research Society Awards

• Undergraduate: Alexander Peterson (Geography)
  Plant Phenology, Late Spring Freezes, and Climate Change
• Graduate: Megha Karki (Chemistry)
  Aerobic Oxidation Catalyzed by Clay: Rapid Green Synthesis of Heteroaromatic Scaffolds

Geology students investigate geothermal energy potential
Kirk is researching geothermal potential on the east coast. Travis is investigating geothermal potential in the Rio Grande Rift.
» Read more about Kirk's and Travis's projects

Physics graduate student examines tectonic forces on Titan
Casey's research involve the large dark scars on the face of Saturn's moon Titan.
» Read more about Casey's research