Fifth
Annual University Undergraduate Research Symposium
April 21st & 22nd
Auburn University
Program
April
21st
5:00 pm Appetizer Reception with Concurrent Poster
Session
5:30 pm Welcome Dr. Ralph Zee – Associate
Provost and Vice President for Research
5:45 pm Alumna Speaker – Jennifer
Wilder ‘07 - "What Chemical Process Integration
Taught Me About People"
6:15
pm– 8:30pm CONCURRENT SESSIONS
Session
A (Room 2217)
6:15
Alicia Hoover - Survey of iPod Listening Habits
and Attitudes
6:30 Lauren Adams - Cognitive and Clinical
Approaches to Personality Characteristics
6:45 Laura Armstrong - Tagatose as a Potential
Flavor Enhancer in Bakery Products
7:00 Kimberly Cline - Ozone and Nitrogen
Deposition Effects on Nutritive Quality of a Species- Rich
Subalpine Grassland
7:15 Brandon Wentworth - Buyer Beware:
Alexis de Tocqueville's Warning and Consumer Culture
7:30 Bennett Marshall - Brownian Motion
of Germanium Nanowires
7:45 Zachary Simpson - Intelligent Material
for Biomolecular Diagnostics
8:00 Sarah Teague - Effect of Individual
Differences on Willingness and Ability to Fake Responses
on Personality Inventories
Session
B (Room 1224)
6:15
Joanna Lianos - The Role of Conserved Amino Acids
in Cysteine Dioxygenase (CDO)
6:30 Jessica Davis - Curcumin (Curcuma
Longa, L.,) Downregulates Key Gluconeogenic Enzymes in Hep3B
and H4IIE Hepatoma Cells
6:45 Jeffrey DeFoor - In vitro Evolution
7:00 Jessica Sherrill - Genistein Acts
as a Mitogen in Developing Rat Leydig Cells
7:15 BREAK
7:30 Kristin Coleman - Mutant Safari for
Regulators of tmRNA in Pseudomonas aeruginosa 7:45 Christina
Breeden - An Examination of 19th Century Land Surveys in
Elmore County, Alabama
8:00 Khristine Pizarro - Synthesis and
Alignment of Silver Nanorods
8:15 Kyle Taylor - Dispersion and Sheer
Alignment of Silicon Nitride Nanorods
Session C (Room 1221)
6:15 Danny Bradford - Optimization of Wake
Relaxation Methods for Small Diameter Wind Turbines
6:30 Sean Blough - A Ceramic Analysis of
Two Proto-Historic Domestic Structures at Hickory Ground,
1EE89
6:45 Steven Clontz - Unfoldings of Generalized
Pyramids
7:00 Natalie Glynn - Appalachian Midwifery
and the Hegemony of Biomedicine
7:15 BREAK
7:30 Brent Harrison - Utilizing Genetic
Algorithms to Perform Vulnerability Analysis on the Bowl
Championship Series
7:45 Kyle Lynch - Three Dimensional Flow
Visualization Using a Pulse Burst Laser System
8:00 Amanda Savrda - Establishing tighter
constraints on the structural configuration of basement
rocks beneath the Alabama Gulf Coastal Plain through modeling
8:15 Amy Gordon - From Dostoyevsky to Garcia
Marquez: Guiding the Literature Fantastic
Session
D (Room 1207)
6:15
Clark Solomon -The Documentary Photography of Walker
Evans in the South during the Great Depression
6:30 Caroline Tomlinson - Photography's
Emergence as an Art Form in America
6:45 Ben Woolnough - George Eastman and
the Democratization of Photography
7:00 Patrick Smyth - Ludwig Mies van der
Rohe: Modern Architecture with Modern Materials
7:15 BREAK
7:30 Jennifer Stubbs - Wife and Partner:
Margaret Macdonald Mackintosh's Effect on the Architectural
Works of Charles Rennie Mackintosh
7:45 Chase Brown - The Pinnacle of Guitar
Designs
8:00 Hunt Prothro - Women in Science Fiction
Literature
8:15 Alysha Kambeyanda - German "Building
House" Under Pressure
Session
E (Room 1219)
6:15
Rachel Preuit - Louis I. Kahn Timeless Style and
Use of Light
6:30 Danny Feltham - An Artistic Civil
War: Divisions in German Art
6:45 Jacy Dowling - Interior Design During
and Post Great Depression
7:00 Kristin Porter - Tastes in Fashionable
Clothing of a given Era in History
7:15 BREAK
7:30 Matt McDonald - Scientology and the
Religion of Technology in Western Culture
7:45 Emily Smith - Gender Roles in the
Family: Affects and Influences on Sex- differential Socialization
Tuesday
April 22
5:00
pm Appetizer Reception with Concurrent Poster Session
6:00 pm Keynote Address - Dr. David Carter
- "Forecasting Hindsight: Future Researchers and the
2008 Presidential Election as a Political Time Capsule"
7:00 pm Awards Ceremony
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