Winners from the 2008 Graduate
Student Research Symposium
Science
- 1st Place: Ivashyna Olena (DBBS): "The Mechanism of the Programmed Cell Death Investigated by Single Molecule Florescence Techniques"
- 2nd Place: Stacy Finkbeiner (DBBS): "Genotyping of a Novel Member of the Family Astroviridae"
- 3rd Place: Jan Kubanek (Engineering): "Decoding Finger Movements from Electrocorticographic Signals (ECoG) in Humans"
Humanities
- 1st Place: Brandan Grayson (Romance Languages): "The Sor Juana Blog: Using Online Resources to Develop Reading Comprehension and Cultural Literacy in the Second Language Classroom"
- 2nd Place: Laure Gonin-Hartman (Romance Languages): "Monsters and Poetry in 16th Century France"
- 3rd Place: Amber Aragon (History): "{Sexual Murder and Love as the Problem and Solution to Identity in Robert Musil's The Man Without Qualities"
Social Science
- 1st Place: Sean Kang (Psychology): "Retrieval Practice Enhances Learning and Retention of Novel Visuo-spatial Forms"
- 2nd Place: Andrew Butler and Franklin Zaromb (Psychology): "The Positive and Negative Effects of Watching Popular Films on the Recall of History Texts"
- 3rd Place: Pooja Agarwal (Psychology): "Improving Learning Through the Use of Classroom Quizzes"
Professional
- 1st Place: Ryan Funk (MA/MD): "Discovering Genetic Susceptibility Factors in Murine Therapy-Related Acute Myeloid Leukemia"
- 2nd Place: Dawn Dziuba (Law): "Gene Transfer Research -- Refining Informed Consent"
- 3rd Place: Steve Taviner and Soda Lo (Social Work/MSW): "Island Ahoy! or, Life on the Beach. Measuring Income, Defining Development and Comparing Quality of Life"
Engineering
- 1st Place: Jan Kubanek: "Decoding Finger Movements from Electrocorticographic Signals (ECoG) in Humans"
- 2nd Place: Subramanya Nayak: "Transport in Nanoporous Zeolites Used in Alkylation Processes"
- 3rd Place: Ryan Smith: "Guiding Radiation Therapy with Realtime Position Tracking"
Cash awards ($250 for first place, $150 for second place and$100 for third place) were funded by Graduate School of Arts and Sciences (Science, Humanities, and Social Science) and Graduate and Professional Council (Professional). There were no cash prizes in Engineering, however, these posters were considered for awards in Science.