WYOMING

UNDERGRADUATE RESEARCH DAY

A Celebration of Undergraduate Research

Oral Presentations

April 28, 2007   1:00-5:30

University of Wyoming College of Engineering Building

 

Time First Last                                Room 2030
1:00 Alex Melka Power Nail Puller Attachment for a Hammer Drill
1:00 James Nelson Power Nail Puller Attachment for a Hammer Drill
1:00 Justin Walsh Power Nail Puller Attachment for a Hammer Drill
1:30 Jarvis Schulz Remote Controlled Optical Robot
1:30 Jared Strube Remote Controlled Optical Robot
2:00 Jason Lipka Wood Texturing Machinery
2:00 Daniel  Milligan Wood Texturing Machinery
2:00 Eric Penner Wood Texturing Machinery
2:30 Nicole Hartzheim NASA Great Moonbuggy Race 2007
2:30 Michael Jimeno NASA Great Moonbuggy Race 2007
2:30 Mikah Naylor NASA Great Moonbuggy Race 2007
2:30 Levi Oberg NASA Great Moonbuggy Race 2007
3:20 James Eggleston The Redesign of a Coal Burner Pipe Carriage
3:20 Cody McRady The Redesign of a Coal Burner Pipe Carriage
                                     Room 2070
1:00 Brandon Drake Multilinear Analysis of Political Trends: Building a Bridge Between Archaeology
1:20 Crystal Hart  A Comparison of Metric Sexing Techniques of the Cranium
1:40 Robyn Lopez Inspiration from Across the Globe: A Maori Influence on Northern Arapaho Revitalization Efforts
2:00 Sarah Wolff How Boredom Made History: An Abridged History of the Orkney Islands, Scotland
2:20 Teal Wyckoff Spatial and Temporal Analysis of CBM Data to Determine the Causal Mechanisms that Influence Coalbed Natural Gas Development in the Powder River Basin, Wyoming
2:40 Dan Eakin Analysis of an Oceanographic Front  off the Coast of the Antarctic Peninsula using Seismic Reflection Profiling.
3:20 Vicki Meyers Tracking The Elusive Sauropods and Pterosaurs At Seminoe Reservoir in South-Central Wyoming
3:40 Phillip Nickerson Applying modern geologic deformation models to the east flank of the Laramie Range
4:00 Karl Heimbuck Factorization with Elliptic Curves and Applications
4:20 Phillip Meister A Better Algorithm for Distinguishing Two Interlaced Text Objects in the Gimpy Captcha
4:40 Keisuke Fukutani A Program for Computing Theoretical Light Curves of Eclipsing Binary Stars
5:00 Bryan Gorges Improvements to the STAR Telescope
                                     Room 2100
1:00 Carly-Ann Anderson Using a Mutagenesis Screen to Complement an RNAi-based Screen for fshr-1 Synthetic Mutants in C. elegans
1:20 Katherine Harris Testing for Sites of Importance in Embryophytes: Protein Function and Positive Selection
1:40 Alisa Mori Recombinant astacin of the crayfish Procambarus clarkii
2:00 Katherine Rogers The C. elegans glycopeptide hormone receptor homolog, FSHR-1, regulates germline sex determination, proliferation and survival
2:20 Kristine Young HIV testing awareness on the University of Wyoming campus and the factors that keep students from being tested
2:40 Alyssa Cooper Synthetic Spider Silk: an Emerging Biomaterial
                                     Room 2101
1:00 John Allhusen The Quantitation of Trichloroethene in Unknown Water Samples through the use of Gas-Chromatography/Mass Spectroscopy
1:20 Sarah Czerwinski Genetic Resistance to the HIV Virus.
1:40 Pablo Kollmar  A Novel Detection Method for West Nile Virus
2:00 Leif Paulson Rotations of the Peptide Bond
2:20 Loren Ackels Enzymatic Activity of Uteroglobin in Non-aqueous Solvents
2:40 Jamie Hexem BNMPA exacerbates METH-induced neurotoxicity in adult rats
3:20 Lindsay Hueckstaedt Role of the Serine Protease Omi/HtrA2 Inhibitor UCF-101 in the      Development of Diabetic Heart Disease
3:40 Chris Peryam The Relationship of Brain-Derived Neurotrophic Factor to Behavior in an Animal Model of Depression
4:00 Kayla Luhrs Behavioral and Pathological Changes in a Bigenic (APPswe+PS1/DeltaE9) Mouse Model of Alzheimer’s Disease
4:20 Jay Truitt Neurobiological Aspects of Postpartum Depression in Rats
4:40 Spenser Sharp Paraconsistent Logic in Communication
                                     Room 2102
1:00 Alexander Kimmet Assessing Dropout Rates in the Honors Program
1:20 Aldin Reynolds The Effects of European Integration on the New Member Countries of the May 2004 Expansion
1:40 Jason Sanders Socioeconomic Impacts of the Central America Free Trade Agreement (CAFTA) in Costa Rica
2:00 David Primus Go to the Game?  A Students’ Decision
2:20 Brenda Waldner Who’s Minding the Children: A Saratoga Community Needs Assessment
2:40 Brynn Hvidston  Interpretation within Judicial Processes
3:20 Louise Johnson The impact and importance of the Civilian Conservation Corps during the Great Depression.
3:40 Stacy Roberts Origins and Identity: the Importance of Family History
4:00 Courtney Burns The Economic Status of Women in Wyoming
4:20 Blaine Nelson Perceptions in Foreign Policy
4:40 Owen Rust Political Cartoons and Immigration
5:00 Thomas Smith The Fight for Equality in White America: A Historic View of the Supreme Court and Segregation
                                     Room 2105
1:00 Tyler Quest Impacts of Maternal Obesity on Placentomal Vascular Development and Associated Angiogenic/Growth Factor Expression in the Sheep.
1:20 Daniel Mullendore Detection of Low-Level Herbicide Exposure is Sunflowers
1:40 Arik Smith Effect of Chronic Gonadotropin-Releasing Hormone Agonist Administration on the Mammalian Pituitary Gland
2:00 Alyssa Wechsler Otter Latrines as Nitrogen Hotspots:Stable Isotope Analysis of Marine-derived Nitrogen
2:20 Matt Wood  Effect of nutrient enrichment at otter latrine sites on the diversity of herbaceous vegetation in Prince William Sound, Alaska
2:40 Caroline Charles  Invasive species impact: Describing the effect of the invasive freshwater snail, Potamopyrgus antipodarum, on native macroinvertebrates and their food sources 
3:20 Leah Selby Major defects in neocortical GABAergic inhibitory circuits in mice lacking the fragile X mental retardation protein
3:40 Ryan Strom  The dynamics of stable isotope incorporation into avian claws.
4:00 Kadie Anderson Coyote Censusing in the Pole Mountain Region
4:20 Heather Grimm “Testing the diploid or haploid state of a prion protein pseudogene in white-tailed deer (Odocoileus virginianus)  by polymerase chain reaction.”
4:40 Joe Griffith Organic Matter and Soil Characteristics of High Elevation Alpine Zones Above 10,500 feet in the Mountains of North-central Colorado and Southeast Wyoming                         
5:00 Danielle Rollins Equine Embryo Transfer: A Study of the Literature and Practice
                                     Room 3070
1:00 Jeremy Gard GEMS
1:00 Lisa Reilly GEMS
1:30 Jay Gulseth WIDES
1:30 Justin Purcell WIDES
2:00 Larry Blackburn Predicting Outcomes of Soccer Matches
2:30 Keith Gourley Library Meeting Room Scheduler
2:30 Jon-Erik Henley Library Meeting Room Scheduler
3:30 Heather Franks UW Info Form
4:00 Greg Hoppal Content Management Site
4:00 Jermaine Kelly Content Management Site
4:00 Aaron Pickard Content Management Site
4:30 David Kelsay Clone Inc. eCommerce Site
5:00 Marcus Curley Ghost Helper
                                     Room 3076
1:00 Cailin LaChance  Why Cults?
1:20 J.D. Harris  Improving Mental Health Services for Law Enforcement Officers: A Review of Current Research and Suggested Recommendations for Law Enforcement Administrators
1:40 Chelsea Eyre  Integrating Maps into the Classroom: Research on Creating and Teaching Effective Lesson Plans
2:00 Jessie Spehar Teaching Kids to Bait Fish: an Integrated Educational Stream Systems Unit
2:20 Elizabeth Bennett Evaluation of Challenge Courses as Tools for Building Leadership, Teamwork, and Community
2:40