4Th Annual State of North Carolina Undergraduate Research and Creativity Symposium - 1
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4TH ANNUAL STATE OF NORTH CAROLINA UNDERGRADUATE RESEARCH AND CREATIVITY SYMPOSIUM - 1 - Table of Contents Agenda ...........................................................................................................................................3 Campus Map, Floor Plan and Meeting Rooms...........................................................................4‐6 Presentation Schedules Oral Presentations ..................................................................................................................7, 9 Poster Presentations..................................................................................................... 7, 8, 9, 10 Exhibits..................................................................................................................................8, 10 Creative Performances .............................................................................................................11 Lunch Box Sessions ......................................................................................................................12 Listing of Abstracts.......................................................................................................................13 Explorations ...............................................................................................................................133 Recognition of Sponsors............................................................................................................134 SNCURCS Statistics.....................................................................................................................135 Notes pages................................................................................................................................136 Index of Student Authors ..........................................................................................................140 The Office of Student Research is a unit within Appalachian’s University College. University College consists of the university’s integrated general education curriculum, academic support services, residential learning communities, interdisciplinary degree programs and co-curricular programming – all designed to support the work of students both inside and outside of the classroom. - 2 - 4TH ANNUAL STATE OF NORTH CAROLINA UNDERGRADUATE RESEARCH AND CREATIVITY SYMPOSIUM Agenda Agenda Time Activity Location On-site registration, pick up name tags, abstract PSU 1st Floor * 7:00-8:25 a.m. booklets (Registration will continue until 2) Lobby near Cascades Cafe Opening remarks 8:30-8:55 a.m. Dr. Stan Aeschleman, Provost and Executive Vice PSU Blue Ridge Ballroom Chancellor, Appalachian State University 9:00-11:45 Undergraduate Student Presentations PSU, various rooms a.m. (concurrent exhibits, oral, performances and posters) (Please see schedule) Noon-12:55 Lunchbox sessions PSU, various rooms p.m. Undergraduate Student Presentations 1:00-4:00 (concurrent exhibits, oral, performances and posters) PSU, various rooms p.m. (Poster set-up begins at 1:00 with poster sessions (Please see schedule) officially starting at 1:30) * PSU = Plemmons Student Union 4TH ANNUAL STATE OF NORTH CAROLINA UNDERGRADUATE RESEARCH AND CREATIVITY SYMPOSIUM - 3 - - 4 - 4TH ANNUAL STATE OF NORTH CAROLINA UNDERGRADUATE RESEARCH AND CREATIVITY SYMPOSIUM - 5 - - 5 - M U I S FIRST FLOOR D CREATIVITY SYMPO D CREATIVITY N H A H C EAR S E R ATE ATE U DERGRAD N A U N STUDENT SERVICES LOUNGE/SOCIAL AREAS ADMINISTRATIVE/STUDENT OFFICES STATE OF NORTH CAROLI OF NORTH STATE PROGRAMMING/MEETING SPACE L A RECREATION/FITNESS Attic Window Room 137c Grandfather Ballroom 137 Roan Mountain Room 120 Calloway Peak Room 138a Information Desk 121 Summit Trail Solarium 118 FOOD SERVICES ANNU 4TH Catawba River Room 108 Looking Glass Gallery 114 Watauga River Room 102 ELEVATORS Casades Cafe 116 MacRae Peak Room 137b Women’s Center 110 Crossroads Coffee House 119 Multicultural Center 112 Yadkin River Room 106 RESTROOMS Hawksbill Game Room 113 New River Room 100 SECOND FLOOR M U I S D CREATIVITY SYMPO D CREATIVITY N H A H C EAR S E R ATE ATE U STUDENT SERVICES DERGRAD N A U LOUNGE/SOCIAL AREAS N ADMINISTRATIVE/STUDENT OFFICES ACT Community Outreach Center 218 Judicial Affairs 221 Solarium Balcony 242 PROGRAMMING/MEETING SPACE APPS 233 Linville Falls Room 226 Student Government Assoc. 213 Black Student Association 210 McAlister’s Deli 208 Student Programs Office 231 RECREATION/FITNESS Blue Ridge Ballroom 201 Mountain Laurel Room 229 Student Publications 213 Club Council 214 Peer Career 216 Table Rock Room 201b FOOD SERVICES CAROLI OF NORTH STATE L Computer Lab 235 Price Lake Room 201a Whitewater 220 A ELEVATORS CSIL Offices 219 Profile Trail Lounge 240 Wiseman’s View Lounge 222 Greek Office 203 Rhododendron Room 227 RESTROOMS Greenbriar Theater 200 Scheduling 231 - 6 - 4TH ANNU - 6 - 4TH Presentation Schedules Room Type Time # Presenter (Student first and last name) Student Institution Student Major Title INVASIVE DOMESTIC CARNIVORES CONTRIBUTE TO A LOCALIZED Oral 9:00 AM 1 Matthew Vanhoy Pfeiffer University ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE EXTINCTION OF MADAGASCAR'S LARGEST ENDEMIC CARNIVORE, THE FOSA (CRYPTOPROCTA FEROX) WILL RECYCLE BINS PAINTED TO LOOK LIKE COWS ALTER RECYCLING 2 137A Oral 9:15 AM Rachel Roberts Catawba College ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE BEHAVIOR? Oral 9:30 AM 3 Steven Martin Appalachian State University COMPUTER SCIENCE LIFTING MEDICAL IMAGES ON MULTI-CORE SYSTEMS Calloway Peak Oral 9:45 AM 4 Michael Eni Fayetteville State University COMPUTER SCIENCE VISUAL STUDIO 2005 PERFORMANCE IN RELATION TO 2008 VERSION University of North Carolina at Oral 9:00 AM 5 Sina Tashakkori BIOCHEMISTRY SYNTHESIS OF BIODIESEL USING ORGANIC BASES Chapel Hill University of North Carolina at Oral 9:15 AM 6 Lindsay Willis BIOLOGY THE CONSEQUENCES OF SPACE FLIGHT ON THE HUMAN IMMUNE SYSTEM Pembroke THE EFFECTS OF MOVEMENT ON CALCIFICATION IN NEWLY SETTLED Oral 9:30 AM 7 Katrina Pergerson Catawba College BIOLOGY CORAL POLYPS THE DETERMINATION OF THE TOTAL ANTHOCYANIN CONTENT IN University of North Carolina at MacRae Peak 137B Oral 9:45 AM 8 Rhonda McClure BIOLOGY COMMERCIALLY AVAILABLE BILBERRY CAPSULES USING PH- Pembroke DIFFERENTIAL SPECTROPHOTOMETRY ROMA POPULATION'S Oral 9:00 AM 9 Joo en Kim Mars Hill College BIOLOGY PAST AND PRESENT GENE EXPRESSION IN THE OCULOMOTOR NEURAL INTEGRATORS OF THE Oral 9:15 AM 10 Tiffany Lee East Carolina University BIOLOGY MORNING (9:00 AM - 11:45 AM ) AM - 11:45 MORNING (9:00 ZEBRAFISH VITELLOGENESIS INDUCTION IN MALE FISH EXPOSED TO MUNICIPAL Oral 9:30 AM 1 1 Michael Colgan Appalachian State University BIOLOGY WASTEWATER EFFLUENT ESTROGENS IN AN APPALACHIAN MOUNTAIN STREAM Attic Window 137 C Window Attic North Carolina School of Science BEHAVIORAL EFFECTS OF NPFF RECEPTOR KNOCK-DOWN IN DOPAMINE Oral 9:45 AM 12 Rosemary Shay BIOLOGY and Mathematics TRANSPORTER (DAT) KNOCK-OUT (KO) MICE NEW METHOD FOR CALCULATING SKIN FRICTION AT TRANSITION FROM Oral 10:00 AM 13 Whitney Lohmeyer North Carolina State University AEROSPACE ENGINEERING LAMINAR TO TURBULENT BOUNDARY LAYERS PROGRAM FOR THE ESTIMATION OF SPACECRAFT AERODYNAMIC Oral 10:15 AM 14 Michael Pearce North Carolina State University AEROSPACE ENGINEERING PROPERTIES University of North Carolina at ANALYSIS RESULTS FOR THE PRIMEX PBW04 CRYSTAL PROTOTYPE Oral 10:30 AM 15 Erik Minges PHYSICS Wilmington DETECTOR BEAM TEST DEVELOPMENT OF A MICRO-SCALE MASS SPECTROMETER UTILIZING Oral 10:45 AM 16 Zach Russell Appalachian State University PHYSICS CARBON NANOTUBES AND MEMS FABRICATION TECHNOLOGY MODELING GAMMA RAY BURST Oral 11:00 AM 17 Elise Weaver Guilford College PHYSICS & ASTRONOMY 080710 Calloway Peak 137A CHARACTERIZATION OF OXFORD INSTRUMENT'S SILICON DRIFT Oral 11:15 AM 18 Ashley Roberts Appalachian State University PHYSICS & ASTRONOMY DETECTOR PROTOTYPE ON A SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPE FEASIBILITY OF ELECTRONIC LONG BASELINE RADIO INTERFEROMETRY Oral 11:30 AM 19 Jon Poe Guilford College PHYSICS IN SMALL COLLEGE SETTING INVESTIGATING CUSTOMER SATISFACTION AND EMPLOYEE TURNOVER Oral 10:00 AM 20 Shannon Canady Western Carolina University TOURISM & COMMERCIAL RECREATION RATE IN THE RESTAURANT INDUSTRY: THE CASE OF O'CHARLEY'S. EFFECTS OF GLOBAL WARMING ON THE RESTAURANT Oral 10:15 AM 21 Laura DiNunzio Western Carolina University TOURISM & COMMERCIAL RECREATION INDUSTRY ENVIRONMENTAL SUSTAINABILITY IN THE US LODGING INDUSTRY Oral 10:30 AM 22 Anthony Ingle Western Carolina University TOURISM & COMMERCIAL RECREATION THROUGH HIGH HAMPTON INN AND COUNTRY CLUB SPEED BARRIERS ARE A SUCCESSFUL CONSERVATION MEASURE IN Oral 10:45 AM 23 Tiffany Pan Duke University ANTHROPOLOGY MITIGATING THE IMPACT OF ROADKILL ON WILDLIFE IN ANKARAFANTSIKA NATIONAL PARK, MADAGASCAR AN ANALYSIS OF OBSERVED URBAN HEAT ISLAND IN GREENVILLE, NORTH Oral 11:00 AM 24 Linwood Hall East Carolina University GEOGRAPHY CAROLINA AND ITS IMPLICATION ON ENERGY CONSUMPTION AND MacRae Peak 137B ENVIRONMENT University of North Carolina at THE INFLUENCE OF COSMETIC TREATMENTS ON THE STABILITY OF Oral 11:15 AM 25 Iner Lowery CHEMISTRY Pembroke DEXTROMETHORPHAN University of North Carolina at MORNING (9:00 AM - 11:45 AM ) AM - 11:45 MORNING (9:00 Oral 11:30 AM 26 Eric Butter BIOCHEMISTRY SOCIO-ECONOMIC DIABETES RISK FACTORS IN CLEVELAND, MISSISSIPPI Chapel Hill STRENGTH IN THE MIDST OF LOSS AND DESPAIR: HIV/AIDS AND THE Oral 10:00 AM 27 Erica Adelman Appalachian State University HISTORY GROWING NUMBERS OF ORPHANS IN SOUTH AFRICA Oral 10:15 AM 28 Ashley Brooks Chowan University HISTORY