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Humanities and Arts:

  1. "The 1930s Refugee Crisis and the American Conscience: A Moral Choice for U.S. Elites"
    1. Lead Presenter: Laurel Leff - Faculty
    2. Principal Investigator: Laurel Leff
  2. Compendium of time-based visual principles
    1. Lead Presenter: Isabel Meirelles - Faculty
    2. Principal Investigator: Isabel Meirelles
  3. Composing and Conducting Orchestral Accompaniment for Silent Film Preservaton DVD Set
    1. Lead Presenter: Allen Feinstein - Faculty
    2. Principal Investigator: Allen Feinstein
  4. Fauxtography and Visual Literacy
    1. Lead Presenter: Cynthia Baron - Faculty
    2. Principal Investigator: Cynthia Baron
  5. From the Forbidden to the Familiar: The Way of Natural Theology
    1. Lead Presenter: Stuart Peterfreund - Faculty
    2. Principal Investigator: Stuart Peterfreund
  6. Imagistic Explorations for the Scene Design of "Children of Drancy"
    1. Lead Presenter: Jaime Schrank - Undergraduate
    2. Principal Investigator: Nancy Kindelan
  7. Spatial Refrencing in ASL/English Interpreting
    1. Lead Presenter: Taylor Belsvik - Undergraduate
    2. Principal Investigator: Dennis Cokely, Director ASL Program
  8. The Stravinsky Code: Automated Rhythm in The Rite of Spring
    1. Lead Presenter: Matthew McDonald - Faculty
    2. Principal Investigator: Matthew McDonald, Assistant Professor, Music Department

Social Sciences, Business and Law:

  1. 'Spanish Boys': The Story of Experimental Detachment G-3, 1942-1944
    1. Lead Presenter: Tom Jay Cinq-Mars - Undergraduate
    2. Principal Investigator: Tom Jay Cinq-Mars
  2. A cost comparison of accelerated and fully bookbuilt shelf equity offerings
    1. Lead Presenter: Tunde Kovacs - Faculty
    2. Principal Investigator: Tunde Kovacs
  3. Assessing the Legal and Social Significance of the Lack of a Statutory and Common Law Parent-Child Privilege
    1. Lead Presenter: Hillary Farber - Faculty
    2. Principal Investigator: Hillary B. Farber
  4. Characteristics of Hate Homicides in the United States
    1. Lead Presenter: Sarah Bakanosky - Undergraduate
    2. Principal Investigator: Jack Levin
  5. Examining Buyer-Supplier Relationships: Do Buyer and Supplier Perspectives on Collaborative Relationships Differ?
    1. Lead Presenter: Gilbert Nyaga - Faculty
    2. Principal Investigator: Gilbert Nyaga
  6. Feeling the Heat of Climate Change: Addressing the Causes and Impacts of Global Warming from an Environmental Justice Policy Perspective
    1. Lead Presenter: Kat Rickenbacker - Graduate
    2. Principal Investigator: Professor Daniel Faber
  7. Feelings of Power and Sensitivity to Nonverbal Cues
    1. Lead Presenter: Judith Hall - Faculty
    2. Principal Investigator: Judith A. Hall
  8. From Biotechnology to Nanotechnology: Parallels in State Regulatory Review
    1. Lead Presenter: Katrina McCarty - Graduate
    2. Principal Investigator: Christopher Bosso
  9. Imagery-induced interference with the detection of colored acuity targets.
    1. Lead Presenter: Maeve Vaillancourt - Undergraduate
    2. Principal Investigator: Adam Reeves
  10. Models of Reflection and Approaches to Assessing its Contributions to Work Integrated Learning Programs
    1. Lead Presenter: Amanda Parker - Undergraduate
    2. Principal Investigator: Richard Porter
  11. Representations of Individual People and Social Groups
    1. Lead Presenter: Nadya Vasilyeva - Graduate
    2. Principal Investigator: John D. Coley
  12. Simulating Manufacturing Decision Making Using Agent-based Models
    1. Lead Presenter: Ting Zhang - Graduate
    2. Principal Investigator: Rosanna Garcia
  13. Social Disorganization and Crime in a Military Community
    1. Lead Presenter: Meghan Peel - Graduate
    2. Principal Investigator: Jennifer Robinson
  14. Subtle Changes in Gender-Stereotype Components Generates Biased Inferences About Unfamiliar College Peers
    1. Lead Presenter: Kaitlyn Amato - Undergraduate
    2. Principal Investigator: John D Coley
  15. The Effects of the Court Community on the Processing of Domestic Violence Cases
    1. Lead Presenter: Kathleen Currul-Dykeman - Graduate
    2. Principal Investigator: Amy Farrell
  16. The equity risk premium puzzle – evidence for a behavioral finance perspective in conjunction with a fundamental valuation framework
    1. Lead Presenter: Tobias Fuchs - Undergraduate
    2. Principal Investigator: Tunde Kovacs
  17. The Impact of Accounting Method on the Perceived Financial Viability of the Social Security System
    1. Lead Presenter: Tim Rupert - Faculty
    2. Principal Investigator: Tim Rupert
  18. The impact of media education on college students’ perception of risk and body image
    1. Lead Presenter: Christina Tortolani - Graduate
    2. Principal Investigator: Emmanuel Mason
  19. The Impact of the Quality of Technical Support on Buyers’ Attitudes and Behaviors: An Empirical Study from the View of Scientist Buyers
    1. Lead Presenter: Tao (Tony) Gao - Faculty
    2. Principal Investigator: Tao (Tony) Gao
  20. THE ROLE OF GUANXI AND SHARED REWARD IN THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN COOPERATIVE GOALS AND TEAM INNOVATION IN PUBLIC ORGANIZATIONS IN CHINA
    1. Lead Presenter: Hu Chen - Graduate
    2. Principal Investigator: Cynthia Lee and Chen Hu
  21. The Subprime Loan Debacle and Its Impacts on the Racial Wealth Gap
    1. Lead Presenter: Oscar Brookins - Faculty
    2. Principal Investigator: Oscar T. Brookins (PI)
  22. Using MIS to Improve Processes in the Corporate Environment
    1. Lead Presenter: Lior Krolewicz - Undergraduate
    2. Principal Investigator: Professor Lee, Yang (Advisor)
  23. Working in Virtual Offices: An Examination of the Personal and Organizational Challenges and Coping Strategies among Virtual Professionals
    1. Lead Presenter: Jay Mulki - Faculty
    2. Principal Investigator: Jay Mulki and Fleura Bardhi

Health Sciences and Technologies:

  1. 1H NMR Detection of Mobile Lipids in Live Cells as a Rapid Screen for Apoptosis Induced by Drug loaded Liposomes
    1. Lead Presenter: Micaela Toniutti - Faculty
    2. Principal Investigator: Torchilin V.P.
  2. A cost-effectiveness analysis of generic simvastatin vs. atorvastatin in preventing secondary vascular events in outpatients with CHD or CHD risk factors over 3 years at Boston Medical Center, a primarily free-care city hospital.
    1. Lead Presenter: Timothy Gauthier - Graduate
    2. Principal Investigator: Judith Barr
  3. A cost-effectiveness analysis of the addition of abatacept (Orencia®) to methotrexate in adult patients with active rheumatoid arthritis (RA) over a 1 year period from a third party perspective.
    1. Lead Presenter: Jay Calabro - Graduate
    2. Principal Investigator: Judith Barr
  4. A cost-effectiveness and cost-utility analysis from an institutional perspective evaluating the efficacy of paclitaxel-eluting stents versus sirolimus-eluting stents in the primary prevention of coronary revascularization in high-risk patients over a nine
    1. Lead Presenter: Nathaniel Gilman - Graduate
    2. Principal Investigator: Dr. Judith Barr
  5. A Cost-Effectiveness and Cost-Utility Evaluation Comparing Continuous Subcutaneous Insulin Infusion to Standard Insulin Injection Therapy in Pediatric Patients with Type 1 Diabetes Mellitus from a Third-Party Perspective Over a One Year Period
    1. Lead Presenter: Jayde Bednarik - Graduate
    2. Principal Investigator: Judith Barr
  6. Application of a Meditation Module for Stress Reduction in Physical Therapy Students
    1. Lead Presenter: Jonah Feldman - Undergraduate
    2. Principal Investigator: Anthony Percoco
  7. Ascorbate functionalized pharmaceutical nanocarriers as a novel approach for tumor cell targeting and killing
    1. Lead Presenter: Gerard D'Souza - Faculty
    2. Principal Investigator: Vladimir P Torchilin
  8. ASPIRIN/ACE INHIBITOR USE AND PREVENTIVE EXAMS IN PATIENTS WITH TYPE 2 DIABETES SEEN BY CLINICAL PHARMACY IN AN URBAN COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTER
    1. Lead Presenter: Debra Reid - Faculty
    2. Principal Investigator: Debra Reid
  9. Assessment of usage of infant HIV testing, Dried Blood Spot PCR, at township clinics in Port Elizabeth, South Africa
    1. Lead Presenter: Chika Uchiyama - Undergraduate
    2. Principal Investigator: Carol Finn
  10. Cannabinoid Receptor Peptides: Orientation, Conformation and Hydrophobic Mismatch
    1. Lead Presenter: Anna Bowman - Faculty
    2. Principal Investigator: Alexandros Makriyannis
  11. Cellular Trafficking Studies of Ceramide-Loaded Poly(ethylene oxide)-Modified Poly(epsilon-caprolactone) Nanoparticles with Raman Microscopy
    1. Lead Presenter: Lara Milane - Graduate
    2. Principal Investigator: Mansoor Amiji and Max Diem
  12. Characterization of Ligand Selectivity and Affinity in Fatty Acid Amide Hydrolase (FAAH)
    1. Lead Presenter: Ioannis Karageorgos - Graduate
    2. Principal Investigator: Alexandros Makriyannis
  13. Characterizing Non-Selective Opioid Agonist/Antagonist Cyclazocine on MAPK Activation and Relationship to Cocaine CPP
    1. Lead Presenter: Carmen C. Thurston - Undergraduate
    2. Principal Investigator: Jay P. McLaughlin
  14. Comparison of Enteral and Intravenous Lansoprazole Pharmacodynamic Response in Critically Ill Patients
    1. Lead Presenter: John Devlin - Faculty
    2. Principal Investigator: John W Devlin
  15. Comparison of vaccination baseline and post-intervention rates in an urban community health center pharmacy clinic with state and national influenza and pneumococcal vaccination rates.
    1. Lead Presenter: Basma Sadaka - Undergraduate
    2. Principal Investigator: Basma Sadaka
  16. Computer assisted posturography (CAP) technology as a motivator to engage community dwelling elders in fall prevention exercise
    1. Lead Presenter: Ashley D'Ambra - Undergraduate
    2. Principal Investigator: Dr. Meredith Harris PT, DPT, EdD.
  17. Corticosteroids for the Prevention of Post-Extubation Laryngeal Edema in Adults: A Systematic Review
    1. Lead Presenter: Russel Roberts - Graduate
    2. Principal Investigator: John W Devlin
  18. Cost effectiveness of amphotericin B versus liposomal amphotericin B for the duration of induction therapy in adult AIDS patients presenting with cryptococcal meningitis from a hospital perspective
    1. Lead Presenter: Maria M. Ousterhout - Graduate
    2. Principal Investigator: Maria M. Ousterhout
  19. Cost effectiveness of carboplatin and paclitaxel versus carboplatin, paclitaxel, and bevacizumab for the treatment of non small cell lung cancer from a third party perspective
    1. Lead Presenter: Amy Primavera - Undergraduate
    2. Principal Investigator: Dr. Barr
  20. Cost-consequence analysis of unfractionated heparin versus enoxaparin versus fondaparinux in the prevention of deep vein thrombosis in adult patients undergoing major lower limb orthopedic surgery from a hospital perspective during an inpatient stay
    1. Lead Presenter: Jeffrey Dandurand - Graduate
    2. Principal Investigator: Dr. Judith Barr
  21. Cost-effectiveness analysis of varenicline versus bupropion sustained-release for smoking cessation in adult smokers from a third party payer perspective over one year
    1. Lead Presenter: Elizabeth Fang - Graduate
    2. Principal Investigator: Dr. Judith Barr
  22. Cost-effectiveness and cost-utility of combination tamsulosin and dutasteride versus either agent alone in the treatment of adult males with symptomatic BPH over a 24 week period from a third party perspective
    1. Lead Presenter: Kelly O'Brien - Undergraduate
    2. Principal Investigator: Judith Barr
  23. Cost-effectiveness and cost-utility of inhaled human insulin versus insulin aspart in adult patients with uncontrolled type 2 diabetes mellitus over a three-month period from a third-party payer perspective.
    1. Lead Presenter: Olivia Phung - Undergraduate
    2. Principal Investigator: Judith Barr
  24. Cost-effectiveness of intramuscular naltrexone versus oral naltrexone or intramuscular placebo with adjuvant cognitive behavioral therapy in the treatment of alcohol dependence from a third party payer perspective over a six-month period.
    1. Lead Presenter: Keith Dunn - Graduate
    2. Principal Investigator: Keith J Dunn, PharmD Candidate
  25. Cost-effectiveness of sitagliptin versus rosiglitazone as adjunct therapy to metformin in adult patients with uncontrolled type 2 diabetes over a 24-week period: a third party payer perspective.
    1. Lead Presenter: Soonali Maniar - Undergraduate
    2. Principal Investigator: Judith Barr
  26. Developing a gross anatomy teaching module: A method to support students determined to be at risk in a doctorate of physical therapy program
    1. Lead Presenter: Carolyn Johnston - Undergraduate
    2. Principal Investigator: Dr. Susan Lowe
  27. Developing Tools Measuring Miscommunication Involving Interdisciplinary Healthcare Teams
    1. Lead Presenter: Nathaniel Rickles - Faculty
    2. Principal Investigator: Nathaniel M. Rickles
  28. Development of Colchicine loaded PEGylated Cationic Liposomes against Lewis Lung Carcinoma
    1. Lead Presenter: Shifalika Tangutoori - Graduate
    2. Principal Investigator: Robert B, Campbell
  29. Development of HPLC method for the detection and quantification of N-{[(2-hydroxy-5-nitrophenyl) amino] carbonothioyl}-3, 5-dimethylbenzamide in biological samples
    1. Lead Presenter: Igor Skidan - Faculty
    2. Principal Investigator: Vladimir Torchilin
  30. Development of Magnetic Cationic Liposomes for the treatment of Thyroid Cancer
    1. Lead Presenter: Aditi Jhaveri - Graduate
    2. Principal Investigator: Robert B. Campbell, Ph.D
  31. Discrimination of visceral and cutaneous nociceptive stimuli by cingulate cortex neurons: a hole in the spinal cord visceral pain convergence theory?
    1. Lead Presenter: Robert Sikes - Faculty
    2. Principal Investigator: Robert W Sikes
  32. Enhanced in vitro transfection of macrophages and dendritic cells using TATp-liposomes
    1. Lead Presenter: Juan Sebastian Pappalardo - Faculty
    2. Principal Investigator: Dr. Vladimir Torchilin
  33. Enhanced Targeted Drug Delivery for Cancer Therapy with Reduced Cardiotoxicity: Pre-targeting Pro-Drugs with Bispecific Antibodies.
    1. Lead Presenter: Keyur Gada - Graduate
    2. Principal Investigator: Ban-An Khaw
  34. Epidermal Growth Factor Receptor-Targeted Engineered Gelatin Nanovectors for Gene Delivery and Transfection in Pancreatic Cancer Cells
    1. Lead Presenter: Padmaja Magadala - Graduate
    2. Principal Investigator: Dr. Mansoor M. Amiji
  35. EVALUATION OF A PHARMACIST-RUN DIABETES CLINIC IN AN URBAN COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTER: EFFECTS ON DISEASE STATE MANAGEMENT
    1. Lead Presenter: Robyn White - Faculty
    2. Principal Investigator: Robyn White
  36. Evaluation of Physical Therapy Faculty Palpation Skills Using Ultrasound Imaging
    1. Lead Presenter: Alycia Markowski - Faculty
    2. Principal Investigator: Professor Alycia Markowski
  37. Experiential Learning: The Student as Change Agent
    1. Lead Presenter: Alison LeBlanc - Undergraduate
    2. Principal Investigator: Alison LeBlanc
  38. Gene Delivery and Transfection Studies with Lipopolyplexes in Human Endothelial and Smooth Muscle cells
    1. Lead Presenter: Luis Brito - Graduate
    2. Principal Investigator: Mansoor M. Amiji
  39. Global Education: Preparation for Study Abroad and the Provision of Physical Therapy Services to Ecuadorian Orphans
    1. Lead Presenter: Annie Charrette - Faculty
    2. Principal Investigator: Lorna Hayward and Annie Charrette
  40. Impact of a clinical pharmacy team on co-morbidities in patients with type 2 diabetes in an urban community health center
    1. Lead Presenter: Rebekah Sherman - Faculty
    2. Principal Investigator: Rebekah Sherman, PharmD
  41. Impact of an Institutional Hospital-Acquired Pneumonia Protocol on the Appropriateness of Antibiotic Therapy and Patient Outcomes
    1. Lead Presenter: Jason Lancaster - Faculty
    2. Principal Investigator: John W Devlin
  42. IN VIVO IMAGING OF LUNG METASTATIC MELANOMA IN A MURINE MODEL: SIGNAL AMPLIFICATION USING BISPECIFIC ANTIBODY AND TC-99M LABELED POLYMERS.
    1. Lead Presenter: Kalpesh Gupta - Faculty
    2. Principal Investigator: Ban-An Khaw
  43. Intelligibility of a Speech Synthesizer Vocoded Using Dysarthric Vocalizations
    1. Lead Presenter: Anna Roden - Graduate
    2. Principal Investigator: Rupal Patel, Ph.D. CCC-SLP
  44. Intranasal delivery of GDNF to the brain using cationic liposomes.
    1. Lead Presenter: Barbara Waszczak - Faculty
    2. Principal Investigator: Dr. Barbara Waszczak
  45. Intranasal Delivery of GDNF Using Cationic Liposomes: An Evaluation of Neurotrophic and Neuroprotective Effects on Dopamine Neurons in Rats
    1. Lead Presenter: Robin Ortiz - Undergraduate
    2. Principal Investigator: Barbara L. Waszczak
  46. Let's help children get back to work: A call for the restoration of play
    1. Lead Presenter: Karin Lifter - Faculty
    2. Principal Investigator: Karin Lifter
  47. Liposome Binary Mixture for Tumor Vascular Targeting
    1. Lead Presenter: Nikhil Bhatia - Graduate
    2. Principal Investigator: Dr. Robert B. Campbell
  48. Loading Human Erythrocytes with Nanoliposome therapeutics
    1. Lead Presenter: Amrita Mehta - Graduate
    2. Principal Investigator: Dr.Robert Campbell
  49. Magnetic cationic liposome therapeutics suppresses tumor growth and metastasis
    1. Lead Presenter: Suman Dandamudi - Graduate
    2. Principal Investigator: Dr. Robert B. Campbell
  50. Misuse of prescribed stimulant medication for ADHD and associated patterns of substance use: a preliminary analysis among college students
    1. Lead Presenter: Dalissa Sepulveda - Graduate
    2. Principal Investigator: Christian J. Teter, Pharm. D., BCCP
  51. Mucins reduce the antitumor activity of 5FU against human pancreatic cancer
    1. Lead Presenter: Ashish Kalra - Graduate
    2. Principal Investigator: Robert B. Campbell, Ph.D.
  52. Multifunctional Nanoemulsion System for Combination Paclitaxel and Curcumin delivery to Human Glioblastoma cells
    1. Lead Presenter: Sindhura Ganga - Graduate
    2. Principal Investigator: Dr. Mansoor Amiji
  53. Multifunctional Polymeric Nanosystems for EGFR Gene Silencing and Enhancement of Apoptosis in Pancreatic Cancer Cells.
    1. Lead Presenter: Sunaina Pai - Graduate
    2. Principal Investigator: Dr. Mansoor Amiji
  54. Neurodevelopmental Toxins Deplete Glutathione and Inhibit Folate and Vitamin B12-Dependent Methionine Synthase Activity: A link between Oxidative Stress and Autism
    1. Lead Presenter: Mostafa Waly - Faculty
    2. Principal Investigator: Professor Richard Deth
  55. Non-Condensing Calcium Alginate Microspheres for Macrophage-Selective Gene Delivery and Transfection
    1. Lead Presenter: Shardool Jain - Graduate
    2. Principal Investigator: Mansoor M. Amiji
  56. Novel Approach for Signal Amplification Using Bombesin Linked Anti-DTPA Bifunctional Complexes for Cancer Diagnosis and Therapy.
    1. Lead Presenter: Vishwesh Patil - Graduate
    2. Principal Investigator: Ban-An Khaw
  57. Nursing Practices and Perceptions Towards Delirium Assessment in the Intensive Care Unit
    1. Lead Presenter: Elizabeth Howard - Faculty
    2. Principal Investigator: John W. Devlin
  58. Obesity Prevention and Education Program for Young Children Involved in Head Start
    1. Lead Presenter: King Rogers - Undergraduate
    2. Principal Investigator: Dr. Meredith H. Harris
  59. Optimization of magnetic drug targeting using models of human breast carcinomas
    1. Lead Presenter: Radhika Karkare - Graduate
    2. Principal Investigator: Dr. Robert Campbell
  60. Pediatric End of Life Care: A Global Perspective
    1. Lead Presenter: Michelle Beauchesne - Faculty
    2. Principal Investigator: Michelle Beauchesne
  61. Plasma and brain endocannabinoid concentration correlation studies after increasing DHA dietary intake
    1. Lead Presenter: JodiAnne Wood - Faculty
    2. Principal Investigator: Alexandros Makriyannis
  62. Polyethylene glycol-phosphatidylethanolamine (PEG-PE) micelles loaded with paclitaxel and surface-modified with a pro-apoptotic PBR-ligand for a synergistic anticancer effect by receptor-mediated intracellular drug delivery
    1. Lead Presenter: Tiziana Musacchio - Faculty
    2. Principal Investigator: V.P. Torchilin
  63. Predictors of Mortality in Patients with Suspected Propofol Infusion Syndrome
    1. Lead Presenter: Lynn Sylvia - Faculty
    2. Principal Investigator: John W. Devlin
  64. Prevalence of Symptoms Associated with the Propofol Infusion Syndrome (PRIS) and Validation of a PRIS Mortality Scoring System
    1. Lead Presenter: Brian Kaiser - Undergraduate
    2. Principal Investigator: John W. Devlin
  65. Prolonged symptoms of post traumatic stress disorder mediated by endogenous kappa opioid activity
    1. Lead Presenter: Kathryn Rowan - Undergraduate
    2. Principal Investigator: Jay P. McLaughlin
  66. Prosodic Compensations to Pitch Perturbation During Running Speech: Pilot Results
    1. Lead Presenter: Katherine Alexander - Undergraduate
    2. Principal Investigator: Rupal Patel
  67. Radioligand Binding Studies as a Tool in Endocannabinoid Drug Discovery
    1. Lead Presenter: Shivangi Joshi - Graduate
    2. Principal Investigator: Dr.Alexandros Makriyannis
  68. Role of Type O-Glycosylation in the Cytotoxic Activity of Chemotherapeutic Agents Varying as a Function of their Physicochemical Properties
    1. Lead Presenter: Shweta Raina - Graduate
    2. Principal Investigator: Robert B. Campbell, Ph.D.
  69. Sources of Nutritional Information Used by College Students
    1. Lead Presenter: Margaret Emerson - Faculty
    2. Principal Investigator: Margaret Emerson
  70. Take Control with Exercise
    1. Lead Presenter: Jennifer Cangialosi - Undergraduate
    2. Principal Investigator: Dr. Susan Lowe
  71. Targeting human pancreatic adenocarcinoma using anti-MUC4 immunoliposomes
    1. Lead Presenter: Prasanthi Tata - Graduate
    2. Principal Investigator: Robert B Campbell, PhD
  72. The brain response to theory of mind inferences generalizes across items and modalities
    1. Lead Presenter: Andrea Quintero - Undergraduate
    2. Principal Investigator: Jay McLaughlin
  73. The Effect of HIV Accessory Protein on Mood and Behavior
    1. Lead Presenter: Stacey Gomes - Undergraduate
    2. Principal Investigator: Jay P. McLaughlin
  74. The Effect of Rate Reduction on Marking Prosodic Contrasts in Dysarthria: Pilot Results
    1. Lead Presenter: Pamela Campellone - Graduate
    2. Principal Investigator: Rupal Patel
  75. The Efficacy of Biofeedback Surface Electromyography and Tactile Biofeedback as Treatment for Temporomandibular Disorders
    1. Lead Presenter: Jessica Capurso - Undergraduate
    2. Principal Investigator: Paul Canavan, PhD, PT, ATC, CSCS
  76. The Use of Palmtop Computers as Memory Aids for University Students with Mild Traumatic Brain Injury
    1. Lead Presenter: Magdalena Mateo, PhD, RN, FAAN - Faculty
    2. Principal Investigator: Magdalena A Mateo, PhD, RN, FAAN
  77. Tumor-targeted pharmaceutical nanocarriers prepared with phage coat protein pVIII as a novel targeting ligand
    1. Lead Presenter: Tao Wang - Graduate
    2. Principal Investigator: Vladimir P Torchilin
  78. Use of supplemental tools in teaching the gross anatomy lab
    1. Lead Presenter: Jennifer Pollack - Undergraduate
    2. Principal Investigator: Meredith Harris

Interdisciplinary Topics, Centers and Institutes:

  1. A Mathematical Model For DA-Stimulated PLM
    1. Lead Presenter: Mustafa Kesir - Graduate
    2. Principal Investigator: Professor Richard C Deth and Professor Mikhail Malioutov
  2. Development of a Peer Observation and Evaluation Tool (POET) for Large Classroom Teaching
    1. Lead Presenter: Margarita DiVall - Faculty
    2. Principal Investigator: Margarita V. DiVall
  3. Diet, Obesity, and Physical Activity among African Americans
    1. Lead Presenter: Robert Hall - Faculty
    2. Principal Investigator: Robert L. Hall
  4. EXTERNAL THREAT AND INTRA-GROUP COMPETITION IMPACT ON INTER-GROUP CONFLICTS
    1. Lead Presenter: Christopher Boulay - Undergraduate
    2. Principal Investigator: Dr. Glenn Pierce
  5. Falling to Learn: Innovation in Educational Games
    1. Lead Presenter: Jay Laird - Faculty
    2. Principal Investigator: Jay Laird, Ann McDonald
  6. Health Literacy and the Physical Therapy Clinic
    1. Lead Presenter: Pauline Hamel - Faculty
    2. Principal Investigator: Pauline C. Hamel, Ed.D, PT
  7. Incorporation of Structural Apriori Information in Fluorescence Molecular Tomography
    1. Lead Presenter: Damon Hyde - Graduate
    2. Principal Investigator: Dana Brooks
  8. Intelligent Diagnostics: Sensing, Identification, Diagnostics, and Rehabilitation of Engineered Systems
    1. Lead Presenter: Sara Wadia-Fascetti - Faculty
    2. Principal Investigator: Sara Wadia-Fascetti
  9. Locally Heard: Concept and Design for a Local Community Music Sharing Site
    1. Lead Presenter: Natasha Fallahi - Undergraduate
    2. Principal Investigator: Cynthia Baron, Daniel Gregory, David Herlihy, Ava Lawrence, Jay Laird, Ann McDonald
  10. Locally Heard: Revenue and Value Model Research for a Local Community Music Sharing and Licensing Site
    1. Lead Presenter: Erin Genett - Graduate
    2. Principal Investigator: Cynthia Baron, Daniel Gregory, David Herlihy, Ava Lawrence, Jay Laird, Ann McDonald
  11. Multiplayer and mini game strategies in complex, contextual learning – Race for Your Future: Drive your band across the US using your plant biology savvy and energy ingenuity
    1. Lead Presenter: Ann McDonald - Faculty
    2. Principal Investigator: Jay Laird, Ann McDonald, Dan Schierer, Duke University, 2006 grant from the American Society of Plant Biologists Education Foundation
  12. Nanomaterials Instrument Facility
    1. Lead Presenter: Rita Kaderian - Faculty
    2. Principal Investigator: Don Heiman
  13. Neural mass modeling with habituation for evoked potential response
    1. Lead Presenter: Srinivas Laxminarayan - Graduate
    2. Principal Investigator: Dana Brooks
  14. Reducing Pediatric Secondhand Tobacco Smoke Exposure in Public Settings
    1. Lead Presenter: Lissy Friedman - Faculty
    2. Principal Investigator: Mark Gottlieb/Richard Daynard
  15. Scalability and Control of Electrophoretic Directed Assembly of Nanoparticles
    1. Lead Presenter: Cihan Yilmaz - Graduate
    2. Principal Investigator: Prof. Ahmed Busnaina
  16. Student experience and attitudes about Class Recordings as MP3s (CRaM) pilot program.
    1. Lead Presenter: Timothy Horwedel - Undergraduate
    2. Principal Investigator: Margarita DiVall, PharmD
  17. The NIH Public Access Policy: What It Means For NU Researchers
    1. Lead Presenter: Hillary Corbett - Faculty
    2. Principal Investigator: Hillary Corbett
  18. The Property Tax and the Fortunes of Older Industrial Cities
    1. Lead Presenter: Lauren Nicoll - Graduate
    2. Principal Investigator: Barry Bluestone

Engineering and Technology:

  1. A Mechanical Model for Adhesion of Biological Cells and Membranes
    1. Lead Presenter: Scott Julien - Graduate
    2. Principal Investigator: Kai-tak Wan
  2. A Novel Three Dimensional Single-Walled Carbon Nanotube Field Effect Transistor
    1. Lead Presenter: Selvapraba Selvarasah - Graduate
    2. Principal Investigator: M. R. Dokmeci
  3. A Practical Measurement Placement Algorithm for Network Observability
    1. Lead Presenter: Bilgehan Donmez - Graduate
    2. Principal Investigator: Ali Abur
  4. A Scanning Probe Microscopy Study on the Actuation Mechanisms of Nanotube Switches
    1. Lead Presenter: Peter Ryan - Graduate
    2. Principal Investigator: Prof George Adams
  5. An Empathetic Agent that Responds to Human Emotion
    1. Lead Presenter: Lucas Zanzi - Graduate
    2. Principal Investigator: Yingzi Lin
  6. An FPGA Implementation of Explicit-State Model Checking
    1. Lead Presenter: Mary Ellen Fuess - Graduate
    2. Principal Investigator: Miriam Leeser
  7. Applications, Computational Complexity, and Approximations of J-Binomial Probability Convolutions
    1. Lead Presenter: Benjamin Harris - Undergraduate
    2. Principal Investigator: James Benneyan
  8. Assessment of Cognitive Workload, Perceptions, and Effects of the Use of Mobile Phones While Driving
    1. Lead Presenter: Kelly Seitz - Undergraduate
    2. Principal Investigator: Beverly K. Jaeger
  9. Characterization of Near Surface Soil
    1. Lead Presenter: Ehsan Kianirad - Graduate
    2. Principal Investigator: Akram N. Alshawabkeh
  10. Combustion of two lignite coals in oxygen-nitrogen and oxygen-carbon dioxide environments
    1. Lead Presenter: Kulbhushan Joshi - Graduate
    2. Principal Investigator: Yiannis A. Levendis
  11. Concentrations of select PAH species and soot for different fuels burned in laminar premixed sooting flames
    1. Lead Presenter: Richard Therrien - Graduate
    2. Principal Investigator: Yiannis Levendis
  12. Control Based Navigation of Non-Magnetic particles in Ferrofluids
    1. Lead Presenter: James Forte - Graduate
    2. Principal Investigator: Rifat Sipahi, PhD
  13. Design of a cell-free biomimetic collagen printer or "nanoloom"
    1. Lead Presenter: Kathryn Portale - Graduate
    2. Principal Investigator: Dr. Jeffrey Ruberti
  14. Detecting Aggressive Driving Style
    1. Lead Presenter: John Zhu - Graduate
    2. Principal Investigator: Yingzi Lin
  15. Diameter Selective Growth of Vertically Aligned Single Walled Carbon Nanotubes by Ethanol Flow Control
    1. Lead Presenter: Myung Gwan Hahm - Graduate
    2. Principal Investigator: Professor Yung Joon Jung
  16. Direct assembly of Au particles using hydrophobic/hydrophilic self-assembled monolayer templates
    1. Lead Presenter: NamGoo Cha - Faculty
    2. Principal Investigator: Ahmed A. Busnaina
  17. DNA Damage Resulting from Quantum Dots Toxicity
    1. Lead Presenter: Kiwook Kim - Graduate
    2. Principal Investigator: Dr. Shashi Murthy and Dr. Penny Beuning
  18. EFFECT OF SURFACE ROUGHNESS ON THROMBUS FORMATION AND CELL DAMAGE
    1. Lead Presenter: Scott Corbett - Graduate
    2. Principal Investigator: Hamid N-Hashemi
  19. Electrodeposition of Super Invar Microcomponents for Micro-Biomorphs
    1. Lead Presenter: Hana Kim - Graduate
    2. Principal Investigator: Elizabeth J. Podlaha-Murphy
  20. Electrogenerated TiO2-Au Composites: Examination of Au Nanoparticle Electrodeposition
    1. Lead Presenter: Jessy Elhajj - Graduate
    2. Principal Investigator: Elizabeth J. Podlaha-Murphy
  21. Electronically Tunable Miniaturized Antennas on Magnetoelectric Substrates with Enhanced Performance
    1. Lead Presenter: Guo-Min Yang - Graduate
    2. Principal Investigator: Nian X. Sun
  22. Estimation of Residual Noise Power in Averaged Evoked Responses
    1. Lead Presenter: Ikaro Silva - Graduate
    2. Principal Investigator: Dr. Michael Epstein
  23. EXPERIMENTAL AND COMPUTATIONAL COMPARISON OF CONTINUOUS VS PULSATILE BLOOD FLOW
    1. Lead Presenter: Srinivasan Radhakrishnan - Graduate
    2. Principal Investigator: Hamid N-Hashemi
  24. Field Charging of Batteries with Solar Panel, issues and solutions
    1. Lead Presenter: Florent Boico - Graduate
    2. Principal Investigator: Brad. Lehman
  25. Free Vibration Analysis of a Thin, Tensioned, Helically Wrapped Plate
    1. Lead Presenter: Ernesto Lopez - Graduate
    2. Principal Investigator: Professor Sinan Muftu
  26. Friction Measurements as Process Monitor Metric of Polytetrafluoroethylene (PTFE) Thin Films Deposited by cold-CVD
    1. Lead Presenter: M. Alex Karnath - Graduate
    2. Principal Investigator: Sinan Muftu
  27. Gradually Graded Cellular Structures
    1. Lead Presenter: Amin Ajdari - Graduate
    2. Principal Investigator: Prof. Hamid Nayeb-Hashemi, Prof. Paul Canavan
  28. HIGHLY ORGANIZED SINGLE-WALLED CARBON NANOTUBE NETWORKS FOR ELECTRICAL DEVICES
    1. Lead Presenter: Laila Jaber Ansari - Graduate
    2. Principal Investigator: Yung Joon Jung
  29. Holographic tracking of nanoparticles using Optical Quadrature Microscopy
    1. Lead Presenter: Yogesh G. Patel - Graduate
    2. Principal Investigator: Charles A. DiMarzio
  30. Hormonal Regulation of Hyaluronate Synthesis in a Human Dermal Equivalent
    1. Lead Presenter: Tara Pouyani - Faculty
    2. Principal Investigator: Tara Pouyani
  31. Identification of Differentially Abundant Proteins in Elicited California Poppy Cell Cultures
    1. Lead Presenter: John Oldham - Graduate
    2. Principal Investigator: Professor Carolyn Lee-Parsons
  32. Identifying Stability vs. Instability of Inventory Dynamics of Supply Chains in Presence of Delays
    1. Lead Presenter: Ismail Ilker Delice - Graduate
    2. Principal Investigator: Rifat Sipahi
  33. Implementation of a Highly Parameterized Digital PIV System On Reconfigurable Hardware
    1. Lead Presenter: Abderrahmane Bennis - Graduate
    2. Principal Investigator: Bennis Abderrahmane
  34. IN VITRO EVALUATION OF CALCIFICATION RESISTANT POLYURETHANE HEART VALVE PROSTHESES
    1. Lead Presenter: Parnian Boloori Zadeh - Graduate
    2. Principal Investigator: Professor Hamid N-Hashemi
  35. Indentation to Probe Physiology of the Mammalian Lung
    1. Lead Presenter: Maricris Silva - Graduate
    2. Principal Investigator: Andrew Gouldstone
  36. Investigating the regulation of terpenoid indole alkaloid pathway genes in Catharanthus roseus hairy root cultures under optimum elicitation conditions
    1. Lead Presenter: Sheba Goklany - Graduate
    2. Principal Investigator: Prof. Carolyn Lee-Parsons
  37. Investigations on section-model aeroelasticity of bridge decks for an application to small-scale wind-tunnel experiments
    1. Lead Presenter: Raulina Brito - Graduate
    2. Principal Investigator: Prof. Luca Caracoglia
  38. Issues in Reverse Supply Chain and Product Recovery
    1. Lead Presenter: Badr Johar - Graduate
    2. Principal Investigator: Surendra M. Gupta
  39. IT Portfolio Management & Enterprise Architecture --- Engineering Info Technology Investment
    1. Lead Presenter: Elliot Chikofsky - Faculty
    2. Principal Investigator: Prof. Elliot Chikofsky
  40. Kinetics of Enzymatic Degradation of Collagen Fibrils in Loaded Cartilage
    1. Lead Presenter: Anirudha Mundra - Graduate
    2. Principal Investigator: Dr. Jeffrey Ruberti
  41. Life Cycle Issues for Nanofabrication
    1. Lead Presenter: Lindsay Dahlben - Graduate
    2. Principal Investigator: Jacqueline A. Isaacs
  42. Low-Dimensional Modelling of Turbulent Jest
    1. Lead Presenter: Yiman Hou - Graduate
    2. Principal Investigator: Gilead Tadmor
  43. Magnetic and microwave properties of FeGaB thin films and their applications in tunable magnetoelectric microwave devices
    1. Lead Presenter: Jing Lou - Graduate
    2. Principal Investigator: Nian Sun
  44. Measurement of Hydroxyl (OH) Concentration of Transient Premixed Methane-Air Flames by Planar Laser Induced Fluorescence (PLIF) Method
    1. Lead Presenter: Raymond Andrews - Graduate
    2. Principal Investigator: Hameed Metghalchi
  45. Metamaterials for Microwave and Optical Devices
    1. Lead Presenter: Jing Wu - Graduate
    2. Principal Investigator: Prof. Hossein Mosallaei, Faculty
  46. Microfluidic depletion of endothelial cells, smooth muscle cells, and fibroblasts from heterogeneous suspensions
    1. Lead Presenter: Brian Plouffe - Graduate
    2. Principal Investigator: Dr. Shashi Murthy
  47. Molecular Beam Epitaxy Integration of Barium Hexaferrite on Wide Bandgap 6H-SiC
    1. Lead Presenter: Zhuhua Cai - Graduate
    2. Principal Investigator: Kathrine Ziemer
  48. Multi-Criteria Monte Carlo Risk Analysis of HiPco SWNT Manufacturing Process Under Uncertain Occupational Risk and Regulations
    1. Lead Presenter: Zeynep D. Ok - Graduate
    2. Principal Investigator: Jacqueline A. Isaacs
  49. MULTILAYER PARYLENE-C STENCILS FOR DYNAMICALLY CONTROLLING CELL INTERACTIONS
    1. Lead Presenter: Huiyan Pan - Graduate
    2. Principal Investigator: Mehmet Dokmeci
  50. Nano- and Micro- Scale Replication of Intestinal Basement Membrane using Chemical Vapor Deposition
    1. Lead Presenter: Courtney Pfluger - Graduate
    2. Principal Investigator: Prof. Daniel Burkey and Prof. Rebecca Carrier
  51. Nanoporous Foam Arising from Impact and Rapid Solidification of Molten Ni Droplets
    1. Lead Presenter: Meng Qu - Graduate
    2. Principal Investigator: Andrew Gouldstone
  52. National Healthcare Systems and Their Relative Efficiencies: A Resampling Approach for Handling Estimated Rate Inputs in Data Envelopment Analysis
    1. Lead Presenter: Mehmet Ceyhan - Graduate
    2. Principal Investigator: James Benneyan
  53. Negative-Index Metamaterials Optical Components for Next-Generation Nano-Optics and Optoelectronics
    1. Lead Presenter: Bernard Didier F. Casse - Faculty
    2. Principal Investigator: Srinivas Sridhar
  54. Optimal PMU placement, Utilizing Multi Channel PMU, and Single channel PMU.
    1. Lead Presenter: Roozbeh Emami - Graduate
    2. Principal Investigator: Professor Ali Abur
  55. Optimization of Antenna Excitations for High Feild MRI
    1. Lead Presenter: Sarah Brown - Undergraduate
    2. Principal Investigator: Carey Rappaport
  56. Parallel Backprojection, A Case Study in High Performance Reconfigurable Computing
    1. Lead Presenter: Benjamin Cordes - Graduate
    2. Principal Investigator: Dr. Miriam Leeser
  57. Parametric Random Noise Representation of Wind Turbulence and its Effects on the Aeroelasticity of Long-span Bridges
    1. Lead Presenter: Luca Caracoglia - Faculty
    2. Principal Investigator: Luca Caracoglia
  58. Phase unwrapping on reconfigurable hardware
    1. Lead Presenter: Sherman Braganza - Graduate
    2. Principal Investigator: Miriam Leeser
  59. Prediction of Bone Remodeling Around Dental Implant Systems
    1. Lead Presenter: Hsuan Yu Chou - Graduate
    2. Principal Investigator: Sinan Müftü
  60. Product monitoring for holistic lifecycle management via embedded sensors
    1. Lead Presenter: Yogesh Bagul - Graduate
    2. Principal Investigator: Sagar Kamarthi, Abe Zeid
  61. Project Delivery Method Selection in Transportation Projects
    1. Lead Presenter: Kamran Ghavamifar - Graduate
    2. Principal Investigator: Ali Touran
  62. Proportional Data, Weight-Restrictions, and Hyper-Efficiency Surfaces in Data Envelopment Analysis
    1. Lead Presenter: Aysun Sunnetci - Graduate
    2. Principal Investigator: James Benneyan
  63. Rate-Control Constrained-Equilibrium Modelling of Di Methyl Ether/Methane ignition characteristics
    1. Lead Presenter: Mohammad Janbozorgi - Graduate
    2. Principal Investigator: Hameed Metghalchi
  64. Risk-Adjusted Sequential Probability Ratio Tests and Cumulative Sum Charts for Hospital Mortality, Adverse Events, and Heterogeneous Binary Data
    1. Lead Presenter: Aysun Taseli - Graduate
    2. Principal Investigator: James Benneyan
  65. Size-Selective Directed Assembly of Nanoparticle Arrays
    1. Lead Presenter: Salome Siavoshi - Graduate
    2. Principal Investigator: Ahmed Busnaina
  66. Spin-spray deposited multiferroic composite Ni0.23Fe2.77O4/ Pb(Zr,Ti)O3 with strong interface adhesion
    1. Lead Presenter: Ming Liu - Graduate
    2. Principal Investigator: Nian X. Sun
  67. Stability of Multi-Agent Consensus Dynamics with Non-Identical Delays between the Agents
    1. Lead Presenter: Artug Acar - Graduate
    2. Principal Investigator: Rifat Sipahi
  68. Stochastic Programming and Monte Carlo Recourse Optimization Models for Reconfigurable Facilities
    1. Lead Presenter: Aysegul Topcu - Graduate
    2. Principal Investigator: James Benneyan, Thomas Cullinane
  69. Strain Dependence in Enzymatic Degradation of Collagen: A Computational Model
    1. Lead Presenter: Brendan Flynn - Graduate
    2. Principal Investigator: Dr. Jeffrey Ruberti
  70. Synergistic Effect of Immobilized Laminin and Nerve Growth Factor on PC12 Neurite Outgrowth
    1. Lead Presenter: AnilKumar Achyuta - Graduate
    2. Principal Investigator: Dr.Shashi Murthy
  71. Temporal-Harmonic Specific POD Mode Extraction
    1. Lead Presenter: Daniel Bissex - Graduate
    2. Principal Investigator: Gilead Tadmor
  72. The dynamics of the axisymmetric vortex breakdown in a pipe
    1. Lead Presenter: Anshuman Mishra - Graduate
    2. Principal Investigator: Gilead Tadmor
  73. The Effect of Input Energy and Spark Electrode Geometry on Flame Kernel Formation of Premixed Mixtures
    1. Lead Presenter: Kian Eisazadeh Far - Graduate
    2. Principal Investigator: Hameed Metghalchi
  74. The Effect of Mechanical Load on Degradation Native Collagenous Tissue
    1. Lead Presenter: Ramin Zareian - Graduate
    2. Principal Investigator: Prof. Jeffrey W. Ruberti
  75. The Effect of the Varus Moment on the Stress Field at the Knee
    1. Lead Presenter: Nicholas Yang - Graduate
    2. Principal Investigator: Prof. Hamid Nayeb Hashemi, Prof. Paul Canavan
  76. The influence of muscle loading and hip joint contact force on the bone density distribution of the human proximal femur
    1. Lead Presenter: Ali Marzban - Graduate
    2. Principal Investigator: Prof. Hamid Nayeb-Hashemi, Prof. Paul Canavan
  77. Three-Dimensional Nano Electronics by Dielectrophoretic Assembly on a Flexible Substrate
    1. Lead Presenter: Chia-Ling Chen - Graduate
    2. Principal Investigator: Mehmet R. Dokmeci
  78. Tipping the Scales: Finding the Most Effective Balance between Lecture and Active Learning across Academic Levels in Engineering
    1. Lead Presenter: Brittany Damon - Undergraduate
    2. Principal Investigator: Beverly Jaeger
  79. Tracking Carbon Nanotubes Through Product Life Cycle
    1. Lead Presenter: Matilda Urie - Undergraduate
    2. Principal Investigator: Jacqueline Isaacs
  80. Tradeoff Analysis of Variable Density Spiral k-Space Trajectories Used in MRI
    1. Lead Presenter: Onur Afacan - Graduate
    2. Principal Investigator: Dana Brooks

Physical and Life Sciences:

  1. A new look at allosteric enzymes with THEMATICS
    1. Lead Presenter: Rajal Sharma - Undergraduate
    2. Principal Investigator: Mary Jo Ondrechen
  2. Active Site Mutations in a Y Family DNA Polymerase cause Hypersensitivity to UV light and are Dominant Negative
    1. Lead Presenter: Brenna Shurtleff - Graduate
    2. Principal Investigator: Dr. Penny Beuning
  3. Antibiotic tolerance, drug discovery, and unculturable microbes
    1. Lead Presenter: Tobias Doerr - Graduate
    2. Principal Investigator: Professor Kim Lewis
  4. AP endonuclease 1 regulates the oxidative stress pathway in early stages of embryonic development.
    1. Lead Presenter: Yi Wang - Graduate
    2. Principal Investigator: Phyllis R. Strauss
  5. Apiformes species diversity and plant-pollinator interactions in disturbed ecosystems
    1. Lead Presenter: Sean Kent - Graduate
    2. Principal Investigator: Dr. Gwilym Jones
  6. Applications of Nanoplatforms in Nanomanufacturing and Nanomedicine
    1. Lead Presenter: Evin Gultepe - Graduate
    2. Principal Investigator: Srinivas Sridhar
  7. Are Enzyme Active Sites Built in Multiple Layers?
    1. Lead Presenter: Heather Brodkin - Graduate
    2. Principal Investigator: Mary Jo Ondrechen
  8. Base Excision Repair in Zebrafish Embryonic Development
    1. Lead Presenter: Sean Fortier - Undergraduate
    2. Principal Investigator: Phyllis R. Strauss
  9. CACN-1 is required for directional control of cell migration and cell fate decisions in Caenorhabditis elegans.
    1. Lead Presenter: Erin Cram - Faculty
    2. Principal Investigator: Erin Cram
  10. Characterization of Drug and Nanoparticle Transport across Pig Intestinal Mucus
    1. Lead Presenter: Savidra Lucatero - Graduate
    2. Principal Investigator: Rebecca Carrier
  11. Copper (II) Catalyzed Reactions (Ethynylbipyridine)Re(CO)3 Complexes With Benzyl Azides
    1. Lead Presenter: Rein Kirss - Faculty
    2. Principal Investigator: Rein Kirss
  12. Depth-dependent resonant target strength analysis of a dense Atlantic Herring school from wide-area OAWRS and localized 3D morphology sensing
    1. Lead Presenter: Daniel Cocuzzo - Undergraduate
    2. Principal Investigator: Dr. Purnima Ratilal
  13. Double- and Single-Stranded DNA Binding of Catalytic Alpha Subunit of E. coli Replicative DNA Polymerase III
    1. Lead Presenter: Micah McCauley - Faculty
    2. Principal Investigator: Mark C. Williams
  14. Enhanced Néel temperature in Mn-ferrite nanoparticles linked to growth rate induced cation inversion
    1. Lead Presenter: Aria Yang - Faculty
    2. Principal Investigator: Vincent Harria
  15. ESR spin probe measurement of microscopic viscosity, local polarity and microscopic ordering in a Nafion® proton exchange membrane: effects of methanol
    1. Lead Presenter: Jamie Lawton - Graduate
    2. Principal Investigator: David Budil
  16. Evaluation of Hedonic Effects and Putative Anti-Addictive Properties of Novel Cannabinoids Through Brain Stimulation Reward Rate-Frequency Method
    1. Lead Presenter: Laura Klipp - Undergraduate
    2. Principal Investigator: James Stellar PhD.
  17. Expression of miR-125a increases during preimplantation embryo development and is 10-fold higher in Ped gene negative compared to Ped gene positive embryos by the blastocyst stage.
    1. Lead Presenter: Michael Byrne - Graduate
    2. Principal Investigator: Dr. Carol warner
  18. Expression, Purification and Complete MS Characterization of Human Monoacylglycerol Lipase
    1. Lead Presenter: Meghan Johnston - Undergraduate
    2. Principal Investigator: Makriyannis
  19. Fabrication of GaMnAs Magnetic Semiconductor Nanodot Arrays
    1. Lead Presenter: Steven Bennett - Undergraduate
    2. Principal Investigator: Don Heiman
  20. Fungal Pressures Within and Surrounding Nests of the Arboreal Termite Species Nasutitermes acajutlae.
    1. Lead Presenter: Comfort Chieh - Undergraduate
    2. Principal Investigator: Dr. Rebeca Rosengaus
  21. Geographic variation in algal palatability
    1. Lead Presenter: Renee Dolecal - Undergraduate
    2. Principal Investigator: Jeremy Long
  22. Graphene Fabrication Methodology
    1. Lead Presenter: Derrick Brittain - Undergraduate
    2. Principal Investigator: Latika Menon
  23. High-resolution population density imaging of random scatterers through cross-spectral coherence in matched filter variance
    1. Lead Presenter: Mark Andrews - Graduate
    2. Principal Investigator: Prof. Purnima Ratilal
  24. Hormonal Regulation of Insect Growth and Development
    1. Lead Presenter: Wendy Smith - Faculty
    2. Principal Investigator: Wendy Smith
  25. Imaging Fear In Mothers: Potential Modulation By Oxytocin
    1. Lead Presenter: Marcelo Febo - Faculty
    2. Principal Investigator: Marcelo Febo
  26. Influence of group size on behavior in Nasutitermes corniger
    1. Lead Presenter: Jessica La Rosa - Undergraduate
    2. Principal Investigator: Rebeca Rosengaus
  27. Inter- and intraspecific behaviors of harbor and gray seals, Cape Cod, Massachusetts.
    1. Lead Presenter: Meghann Murray - Graduate
    2. Principal Investigator: Dr. Gwilym S. Jones
  28. Kappa Opioid Receptor Activation Mediates Stress-induced Deficits in Spatial Learning and Memory
    1. Lead Presenter: Andrew Heusser - Undergraduate
    2. Principal Investigator: Jay P McLaughlin
  29. Kinetics of Binuclear Ruthenium Complex Threading Through DNA Bases
    1. Lead Presenter: Thayaparan Paramanathan - Graduate
    2. Principal Investigator: Prof. Mark C. Williams
  30. Ligand-Specific Regulation of Kappa Opioid Receptor Trafficking and Signaling of ERK 1/2 MAP Kinase
    1. Lead Presenter: Natasha Ingle - Undergraduate
    2. Principal Investigator: Jay P. McLaughlin
  31. Lipid-coated quantum dots as near infrared contrast agents for in vivo whole body imaging.
    1. Lead Presenter: Aristarchos Papagiannaros - Faculty
    2. Principal Investigator: Vladimir Torchilin
  32. Mass spectrometric characterization of covalent ligand-peptide complexes
    1. Lead Presenter: Dennis Szymanski - Graduate
    2. Principal Investigator: Alexandros Makriyannis
  33. Maturation of the Zebrafish Prey Capture Behavior: Changes in Kinematics and Sensory Control
    1. Lead Presenter: Donald O'Malley - Faculty
    2. Principal Investigator: Donald M. O'Malley
  34. Microwave Expedited Synthesis of PET Imaging Ligands
    1. Lead Presenter: Patrick Ng - Undergraduate
    2. Principal Investigator: Dr. Graham B. Jones
  35. Novel Approach to Imaging of Nano-Drug-Delivery Carriers Using Raman Microspectroscopy
    1. Lead Presenter: Tatyana Chernenko - Graduate
    2. Principal Investigator: Max Diem
  36. Nucleic Acid Chaperone Activity of Retrovirus Nucleocapsid Protein Variants
    1. Lead Presenter: Fei Wang - Graduate
    2. Principal Investigator: Mark C. Williams
  37. Optical Properties of TiO2 Nanotubes for Photocatalysis of Water
    1. Lead Presenter: Joshua Morris - Undergraduate
    2. Principal Investigator: Don Heiman
  38. PCR Screening for Potential Vinyl Chloride-Degrading Bacteria in Contaminated Groundwater
    1. Lead Presenter: Amanda Wells - Undergraduate
    2. Principal Investigator: Gail Begley
  39. Photovoltaic Properties of Titania Nanotubes
    1. Lead Presenter: John Spencer Morris - Undergraduate
    2. Principal Investigator: Latika Menon
  40. Processivity Clamp Interactions Regulate a Mutagenic DNA Polymerase
    1. Lead Presenter: Jana Sefcikova - Faculty
    2. Principal Investigator: John Engen and Penny Beuning
  41. QA-2 AND THY-1 MAY BE PARTNERS IN MEDIATING THE RATE OF DEVELOPMENT OF PREIMPLANTATION EMBRYOS
    1. Lead Presenter: Robert Crooker - Undergraduate
    2. Principal Investigator: Dr. Carol Warner
  42. Social transmission of immunity in the carpenter ant Camponotus pennsylvanicus
    1. Lead Presenter: Casey Hamilton - Undergraduate
    2. Principal Investigator: Rebeca Rosengaus
  43. Spawning Behaviour and Spatial Distribution of Atlantic Herring on Georges Bank Revealed by Ocean Acoustics Waveguide Remote Sensing
    1. Lead Presenter: Zheng Gong - Graduate
    2. Principal Investigator: Purnima Ratilal
  44. Spin Injection into Co2MnAl by Optical Absorption in GaAs
    1. Lead Presenter: Don Heiman - Faculty
    2. Principal Investigator: Don Heiman
  45. Synthesis and Crystallization Conditions of Titanium Oxide Nanotubes
    1. Lead Presenter: Suketu Patel - Undergraduate
    2. Principal Investigator: Latika Menon
  46. The Reaction of Glyoxal with dsDNA: Structural Proof of Force–Induced DNA Melting Model
    1. Lead Presenter: Leila Shokri - Graduate
    2. Principal Investigator: Mark C. Williams
  47. Theory of the Observed Ultra-Low Friction between Sliding Polyelectrolyte Brushes
    1. Lead Presenter: Jeffrey Sokoloff - Faculty
    2. Principal Investigator: Jeffrey B. Sokoloff
  48. Vertically Arranged Nanowire Technology: An Interface for Neurostimulation
    1. Lead Presenter: Sucharita Saha - Graduate
    2. Principal Investigator: Prof. Latika Menon, Prof. Donald M. O'Malley
  49. Visualizing the Location of AP endonuclease at Different Developmental Stages of Zebrafish Development
    1. Lead Presenter: Eunice Lee - Undergraduate
    2. Principal Investigator: Phyllis R. Strauss

Computer and Information Sciences:

  1. Extracting structure from scientific figures using image processing
    1. Lead Presenter: Jacob Ouellette - Graduate
    2. Principal Investigator: Robert P. Futrelle
  2. FoneGarde: remote surveillance using mobile devices
    1. Lead Presenter: Thibault Blanc - Undergraduate
    2. Principal Investigator: Ravi Sundaram
  3. Mining figures and captions in the Biomedical literature
    1. Lead Presenter: Jeff L. Satterley - Graduate
    2. Principal Investigator: Robert P. Futrelle
  4. POOL: A Novel Machine Learning Methodology with Application to Functional Site Prediction in Gene Products
    1. Lead Presenter: Wenxu Tong - Graduate
    2. Principal Investigator: Mary Jo Ondrechen and Ronald J. Williams
  5. Recognizing Emotion in Speech
    1. Lead Presenter: Keshi Dai - Graduate
    2. Principal Investigator: Harriet Fell
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