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Student Accomplishments
Awards
Off Campus Presentations
Peer Reviewed Manuscripts

AWARDS

Janay Knight, Faculty mentor: Dr. Spoma Jovanovic
Department of Communication Studies

At the Carolinas Communication Association annual convention, the Mary E. Jarrard Award for undergraduates was presented to Janay Knight for her paper, “Generation Y and the Communication of Love Styles.”
Read the full story on http://www.uncg.edu/cst/inc_unit/news/Cca2006.html.


Christian Sykes, Faculty mentor: Jan Rychtar
Department of Mathematics and Statistics

Fall 2007

PEER REVIEWED MANUSCRIPTS


David W. Allgood, Faculty mentor: Matina C. Kalcounis-Rueppell
Department of Biology
Allgood, David W., Miller, Darren A., & Matina C. Kalcounis-Rueppell (2009). Influence of Intensive Pine Management on Dipteran Community Structure in Coastal North Carolina. Environment Entomological, 38(3): 657-666.


Melanie Andes, Faculty mentor: Mona Shattell
School of Nursing

Andes , M. , & Shattell, M . (2006). An Exploration of Space and Place in Acute Psychiatric Care. Issues in Mental Health Nursing, 27, 699-707.

Melanie Andes, Faculty mentor: Mona Shattell
School of Nursing

Shattell, M. , & Andes, M. (2008)). Smoking Bans in Acute Care Psychiatric Settings: A Machiavellian Smoke Screen? Issues in Mental Health Nursing, 29 (2), 201-203.

Melanie Andes, Faculty mentor: Mona Shattell
School of Nursing

Shattell, M. , Andes, M. , & Thomas, S. (in press). How Patients and Nurses Experience the Acute Care Psychiatric Environment. Nursing Inquiry. [Data-based publication]

Charles A. Barnes, Faculty mentor: N.H.L. Chiu
Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry

C.A. Barnes, N.H.L. Chiu, Int. J. Mass Spectrom. (2008), doi:10.1016/j.ijms.2008.10.006, Accurate characterization of carcinogenic DNA adducts using MALDI tandem time-of-flight mass spectrometry.

Robert Gove, Faculty mentor: Jan Rychtar
Department of Mathematics and Statistics

Gove R. (2007). A slice of Pi, Explorations. The Journal of Undergraduate Research and Creative Activities for the State of North Carolina.

Robert Gove, Faculty mentor: Jan Rychtar
Department of Mathematics and Statistics

Gove. R., & Rychtar, J. (2008). On the exponential function. International Journal of Mathematics Teaching and Learning

Samuel Grundman, Faculty mentor: Jan Rychtar
Department of Mathematics and Statistics

Grundman, S., Koblizkova, L., & Rychtar J. (2008). A Hawk-Dove game in finite kleptoparasitic populations. Journal of Interdisciplinary Mathematics.

Courtney Jenkins, Faculty mentor: Mona Shattell
School of Nursing

Shattell, M., Hamilton, D., Starr, S., Jenkins, C., & Hinderliter, N. (in press, April 2008). Mental health service needs of a Latino population: A community-based participatory research project. Issues in Mental Health Nursing, 29 (4).


Joseph Krenicky, Faculty mentor: Jan Rychtar
Department of Mathematics and Statistics

Krenicky, J., & Rychtar, J. (2006). Note on Gabriel's horn. Furman Electronic Journal of Undergraduate Mathematics. Vol 11, pages 4-7.

Joseph Krenicky, Faculty mentor: Jan Rychtar
Department of Mathematics and Statistics

Krenicky, J. (2006). On Replicator Dynamics and Evolutionary Games, Explorations. The Journal of Undergraduate Research and Creative Activities for the State of North Carolina, 73-79.

Matthew J. Lanctot, Faculty mentor: Edward H. Hellen
Department of Nutrition

Hellen, E., Lanctot, M., (2007). Nonlinear damping of the LC circuit using antiparallel diodes. American Association of Physics Teachers, 75 (4), 326-330.

Dan MacMartin, Faculty mentor: Jan Rychtar
Department of Mathematics and Statistics

MacMartin, R.D., & Rychtar, J. (2007). On spatial Rock-Paper-Scissors game. Morehead Electronic Journal of Applicable Mathematics, 5.

Kristina Martinez, Faculty mentor: Michael McIntosh
Department of Nutrition

Chung, S., LaPoint, K., Kennedy, A., Martinez, K., Boysen-Sandberg, M, & McIntosh, M. 2006.  Preadipocytes mediated LPS-induced inflammation and insulin resistance in primary cultures of newly differentiated human adipocytes. Endocrinology.

Moore, A. B., Clark, B. A., Faculty mentor: Michael Kane
Department of Psychology

Moore, A. B., Clark, B. A., & Kane, M. J. (in press). Who shalt not kill? Individual differences in working memory capacity, executive control, and moral judgment. Psychological Science.

Tracie Rowe, Faculty mentor: Robin Bartlett
School of Nursing

Shattell, M., Bartlett, R. , & Rowe, T. (2008). “I Have Always Felt Different:” The Experience of Childhood AD/HD. Journal of Pediatric Nursing, 23 (1), 49-57.
Katherine Smith, Faculty mentor: Mona Shattell
School of Nursing
Shattell, M. , Smith, K. , Eddins, E. , & McNeill, C. (2008). Dispelling Desperation in Pre-Licensure Nursing Education. Teaching and Learning in Nursing, 3(1), 41-44.

Natalie Stokes, Faculty mentor: Mona Shattell
School of Nursing
Shattell, M., Villalba, J., Stokes, N ., Hamilton, D., Foster, J., Petrini, H., Johnson, K., Hinderliter, N., Witherspoon, C., Hinshaw, R.K., & Faulkner, C. (in press). Depression in Latinas residing in emerging Latino immigrant communities in the United States.  Hispanic Health Care International. [Data-based publication]


Brian Stadler, Faculty mentor: Jan Rychtar
Department of Mathematics and Statistics
Rychtar J., & Stadler, B. (2008). Evolutionary Dynamics on Small-World Networks. International Journal of Mathematics Sciences 2 (1), 1-4.


Christian Sykes, Faculty mentor: Jan Rychtar
Department of Mathematics and Statistics
Rivasplata,O., &  Rychtar J., & Sykes, C. (2006). Evolutionary games in finite populations. Pro Mathematica 20, 147-164.


Christian Sykes, Faculty mentor: Jan Rychtar
Department of Mathematics and Statistics

Broom, M., Rychtar J., & Sykes, C. (2008). The evolution of kleptoparasitism under adaptive dynamics without restrictions. Journal of Interdisciplinary Mathematics.

Crystal Washington, Faculty mentor: Mark Schultz
Department of Public Health Education

Schulz, M. R., Dotson-Hargis, G., Smith, S., & Washington, C. (2006). “Who Uses and Does Not Use Greensboro Trails and What Activities Do They Prefer?” Preventive Medicine .

OFF-CAMPUS PRESENTATIONS



Benjamin Anderson, Faculty mentor: Charles Prysby
Department of Political Science

The rise and fall of competition in Southern Congressional elections, North Carolina Political Science Association, High Point, NC.

Melanie Andes , Faculty mentor: Mona Shattell
School of Nursing

Andes , M., & Shattell, M. (February 21-23, 2008). How Patients and Nurses Experience the Acute Care Psychiatric Environment, Southern Nursing Research Society, Birmingham, AL. [Data-based presentation]

Linda Batiz, Faculty mentor: Ron Morrison
Department of Nutrition

Mechanisms linking the ubiquitin proteasome system to adipocycte gene expression, Experimental Biology, San Francisco, CA.

Felicia Bowens
Department of Recreation, Toursim, and Hospitality Management

Wunderlost or Wunderlost: barriers to leisure travel, North Carolina Recreation and Park Association, Atlantic Beach, NC.

David Bryant, Faculty mentor: E.D. Edwards
Department of Broadcasting and Cinema

film Sp 07 the film should be distributed.

Pamela Dover, Faculty mentor: Susan Calkins
Department of Psychology

Effortful control and behavioral problems as they predict academic achievement in childhood, State of North Carolina Undergraduate Research and Creativity Symposium, Raleigh, NC.

Ashley Dunston, Faculty mentor: Sharon Morrison
Department of Public Health Education

Manuscript submitted to The Health Educator.

Elena Fernandez, Faculty mentor: Art Murphy
Department of Anthropology

Post disaster mental health and the structure of personal networks, Society of Anthropological Sciences, Savannah, GA.

Robert Gove, Faculty mentor: Jan Rychtar
Department of Mathematics and Statistics

A slice of Pi, State of North Carolina Undergraduate Research and Creativity Symposium, Raleigh, NC. , November, 2006
NCUR 2007, Dominican University of California, San Francisco, California.

Kerri Goughnour, Faculty mentor: Barbara Dyer
Department of Consumer, Apparel, and Retail Studies

Goughnour, K. and Dyer, B. Hedonic Shopping Experiences of the Older Consumer, ITAA, Washington, DC 2005.

Paula Hach and Erin Slate, Faculty mentor: Celia Hooper
Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders

Standarization of a motor speech profile in normal adults, 52nd annual convention of the North Carolina Speech, Hearing and Language Association, Durham, NC.

Jared Hill, Faculty mentor: Mark Schultz
Department of Public Health Education

Hill, J., Mason, D., & Schulz, M. R., “Epidemiology of bicycle motor vehicle collisions in North Carolina,” Society of Public Health, Boston, MA, April 2005.

Kristen Hill, Faculty mentor: Paul Davis
Department of Exercise and Sport Science

Presentation, S.D. Kirk, K.R. Hill, D.I. Melton, B.L. Swearingin, J.D. Wagganer, P.G. Davis. Self-reported and measured weight discrepancy in overweight/obese young women, FACSM.

B Hovater, Faculty mentor: Nadia Cech
Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry

Hovater, B., Smith, D., Spelman, K., Tutor, K, Raner, G., Wenner, C. and Cech, N. LC/ESI-MSn for the determination of bioactive liver metabolites of Echinacea purpurea. 231st American Chemical Society Meeting, March 2006, Atlanta, GA.

Amber King, Faculty mentor: Paul Steimle
Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry

M. Russ, O. Ali, A. King, P. Steimle. (2005) Myosin Heavy Chain Kinase A from Dictyostelium Possesses a Novel Actin Binding Domain, 45th Annual Meeting of the American Society for Cell Biology, San Francisco, CA.

Robin Knapp, Faculty mentor: Stuart Marcovitch
Department of Psychology

Manuscript submitted to Developmental Science; presentation, Marcovitch, S., Boseovski, J. and Knapp, R. Redundancy leads to goal neglect on the DCCS, Cognitive Development Society, San Diego,CA.

Joseph Krenicky, Faculty mentor: Jan Rychtar
Department of Mathematics and Statistics

On the Volume-Surface Area Relationship, State of North Carolina Undergraduate Research and Creativity Symposium, Raleigh, NC, November, 2006.

Joseph Krenicky, Faculty mentor: Jan Rychtar
Department of Mathematics and Statistics

No Way Out: The Prisoner's Dilemma, An Introduction to Symmetric Normal Form Games, State of North Carolina Undergraduate Research and Creativity Symposium, November, 2005.


Dan MacMartin, Faculty mentor: Jan Rychtar
Department of Mathematics and Statistics
Bacterial Wars! A Matlab Simulation, State of North Carolina Undergraduate Research and Creativity Symposium, November, 2005.

Kristina Martinez, Faculty mentor: Michael McIntosh
Department of Nutrition

Peer reviewed manuscript; Chung, S., LaPoint, K., Martinez, K., Kennedy, A., Sandberg, M.B. and  McIntosh, M.K. Preadipocytes mediate LPS-inducted inflamamtion and insulin resistance in primary cultures of newly differentiated human adipocyte.

Benjamin Miller, Faculty mentor: Jeffrey Soles
Department of Classical Studies

Manuscript submitted to Hesperia.

Victoria Payne, Faculty mentor: Matina Kalcounis-Rüeppell
Department of Biology

Payne, V., *Vindigni, M. and M.C. Kalcounis-Rüeppell. 2006, The effect of water quality on a nocturnal food web in the Cape Fear River Basin 103rd Annual North Carolina Academy of Science, Greensboro, NC.

Kathryn Sikes, Faculty mentor: Jan Rychtar
Department of Mathematics and Statistics, Faculty mentor: Jan Rychtar

The Art of Math, State of North Carolina Undergraduate Research and Creativity Symposium, November, 2006
NCUR 2007, Dominican University of California, San Francisco, California.

Erin Slate and Paula Hach, Faculty mentor: Celia Hooper
Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders

Standarization of a motor speech profile in normal adults, 52nd annual convention of the North Carolina Speech, Hearing and Language Association, Durham, NC.

Ashley Smallwood, Faculty mentor: Eva Nwokah
Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders

Nwokah, E., Smallwood, A., King, J. and Arenas, K. 2006. Communicative Intervention with and without toys, North Carolina Speech Hearing Language Association, NC.

Sarah Smith, Faculty mentor: Maura Heyn
Department of Classical Studies
Southern Section meetings, Classical Association of the Middle West and South, Fall 2006.


Brian Stadler, Faculty mentor: Jan Rychtar
Department of Mathematics and Statistics

Evolutionary Dynamics on Graphs, State of North Carolina Undergraduate Research and Creativity Symposium, November, 2005.


Brian Stadler, Faculty mentor: Jan Rychtar
Department of Mathematics and Statistics

Evolutionary Dynamics on Small-World Networks, State of North Carolina Undergraduate Research and Creativity Symposium, November, 2006.


Christian Sykes, Faculty mentor: Jan Rychtar
Department of Mathematics and Statistics

Stealing's for the Birds: A model of kleptoparasitism, State of North Carolina Undergraduate Research and Creativity Symposium, November, 2005.


Christian Sykes, Faculty mentor: Jan Rychtar
Department of Mathematical Sciences
2005 Southeastern regional undergraduate mathematics conference.


Angela Wohner, Faculty mentor: George Michel
Department of Psychology

The Effect of Manual Experience on the Expression of Hand Use Preferences by Three-month-old Infants, Carolina's Psychology Conference, Raleigh, NC; NCPA Spring Institutes and Conference Poster Session, Charlotte, NC.

Graeme Wright, Faculty mentor: Mary Sandford
Department of Anthropology

Wright, G. and Sandford, M. Evaluating the value of high resolution digital photographs for assessing dental attrition rates in prehistoric human skeletal remains, National Conference of Undergraduate Research, Asheville, NC.
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