The 18th Annual Student Research and Creative Endeavor Symposium
Friday, March 27, 2015
Sponsored by:
- IPFW Office of Research, Engagement, and Sponsored Programs
- IPFW Helmke Library
- IPFW Honors Program
- IPFW Office of Graduate Studies
The Symposium is also the occasion for the IPFW Chapter of the Sigma Xi honor society to give its annual student research awards.
"Functional characterization of the Nucleobase Cation Symporter (NCS1) of Nicotiana Sylvestris"
"High quality, low cost, laser power meter"
"Comparing life history traits of potential thrips vectors of Soybean Vein Necrosis Virus and the effect of virus infection on thrips vectors"
"Oral miscues in struggling readers"
"Engineering a host defense regulatory gene, PHYTOALEXIN DEFICIENT4 (PAD4) for enhancing resistance to soybean aphid"
"The microstructure of pyrite blackening in fossil shells"
"Distribution and movement of creek chubs (Semotilus atromaculatus) in agricultural headwater ditches of the Cedar Creek watershed"
"Development of a variable frequency, constant power, high voltage power supply for driving dielectric barrier discharges"
"Reproduction fitness increases beyond sexual maturity in leatherback turtles (Dermochelys coriacea)"
"Amphibian occupancy, habitat use, and reproductive success in a system of restored wetlands"
"A hands-on approach: Making geology labs accessible to the visual impaired"
"Sedimentology of the 'Utica' below Cincinnati"
"Analysis of competence in two potential insect vectors of Soybean Vein Necrosis Virus"
"Bottoms up: A sedimentological analysis of the manus-only Coffee Hollow sauropod tracks"
"Heterologous complementation in yeast reveals the substrate specificity of the three-member azaguanine-like family of transporters of Zea mays, ZmAZG1, ZmAZG2, and ZmAZG3"
"Expression of a mycobacterial protein potentially involved in resuscitation from dormancy and fatty acid transport"
"Preschoolers' mind-related comments: Stepping stones to early theory of mind"
"High rate testing of NiTinol actuator wire"
"Pb and I(Q): The consequences of lead exposure on the IQ levels of children"
"Genetic and biochemical characterization of the putative xanthine and uric acid transporters from the bacterial causative agent Paenibacillus larvae of the American Foulbrood disease (AFB) in honey bee"
"A novel behavior-based user authentication scheme"
"Can carbon isotopes constrain high-resolution stratigraphy of Ordovician shallow water facies in the Cincinnati, Ohio region?"
"FTF, phone or IM? That depends, are you socially anxious?"
"Forget Facebook! 'In my head, I see...' the relationship-threatening alternatives"
"Big RFID data warehousing and OLAP in cloud computing environment"
"Video game experience: Perception of self-motion and motion sickness in the virtual world"
"Lysenkoism: a triumph of Soviet science"
IPFW Faculty judges
Closing remarks
Awards
Sigma Xi IPFW Chapter officer, J. Marshall
Congratulations to Lindsey Rife, Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders, Sigma Xi undergraduate research award.
"Hearing screening pass/fail rates for Head Start children in northeast Indiana"
Congratulations to Gracee Fyfe and Samantha Anderson, Department of Psychology, Sigma Xi team research award
"Preschoolers' mind-related comments: stepping stones to early theory of mind"
Photos by Michele Shawver and Jim Whitcraft
See also the IPFW COAS news page, and the IPFW COAS Facebook page for another photo album from this event.