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Undergraduate Research Day 2009 Posters

Undergraduate Research Day 2009 Posters

Below is a listing of the students that presented at Undergraduate Research Day 2009. The list includes the students' names, disciplines and project titles. The links provided will allow you to download a PDF of the students' posters.

College of Architecture
1 Kachhla, Meera ARCH Architecture African Cultural Center
2 Andreas, Jennifer ARCH Architecture Embracing Complexity in Building Design
3 Galvan, Jorge ARCH Architecture Material Culture in Pre-Hispanic Latin America
4 Ostaszewski, Natasha ARCH Architecture Revitalization of a City through Design: A Study of Houston Corridors
College of Business
5 Hurst, Ashley BUS Marketing Impulse Grocery Shopping: Investigation on Health Quality of Impulsive Grocery Purchases
College of Hotel and Restaurant Management
6 Aldea, Ulises HRM Food Safety Control Advance Food Safety Control by Means of Thermal Analysis
College of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences
7 Fletcher, Erica CLASS Anthropology Marianismo: Making a Documentary on the Disproportionate Spread of HIV in Latina Women Populations
8 Currier, Alexandra CLASS Anthropology Excavation of a Crossroads Deposit at Magnolia Plantation
9 Williams, Jeremy CLASS Sociology Pedestrian Activity and the Built Environment
10 Parrish, Morgan CLASS Medicine & Society Decline of General Practice Medicine
11 Emler, Kristi CLASS History Researching Spanish Conquest In Colonial Mesoamerica
12 McNish, Robert CLASS Political Science Analyzing Mathematical Models by Measuring Congressional Approval using 2006 Pre-Election Survey Data
13 Johnson, Casey CLASS Philosophy The Mechanical Philosophy
14 Panjwani, Sarah CLASS Comm Sci & Dis Assessment of Houston Speech Language Pathologists
15 Halpern, Katelyn CLASS Theatre The Faces of Electra: A Study of Performance and Translation in Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides’ Electra Plays
16 Darby, Kevin CLASS Psychology Early Implicit Learning: The Effect of Context in a Visual Search Task
17 Arredondo, Maria CLASS Psychology Bilingual Cognitive Advantage and Executive Function Tasks: Case of Argentinean Bilinguals & Monolinguals
18 Brown, Lindsay CLASS Psychology Examining the Relationships between Organizational Politics, Trust, Harassment, and Job Satisfaction
College of Education
19 Petho Robertson, Krisztina EDUC Educational Psychology Multivariate Analysis of Dyadic Perfectionists’ Levels of Relationship Satisfaction and Self-Reported Parenting Styles
20 Nguyen, Tai EDUC Curric & Instruc ProVision - An Evaluation of Academic Performance
21 Williams, Stewart EDUC Health & Human Perf Let’s BOUNCE: A Physical Activity Intervention
22 Raja, Marium EDUC Health & Human Perf Social Injustice & Obesity in African Americans
23 Aziz, Qurrat-ul-ain EDUC Health & Human Perf Lower Extremity Reactive Kinematics to Simulated Trips and Slips
24 Deepti, Roopa EDUC Health & Human Perf Effect of Body Weight on Postural Stability, Gait Stability Trips and Risk of Slipping
25 Agha, N. & Potucek, J. EDUC Health & Human Perf Corticosterone and Leukocyte Levels of Sedentary, Wheel and Treadmill Acclimated Mice…
26 Patel, Jasmine & team EDUC Health & Human Perf Sunergos Index: Identifying Multiple Muscle Coactivation
27 Garcia, Fatima EDUC Health & Human Perf Regional Cortical Response to Stability Threatening Postural Disturbances
28 Pillai, Anish EDUC Health & Human Perf Evaluating the Effects of Various Load-Positioning Methods on Gait Stability During the Walk-to-Run Transition
29 Mathew, Shobha EDUC Health & Human Perf Comparison of Strength Changes in Females On and Off Oral Contraceptives Relative to the Menstrual Cycle
College of Engineering
30 Elzarif, Mustafa ENGR Biomed Engr Generation and Detection of Microbubbles using Phase Stabilized Swept Source Optical Coherence Tomography
31 Rezaee, Panteha ENGR Biomed Engr Development of a Human Breast Tissue Phantom for Optical Coherence Tomography Imaging
32 Weaver, Kevin ENGR Biomed Engr Dielectrophoretic Field Flow Fractionalization of Erythrocytes at Varying Osmolarities
33 Vu, Thai ENGR Chem Engr Perpendicular Triblock Copolymer Nanostructures
34 Forgie, Donald ENGR Chem Engr Structure and Growth of Supported Pt Alloy Nanoparticle Catalysts for Use in Hydrogen Fuel Cells
35 Rueda, Carlos ENGR Chem Engr Microscopic Wetting or Self-Assembled Monolayers on Gold
36 To, Kevin ENGR Elec Engr Latency and Jitter Measurement Tool for Telesurgery over Fiber-Optic Networks
37 Seth, Raghuvar ENGR Elec Engr Telesurgery Message Classification Module Design
38 Nguyen. H & Whittaker, G. ENGR Elec Engr Retaining the McCollough Effect: Is Sleep Equal to Lack of Visual Exposure?
39 Nguyen, Khoi ENGR Mech Engr Mechanical and Electro-Mechanical Properties of Carbon Nanofiber Paper Reinforced Elastomer Composites
College of Technology
40 Loop, Justin TECH Engineering Technology Wireless Smart Heart Monitoring System
41 Sargeon, Jade & team TECH Engineering Technology Remote Operated Vehicle
42 Ramirez, Ana & team TECH Engineering Technology Smart Crib
43 Valenzuela, Nicholas TECH Engineering Technology Automated Prototype Generation for Multi-Color Karyotyping
44 Varma, Sparsh TECH Human Dev & Con Sci Investigating Trainers’ Workplace Methods for Learning about Transfer
45 Coffey, Chelsea TECH Human Dev & Con Sci The Impact of Thin Celebrity Images on Postpartum Body Image and Appearance Management Behavior
46 McWhirter, Melissa TECH Info & Logistics Impact of Perishable Products’ Inventory Policies on Retailer’s Profits
47 Kibbe, Colby TECH Info & Logistics Researching the Impact of 20th Century Printing Equipment for Potential Acquisition by the Museum of Printing History
48 Johnson, Matthew & team TECH Info & Logistics Digital Camera
College of Natural Sciences and Mathematics
49 Chesser-Martinez, Patricia NSM Biochemistry Modulation of Cell Adhesion through Surface Chemistry Changes
50 Cai, Cecilia NSM Biology Development of A Method for Identifying Breast Cancer Anti-Oncogenes With Lentiviral Mutagenesis
51 Zamani, Nader NSM Biology Identifying Melanoma Related Genes Using Published Microarray Gene Expression Data
52 Duong, Lillian NSM Chemistry Observation of Contact Angle Hysteresis of Water on Self Assembled Monolayer by Using Contact Angle Goniometry
53 Nguyen, Tu NSM Chemistry Palladium-Catalyzed Cross Coupling of C-H Bonds
54 Markovich, Thomas NSM Chemistry Application of Non-Uniform Fast Fourier Transform Methods for More Efficient Acoustic Solvers
55 Nguyen, Hieu NSM Chemistry Palladium-Coated Silver Nanoparticles: New Materials for Catalysis and Drug Delivery
56 Green, MacKenzi NSM Chemistry Model Polymeric Interfaces Via Self-Assembled Monolayer Technology
57 Xiao, Pengfei NSM Chemistry The Study of Hydrogen Bonds in Water and Urea
58 Ouk, Theany NSM Chemistry Synthesis of 1,8-Naphthyridine and Benzo[b]-1,8-Naphthyridine Derivatives as well as their Ru (II) Complexes
59 Wang, Kenuo NSM Chemistry Phase Behavior of Hemoglobin Solutions
60 Loocke, Matthew NSM Earth and Atmos Sci Godzilla Mullion in the Western Pacific: Death of a Seafloor Volcanic System
61 Anderson, Darrell NSM Earth and Atmos Sci Comparison of the Ozone Vertical Profiles from Brewer Spectrophotometer and Ozonesonde Balloons Measured at UH…
62 Helaire, Renauda NSM Earth and Atmos Sci Analyzing Trends in High Episode Ozone Days in Houston Area in Relation to Attainment of Federal Standards
63 Zaldivar, Melvin NSM Mathematics An Adaptive Inexact Newton Method for Nonlinear Two-Point Boundary-Value Problems
64 Reichl, Matthew NSM Physics Phase Diagram for a 2-D Two-Temperature Diffusive XY Model
65 Scoppa, Megan NSM Physics Molecular Modeling of the ATP-synthase Motor F0 Subunit and Proton Translocation
66 Lam, Peter NSM Physics Expression of Soluble Factors by Biliary Epithelial Cells under Mechanical Stress
College of Pharmacy
67 Shenoy, Akhil PHARM Molecular Pharm Impact of CREB Phosphorylation on Chromogranin a Expression: Implications for Neuroendrocrine…
68 Chung, Samuel PHARM Pharmacy Novel Bioreducible Polymeric Gene Delivery System for Ischemic Heart Disease
69 Nguyen, Toan PHARM Pharmacy Synthesis of a Novel Drug Delivery System for the Treatment of Invasive Pulmonary Aspergillosis
70 Penaloza, Jose PHARM Pharmacy Synthesis and Characterization of Gold-Silver Alloy Nanoshells on Gd-doped Iron Oxide Nanoparticle Cores
71 Ha, Phuong PHARM Pharmacy Role of the Toll-like Receptor-Adapter Protein TIRAP in Drug-Induced Liver Toxicity
72 Vu, Anh PHARM Pharmacy Introducing a Novel Concept Generation of TP Receptor Point Mutation for Direct PCR Product
73 Panchal, Shyam PHARM Pharmacy Synthesis of Poly-Phenolic Derivatives and Evaluation for Anti-Bacterial and Anti-Fungal Activity
74 Perez, Cynthia PHARM Pharmacy Comparative Transcriptional Profiles of the Pulmonary Innate Immune Response to Isogenic Antibiotic-Susceptible...
75 Oni, Emmanuel PHARM Pharmacy Deletion of Promyelocytic Leukemia Tumor Suppressor Factor (PML) Affects Brain Plasticity and Synapse Connections
76 Butler, Karlis PHARM Pharmacy Behavioral Characterization of a Promelocytic Leukemia Tumor Suppressor Factor (PML)-null Mouse
77 Karimi, Parastoo PHARM Pharmacy Novel Method to Screen Active Ingredients in Herbal Compound Using Fluorescent Microscopy
78 Sarraj, Nada PHARM Pharmacy Treadmill-Exercise Increases Antioxidant Homeostasis and Decreases Oxidative Stress-Induced Anxiety in Rats
79 Tang, Kristin PHARM Pharmacy A Study of Troponin C Mutations A8V and D145E Related to Heart Disease
80 Willacey, Miranda PHARM Pharmacy The Effects of TnC Mutations on Calcium Dissociation Rates