WKU’s 46th Annual Student Research Conference Presentations
Here is a list of presenters for WKU’s 46th Annual Student Research Conference on April 2. List includes name, hometown, research title and faculty mentor.
Adam Paicely of Thousand Oaks, California,Adam Hyman of Bowling Green,Brandon L Evans of Bowling Green and Gary Goss of Honolulu, Hawaii, will present The Acute Effects Of Whole Body Vibration On Vertical Jump, Power, Balance, And Agility In Untrained Adults. Faculty mentor: Harvey Wallmann
ApurvaAmbekar of Pleasanton, California, and Ann-Ashleigh Gray of Park City will present Motor Profile Of Individuals With Agenesis Of The Corpus Callosum: Development And Initial Stages Of A Systematic Review. Faculty mentor: Sonia Young
LeahTaylor of Bonnieville,Daniel Le of Bowling Green,Benjamin Mahoney of Corvallis, Oregon, and Sarah McCandless of Glasgow will present Prevalence Of And Risk Factors Associated With Congenital Anomalies Of The Nervous System In Kentucky 2000-2010: Development And Initial Stages Of A Prevalence Study. Faculty mentor: Sonia Young
ScottBoudreaux of New Iberia, Louisiana, Jesse Espe of Bowling Green andCorey Moore of Murfreesboro, Tennessee, will present Comparison Of Shoulder Torque Production In Make And Break Tests As Performed By DPT Students Using A Hand-held Dynamometer. Faculty mentor: Kurt Neelly
JessicaStallings of Bowling Green and Tamara Thomas of Clarksville, Tennessee, will present Childbirth Experiences of Doula-Assisted Births. Faculty mentor:Marilyn Gardner
MayankKapadia of Austin, Texas, will present Identification Of Collagen Iv Associated Proteins From Third Larval Instar Using Drosophila Genetics And Mass Spectrometry. Faculty mentor: Ajay Srivastava
SvetlanaTer-Grigoryan of Bowling Green will present No (wo)man's Land: Popular Press Discourse On. Faculty mentor: Marko Dumancic
BereniceAnaya of Bowling Green will present Self-regulation In Preschoolers: Hot And Cold Self-regulation Tasks As Predictive Measures Of School Readiness. Faculty mentor: Elizabeth Lemerise
GongboLiangof Bowling Green will present Pedestrian Detection Using Line Segments. Faculty mentor: Qi Li
MichaelGilbert of Ledbetter will present Impacts Of Habitat Fragmentation On The Trophic Morphology Of A Threatened Desert Fish (cyprinodon Pecosensis). Faculty mentor: Michael Collyer
CharlotteBrindley of Adairville will present The Hite House: Blood, Decay, And Jesse James. Faculty mentor: Timothy Evans
KristenClark of Bowling Green will present Avenging Cinderella: Melding Traditions And Metanarrative In "If The Shoe Fits." Faculty mentor: Tim Evans
BryanKnowles of Louisville will present Decision Making Under Visible Uncertainty. Faculty mentor: Mustafa Atici
LakenCooper of Christiansburg, Virginia, will present Effect Of Sleep Disruption Upon Cytokine Gene Expression Of Zebra Finch (taeniopygia Guttata). Faculty mentor: Noah Ashley
Jason Payne of Hardinsburg will present Novel Self-patented Gold Nanoparticles For Augmented Antineoplastic Activity. Faculty mentor: Stuart Burris
ChaseLaDue of Lewisville, Texas, will present Chemosignaling In Asian Elephants (elephas Maximus): Concentration Effects With Applications For Management And Conservation. Faculty mentor: Bruce Schulte
Brenna Sherrillof Elizabethtown will present The Manic Pixie Dream Girl In Independent Film. Faculty mentor: Ted Hovet
Anita Westhues of Bowling Green will present Well Stories: Alternative Understandings On Water Purity And Stewardship. Faculty mentor: Ashley Stinnett
Diane Williams of Bowling Green will present Gaelic Women's Stories: The Influence Of Context On Narrative. Faculty mentor: Ann Ferrell
FrederickFlynn of Bowling Green will present How The U.S. Came To Recognize Israel. Faculty mentor: Beth Plummer
RachelHaberman of Bowling Green will present In The Shadow Of The Cave: The Persistence Of Tradition In Edmonson County. Faculty mentor: Ann Ferrell
ZacharySullivan of Goodlettsville, Tennessee, will present Influences Karst Geologic Terrains Have On Atmospheric Phenomenon Within Tennessee And Kentucky. Faculty mentor: Xingang Fan
ElizabethMcCrary of Bowling Green will present Reconsidering The Role Of Affect In Terror Management Research: Experiencing Fear Under Mortality Salience. Faculty mentor: Aaron Wichman
ClarissaRoe of Bowling Green will presentInvestigation Of Carbon Nanomaterials Embedded In A Cementitious Matrix. Faculty mentor: Dr. Edward Kintzel
ClaireCasey of Brentwood, Tennessee, will present Opposing Treatments Of Ethnic Representation In The Television Series Parks And Recreation. Faculty mentor: Ann Ferrell
Ajay Kalra of Delhi, India, will present Whispering Pines: Spatial Codes Of Recorded Late- And Post-countercultural Pastoral Music. Faculty mentor: Ann Ferrell
Samantha Castleman of Bowling Green will present Subversion In Search Of Tradition: The Fairy Tale Heart Of Dreamworks' Shrek. Faculty mentor: Ann Ferrell
SarahShultz of Bowling Green will present Transformation And Transgression In The Complete Fairy Tales Of The Brothers Grimm. Faculty mentor: Ann Ferrell
FarshidAlavi of Bowling Green will present Optimization Of Process Parameters In Micro Electrical Discharge Machining (edm) Of Ti-6al-4v Alloy Based On Full Factorial Design. Faculty mentor: Muhammad Jahan
KawaiKwong of Bowling Green will present Synthetic And Mechanistic Studies Of Bis-porphyrin-manganese(iii) μ-oxo Dimer. Faculty mentor: Rui Zhang
RobertSchaefer of Cecilia will present Sourcing And Dynamics Of Karst Hydrologic Inputs On Harmful Algal Bloom Occurrences In Kentucky Lakes. Faculty mentor: Jason Polk
InduBhattaraiof Ardmore, Oklahoma, will present Quantitative Geomorphic Analysis And Digital Processing Of Aster Imagery In The Siwalik Foreland Basin, Nepalese Himalaya: An Investigation Of Landscape Response To Neotectonics. Faculty mentor: Nahid Gani
RippaSehgal of Bowling Green will present Reactions Of Oxaliplatin And Its Analog With DNA Nuleotides At Variable Ph And Concentration Levels. Faculty mentor: Kevin Williams
RebaHall of Bowling Green will present Police Reform And Diversification: Can Police Brutality Be Impacted By A Diversified Police Department. Faculty mentor: Andrew Rosa
Aditya Sharma of Bowling Green,Sai Adigarla of Bowling Green,Yagna Roopa Kasaraneni of Hyderabad, India,and Jenina Ortega of San Jose, California, will present Inappropriate Use Of Emergency Services In Immigrant Populations. Faculty mentor: William Mkanta
LoriFroedge of Louisville will present Assessments: Where Has The Accountability Gone? Faculty mentor: Jennifer Cribbs
Wei LongLuoof Bowling Green will present Synthetic And Catalytic Oxidation Studies By Metalloporphyrin And Metallocorrole. Faculty mentor: Rui Zhang
AnuKini of Mumbai, India, will present Detection Of Methylated DNA Using Engineered Zinc Finger Proteins. Faculty mentor: Moon-Soo Kim
MeaganLuttrell of Bowling Green will present Effects Of Reward Motivation On Verbal And Non-verbal Recognition Memory. Faculty mentor: Sharon Mutter
Travis Brummett of Albany will present Cloud Middleware. Faculty mentor: Michael Galloway
AustinBiggs of Nashville, Tennessee, will present Conservatives V. Moderates: Baptist Culture Wars. Faculty mentor: Tamara Van Dyken
PezhmanSheinidashtegol of Tehran, Iran, will present Impact Of Ddos Attack On Three Common Hypervisors. Faculty mentor: Michael Galloway
SamuelGalbraith of Louisville will present Developing A Measure For Assessing Virtual Organizational Citizenship Behaviors. Faculty mentor: Amber Schroeder
EmilyMartin of Bowling Green will present Examining The Effect Of Expatriate Narcissism Levels On Cultural Adjustment And Global Leadership Effectiveness. Faculty mentor: Amber Schroeder
Yu-HsuanChen of Kaohsiung, Taiwan, will present The Role Of Hypertension In The Prevention Of Cardiovascular Disease. Faculty mentor: Colin Farrell
MichelleBubnis of Bowling Green will present Body Image Comparisons Between High Intensity Functional Training And Traditional Strength Training Participants. Faculty mentor: Jason Crandall
Joshua Brown of Brentwood, Tennessee, will present Workstations For Improving Workplace Physical Activity And Sitting Time. Faculty mentor: Jason Crandall
Sai PavanAdigarla of Vijayawada, India, will present The Impact Of Obesity On The Life Expectancy In The United States Of America. Faculty mentor: Elmer Gray
Dustin Falls of Scottsville will present Mobile Application For Improving Functional Performance And Health Education In Older Adults. Faculty mentor: Jason Crandall
JacqulynCavanaugh of Bowling Green will present Facebook Faking: Examining Ratings Of Modified Profiles. Faculty mentor: Amber Schroeder
JenniferTimmers of Edgewood will present Comparison Of The Effects Of Two Growth Implant Strategies On The Average Daily Gain Of Suckling Calves Fed "ky-31" Endophyte Infected Tall Fescue. Faculty mentor: Linda Brown
Sarah Adams of Leipsic, Ohio, will present Participation In Organizational Health And Wellness Programs. Faculty mentor: Amber Schroeder
Qianna Xu of Saint Louis, Missouri, will present Body Morphology Diversification Among The Pecos Pupfish Populations In Relation To Interspecific Interactions And Environmental Factors. Faculty mentor: Michael Collyer
GargyaMalla of Bowling Green will present Obesity: Psychological Health Vs Cardiac Health. Faculty mentor: Colin Farrell
AndrewRowland of Spring, Texas, and Alana Alexander of Bowling Green will present The Value Of Professionalism. Faculty mentor: Amber Schroeder
BethAnneClayton of Madisonville will present Influence Of Gender On Attitudes Toward And Perceived And Self-selected Intensity During High-intensity Body-weight Exercise. Faculty mentor: Jill Maples
MichaelDurlin of Bowling Green will present Imvu: The Introductory Study Of An Technology Based Culture. Faculty mentor: Ann Ferrell
NuhaShaker of Bowling Green will present Exercise Reverses The Pathophysiology Associated With Elevated Mmp-9 In A Hyperhomocysteinemic Mouse Model. Faculty mentor: Jill Maples
Jamye Bowins Hardy of Nashville, Tennessee, will present Benefits Of Regular Volunteerism For Undergraduate Students. Faculty mentor: April Murphy
KennethAnderson of Bowling Green will present Growth Of The Marbled Salamander (ambystoma Opacum) On Substrates Of Varying Acidity. Faculty mentor: Jarrett Johnson
Megan Sparksof Maysville will present Prevalent Brain-based Myths In Education. Faculty mentor: Lisa Duffin
MatthewShirleyof Columbia will present Watershed health assessment for a small municipal separate storm sewer system within the Mansker Creek Watershed. Faculty mentor: Ritchie Taylor
DollyNa-Yemeh of Winneba, Ghana, will present Synoptic Conditions And Equivalent Temperature Variations In Kentucky. Faculty mentor: Rezaul Mahmood
JennaWoosley of Caneyville will present Profile Of Kentucky Geocachers. Faculty mentor: Darren Smith
StacyHicksof Monticello will present Characterization And Threat Assessment Of Potentially Hazardous Near Earth Asteroids. Faculty mentor: Mike Carini
KoltonJones of Bowling Green will present Dynamic Modular Instrumentation Platform. Faculty mentor: Yan Cao
Jimmy Shah of Bowling Green will present Trailblazing Uses Of Health Information Technology. Faculty mentor: Gregory Ellis Griffith
Steven King of Bowling Green will present Implementing Tele-stroke In Rural Hospitals. Faculty mentor: Bob Hatfield
Rachel Burns of Winchester, Kansas, and Rebecca Russell of Maricopa, Arizona, will present Signing With Children With Down Syndrome. Faculty mentor: Janice Smith
Paige Wessel of Louisville and Brooke Grimes of Bowling Green will present Accuracy Of Accelerometers During High Intensity Body Weight Resistance Training In Males And Females. Faculty mentor: Jill Maples
Casey Taylor of Scottsville will present Hitler's Model Protectorate: Resistance In Occupied Denmark. Faculty mentor: Beth Plummer
JuhwaKim of Yongin, South Korea, will present Multiplexed Detection Of Pathogenic DNA Using Zinc Finger Proteins Without DNA Amplification. Faculty mentor: Moon-Soo Kim
Barrett Greenwell of Bardstown will present Do Ask, Do Tell: The Exclusion Of Gay Men From Universal Male Conscription In The Republic Of Turkey. Faculty mentor: Patricia Minter
KellyFussman of Hendersonville, Tennessee, will present Outcomes Of A Speech & Language Pilot Program For International Students. Faculty mentor: Mary Lloyd Moore
SeanJacobson of Louisville will present Western's New Deal: The Shaping Of College Heights During The Great Depression. Faculty mentor: Patricia Minter
KristenPedersen of Barbourville will present The Kinematics Of Stingray Envenomation. Faculty mentor: Steve Huskey
MarySpraggs of Bowling Green will present Constraining The Physical Properties Of Cold Interstellar Gas Clouds. Faculty mentor: Steven Gibson
MeganSkaggs of Brownsville will present Invisible Children: The Effectiveness Of Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs) In Primary Education In Central America. Faculty mentor: Timothy Rich
JohnBailey of Mount Washington will present Language Proficiency Benefits Of An Arabic Language Immersion House. Faculty mentor: David DiMeo
Victor Lecoffre of Bowling Green will present Perception Of Space In Architecture. Faculty mentor: Shahnaz Aly
Katherine Knight of Bowling Green will present Sometimes The Flower Is Just A Flower: Georgia O'keeffe, The Unintentional Feminist Idol. Faculty mentor: Guy Jordan
CoryOwens of Ferguson and Kristen Griffin of Saint Charles, Missouri, will present Influence Of Ph And Xanthan-locust Bean Mixtures On The Creaming And Flocculation Of Whey Protein-stabilized Oil-in-water Emulsions. Faculty mentor: Hanna Khouryieh
ConnorBrooks of Louisville and Christopher Goulet of Munfordville will present Autonomous Control Of An Indoor Micro Aerial Vehicle Using A Multi-layer Architecture. Faculty mentor: Michael Galloway
Maelee Fleming of Smyrna, Tennessee, will present Women Domination: The Presence And Role of Women Warriors In Herodotus' Histories. Faculty mentor: Eric Kondratieff
HannahRuggles of Lexington will present The Age-friendly Cities Project In Bowling Green: An Oral History. Faculty mentor: Dana Bradley
JayRichey of Glasgow will present Building A Superpower: The Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank. Faculty mentor: Timothy Rich
ToriMillsof Adairville will presentUnveiled: The Embodiment Of An Idyllic And Enlightened Poland In Pawlikowksi's Ida. Faculty mentor: Jerod Hollyfield
BrookeDuke of Bowling Green will present Toxicity Effects Of Platinum Compound Leaving Ligands On Cancer Cells. Faculty mentor: Kevin Williams
Lauren Bailesof Harrodsburg will present Examining Predictors Of Paternal Sensitivity: The Role Of Paternal Personality And Infant Temperament. Faculty mentor: Diane Lickenbrock
Audrey Brown of Alvaton will present Disruption Of Hpa-axis Function In Fetal Development Alters Endocrine Responses To Stress Throughout Life. Faculty mentor: Noah Ashley
FranklynWallace of Georgetown will present Use Of Surface Enhanced Raman Spectroscopy To Monitor Photocatalytic Reactions. Faculty mentor: Matthew Nee
JoshuaBaunach of Taylorsville will present Choosing Software Metrics For Defect Prediction. Faculty mentor: Huanjing Wang
WilliamHamilton of Bowling Green will present Carbapenem Functionalized Gold Nanoparticle Synthesis, Characterization, And Antibacterial Susceptibility Testing. Faculty mentor: Stuart Burris
DelaneyHolt of Burlington will present The Creature Creation: Popular Culture's Altered Depiction Of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein. Faculty mentor: Ted Hovet
AlexSizemore of Bowling Green will present An Investigation Of The 16 June 2014 Pilger, NE Tornado Event. Faculty mentor: Joshua Durkee
AaronKirtland of Crestwood will present Geometry Methods For Reducing The Number Of Hypothesis Boxes In The Context Of Pedestrian Detection. Faculty mentor: Qi Li
Nicole Williams of Louisville will present Expression Of Cellulose-digesting Enzymes In Chlamydomonas. Faculty mentor:Sigrid Jacobshagen
JacobBrumley of Lawrenceburg will present Changes To The Fish Species Diversity Of The Middle Fork Of Drakes Creek Over 40 Years. Faculty mentor: Philip Lienesch
RachelSudbeck of Omaha, Nebraska, will presentBobbie Ann Mason's Tenth Birthday Party-- Cultural Coping Mechanisms In Dealing With Child Death. Faculty mentor: Mary Ellen Miller
Peter Agaba of Bowling Green will present Incorporating Exponential Functions Into An Optimal Control Model For A Chronic Wound. Faculty mentor: Richard Schugart
IsaacBowers of Aurora, Indiana, will present The Severe Weather Outbreak Of March 2, 2012: An Analysis Of Remote Sensing Techniques. Faculty mentor: Joshua Durkee
HannahGossett of Jasper, Indiana, will presentSelf-esteem, Sense Of Belonging, And Body Satisfaction Of College-aged Women. Faculty mentor: Jennifer Cribbs
AubreyPenn of Frankfort will present Environmentally Friendly Method For Nickel Nanostructure Synthesis. Faculty mentor: Hemali Rathnayake
SarahTockstein of Belleville, Illinois, will present Designing A Unique Therapeutic Agent Involving Gold Nanoparticles Capped With Cephalosporins For Potent Antibacterial Applications. Faculty mentor: Stuart Burris
MeredithWadlingtonof Bowling Green will present Pan-African Pastoral: Reimagining The Natural Spaces Of Harlem Renaissance Poetics. Faculty mentor: Christopher Lewis
SarahReed of Bowling Green will present Democratic Satisfaction In The Czech Republic For Non-voters And Losers. Faculty mentor: Timothy Rich
HalehJeddi of Bowling Green will presentKinetic Studies Of Oxygen Atom Transfer Reactions By An Oxo-manganese(v) Corrole. Faculty mentor: Rui Zhang
JohnBertram of Jamestown will present TiO2 Embedded In PDMS - A Buoyant, Microstructured Photocatalyst. Faculty mentor: Matthew Nee
MadelineKramer of Crestwood will presentRosencrantz And Guildenstern Are Dead: A Web Of Meta-absurdism. Faculty mentor: Ted Hovet
MaryEllenHendrick of Bartlett, Tennessee, will present More Than Just Torture Porn: Eli Roth And Dismantling American Exceptionalism. Faculty mentor: Jerod Hollyfield
ScoutMunday of Marrowbone will present Color Variation In Sphalerites From Northern Tennessee. Faculty mentor: Andrew Wulff
HeatherByerly of Bowling Green will present Ritual And Mobility: 87sr/86sr, δ18o And δ13c Analyses Comparing Modern And Bronze Age Khirigsuur Horses From Khanuy Valley, Mongolia. Faculty mentor: Jean-Luc Houle
BennettCouch of Independence will present Heteronormativity Is A Drag: Drag Performance As Dissent In An Aggressively Gendered World. Faculty mentor: Sandra Hughes
MatthewRiggle of Madison, Alabama, will present Spatial Analysis of Burmese Refugee Resettlement Locations. Faculty mentor:Jun Yan
JonathanSahlman of Bowling Green will present The Need For New Domestic Patent Legislation To Prevent The Exploitation Of Traditional Knowledge Holding Communities. Faculty mentor:Jessica Furgerson
DerekScott of Bowling Green will present Disparities In Felony Case Processing: An Analysis Of A Southern, Semi-urban Jurisdiction. Faculty mentor: Jeffrey Budziak
AbigailPonder of Glasgow will present The Preservation Of Identity: A Narrative Examination Of National Parks In Kentucky. Faculty mentor: Judith Szerdahelyi
HannahNeeper of Morehead will present Gender Perceptions In Taiwan. Faculty mentor: Timothy Rich
Mollie Todd of Wallingford will present An Analysis Of Female Genital Circumcision And Its Relation To Islam. Faculty mentor: Kate Hudepohl