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WVU well-represented at 14th Annual Undergraduate Research Day
MORGANTOWN, W. Va. —Some of the brightest college students in West Virginia will display their work at the 14th Annual Undergraduate Research Day at the State Capitol Friday (Feb. 24). Students from 14 colleges and universities will participate, including 53 students from West Virginia University who will present in 39 posters.
WHAT: Undergraduate Research Day at the Capitol is an annual event designed to show legislators and the community the exciting and groundbreaking work that is conducted at state colleges and universities.
WHEN: Friday, Feb. 24, 8:30 a.m. to 10:45 a.m.
WHERE: The West Virginia State Capitol Rotunda, Charleston
WHO: The event is organized by the WVU Office of Undergraduate Research in collaboration with the West Virginia Higher Education Policy Commission, Marshall University, and West Virginia State University
The following WVU students are participating. For details on their presentations, see the full abstract at http://undergraduateresearch.wvu.edu/files/d/0eb8f499-8f17-434e-b13d-21335a48fdcf/2017-abstract-booklet.pdf
WV Fife and Drum in Music
Education
Brianna Busch (Maryland)
Modeling, Simulation and
Control of a Supercritical Coal-fired Power Plant for Smart Grid Applications
Jacob Douglas (Putnam County)
Discovery of Soot Formation
Pathways via Reactive Molecular Dynamics
Elijah Hedrick (Putnam County)
Light Extraction Efficiency
Enhancement of III-V Nitride Based LEDs through Periodic Plasmonic Structures
Catherine O'Hearn (Upshur County)
Modeling Vibrio in
Estuarine Environment: Remote Sensing and in-situ Implications
Stephen Cavanaugh (Pennsylvania)
Energy Efficiency
Recommendations for Morgantown City Buildings
Zela Wyrosdick
Mountaineer Mercury Rover
Nicholas Mireles (Virginia), David-Michael Buckman (Berkeley
County), and Devyn Gentzyel (Alabama)
Liberation by Fine Grinding
in Mineral Processing
Chad Martin (Maryland)
An Innovative Approach to
Solving Traffic Congestion at Morgantown’s Busiest Crossroads: The Mountainlair
David Donaldson (Monongalia County)
High Fructose Corn Syrup-55
Promotes Triglyceride Accumulation and Alters Fat Metabolism in the Liver
Sundus Lateef (Monongalia County)
Brain Trauma and MicroRNAs
Sara Nayeem (Monongalia County)
Leukemia in the Bone Marrow
Microenvironment
Patrick Thomas (Putnam County)
Identifying Differential
Gene Expression in Cytotoxic T Cells Induced by B16F0 Melanoma Exosomes
Cassidy Bland (Brooke County)
Harnessing In Vivo
Biochemical and Biomechanical Cues for Stem Cell Biomanufacturing
Anna Gilpin (Berkeley County)
Commensal Microbiota in the
Intestine Influence Immunity to a Vaccine
Savannah Austen (Ohio County) and Brittany Fulbright (Ohio County)
Low-dose Wearable PET
imaging during Ambulatory Motion in Humans
Nanda Siva (Wood County)
Mitochondrial miRNAs: Novel
Disease-Modifying Therapeutic Targets in Alzheimer’s Disease
Pooja Ajay Warrier (Monongalia County) and Emily Hone
Middle-Aged WVn’s
Perspectives Regarding Healthful Eating and Weight Management
Ashley Gousios (Illinois)
Electronic Cigarette
Expectancies in Adolescents: Differences as a Function of Use
Hayley Harman (Monongalia County)
Mobile Health (mHealth)
Use, or Non-Use, by Residents of WV
Alexis Popa (Ohio)
Integrating WV-Based Music
into the State K-8 Social Studies Curriculum
Alexandra Mullins (Kanawha County)
Economic Warfare to
Humanitarian Relief: Great Britain during the Napoleonic Era
Lauren Griffin (Tennessee)
Court of Chancery and
Material Culture
Morgan McMinn (Roane County)
A Stilted Shift: The
Southern Vowel Shift in Midland Appalachia
Olivia Grunau (Monongalia County), Krislin Nuzum (Harrison County),
and Janelle Vickers (Marshall County)
A Search for Fast Radio
Bursts in Archival Green Bank Telescope Drift Scan Data
Anika Rowe (Kanawha County)
Examining Growth, HPI Axis
Hormone Expression, and Locomotion in Zebrafish gs homeobox 1 Mutants
Sarah Peterson (Putnam County)
The Significance of Sodalis
pheA Towards the Metabolic Integration of Tsetse Symbiosis
Hunter White (Kanawha County)
Computational
Characterization of Cell Membrane Interactions with pH (Low) Insertion Peptide
(pHLIP)
Austin Clark (Kanawha County),
Zachary Bonham (Monongalia County) and Jaycie Saseen (Randolph County)
Materials Science and
Engineering Collaboration- WVU & The University of Crete (FORTH)
Jared Beard (Monongalia County),
Garrett Wotring (Monongalia County) and Chandler Williams (Kanawha County)
Leaf Angle Variability
within an Oak-Hickory Forest
Christopher King (Maryland)
High Tunnels: Starting from
the Ground Up
James McClain (Harrison County)
Minimal Noise-Induced
Stabilization of One-Dimensional Diffusions
Tony Allen (Putnam County), Emily
Gebhardt, and Adam Kluball
The Effects of Changes in
Reinforcer Magnitude in Resurgence
Matthew Klocke (Monongalia County)
A Life Not Your Own
Ashton McKinney (Fayette County)
Examining the Association
between Unhealthy Eating Behaviors and Depressive Symptoms in Adolescence
Brooke Cottrill (Harrison County)
A Review on Efficacy versus
Effectiveness in Parent-Child Interaction Therapy
Cassandra Drain (Virginia), Hannah
Coffey (Berkeley County), and Emma Veshecco (Pennsylvania)
Use of Force in American
Policing
Alec Corapinski (Upshur County)
One Youth Soccer Coach's
Maiden Implementation of the Tactical Games Model
Obidiah Atkinson (Ontario, Canada)
Co-Ed Proms at WV
University
Elana Zambori (Ohio County)
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