58th Annual
Eastern Colleges Science Conference

Award Winners

Listed alphabetically by first author

The presentations of full-length papers, platform presentations and poster
presentations at ECSC 2004 were excellent in general. The quality of
research, the actual amounts of research that undergraduates are performing
today are far above levels of a decade ago, and the ability to present
research results was excellent at the meeting. The judging of full-length
papers, platform presentations and poster presentations over the past years
and again this year is viewed by the Board of Directors as a method to
improve the above aspects of undergraduate science. The following persons
were awarded plaques for full-length papers and certificates for poster and
platform presnetations because of the overall outstanding aspects of their
research and presentation of that research.

 

 

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Full-length Papers

Biology: Awards ex equo

Kim, Ji Eun
RELATIONSHIPS BETWEEN NUMBER OF STEM SEGMENTS ON LONGEST BRANCHES, RETENTION OF TERMINAL STEM SEGMENTS, AND ESTABLISHMENT OF DETACHED TERMINAL STEM SEGMENTS FOR 25 CACTUS SPECIES Manhattan College / College of Mount Saint Vincent

Lombardi, Angela and Kori Ortt
THE ROLE OF VASOPRESSIN IN ANXIETY AND MEMORY IN RATS John Carroll University


Psychology: Honorable Mention

Heinselman, Halsey and Caroline Salib
AN INTERRELATIONSHIP BETWEEN VASOPRESSIN AND SUGAR ADDITION John Carroll University

Platform Papers

Duong, Dang V., and Murray S. Korman
INVESTIGATING NONLINEARITY IN ACOUSTIC LANDMINE EXPERIMENTS USING A CLAMPED-PLATE SOIL OSCILLATOR Dept. of Physics, U. S. Naval Academy

Edgren, Kara and Amy Eshleman
STIGMA AGAINST MENTAL ILLNESS Psychology Dept., Wagner College

Kraft, Rachel, Marie L. Nguyen and John A. Blaho
HERPES SIMPLEX VIRUS 1 MEDIATED APOPTOSIS IN TRANFORMED AND NON-TRANSFORMED CELL LINES Manhattan College and Mount Sinai School of Medicine.

Kumar, Maanvi and James Haley
ALTERATION IN SECOND MESSENGER CYCLIC AMP LEVEL IN CULTURED RAT BRAIN ASTROCYTES INDUCED BY EXOGENOUSLY ADDED EGTA TREATED MYELIN MEMBRANES Dept. of Biology, College of Mount Saint Vincent

Palinkas, Carolyn
GETTING THE MESSAGE ACROSS: A GROWING DEMAND FOR "GOOD" CODES IN THE INFORMATION AGE Mathematics Dept., Wagner College

Pothier, Dawn, and Dr. Nicholas Richardson
SYNTHESIS AND IN VITRO ANALYSIS OF IRON(III)-BASED MRI CONTRAST AGENTS Chemistry Dept., Wagner College

Richardson, Shaun
THE SHORT AND LONG TERM EFFECT OF OPTHALMECTOMY OF BOTH EYES ON PLASMA MELATONIN IN RANA CATESBEIANA TADPOLES Biology Dept., Elms College 

Savva, Yiannis, and Michael Davis
ANTIBACTERIAL COMPOUNDS ISOLATED FROM THE SOIL BACTERIUM BACILLUS POLYMYXA Dept. of Biological Sciences, Central Connecticut State University.

Poster Papers

Barth, Kenneth R., and Dr. Mark A. Gallo
COMPARISON OF THE FLANKING REGIONS OF STREPTOMYCETE BIOSYNTHETIC GENE CLUSTERS, Biology Dept., Niagara University

Gagnon, Nicole and Angela Tennis
ASSESSING THE EFFECTIVENESS OF MEDIA LITERACY ON HEALTH ATTITUDES AND NUTRITIONAL KNOWLEDGE IN GRADES Psychology Dept., Ithaca College

Karki, Roshan, S. Chettri, and K. Dragon
IDENTIFICATION OF FLAGELLAR PROTEINS IN CHLAMYDOMONAS REINHARDTII Dept. of Biology, Eastern Connecticut State University

Smith, Tanya
THE USE OF PORPHYRINS AS LIGHT ABSORBING SENSITIZERS FOR PHOTODYNAMIC THERAPY WITH C6 RAT GLIOMA CELLS Biochemistry/Chemistry Dept., Manhattan College / College of Mount Saint Vincent