International politics, environmental experiments, and race relations are just a few of the research topics that will be presented at the 10th Annual Student Research and Fine Arts Conference at Augusta State University. The conference, which is being held on Wednesday, March 11, from 10:30 a.m. through 4 p.m., is sponsored by the university’s chapter of the Honor Society of Phi Kappa Phi and is being supported this year by a corporate sponsor, First Citizens. This event is free and the public is invited.
The conference begins with a panel presentation in 170 University Hall featuring former student presenters. An excerpt from the Broadway musical Oklahoma! will also be presented by ASU’s Department of Music during the opening ceremony. The 2009 student conference exhibitions will follow in Augusta State’s Jaguar Student Activities Center.
Among the topics of research for this year’s conference are:
Biology in the lab or the field: Reproduction of the Red Claw Crayfish in captivity; Effect of pH on biosynthesis of prodigiosin by Serratia marcescens; Motion of a magnetotactic bacteria.
Science: History, teaching, and research: Alchemy’s advancement into chemistry; Electrophilic halogenation of sulfanilamide in the organic teaching laboratory; Synthesis of the thiophene analogue of a potent antiprotozoal agent; Graph theory, topology, and the million dollar question.
Relations: International, internal, and interpersonal: Venezuela’s international relations; U.S.–Mexico relations: Implications of the policy on drugs; Life after “War is Hell”: PTSD in Civil War veterans; Race and body image effects on perceptions of attractiveness; The quilt code: Fact or fiction; A fictional window into the reality of Afghan politics: The role of external powers in Afghan politics, Afghanistan as failed state in Hosseini’s A Thousand Splendid Suns; The role of tribal leadership in Hosseini’s A Thousand Splendid Suns; The role of identity in Hosseini’s A Thousand Splendid Suns; Patriarchy and its discontents in Hosseini’s A Thousand Splendid Suns.
Synthesis in chemistry and physics: Synthesis of N-substituted analogues of a potent HHV-6 inhibitor; Novel tricyclic heterocycles via intramolecular N-arylation of 2-aminopyrroles and thiophenes; Synthesis and fluorination of various 1,3,5-triarylpyrazoles; Synthesis of an Al-Ga-In-Sn alloy: An alternative method of generating Hydrogen gas for the operation of a fuel cell.
Physics: Observations, simulations, and equations: Optimized field gradient directions in diffusion tensor imaging; Hysteresis loop area of the next-nearest neighbor kinetic Ising model; An experimental setup to verify the catenary equation; Digital filter processor: Detecting objects through hue, saturation, and value.
Heroes/Heroines: Performing drag: Reality versus perception; Tolkien: The great translator of heroes; Foucault, feminism, and Shelley’s Frankenstein: Death of the feminine female; Unmasking Othello: Expanding beyond race.
Other: At the movies: Perceptions of short film.
Posters Presentations: High-resolution magnetic survey over Laramide and Basin and Range structure, Big Bend National Park, Texas; The building and evaluation of a Hydrogen fuel station; Gender, sex role, and job attribute preferences; Disconnected: An ethnographic exploration; An experimental study of the lengthening pendulum; Funny stuff: A study of developmental preferences for humorous images; Body image satisfaction between African American and Caucasian college women; Effects of pollutants on Bluegill Sunfish reproduction; Effect of a summer prescription burn on the community structure of gopher tortoise forage; What’s on the agenda?; Rolling resistance of tires with a rotary pendulum: Preliminary results; What’s the key to love: Passion, commitment or intimacy?; Effect of slide printouts on task load during PowerPoint lecture; Synthesis of a dehydrogenated analogue of a potent HHV-6 inhibitor; Mark and recapture as a method to determine Turtle migration at Reed Creek Park Interpretive Center.
For more information, contact ASU’s Office of Public Relations and Publications or go to www.aug.edu/pkp for a complete conference schedule, list of presenters and faculty sponsors, and presentation locations.
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