ITHACA, NY — Twenty-five Ithaca College students have been selected to present their research projects at the 23rd National Conference on Undergraduate Research (NCUR), being held April 16–18 at the University of Wisconsin–La Crosse. The conference serves as a showcase for more than 2,000 students and their faculty mentors in all fields of study to present their original research through posters, oral presentations, visual arts and performances. Ithaca College has been chosen to serve as host of the NCUR conference in 2011.

Ithaca students will present their work on research projects from a wide variety of disciplines: art history, biology, biochemistry, business, chemistry, English, journalism, mathematics, physical therapy, social work and strategic communication.

NCUR accepts only about two-thirds of the 3,000 presentation proposals submitted annually. Thirty-one Ithaca students submitted presentation abstracts for this year’s conference.

“Our 80% acceptance rate far exceeds NCUR’s normal ratio,” said Kathleen Rountree, provost and vice president for academic affairs. “This reflects highly on both the quality of the work of our student researchers and the mentoring of their faculty sponsors to prepare them for this process.”

The notice that each accepted student received from the NCUR selection committee reads: “Chosen from thousands of submissions, your abstract displayed a unique contribution to your field of study. Your scholastic achievements and efforts are impressive and we hope you continue this high standard of excellence into graduate school and beyond.”

Listed below are the research projects that will be presented by Ithaca College students:

 Division of Interdisciplinary and International Studies
Kasey Stevenson ‘10
“How is Creative Expression Important to the Emotional Wellbeing of Older Adults?”

 Roy H. Park School of Communications
Madalyn Averbach ‘09
“The Generation Gap in the Modern Workplace” 

Brian Cicero ‘10
“There’s No‘I’ in Team: Effect of Organizational Teams on Individual Autonomy”

Ara Eckel ‘09

“Eliminating Groupthink”

 Renee LaDue ‘09
“Building an Internal Corporate Identity Through Computer Mediated Communication” 

Andrew Longcore ‘09
“The Emerging Technology Narrative Approach (ETNA) to Crisis Management” 

Janelle Mackereth ‘09
“The Leadership ‘Double Bind’ in the 2008 Election” 

Andrea Palmer ‘09
“Corporate Social Responsibility in a Post-Enron Business Environment” 

Virginia Moore ‘09
“Technological Imperialism: Achieving Development Without Dependency” 

Maura Gladys ‘11
“Real Differences in Fantasy Sports” 

Laura Rowett ‘09
“The Influence of Electronic Communication on a Developing Generation” 

School of Health Sciences and Human Performance
Katherine Grandelski ‘09
“A Theraband™ Simulation of the Penguin Flight Suit on Balance Stability Measures in Normal Young Adults” 

School of Humanities and Sciences
Eric Van Fleet ‘09
“Differential Gene Expression in Two Host Races of the Pea Aphid Acyrthosiphon Pisum” 

Jason Diaz ‘09
“Contribution of Bacterial Symbiosis to Host-plant Preference in the Pea Aphid Acyrthosiphon Pisum” 

John Dymon and Shawn Eady ‘10
“Approaching the Design of Ionic Liquids with Alkylated Boron Cluster Anions”

Christa Calkins ‘09
“Finding ‘Her Unseen Soul’: The Voices of Buchi Emecheta and Ama Ata Aidoo” 

Krasimir Kehayov ‘10
“Operational Properties of the L2-transform and Their Applications” 

Hannah Siebold ‘10
“Space-Filling Tree Curves”

Joseph Goodliffe ‘09
“The Use of Phospholipase A2 Inhibitors as a Tool to Investigate Endocytic Trafficking”

Andrew Bradshaw ‘10
“The Role of Metal-Catalyzed Oxidations in Cross-Linking the Glue of the Terrestrial Slug Arion Subfuscus”

Sarah Garcia ‘09
“The Significance of Amino Groups in Cross-Linking Arion Subfuscus”

Clifford Engel ‘09
“Tailoring Crystal Surface for Solar Hydrogen Generation”

Noah Mishkin ‘10
“Analysis of nNOS Expression in the Cardiac Ganglia of Guinea Pigs with Chronic Heart Disease”

Abby Jamiel ‘11
“Pottery Speaks: Pottery Depictions of Greek Women at Symposia”