Twelve Ithaca College Students Invited To Present At National Research Conference
ITHACA, NY—The National Conferences on Undergraduate Research (NCUR) has selected 12 Ithaca College students to present 11 undergraduate research projects at the 2008 NCUR national conference in Salisbury, Maryland, on April 10–12. NCUR receives more than 3,000 abstract submissions each year, of which approximately 2,000 are accepted for presentation at the conference. The NCUR conference hosts students and their faculty mentors to present their research through posters, oral presentations, visual arts and performances.
“Ithaca College will be very well represented at this year’s NCUR conference,” said Kathleen Rountree, provost and vice president for academic affairs. “I’m very proud of these students for their outstanding efforts, and I’m grateful to their faculty advisors for their support of undergraduate research.”
The following students were chosen to present research projects in economics, English, strategic communication, environmental studies, legal studies, and biology.
“Exploring Virtual Worlds”
Jason Soon ’08 (author)
Tammy Shapiro (faculty advisor)
Department of Strategic Communication
“The Efficiency of the NFL Point Spread Betting Market”
Benjamin McKee ’08 (author)
Elia Kacapyr (faculty advisor)
Department of Economics
“How Low Can You Go? The Effects of Substrate Variations on Green Roof Plants”
Daniel Carrion ’08 (author)
Dr. Susan M. Swensen (faculty advisor)
Environmental Studies Program
“S.O.S via SMS: Text Messaging as a Communication Strategy in Hurricane Crises”
Leanne Gabinelli ’08 and Kellie Hoverter ’08 (authors)
Dr. Cory Young (faculty advisor)
Department of Strategic Communication
“The Fireman's Rule”
Laurie Stern ’08 (author)
Gwen Seaquist (faculty advisor)
Department of Legal Studies
“Mythopoetics: The Fringes of Academia”
Robert A. Volpicelli ’09 (author)
Michael Twomey (faculty advisor)
Department of English
“Deletion of the Nuclear Gene YME1 Stabilizes Mutant Forms of Cox2p”
Eric Van Fleet ’09 (author)
Vicki Cameron (faculty advisor)
Department of Biology
“Examination of Candidate Sex Specific Genes in Xenopus Laevis”
Ana M. Velez ’08 (author)
Marc Servetnick (faculty advisor)
Department of Biology
“Gene Expression in Two Incipient Species of the Pea Aphid”
Lei Mi-Mi ’08 (author)
Marina C. Caillaud (faculty advisor)
Department of Biology
“Organizational Effects of AAC Devices as Emerging Technologies in Primary and Secondary Education”
Sarah E. Brylinsky ’09 (author)
Tammy Shapiro (faculty advisor)
Department of Strategic Communication
“The Effect of Phospholipase A2 Inhibitors on the Processing of Amyloid Precursor Protein”
Pamela Ronco ’08 (author)
Ed Cluett (faculty advisor)
Department of Biology
For more information, contact Marian Brown, special assistant to the provost, at (607) 274-3787 or mbrown@ithaca.edu.
Originally published in News Releases: Twelve Ithaca College Students Invited To Present At National Research Conference.
