SOURCE 2004 Awards:


Oral Session 1: Natural Sciences

First Award

Mixon, Dustin; Miller, Seth; Pickett, Jonathan - Rule of thumb: prints beat DNA

Mentors: Dr. Stuart Boersma, Mathematics

Second Award

Dawson, Brennan B. - Mechanisms of energy transfer and VUV-induced degradation in BaMgAl10O17:Eu2+

Mentors: Dr. Anthony L. Diaz, Chemistry

Honorable Mention

Musselman, Andrew - A study of randomness in the output of simple programs

Mentors: Dr. Dan Curtis, Mathematics

Honorable Mention

Paulk, Nicole K. - The effects of malathion and glyphosate on the survival and development of the Cascades frog (Rana cascadae)

Mentors: Dr. R. Steven Wagner, Biological Sciences

Oral Session 2: Humanities

First Award

Green, Mark - Consolation of time: fictionalized philosophy in the prison works of Boethius and Messiaen

Mentors: Dr. Margaret Gries, Music

Second Award

Johnson, Rachel - The spirit and the conscience must be free: Catholic womens response to the Protestant Reformation in the Holy Roman Empire

Mentors: Dr. Roxanne Easley, History

Honorable Mention

Jendro, Bethany - Linguistic relativity and Willa Cather's Death Comes for the Archbishop

Mentors: Dr. Xingzhong Li, English

Honorable Mention

Charlton, Paul - Moral disagreement and moral dialogue: discourse ethics as an alternative to moral relativism

Mentors: Dr. Cynthia Coe, Philosophy

Oral Session 3: Behavioral Sciences

First Award

Hallows, Juliana - Training for multicultural competence in counseling: a review of programs and counselors in Washington

Mentors: Dr. Neal Bowen, Psychology

Honorable Mention

Szymanska, Ewa - Abstract art: immediate visual stimulus supercedes textual information in students judgments of creativity

Mentors: Dr. Robert Sorrells, Psychology

Honorable Mention

Hanberg, Jackie - A study of the introduction of twin hand-reared Varecia variegata rubra infants to their father and an island exhibit

Mentors: Dr. Megan Matheson, Psychology

Poster Session 1 : Behavioral Sciences

First Award

Durbin, Malissa - Contributions to the scholarship of teaching: effects of student self-assessment accuracy training on scientific writing effectiveness

Mentors: Dr. James Eubanks, Psychology

Second Award

Jones, David S. - Yanks and yokels: CWU students' subjective reactions to southern American English

Mentors: Dr. Natalie Lefkowitz, Foreign Languages

Honorable Mention

Lawrence, Karlyn - A reexamination of Scheuer and Elkington's sex determination method

Mentors: Dr. John Alsoszatai-Petheo, Anthropology

Poster Session 2: Physical Sciences and Mathematics

First Award

Holiday, Jean L. and Venator, Sarah - Earthquake hazards and Quaternary geology of the Longitudinal Valley Fault, southeastern Taiwan

Mentors: Dr. Charles Rubin, Geological Sciences

Second Award

Tinsley, Bronnie - Mode-locking of a dye laser

Mentors: Dr. David Laman, Physics

Honorable Mention

Lam, Natalie - Basic adaptive optics: stabilization of a laser beam using a closed-loop servo system

Mentors: Dr. David Laman, Physics

Honorable Mention

Brewer, Matthew and Flaugh, Daryk - A quantitative model for assessment of undergraduate critical thinking

Mentors: Dr. Ian Quitadamo, Biological Sciences And Science Education; Dr. Martha Kurtz, Chemistry and Science Education

Poster Session 3: Life Sciences

First Award

Dean, Eric - Conservation and phylogeography of Van Dykes salamander (plethodon vandykei)

Mentors: Dr. R. Steven Wagner, Biological Sciences

Second Award

Simonson, Brita - Mineral precipitating bacteria of Soap Lake, WA

Mentors: Dr. Holly Pinkart, Biological Sciences

Honorable Mention

Cauble, Katherine - Herbicide effects on the metamorphosis of amphibian larvae (Rana cascadae).

Mentors: Dr. Steven Wagner, Biological Sciences

Honorable Mention

Ansingh, Meagan and Smith, Gayle - Discovery towards novel HIV/AIDS therapies: molecular modeling of HIV-1 protease inhibitors

Mentors: Dr. Levente Fabry-Asztalos, Chemistry

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