Overview of 2014 Presidential Showcase Projects
Congratulations to this year’s President’s Academic Showcase of Undergraduate Research winners:
Tier One Results:
1st Place: Chase Harrington - faculty mentor Dr. Daniel van Voorhis
- From Brubeck to Brezhnev: How American Jazz Diplomacy Shaped the Cold Warfaculty mentor
2nd Place: Shannon (Meredith) Prier - faculty mentor Dr. Adam Francisco
- The Hidden Imam in Iran: Apocalyptic Islam and Iranian Nuclear Policy
3rd Place: Rebecca (Rierson) Lott - faculty mentor Dr. Daniel van Voorhis
- The Modern Welfare State: From 16th Century Ypres to the World
Honorable Mention: Cassie Hollman and Rafael Ramos - faculty mentor Dr. John Kenney
- Determining the Position Angle and Separation of the Double Star STF 2448 Utilizing an Astrometric Eyepiece and Video Capture
Honorable Mention: Kyle Weeks - faculty mentor Dr. David Loy
- The Improbability of an Insensate Creator
Tier Two Results:
1st Place: Thomas Moreno and Cy Perkins - faculty mentor Dr. Lindsay Kane-Barnese
- Insights into the role of interactions between VDAC1, Bcl-2, and mutant Sod1 in familial Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS), commonly called Lou Gehrig’s disease
2nd Place: Kendall Davis - faculty mentor Dr. CJ Armstrong
- “My Kingdom is Not of This World”: Pre-Nicene Christians and the Roman Military
3rd Place: Phoebe Weaver - faculty mentor Dr. John Kenney
- The Quenching Effects of Singlet Oxygen
Best Poster
Faith McAllister and Kevin Guck - faculty mentor Dr. John Kenney
- Optical Wavelength Analysis of Ruby and Gas Discharge Tubes with a Diode Laser and Helium Neon Laser through the Implementation of a Fiber Optic Cable