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2008 Finalists
Finalists

Winners
2008
2007
2006

The College of Arts and Sciences Symposium on Undergraduate Research Committee would like to thank all students who submitted an entry for the third annual Symposium and congratulate the following Finalists.

Prize winners may pick up their plaques at the
Office of the Dean, Suite 101, Locke Hall.

Finalists may pick up their certificates at the
Office of the Dean, Suite 101, Locke Hall.

FINE ARTS
Brittney Allen (POSTER)
The Drinking Gourd: Music and the Message of Freedom
Music Education
Dr. Jeanne Toungara
Ree-An Augustin
The Secret of Successful (Re)Branding: Revealed
Graphic Design
Dr. Starmanda Bullock
Saidiya Chiphe
Rites of Passage: Exploring the Sacred Dances of Enslaved West Africans and their Transition into the Secular rena
Dance
Dr. Sherrill Berryman Johnson
Travara Farmer
The Media: The Influence and Perpetuation of African-American Stereotypes
Acting
Professor Kim Bey
Michelle Harper
The Rebith of England: Changes that Directly Influenced the Theatre
Theatre Arts
Professor Kim Bey
Cherilyn Nkemdilim Okolue
The Truth: Milk Doesn’t Do a Body Good
Fashion Merchandising
Dr. Greg Carr
   

HUMANITIES
Khadijah Abdus-Salaam (POSTER)
Toussaint L’Ouverture: The Man Who Started It All
English
Dr. Jeanne Toungara
Lucky Adike
Alex Haley: A corrupt hero
Computer Engineering
Kevin Bryant
Beatrice Akers; Michelle Gonzales
Re-examining and Re-invigorating W.E.B Dubois vs. Booker T. Washington on the importance of Intellectual Betterment: Past and Present
English
Prof. Samuel Doku
Tiffany Bright
A Study of the Rhetorical Devices Used in Nelson Mandela’s Long Walk to Freedom
Enter major   
Dr. Dana Williams
Melanie Chambliss
Not at the Price of Seeming to be Who we are not; An Analysis of Alain Locke’s Influence on the Representation of Black Identity in the Harlem Renaissance and The Negritude Movement
English
Dr. Alla Tovares
Maryann Flanigan
Observations of the Female Character in Works by Mariama Bâ
Modern Languages and Literatures
Dr. Karen Wallace
Taneeka Hanna
Violence Against Women and Children: Understanding the Roots and Consequences of an Underestimated Social Problem
English
Alem Hailu, John Davis
Alexia Hogan
Representations of Black Womanhood and Domesticity in the writings of Gwendolyn Brooks
English
Dr. Marc Singer
Jeremiah Holston
Challenging Familial Structures through Edward P. Jones’s All Aunt Hagar’s Children
History
Dr. Dana Williams
Shari Inniss-Grant
When the Private Becomes Public: Crafting of Intimacy in the Personal Essay and the Short Story
English
Dr. Yasmin DeGout
Aaron Jacobs
Will the Real Jesus Please Stand Up?
Communications
Prof. Kevin D. Bryant
Erica Jai Lindsay
Empiricism and Rationalism in The Big Sea, an Autobiography
English
Prof. Sam Doku
Amber Moody
Limitations of Black Female Archetypes in Hip-Hop/Urban Culture
English
Dr. James Keil
Ashley Newman
Alica Walker’s use of pedagogy in Meridian
English
Dr. Dana Williams
Michelle A. Raysor
Juxtaposing Langston Hughes’ poem, “What Happens to a Dream Deferred?” to Bigger Thomas’s Character in Richard Wright’s Native Son
Speech and Applied Communications
Prof. Samuel Doku
Jahaan Shaheed
Exploring the truth and reconciliation Literature of South Africa
Enter major   
Dr. Dana Williams
Carlos Trotman
The Inception of an Linguistic Apocalypse: The Causes of Language endangerment
Modern Languages and Literatures
Dr. Mercedes Tibbits
Justice Woods (POSTER)
Conflicts in Kenya
Philosophy
Dr. Alem Hailu and Dr. John Davis
   

NATURAL SCIENCES
Kristen J. Alston
Exposure to Gun Violence Among African American Youths in Washington, D.C.
Psychology
Dr. Donna Holland Barnes
Elizabeth Blackman
Ionizing Radiation and Breast Cancer
Sports Medicine/HHPL
Prof. Michael Caprarola
Ashley Blanco
On the Outside Looking In: An Exploration of Juvenile Detention Center Staff Attitudes
Psychology
Dr. Alfonso Campbell, Jr.
Candace Bouknight
Sexual Orientation and Gender in Jury Decision Making
Psychology
Dr. Angela Cole
Alisha M. Brown
Learning More Than ABCs and Race Self Complexity Academic Environment Emotion Theory: Are Emotions Represented in Race Narratives Constructed in Educational Environments?
Psychology
Dr. Cynthia Winston
Ashlee M. Brown
Characterization of endospores produced by various Bacillus spp.
Biology
Dr. B. Eribo
Faith Anne Brown
Preparation and Synthesis of New Cross-Linking Reagents for Hemoglobin: Metalic Salt of 2 – (Difluoro-phosphono-methyl) – 4, 4- Difluoro-4-Phosphono-Butyric acid as a substitute for 2,3-diphosphonoglycerate
Chemistry
Dr. Jason Matthews
Maleka Brown, Cheree Sims, Terrina Price (POSTER)
White Presence and Unrestrained Potentially Biased Evaluation May Be Needed to Create Stereotype Threat Decrements Within In-group Minority Diagnostic Testing Settings
Psychology
Dr. Lloyd Sloan
Michelle A. Burke
Kinetic Modeling of the Maillard Reaction
Mathematics
Dr. Daniel Williams
Shelby Burks
An Investigation of the Impact of Landscape Morphology on Leaf Litter Decomposition
Biology
Dr. Mary McKenna
Michael Cericola
The Effects of Autotomy on Righting Behavior in Sceloporus Jarrovii
Biology
Dr. George Middendorf
Amysha Cole
The Effects of Parental Involvement in the Academic Achievement of African American Elementary School Students
Psychology
Dr. Debra Roberts
Ashley N. Crump
Entropy in Biosurveillance
Mathematics
Dr. Abdul-Aziz Yakubu
Erika Dawkins
Race self Complexity: an instrumental case study of inter-personal influences on Multiracial Identity Construction
Psychology/ Interior Design Cynthia Winston, Rodney Terry
Amanda Dean
Segmentation of Medical Images
Engineering and Mathematics URE
Dr. Mohamed Chouikha
Rodricka Elliot
Civil War and Ethnic Violence in the Global Village: Understanding the Historical and Sociopolitical Roots of Violence in Kenya
Psychology
Alem Hailu, John Davis
Sylvia Esotu (POSTER)
Effect of Membrane Surface Characteristics on Fouling, Flux and Rejection
Chemical Engineering 
Dr. Kimberly Jones
Daniel B. Gilmer
Intracellular metallic interactions in prokaryotic and eukaryotic cell types
Biology
Winston Anderson
Megan Goins
Race Self Complexity Narrative Environment Place Meaning Theory: What Locations are represented in the narrative reconstruction of autobiographical memories of race?
Psychology
Dr. Cynthia Winston
Lisandra Green
Psychology as a Major: The Effectiveness of a Career Course on the career-decision making self-efficacy on a group pf Psychology majors
Psychology
Joan Browne
Patience Green, Dwayne Wright, Solaide George
Comparative Mass Spectrometry Studies of DIthiocarbamate Ester Analogs of 4-Methylpipiridine
Chemistry
Dr. Oladapo Bakare
Lorin Hay
The Effects of Consecutive Days of Aerobic Exercise and Resistance Exercise on Serum Concentration of Testosterone, Insulin-Like Growth Factor-1 and LNCaP Prostate Cancer Cell Growth in Vitro
HHPLS/Sports Medicine
Dr. Michael Caprarola and Dr. Vernon Bond
Courtney Hudson
Lifestyle of Physical Activity on Testosterone, IGF-1, and LNCaP Prostate Tumor Cell Growth in Vitro Among African-American Men
HHPLS
Dr. Michael Caprarola
Dr. Vernon Bond
Nicole Dominique Mahdi (POSTER)
Comparison of MS and HAM/TSP Patients
Biology
On-Campus:
Dr. Franklin Ampy
Off-Campus:
Dr. Grace Levy-Clarke
Zeakela McRae
Political Mismanagement and Corruption as Major Factors of Political Violence: Understand the Roots and Negative Consequences of Public Policies on Nations in Crisis
Psychology
Alem Hailu, John Davis
Ashley McWilliams
The Effects of Radiation Dose Rate on DNA Colon and Examination of DNA Damage induced by Chronic Low Dose Ionizing Radiation
Biology
Dr. Theodore Bremner
Kyle Monk
Androgen Receptor Regulation in Prostate Cancer
Biology
Dr. Karen Nelson
Chibuzor Okoro, Tyrone Dash, II
Cough Etiquette: Education May Control the Emergence of National and Global Pandemics
Psychology
Dr. Llyod Sloan
Lauren Pass (POSTER)
Effects Of Prenatal Stress On Maternal Behavior Towards Offspring
Biology
Dr. Franklin Ampee,
Dr. Kellie Tamashiro, and
Dr. Timothy Moran
Tyra Pendergrass
Soil Nickel Effects on Survivorship, Growth and Reproduction in the Hyperaccumulators, Alyssum murale and Alyssum corsicum (Brassicacae).
Biology
Dr. Mary McKenna
Terrina A. Price
Social Identity Threat: Implications for Self-Presentation Strategies
Psychology
Dr. J. Nicole Shelton, Princeton University,
Dr. Alfonso Campbell
Damien Robinson
The Effects of Selective Attention on Implicit Learning in 10 year-old Children
Psychology
Dr. Kathleen Thomas
Lia Rohlehr
The Effect of Peer Influence on Adolescent Coping with Exposure to Violence
Psychology
Dr. Mark Aber,
Dr. Alfonso Campbell
Lia N. Rohlehr (POSTER)
Harsher Judgments of Fellow Blacks: The Black Sheep Effect of Hypocrisy
Psychology
Dr. James Barden
Kamilah Rose
Area Centralis (fovea) Photo-Receptor Mosaic in the Retina of Frog Rana Pipiens
Biology
Dr. Abner Lall
Brittani Saafir
Assessing the Ability of Predicting Factor to Aide in Locating Study Participants Who are Lost to Follow-Up
Biology
Dr. Karen Nelson
Kathryn Sims, Kandis Stubblefield (POSTER)
Dynamics of Fast Reactions in Ionic Liquids
Chemistry
Dr. Shawn Abernathy
Kalima Smalls
Raising Awareness of Viral Hepatitis among Methadone Patients: A Pilot Study
Psychology
Dr. Jules P. Harell
Dominic Smith
The Neurophysiological Basis of Behaviour Student Aide in Neuroscience Research
College of Medicine
Dr. James Gnadt
Iman Sylvain (POSTER)
A Comparison of Seedling Fitness in the Hyperaccumulator, Alyssum murale in Soils With and Without Nickel
Biology
Dr. Mary McKenna
Tiffany Taylor
Calcitriol Upregulates MIF Protein in Activated Macrophages
Biology
Dr. Theodore Bremner
Keneisha Thompson (POSTER)
Nicotine and the Expression of Dopamine Transporters (DAT)
Biology/ HUCM- Pharmacology
Dr. Martha I. Davila-Garcia
Obinna Umunakwe
Silver Nanoparticle Formation through Chemical Reduction of Silver Ions by Cellulose Fibers
Chemistry
Dr. James W. Mitchell
Brittany Vickers (POSTER)
Race-Related Reasons for Attending a Historically Black College or University
Psychology
Dr. Luther James Barden
Jordee Wells
Homo/ Heterodimerization studies of RACK1 in Arabidopsis thaliana
Biology
Dr. Hemayet Ullah
Elizabeth Williams
Methanol electro-catalytic oxidation mediated by layered double hydroxides for fuel cell technology
Chemistry
Dr. D. Raghavan
Cynthia Williams (POSTER)
X-ray Crystal Structure of Ag Complexes of 1,10-Phenanthroline-5,6-dione
Chemistry
Dr. Charles Hosten
   

SOCIAL SCIENCES
Kara Akins
The Failures of the U.N. in Border Conflicts in Africa
Political Science
Dr. Lorenzo Morris
Leigh Anderson
Heroines of the Genocide: Their Extraordinary Burdens yet Unprecedented Opportunities
Sociology/ Anthropology
Dr. Ralph Gomes
Dr. Terri Adams-Fuller

Uloma Chiakpo, Reid Brownsmith, Yann T.
Integrity of China and Afriica's Partnership through Observing the Engagagement of Nigeria and China Within the Oil Industry

Enter major
Dr. Almaz Zewde
Dr. Jill McGowan
Paul R . Jackson, Jr.
Inequalities in Politics and Economics Experienced by Poor and Middle Class Citizens
English
Prof. Kevin Bryant
Courtney M. Javois
Spirituality and the Haitian Revolution
Afro-American Studies
Dr. Gregory Carr
Lizeth C. Lewis
Ancient Egyptian Morals: an Examination of Maat
Sociology
Dr. Charles Verharen
Monique Liston
AQuestions, Quotients and Quality: A History of Black Students and Standardized Tests
Sociology
Dr. Gregory Carr
Kimberly Martin
The Effect of Philosophy on Chinese Language
Anthropology
Dr. Rebecca Ferrell
Shibrika Pansy
The Impact of Tenure, Race and Income on the Housing Market in Atlanta, Georgia
Economics
Dr. Emily Blank
Darcia Rufus
The Effect of Gentrification on the Reentry of the Ex-Offender
Sociology and Anthropology
Dr. Ernest Quimby
Jaminnia R. States
Afrofuturism in Black Music: A History
Afro-American Studies
Dr. Gregory Carr
Milanika Turner (POSTER)
Effects of Debriefing on Police Stress after a Crisis
Sociology and Anthropology
Dr. Terri Adams-Fuller
Michael Varner
The Strategic Importance of Africa Command
Political Science
Dr. Michael Frazier
Tatiana Ware
U.S. Policy towards Cuba during the Clinton Administration and its Influences
Political Science
Dr. John Cotman
Ava Wilson
The Influence of Arab Colonization and Slavery in the Western Sudan in Africa and its Aid to European Presence in the Region
Afro-American Studies
Dr. Gregory Carr
   

Shirilyn Clark, Sarah Williams
Restoring Ownership: The Significant Past and Future of Science and Technology in the African World
Enter major
Alem Hailu
LaTasha Crutcher
Passed Over: Women in Corrections
Enter name of mentor
Andrietta Duncan Enter name of mentor
Anthony Duncan, Jr. Enter name of mentor
Jerod Franklin
The Gratuitous War in Iraq
Engineering
Prof. Kevin Bryant
Kimberly Glover, Marquis Harrington
Impact of the Family and Community on Urban Conflicts: Examining Correlates of Gang Violence in the Washington Metropolitan Area
Enter major
Alem Hailu, John Davis
Christopher Goodine
The Theory of Evolution Dismantled
Business/ Marketing 
Prof. Kevin Bryant
Chad Jones Enter name of mentor
James McDowell, Charles Frazier, Ibiann McKenzie
Education and Skills as Major Factors in Reducing Violence and Crime: Investigating the Links between Education and Incidents of Violence
Enter major
Alem Hailu, John Davis
Cecily Montgomery Enter name of mentor
Rhodaline Wright
“Oboko Dike:” The Brave Land: Things Fall Apart
Enter major
Prof. Sam Doku
   

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