2007 Undergraduate Research Forum Award Winners

Note: Due to scoring ties, there were two first-place winners and two third-place winners in the 2007 competition.

First Place
Jeremy Pierce
Psychology
Project: "Preclinical Efficacy Testing of COG1410 in a Rat Model of Traumatic Brain Injury"
Faculty Mentor: Michael Hoane
and
Erin Shanle
Plant Biology
Project: "ent-Kaurene and Kauran-16-ol Formation in the Moss Physcomitrella patens: Functional Identification of a Unique Diterpene Cyclase"
Faculty Mentor: Aldwin Anterola

Second Place
Abigail Burnam
Psychology
Project: "Why Do College Students Procrastinate?"
Faculty Mentor: Meera Komarraju

Third Place
Seth Clark
Psychology
Project: "Progressive Ratio Schedules of Token Delivery: Breakpoint as a Function of Terminal Reinforcer Unit Price"
Faculty Mentors: Eric Jacobs and Stephanie Dollinger
and
Aileen O'Hearn
Plant Biology
Project: "New Findings on the Apical Organization and Biology of the Liverwort Pleurozia"
Faculty Mentor: Barbara Crandall-Stotler

Honorable Mention
Miranda Griffith
Workforce Education and Development
Project: "Cyber Risk-Taking: College Students' Attitudes Toward Risk Behaviors on Social Networking Sites"
Faculty Mentor: Mark Kittleson

Independent Researcher Award
Shannon Banning
Chemistry
Project: "Quantitative Determination of Methimazole in Veterinary Pharmaceuticals"
Faculty Mentors: Gary Kinsel and Mary Kinsel

People's Choice Award
TeSha Dozier
Psychology
Project: "The Relationships Between Body Preferences and Psychological Well-Being Among African-American Women"
Faculty Mentor: Rheeda Walker