St. Lawrence University
         Festival of Science 2002
Student Presentations
April 24, Wednesday
Eben-Holden


Oral Presentations:  4:30 - 5:45 p.m.

Poster Presentations:   6:00 - 7:30 p.m.

Oral Presentations
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 4:30pm  Nathan Gabriel Armatas  Mass Balance Model for Hg in Lake Champlain

4:45pm  Cara Barbierri
The Role of Item Distinctiveness in the Short-Term Recall of Order Information

5:00pm  Leslie McCabe  Women’s Work in Astronomy, 1875-1930

5:15pm  Aleksandra Portnova
Kevin Bacon and the St. Lawrence Senior Class: Six Degrees of Separation?

5:30pm  Omar F. Zaidan
Computer Simulation of Uranyl Adsorption on Montmorillonite Clay
Poster Presentations
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Rebecca Baldwin  Individual Belief Structures and Victim Evaluation

Richard J. Bray  Teaching Chemistry with Household Chemicals

Leah Brzuszkiewicz
Altering the Strength of the Horizontal/Vertical Illusion: Manipulatingthe Functional Fovea

Colleen Coakley
The Athlete-Coach Relationship and Athlete Satisfaction, Enjoyment, and Self-Confidence

Tara Demers  Examination of the Relationship between Risk Taking and Sensation Seeking in Preadolescents

Neema Douglas
Phytochemical Investigations of the Constituents of the Root of  Aristolochia salvadorensis
Timothy Errington  Analysis of T Cell Lipids and Their Association During Activation


Katie Fitzgibbons  The Effect of Species on the Strength of Byssal Fibers in the Case of  Zebra and Quagga Mussels

Brendan Hayes  The Effect of Habitat Fragmentation on Small Mammal Diversity and Community Composition

Brian Hetzel  Manipulating the Mueller-Lyer Illusion Components Through the Use of the Functional Fovea

Esther Ndungo  / Toyin Showole  Enhancing Reproductive Technology

Jacqueline W. Nyoro  Rafts in Cell Membrances

Shirley Obioha  Bacterial Transformation

Jaime Marie Ross  The Effects of Impaired Glial Function In the Hippocampus on Spatial Learning in the Conscious Rat

Justin Roth  Survival Analysis: Finding the Correct Distribution for Survival Data

Toyin Showole / Esther Ndungo   Enhancing Reproductive Technology

Ivan (Joe) Stone  Effect of Dehydroepiandrosterone Sulfate on Spatial Learning and  Memory in Young and Aged Mice

Jessie Townsend  St. Lawrence Campus Study:  An Empirical Study of Sense of Place

John Trentini  The Analgesic Effect of Acupressure in Rats

Courtney Walter  Burnout in Female Collegiate Athletes

Sara Woodworth  Ramsey Number Examination
FYP  Presentations
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Jesse Emilo  Bob Marshall: His effect on wilderness and influence on humans derived from his experiences as a child, and continued to grow as his life progressed

Jennifer Lord  The influence on Lopez and his influence on others

Geoffrey Manchester  Changing Tides

Liz Masterson  Michael Pollan: Writer, Journalist, and Environmentalist, But Above All . . . Gardener

Leah Nelson

Matthew O’Brien  The Life and Impact of Henry David Thoreau

Ashley Porter

Leah Quinn  Public Support of Rachel Carson in the 1960s

Cameron Reece  The History of John James Audubon

Sarah Rohrs  Religion or Truth?

Michael Russo  The Life and Legacy of John Muir

Jennifer L. Tsonis  The Importance of Truth; The Justification of a Lie

Molly Turner

Tarah Watson

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May 1, 2002
Created  by: P. Barkley
SLU Mathematics Dept.