Conference Grants 2002-2003

The following students were awarded conference grants for the 2002-03 academic year:

Kristen Abraham (Adviser: Drew Christopher). "The roles of sex and sexism in interpersonal conflict resolution." Presented at the American Psychological Society's annual meeting, May 29 - June 1, 2003, Atlanta GA.

Steven Anderson and Jeremiah Morse (Adviser: Thom Wilch). "Developing a management plan for a small, rural watershed in south-central Michigan through monitoring of stream flow, turbidity, and temperature." Presented at the Geological Society of America's annual meeting, October 26-30, 2002, Denver CO.
[This poster was awarded the Sigma Gamma Epsilon National Council Award for the best student poster on October 28, 2002. Sigma Gamma Epsilon is the national honor society for Earth Sciences; Jeremiah and Steve are members of Albion College's Gamma Kappa chapter of Michigan.]

Anjali Arora (Adviser: David Green). "Investigation of the holding time limits of a number of semi-volatile organic compounds." Presented at the American Chemical Society's national meeting, March 23-27, 2003, New Orleans LA.

Travis Boyd (Advisers: Drew Christopher and Bob Moss). "Measurement of athlete burnout and predictive factors: an analysis of Division III college student athletes." Presented at the American Psychological Society's annual meeting, May 29 - June 1, 2003, Atlanta GA.

Tammy Calvin (Adviser: Dale Kennedy). "Patterns of songs used in short-range mate communication of house wrens (Troglodytes aedon). Presented at the joint meeting of the Association of Field Ornithologists and the Wilson Ornithological Society, March 21-23, 2003, Ohio Wesleyan University.

Elizabeth Duvall (Adviser: Andrew French). "Reaction chemistry of chiral titanium complexes." Presented at the American Chemical Society's national meeting, March 23-27, 2003, New Orleans LA.

Julie Esh (Advisers: Diane Ariza and Len Berkey). "Understanding adolescent girls: photographs and writings by Albion Middle School girls." Presented at the National Conference on Race and Ethnicity in Higher Education, May 27-31, 2003, San Francisco CA.

Elizabeth Haas (Adviser: Drew Christopher). "Interpersonal and professional consequences of narcissistic and avoidant personality tendencies." Presented at the American Psychological Society's annual meeting, May 29 - June 1, 2003, Atlanta GA. [This poster was selected by the APS as the winner of its 2003 Student Research Competition, recognized as the most outstanding research by an undergraduate submitted to the convention in 2003.]

Alison Harris (Adviser: Dianne Guenin-Lelle). "The role of music and music festivals in the cultural renaissance in French Louisiana: Crossing borders in the American melting pot." Presented at the 56th annual Kentucky Foreign Language Conference, April 24-26, 2003, Lexington KY.

Lauren Hecht (Adviser: Michael Anes). "Does a simple shading manipulation cause size overestimation in 3D volumes?" Presented at the Vision Sciences Society annual meeting, May 10-15, 2003, Sarasota FL.

Joseph Heinzelmann and Craig Streu (Adviser: Andrew French). "Progress toward the synthesis of a new chiral hypervalent iodine reagent." Presented at the American Chemical Society's national meeting, March 23-27, 2003, New Orleans LA.

Daniel Holland (Adviser: Dan Steffenson). "A study of the degradation of high-performance polyamide foams." Presented at the American Chemical Society's national meeting, March 23-27, 2003, New Orleans LA.

Kimberly Illg (Adviser: David Green). "The photodegradation of carbon tetrachloride with modified titanium dioxide." Presented at the American Chemical Society's national meeting, March 23-27, 2003, New Orleans LA.

Crystal Ingison (Adviser: Andrew French). "Mechanistic study of a new iodolactonization rearrangement reaction via a phenonium ion intermediate." Presented at the American Chemical Society's national meeting, March 23-27, 2003, New Orleans LA.

Amanda Kent (Adviser: Dale Kennedy). "Examination of methods to increase DNA yield from feathers to determine sex ratios of nestling house wrens (Troglodytes aedon). Presented at the joint meeting of the Association of Field Ornithologists and the Wilson Ornithological Society, March 21-23, 2003, Ohio Wesleyan University.

Sean Logan (Adviser: Dean McCurdy). "Impacts of fish predation on demography of the intertidal amphipod Corophium volutator." Presented at the Crustacean Society Summer meeting, May 31 - June 6, 2003, Williamsburg VA.

Michael Marvin (Adviser: Christopher Rohlmann). "Structural analysis of the Anabaena group I intron." Presented at the American Chemical Society's national meeting, March 23-27, 2003, New Orleans LA.

Joshua Menig (Adviser: Cliff Harris). "Oxidation of trialkylboranes using potassium permangante." Presented at the American Chemical Society's national meeting, March 23-27, 2003, New Orleans LA.

Ryan Morgan (Adviser: Drew Christopher). "Affluence cues and first impressions: Does it matter how the affluence was acquired?" Presented at the American Psychological Society's annual meeting, May 29 - June 1, 2003, Atlanta GA.

Jessica Mosier (Adviser: Cliff Harris). "Preparation of a chiral auxilliary: conversion of α-pinene to 2-hydroxy-3-pinanone." Presented at the American Chemical Society's national meeting, March 23-27, 2003, New Orleans LA.

Katie Siegmund (Advisers: Diane Ariza and Len Berkey). "Self-esteem in black adolescent females: socialization and the educational system." Presented at the National Conference on Race and Ethnicity in Higher Education, May 27-31, 2003, San Francisco CA.

Sarah Storbeck (Adviser: Michael Anes). "The effect of rotational motion on object recognition." Presented at the Vision Sciences Society annual meeting, May 10-15, 2003, Sarasota FL.

Erin Toth (Adviser: Christopher Rohlman). "Structural analysis of the Anabaena group I intron." Presented at the American Chemical Society's national meeting, March 23-27, 2003, New Orleans LA.