Conference Grants 2011-2012

Bennett, Erica (Advisers: Vanessa McCaffrey and Nicolle Zellner). "Chemistry of Gylcolaldehyde and Dihydroxyacetone After High Velocity Impacts: Initial Experiments and Results." Presented at the 243rd National Meeting of the American Chemical Society, March 25-29, 2012. San Diego, CA.

Blaker, Amanda (Adviser: W. Jeffrey Wilson). "Escape and Avoidance Learning In the Earthworm." Presented at the Pavlovian Society Annual Meeting, September 22-24, 2011. Milwaukee, WI.

Blaker, Amanda (Adviser: W. Jeffrey Wilson). "Earthworms in the Behavioral Neuroscience Laboratory Course." Presented at the Society for Neuroscience Meeting, November 12-16, 2011. Washington, DC.

Connolly, Megan (Adviser: Ian MacInnes). "Misogyny in the Petrarchan Paradigm." Presented at the 3rd Annual Medieval and Renaissance Studies Consortium, April 14, 2012. Alma, MI.

Coyne, Alice (Adviser: Scott Melzer). "What Do You Do? How Unemployed Men and Stay-At-Home Dads Respond to Not Being Breadwinners." Presented at the Pacific Sociological Association Meeting, March 22-25, 2012. San Diego, CA.

Davis, Monica (Adviser: W. Jeffrey Wilson). "Earthworms in the Behavioral Neuroscience Laboratory Course." Presented at the Society for Neuroscience Meeting, November 12-16, 2011. Washington, DC.

DeHondt, Justin (Adviser: Christopher Hagerman). "Reexamining Roman-Gothic Power Relations: the 418 Settlement of the Goths in Aquitaine." Presented at the 3rd Annual Medieval and Renaissance Studies Consortium, April 14, 2012. Alma, MI. 

Dix, Michael (Adviser: Kevin Metz). "Fabrication and Characterization of Graphite Supported Nanoparticles as Catalysts for the Suzuki Reaction." Presented at the 243rd National Meeting of the American Chemical Society, March 25-29, 2012. San Diego, CA.

Drolet, Cari (Adviser: Eric Hill). "Victim Blaming Increases When Sexual Assault Cases Do Not Go To Trial." Presented at the 24th Annual Association for Psychological Science Convention, May 24-27, 2013. Chicago, IL.

Farris, Holly (Adviser: David Seely). "Analyzing Hydrated Salt Solutions at the Phoenix Landing Site." Presented at the 43rd Lunar and Planetary Science Conference, March 17-21, 2012, The Woodlands, TX.

Ferrara, Nicole (Adviser: W. Jeffrey Wilson). "Escape and Avoidance Learning in the Earthworm." Presented at the Pavlovian Society Annual Meeting, September 22-24, 2011. Milwaukee, WI.

Ferrara, Nicole (Adviser: W. Jeffrey Wilson). "Earthworms in the Behavioral Neuroscience Laboratory Course." Presented at the Society for Neuroscience Meeting, November 12-16, 2011. Washington, DC.

Fontana, Thomas (Adviser: William Bartels). "An Unusual Vertebrate Assemblage Preserved in Distal Alluvial Fan and Lake Margin Deposits of the Cathedral Bluffs Tongue, Wasatch Formation, Bush Rim, Red Desert, Wyoming." Presented at the Geological Society of America Annual Meeting, October 8-11, 2011. Minneapolis, MN.

Giddings, Charisa (Adviser: W. Jeffrey Wilson). "Escape and Avoidance Learning in the Earthworm." Presented at the Pavlovian Society Annual Meeting, September 22-24, 2011. Milwaukee, WI.

Herrman, Nicholas (Adviser: Vanessa McCaffrey). "Magnetic Coupling and Crystal Structures of Substituted Bis-Phenoxy-Bridged Dicopper (II) Macrocyclic Complexex." Presented at the 243rd National Meeting of the American Chemical Society, March 25-29, 2012. San Diego, CA. 

Hiday, Aaron (Adviser: Thom Wilch). "Assessment of Diel Cycling in Agricultural Streams in South-Central Michigan-A Focus on Turbidity." Presented at the Geological Society of America Annual Meeting, October 8-11, 2011. Minneapolis, MN.

Huggett, Audrey (Adviser: Ian MacInnes). "Virgil and Beatrice as Intellectual Parents." Presented at the 3rd Annual Medieval and Renaissance Studies Consortium, April 14, 2012. Alma, MI.

Keener, Rachel (Adviser: Trisha Franzen). "Girls, Food and Power: Reclaiming the Earth Panel. Community Partnerships and Activism With/By Girls." Presented at the National Women's Studies Association Annual Conference, November 10-13, 2011. Atlanta, GA.

Kronner, John (Adviser: Cliff Harris). "Suzuki Couplings Using a Novel Palladium." Presented at the 243rd National Meeting of the American Chemical Society, March 25-29, 2012. San Diego, CA.

Kruppe, Christopher (Adviser: Kevin Metz). "Synthesis of Supported Palladium Nanocubes For Catalysis." Presented at the 243rd National Meeting of the American Chemical Society, March 25-29, 2012. San Diego, CA.

Lessnau, Nicholas (Adviser: Vanessay McCaffrey). "Substituent Effects on the Chemistry of Dioxovanadium (V) Complexes." Presented at the 243rd National Meeting of the American Chemical Society, March 25-29, 2012. San Diego, CA.

Long, Nicholas (Adviser: Vanessa McCaffrey). "Quantitative Analysis of Volatile Organic Compunds in Opened Wine." Presented at the 243rd National Meeting of the American Chemical Society, March 25-29, 2012. San Diego, CA.

Miller, Anna (Adviser: Kevin Metz). "Uptake and Impacts of Silver Nanoparticles on Brassica rapa." Presented at the 243rd National Meeting of the American Chemical Society, March 25-29, 2012. San Diego, CA.

Rao, Swati (Adviser: W. Jeffrey Wilson). "Earthworms in the Behavioral Neuroscience Laboratory Course." Presented at the Society for Neuroscience Meeting, November 12-16, 2011. Washington, DC.

Reynolds, Lyndsey (Adviser: Kevin Metz). "Fabrication of Supported Palladium Nanoparticles on Polycarbonate Membranes as Catalysts for the Suzuki Reaction." Presented at the 243rd National Meeting of the American Chemical Society, March 25-29, 2012. San Diego, CA.

Roberts, Lauren (Adviser: Scott Melzer). "Exploring Intersex Indentities." Presented at the Pacific Sociological Association Meeting, March 22-25, 2012. San Diego, CA.

Sams, Brandon (Adviser: Andrew French). "Synthesis of a C2-symmetric Chiral Aryl Iodine Orgaocatalyst."  Presented at the 243rd National Meeting of the American Chemical Society, March 25-29, 2012. San Diego, CA.

Sams, Joshua (Adviser: William Bartels). "A GIS Analysis of the Distribution of Epizoans on Mucrospirifer Thedfordensis (Brachiopoda, Spiriferida) From the Middle Devonian of Ontario." Presented at the Geological Society of America Annual Meeting, October 8-11, 2011. Minneapolis, MN.

Sanders, Stephanie (Adviser: Kevin Metz). "Uptake and Impacts of Silver Nanoparticles on Brassica rapa." Presented at the 243rd National Meeting of the American Chemical Society, March 25-29, 2012. San Diego, CA.

Schroeder, Krysta (Adviser: Andrew French). "Isolation and Characterization of Podophyllotoxin From Mayapple and Other Plants." Presented at the 243rd National Meeting of the American Chemical Society, March 25-29, 2012. San Diego, CA.

Smith, Jeffrey (Adviser: Cliff Harris). "Suzuki Couplings Using a Novel Palladium Nanoparticle Catalyst." Presented at the 243rd National Meeting of the American Chemical Society, March 25-29, 2012. San Diego, CA.

Stephens, Emily (Adviser: Andrew French). "Synthesis of a C2 Symmetric Chiral Aryl Iodine Organocatalyst." Presented at the 243rd National Meeting of the American Chemical Society, March 25-29, 2012. San Diego, CA.

Thomson, Emily (Adviser: Ian MacInnes). "Liturgical Drama and Women." Presented at the 3rd Annual Medieval and Renaissance Studies Consortium, April 14, 2012. Alma, MI.

Underwood, Patrick (Adviser: Kevin Metz). "Palladium Nanoparticles Supported on Glazzy Carbon as Catalysts For the Suzuki Reaction." Presented at the 243rd National Meeting of the American Chemical Society, March 25-29, 2012. San Diego, CA.

Waun, Casey (Advisers: Vanessa McCaffrey and Nicolle Zellner). "Chemistry of Glycolaldegyde and Dihydroxyacetone After High Velocity Impacts: Initial Experiments and Results." Presented at the 243rd National Meeting of the American Chemical Society, March 25-29, 2012. San Diego, CA.

Williams, Abigail (Adviser: Thom Wilch). "Assessment of Diel Cycling in Agricultural Streams in South-Central Michigan-A Focus on Turbidity." Presented at the Geological Society of America Annual Meeting, October 8-11, 2011. Minneapolis, MN.