UNDERGRADUATE RESEARCH EXCELLENCE … RESEARCH EXCELLENCE SCHOLARSHIP WINNERS ARTS AND HUMANITIES...
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CONGRATULATIONS TO THE 2006 SHOWCASE OF UNDERGRADUATE RESEARCH EXCELLENCE SCHOLARSHIP WINNERS
ARTS AND HUMANITIES
First Place: Alice F. Kramer, Christian Franqui, Michael Carney,
Lillian Vincent, Max Ferrer
“Shadows of Canaveral: A New Dawn”
Faculty Mentors: Lori C. Walters (History, Institute for
Simulation and Training),
Eileen Smith (Digital Media, Institute for Simulation and Training)
Second Place: Christine J. Dellert
“News Media Construction of Life and Death:
The Impact of Language in Coverage of the Terri Schiavo Case”
Faculty Mentor: Richard Kenney (Communication)
ENGINEERING, COMPUTER SCIENCE, AND OPTICS
First Place: James R. Hughes, Matthew Murrian
“Passive Liquid/Vapor Separation Using
an Inertia Driven Rotating Drum”
Faculty Mentor: Louis Chow (Mechanical, Materials,
and Aerospace Engineering)
Second Place: Brian C. Becker, Christina M. Vargas
“Ontology-Based Search Engine for Real-World
Decision Support System”
Faculty Mentor: Avelino J. Gonzalez
(Electrical and Computer Engineering)
LIFE AND HEALTH SCIENCES
First Place: Brian C. Schanen
“Role of Selenium in Arsenic-Induced Cancer”
Faculty Mentor: William T. Self (Molecular Biology
and Microbiology)
Second Place: Daniel A. Hernandez
“ISLANDS Version 2.0”
Faculty Mentor: David G. Jenkins (Biology)
PHYSICAL SCIENCES AND MATHEMATICS
First Place: Simon Mostafa
“Decomposition of Methanol on Size Selected
Iridium Nanoparticles”
Faculty Mentor: Beatriz Roldán Cuenya (Physics)
Second Place: Naomi C. Brownstein
“Transformation of Variables in Statistics”
Faculty Mentor: Marianna Y. Pensky (Mathematics)
SOCIAL SCIENCES I
First Place: Darcy J. Cope
“The Effects of Household Corrosive Chemicals on Human Bone
and Teeth: A Murderer’s Attempt to Mask the Identity
of Their Victim”
Faculty Mentor: Tosha L. Dupras (Anthropology)
Second Place: Stephanie C. Ernst
“Relationships Among Parenting Style, Parental Self-Efficacy,
Parents’ Perceptions of Children, and Preschoolers’ Emotion
Regulation”
Faculty Mentors: Kimberly Renk (Psychology),
Valerie K. Sims (Psychology), John P. Manning (Child, Family,
and Community Sciences)
SOCIAL SCIENCES II
First Place: Rachel E. Wiley
“Psychological Correlates of the Quality of Life in Children
and Adolescents with Cerebral Palsy”
Faculty Mentor: Kimberly Renk (Psychology)
Second Place: Michael T. Strand
“Interactions Between Visuo-Spatial Working Memory,
Activity, and Ratings of ADHD”
Faculty Mentors: Valerie K. Sims (Psychology), Mark D. Rapport
(Psychology), Stephen A. Sivo (Educational Research,
Technology, and Leadership)
Undergraduate Studies
Eileen M. Abel
Carole E. Adams
Wilma Anton
Carol M. Bast
Issa E. Batarseh
Jeffrey S. Bedwell
Kevin D. Belfield
Kathleen Bell
Steven L. Berman
Randal Blades
Melody Bowdon
Clint Bowers
David F. Bowie
Cristina E. Bradatan
John E. Brandenburg
Gabriel Braunstein
Alexander Brice
Daniel Britt
James C. Brown
Ryan Burkhart
John F. Butler
Anna Campbell
Andres Campiglia
Mason Cash
F. Necati Catbas
Debopam Chakrabarti
Arlen F. Chase
Diane Z. Chase
Po-Ju Chen
Matthew Chin
Hyoung Jin Cho
S. Roy Choudhury
Lee Chow
Louis Chow
Steven Collins
Kristin G. Congdon
Annabelle Conroy
Lesia Crumpton-Young
Niels da Vitorio Lobo
Andrew Daire
Henry Daniell
Tracy L. Dietz
Eduardo Divo
Aristide Dogariu
Spencer Downing
Tosha L. Dupras
Ronald D. Eaglin
Julie D. Eberwein
Costas Efthimiou
Julie A. Elston
Terri Susan Fine
Stephen M. Fiore
Randy D. Fisher
Barry G. Fookes
Barbara Fritzsche
Shaun Gallagher
Denise Gammonley
David Gay
Avelino J. Gonzalez
Maria de Jesus Gonzalez
Laurie A. Gould
Anthony Grajeda
Cheryl E. Green
Glenda A. Gunter
Scott C. Hagen
Chan Ham
Kerstin Hamann
Helge Heinrich
Florencio E. Hernandez
Lorrie L. Hoffman
Kathie K. Holland
Steven Hornick
Rosalyn Howard
Susan S. Hubbard
Charles E. Hughes
Jana L. Jasinski
Bobby Jeanpierre
David G. Jenkins
Roger W. Johnson
Bernadette M.E. Jungblut
Samar Jyoti Kalita
Jayanta S. Kapat
Naim Kapucu
Alain J. Kassab
James A. Katt
David Kaup
Richard Kenney
Robert F. Kenny
Jennifer Kent-Walsh
Joo Kim
Mary P. Kosarzycki
Stephen M. Kuebler
Ranganathan Kumar
Richard E. Lapchick
Shawn A. Lawrence
Alexander Leonessa
Aaron Liberman
Ralph A. Llewellyn
Lisa Logan
Martha S. Lue
Weili Luo
John P. Manning
Larry Marks
Artem Masunov
Barry J. Mauer
Pamela R. McCauley-Bell
John M. McGuire
Kevin Meehan
Wasfy B. Mikhael
Cecilia Y. Rodríguez Milanés
D. Howard Miles
Kevin J. Miller
Eugene Montague
J. Michael Moshell
Karen Mottarella
Mustapha Mouloua
Michael A. Mullens
Jennifer Mundale
Elizabeth Mustaine
Jeanette A. Nadeau
Charles Negy
Christopher Niess
Chad Nye
Dawn M. Oetjen
Christopher L. Parkinson
Sumanta Pattanaik
Robert E. Peale
Marianna Y. Pensky
Eric L. Petersen
Janice Z. Peterson
Otto Phanstiel
Carla Poindexter
Fritz G. Polite
Albert V. Pryor
Tison Pugh
Pedro F. Quintana-Ascencio
Mark D. Rapport
M. Shawn Reichert
Kimberly Renk
Kenneth Reynolds
Kathleen A. Richardson
Kenyatta O. Rivers
Beatriz Roldán Cuenya
Michael Rothenberg
Houman A. Sadri
Hari P. Saha
Craig J. Saper
Patrick K. Schelling
Alfons Schulte
Jamie Schwartz
Sudipta Seal
David M. Segal
Thomas Selby
William T. Self
John Wayne Shafer
Mubarak A. Shah
Z. John Shen
Elzbieta Sikorska-Simmons
Valerie K. Sims
Steven A. Sivo
Frances B. Smith
Eileen Smith
Janan A. Smither
Yon-Ho Sohn
Christopher Stapleton
Kiminobu Sugaya
Stacey Tantleff-Dunn
James S. Taylor
Kristina Tollefson
Dawn Trouard
Barbara F. Turnage
Randall S. Upchurch
Rajan Vaidyanathan
Mary P. Van Hook
Martine Vanryckeghem
Laurence H. von Kalm
Linda J. Walters
Alvin Y. Wang
Martin P. Wanielista
Jane M. Waterman
Stephen M. Watson
Earl D. Weaver
John F. Weishampel
Roseann S. White
Shannon N. Whitten
Timothy D. Wieck
Thomas A. Winningham
Earl Wright II
Cynthia Y. Young
Kurt B. Young
Antonis S. Zervos
Elayne Zorn
The dedication of the faculty is pivotal to the success of UCF’s research-based undergraduate programs. The Office of Undergraduate
Studies extends its sincerest appreciation to all UCF faculty who work with undergraduate researchers and especially those whose students have
presented at the annual Showcase of Undergraduate Research Excellence.
Undergraduate Studies
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