Celebrating Loyola's Commitment to Undergraduate Research and Scholarship
Colloquium finalists with their faculty mentors
| On Saturday, March 31, 2001, the Undergraduate Student Research & Scholarship Committee held its second annual Colloquium. The competition establishes a campus-wide forum in which undergraduate research and scholarship can be presented before the college community. This event not only contributes to the professional development of participants, it underscores the importance the college places on student involvement in creative intellectual endeavors. |
The finalists below presented their research in open competition for First, Second, and Third Place cash awards.
Arts & Humanities First Place Kathleen Barker: "Dekker and Middleton's The Roaring Girl: Editing a Renaissance Play."
Mentor: Professor Robert Miola
Second Place Bonard Molina: "Blood Bartering: The Aztec Roots of Christian Sacrifice in Iztapalapa."
Mentor: Rick Boothby
School of Business First Place Tom McAndrew: "Social Security Privatization."
Mentor: Professor Nancy Williams
Second Place Alicia Bartkowski: "WHO, Tobacco, and Treaties: Whither Do We Go?"
Mentor: Professor Ray Jones
Third Place Sara Antonson: "Reconciling Environmental Protection, Human Rights, and Economic Development: A Legal Analysis Concerning LAC Developing Countries."
Mentor: Professor Andrea Giampetro-Meyer
Natural & Life Sciences
First Place Puneet Gandotra: "Cloning and Characterizing the nhr-85 gene in C. elegans"
Mentor: Dr. Kirsten Crossgrove
Second Place Nicholas Woodford: "Structural Analysis of the C-Terminal Domain of the Bacterial Cell Division Protein FtsZ"
Mentor: Dr. Neena Din
Third Place Amy Hughes: "Maximizing and Analyzing Cardiomyocyte Differentiation Potential in Mouse D3-129 and C57BL/6 ES Cells"
Mentor: Dr. Clara Moore
Social Science
First Place Jessica Rice: "Individual Differences and Student Leadership."
Mentor: Mickey Fenzel
Second Place Kathleen M. Joynes: "Evaluating Clinically Significant Therapeutic Change in Survivors of Abuse."
Faculty Sponsor: Jenny Lowry
Third Place Robert Clark: "Bimodal Attention Functioning and EEG Patterns."
Mentor: Jeffrey Baerwald, S.J.
Performance/Demonstration
First Place Christopher Thompson: "DSPFXG: Digital Signal Processing Effect for Guitar."
Mentor: Dr. Brian Jennison
Second Place Mike Owsianny: "Faces of El Salvador."
Mentor: Tim Brown, S.J.
Pictures from the Colloquium 
| (left) Father Ridley, President of Loyola College, addressing the audience during the Awards Cermemony.
(right) Kathleen Barker, winner in the Arts & Humanities Divsion, presents her paper. | 
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| (left) Tom McAndrew discusses Social Security privatization in his award-winning presentation. (right) In his demonstration of acoustical special effects, Chris Thompson plays a few riffs on the guitar. | 
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Students and faculty gather before the beginning of the colloquium presentations.
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