Celebrating Loyola's Commitment to Undergraduate Research and Scholarship
Colloquium finalists with their faculty mentors
| On Saturday, March 27th 2004, the Undergraduate Student Research & Scholarship Committee held fifth annual colloquium. The competition continued 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 also 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 and recognition.
Arts & Humanities
First Place Anna Maria Gualtieri: "Biography of a Holocaust Survivor"
Mentor: Lia Purpura
Second Place Virginia Graham: "Max Ernst's L'elefont Celebes and Oedipus Rex:Connecting Dada and Surrealist Collage"
Mentor: Janet Headley
School of Business
First Place Christine Santiag "Toward a Coperative Approach to regulating Biopesticides"
Mentor: Andrea Giampetro-Meyer
Second Place Mykel Banks, Kimberly Fynes, & Christopher Musial: "Tannins and Esophageal Cancer"
Mentor: Richard Franke
Third Place David Hawal, Ellen Niemiec, & Jennifer Reddy: "Cultural Determinants of Violent Crime"
Mentor: Richard Franke
Mathematical & Physical Sciences
First Place Megan Pomianek: "Preparations of Cellotriose Derivatives for Fluorescence Studies of the Cel5A Cellulase of Thermobifida fusca"
Mentor: Brian Barr
Second Place Lerin Tagge: "Solving Laplacian problems with Boundary Singularities: A Singular Function Boundary Integral Method"
Mentor: Christos Xenophontos
Third Place Beth Gregg: "Characterization of a Dirofilaria immitis PutativeMolting Gene, Di-nhr-6 through Semi-Quantitive RT-PCR"
Mentor: Kirsten Crossgrove
Social Sciences
First Place Robert Cramer & Joshua Grubka: "Life Stress and the Five Factor Model as Predictors of Subjective Well-being"
Mentor: David Powers
Second Place (Tie) Lindsey Conan & Taylor Jantz-Sell: "Assessing the Short-Term Impact of a Brief Violent Crime Prevention Method "
Mentor: David Crough Dana M. Moss: "Print Media and the Gender Socialization of Teenage Girls:A Content Analysis of Seventeen Magazine "
Mentor: Lovell Smith
Third Place Christina Moorer: "Racial Health Disparities:African American Women and Low Birth Rate"
Mentor: Mark Peyrot
Pictures from the Colloquium 
Dr. Kim Olsen, co-chair of USRS
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Keynote Speaker, Dr. David Rivers,
Biology Dept.
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Other Honors: Promising First-Year Scholars 
Kathryn M. Beer for her paper
The Power of Nature
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Dina Nagdimunova for her paper
Crit The Laws as Socratic Advocates
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