The Student Research Symposium is an event for the presentation and recognition of student scholarship (both graduate and undergraduate). Students with any major in the university, in any college or school of the university, graduate or undergraduate are invited to participate. All students who have participated with faculty or under faculty supervision -- for example as part of a senior seminar, or in independent study, or in supervised work -- in original, independent research, critical reviews, laboratory projects or field studies eligible to present their work as a poster presentation. The presentation titles last year's SRS can be found below.

The 2012 SRS is scheduled for the afternoon of Friday, May 4, 2012.  The abstract submission deadline is April 4, 2012. Please go to SRS abstract submission page to register your poster presentation for the symposium. The 2011 presentations are listed below.

Those students who wish to present their research at the Student Research Symposium should consult with a faculty advisor and submit an abstract (abstract instructions).

Click here for the 2011 SRS Abstract Book.

POSTER SESSIONS

Titles for each session are listed alphabetically by first author’s last name.

Poster Session I 4:15-5:00p

Isotpic Gio-geochemistry of the Mid-Hudson Valley

Linda Amato, (Anthropology/Geology, undergraduate)

Redox and Structural Stability of Oxyvita Hemoglobin

Raneen Rahhal, Joe Branco (Chemistry, undergraduate)

Deserving or Delusional: Job Over-Qualification

Elena Brondolo, Carrie Sauer (Psychology, undergraduate)

The Sedimentary Record of Louisa Pond, Esopus, NY

Chris Callinan (Environmental Geochemical Science)

The Study of Marine Bacteria

Denni Catalano, Jessica Mason (Biology, graduate)

The Study of Heroin Through Popular Discourse

Molly Cohn (Education- Elementary, undergraduate)

Conversion of (P-CYM) RU(II) L2 Complexes to (RU(BPY)

Danielle Del Re, Ghady Rahhal, Olivia Gliserman (Biology, Chemistry, undergraduate)

A Novel Assay to Identify Nuclear Receptor Ligands

Kara DeSantis, Aaron Reed (Biology, graduate)

Medieval Spain’s Arabic Poetry

Fatima Elmouchtari (Education-Secondary / Spanish)

Rendering Techniques in Costume Design for Theatre

Colleen Heaney (Theatre Arts, undergraduate)

Ligation Independent Cloning of NR LBDS

Marissa Magerkurth, Nicholas DiPaola (Biology, undergraduate)

Eastern Philosophy Meets Western Medicine

Rebecca Marcus (Psychology, undergraduate)

Identification of Microbes in Anoxic Marine Niches

Jessica Mason (Biology, undergraduate)

Kennedy Influence Throughout the 1960’s and Beyond

Kara McDermott (English, undergraduate)

Exploring the Hardy Weinberg Equilibrium

Lucia Milla (Biology, undergraduate)

Processing and Advanced Networking in Art

Shotaro Nakano (Art/Sculpture, undergraduate)

Soil Bioremediation Strategy Using Native Fungi

Laurel Okorofsky (Biology, undergraduate)

Production Management

Gayle Riess (Theatre Arts, undergraduate)

Does the Invariance Principle Hold in Baseball

Geoffrey Rohan (Economics, undergraduate)

The Effects of Factory Farms on the Environment

Daniel Santoro, Dana Gioia (Education, undergraduate)

The Effects of Terminalia arjuna on Phytophthora

Orooj Shahid (Chemistry, undergraduate)

Wave Propagation in Dispersive Media

Olga Stulov (Electrical and Computer Engineering, Mathematics)

Shark Project Study of V and Ti Mixed Metal Oxides

James Sutherland, Nicholas Hanson, Darryl Steffen, Tatiana Yeargin, Rachel Kaminski, Fatima Hosain (Chemistry, undergraduate)

Facile Synthesis of Azetidiness/Pyrrolidines

Varun Talanki, Hashim Al-Mashat, Kara Heard, Juan De Jesus (Biology, undergraduate)

An Exercise in Racial Discourse

Grace Watson (History, undergraduate)

 Poster session II 5:00-5:45 pm

4- OP Profoundly Disrupts Regeneration in Planaria

Mevluda Arifova, Tyler Carson, Mary Schappert, Elena Oldendorf (Biology,

undergraduate)

Dos Dependent Alternation of Regeneration with BPA

Tyler Carson, Mevlude Arifova, Mary Schappert, Elena Oldendorf (Biology, undergraduate)

Fruit Fly Blue-Belly Beats & Adipokinetic Hormone

Leila Crisson, Aruna Puthota (Biology, undergraduate)

The Development of Russian Counterinsurgency

Anna Dluzniewska (Political Science & International Relations, undergraduate)

Pilgrimage and Santiago De Compostela

Alana Donocoff (History, undergraduate)

Post-Conflict Gender Equality in BIH

Elizabeth Dovell (Political Science and International Relations, undergraduate)

Forest Dynamics

Alicia Fahrner (Biology, undergraduate)

Music and Dance in the African Diaspora

Fredrick Fernandez (New Paltz Honors Program/ Black Studies, undergraduate)

Nothing Changes: Satirical Prints by Hank Virgona

Adam Gordon (Art History, undergraduate)

No Child Left Behind and Social Studies Education

James Hadley (Political Science, undergraduate)

Mid-Devonian Arthropod Trackway from the Catskills

Kathleen Hanson, Lauren Parry (Geology and Biology, undergraduate)

The Industrial Revolution and Bio-geochemistry

Lindsay Jankovitz (Anthropology, undergraduate)

Dietary Restriction in Musca domestica

Sushma Kasinathan (Biology, undergraduate)

Understanding Language Loss: Heritage Japanese

Hikari Kawamura (Linguistics, undergraduate)

Exploring Hook-up Experiences of LGBTQ Individuals

Eli Mann, Nikki Venezia, Nicole Giordano, Jacob Julian (Psychology, undergraduate)

SUNY New Paltz’s Drive for Local Food

Genevieve Marino (Environmental Studies Minor/ Music Major, undergraduate)

The Insecticidal Properties Ofterminalia arjuna

Miles Marnell, Yan Li(Chemistry, undergraduate)

Computer Model of Mickey Mantel’s Famous Homeroom

Elijah Nazzaro (Physics, undergraduate)

The Threat of Invasive Plants to the Watersheds

Janice Rich (Biology, undergraduate)

Exploring Hook-up Experiences of Heterosexuals

Lindsay Ruckel, Ashley Stauffer, Emily Phelan, Rebecca Rodriguez, Megan Kenney, Dan Wyld, Julia Donato (Psychology, graduate)

Comparison of P. putida in the Breakdown of PAHs

Ryan Taylor (Chemistry, undergraduate)

Surface Properties of Bdellovibrio bacteriovorus

Michael Wengen (Chemistry, undergraduate)

The Repellency of Pineness Against the House Fly

Eric Werner, Jacob Kuruvilla (Biology/Chemistry, undergraduate)

Simulation of Power Allocation and Task Scheduling

Yanzhao Yang (Computer Science, graduate)

 Poster session III 5:45-6:30p

 Didymophenia geminata: An Algae that Seizes Creeks

Shaina Beirne, Nathaniel Rigolino (Biology, undergraduate)

Toward the Synthesis of New Chiral Macrocycles

Shaun Ben-Ari (Chemistry, undergraduate)

Understanding the Melting of a GAAA Hairpin

Cynthia Chow, Lauren Parry (Biology, undergraduate)

Privatization in the Water Sector and Child Health

Sandra Davis (Economics)

Water Quality of the Wallkill River

Steven DiFalco, Ashley Crinieri, and Aisha Saleem (Biology, undergraduate)

Analysis of Dam1 Complex with Proteases

Tsering Dolma (Biology, undergraduate)

The Effects of Sinewave Speech on the Irrelevants

Josh Dorsi, Stephenie George (Psychology, undergraduate)

Effect of Mentor Quality on Mentee Retention

Whitney Dudley (Economics, undergraduate)

Is Evolution just a Theory? New Paltz says …..

Brenna Fearey (Psychology/Biology, undergraduate)

The Effectiveness of NGOS at the Security Council

Winnie Hagemeyer Leonardo-Pereira (Political Science, undergraduate)

Steven Barnes: Guilty Until Proven Innocent

Stephanie Inserra (Communication and Media: Concentration in TV/Radio, undergraduate)

Bio-chemical Characterization of the Dam1 Complex

Aruba Iqbal (Biology, undergraduate)

Crystallization of Dash Complex Proteins

Richard Jean-Louis (Biology and African Studies, undergraduate)

Accent Change in Spanish-English Bilinguals

Janna Losow (Foreign Languages, undergraduate)

Gestural Drift in Indian-English Multi-linguals

Susan Mason, Karen Kessler, Sean Picinich (Psychology)

Biometrics of Metamorphosed Andneotenic Axolotls

Thomas Quinn, Michael Minicozzi (Biology, undergraduate)

Cell Death in A549 Treated with Ru-Based Complexes

Sanjana Reddy, Aisha Saleem (Biology, undergraduate)

Extract Toxicity: Gram-Neg. and Gram-Pos. Bacteria

Michael Rich (Biology, undergraduate)

Dami Complex Gene Expression in C. albicans

Corrina Ridgeway (Biology, undergraduate)

Hammett Correlation for Hydrolyticst Ability Const

Mary Schappert, Erik Van Vlack (Chemistry, undergraduate)

Active Components of the Defensive Ink of Aplysia

Ester Sherman (Biology)

Little Brother and Sister are Watching

Emily Sobel (Asian Studies, undergraduate)

Relationship Building through Social Networking

Ericka Vales (Communication and Media, undergraduate)