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 and photographs of last year's SRS can be found below.

The 2008 SRS is scheduled for Friday, April 25, 2008. The abstract submission deadline is April 14, 2008. Please go to SRS abstract submission page to register your poster presentation for the symposium.

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).

The 2008 SRS presentations

Click here for the abstract book (pdf)

 

ARCHAEOLOGICAL GEOCHEMISTRY INSOUTHERN PERU

Heather Slivko-Bathurst (Anthropology, undergraduate) Faculty Mentor: Ken Nystrom (Anthropology)

THE 2007 US SOCIAL FORUM:  NEW VOCABULARIES OF SOCIAL JUSTICE

Flannery Spring-Robinson Faculty Mentor:  Benjamin Junge (Anthropology)

CULTURAL MODELS OF COURTSHIP IN AMERICA

Aaron Leo, anthroplogy major victor de Munck, advisor

ISOLTION OF THE DASH COMPLEX IN C.ALBICANS

Matt Zubrowski (Biology, undergraduate) Faculty Mentor: Dr. Waldo (Biology)

ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION OF DAD1 AND DAD3

Elena Adjei (Biology, undergraduate) Faculty Mentor: Jennifer Waldo (Biology)

PURIFICATION OH HUG1 PROTEIN

Shadi Ibrahim (biology, undergraduate) Faculty Mentor: Jennifer Waldo ()

CLONING OF THE DAD-1 GENE INTO PET-15B

Adam Nassery (Biology, undergraduate) Faculty Mentor: Jennifer Waldo (Biology)

LIGAND BINDING DOMAIN FOR C.INTESTINALIS CIHT13L06

Babar Khan (Biology, undergraduate) Faculty Mentor: Jeff Reinking (Biology)

MOLECULAR STUDIES OF C. INTESTINALIS NR CITB033O5

Caithlin MacNeil (Biology, undergraduate) Faculty Mentor: Jeff Reinking (Biology)

BREEDING BIRDS AT THE MOHONK PRESERVE

Joseph Chernek (Biology, graduate) Faculty Mentor: Carol Rietsma, Lawrence McGlinn (Biology, Geography)

ISOLATION OF C. INTESTINALIS LBD ON NR CITB004N11

Cody Secor (Biology, undergraduate) Faculty Mentor: Jeff Reinking (Biology)

THE EFFECT OF ACID ON THE USPA GENE EXPRESSION

Kara Ramos (New Paltz High School, Senior) Faculty Mentor: Maureen Morrow (Biology)

EFFECTS ON TYROSINASE ACTIVITY FROM PLANT EXTRACTS

Igor Gembitsky (Biology, undergraduate) Faculty Mentor: Preeti Dhar, Maureen Morrow (Chemistry, Biology)

HIERARCHICAL STRUCTURES OF NATURAL ACELLULAR POLYM

Kseniya Orlik (Biology/ Chemistry, undergraduate) Faculty Mentor: John P. Harrington (Chemistry)

PHOTOTOXITY OF HERACLEUM & PSORALEA FRACTIONS

Ingrid Walfish, Alisha Philip (Chemistry, undergraduate) Faculty Mentor: Preeti Dhar (Chemistry)

CHLORIDE IONIZATION AND UV-VIS SPETROSCOPY

Kenneth Hassler, Aidan Benson, Miriam Rossi, Francesco Caruso (Chemistry, undergraduate) Faculty Mentor: Daniel Freedman (Chemistry)

THERMODYNAMIC STUDIES OF LNA IN DNA HAIRPINS

Corinne Szewcyk (Chemistry, undergraduate) Faculty Mentor: Pamela St. John (Chemistry)

SYNTHESIS OF SKELETALLY MODIFIED A-PINENE DERIVATI

Cynthia Colon, John Menendez, Daniel Cohen (Chemistry, undergraduate) Faculty Mentor: Preeti Dhar (Chemistry)

PREPARATION, CHARACTERIZATION, AND KInETIC STUDIES OF RUTHENIUM-THIOCYANATO LINKAGE ISOMERS

 Lucas Vandenburgh Daniel A. Freedman

THE BASIN OF ATTRACTION FOR THE DRUVE MODEL

Robin Augustine Thottungal (Electrical & Computer Engineering, undergraduate) Faculty Mentor: Natalie Cartwright (Dept of Mathematics)

BIOSURFACTANT PRODUCTION BY P. PUTIDA

Kerri Degroat (Enviromental Geochemical Science, undergraduate) Faculty Mentor: Megan Ferguson (Chemistry)

PROCESSES OF INTER-RELIANCE

Janet Hirsch (Foreign Languages, undergraduate) Faculty Mentor: Ligia Aldana (Foreign Languages)

MID-DEVONIAN FAUNAL TURNOVER IN EASTERN AMERICA

Thomas Schramm (Geology, undergraduate) Faculty Mentor: Alex Bartholomew (Geology)

BROOKS ORGANIC FARM SOIL ANALYSIS

Ara Krom, Kerri DeGroat Kristine Garbarino (Geology, undergraduate) Faculty Mentor: Shafiul Chowdhury (Geology)

BIOFACIES ANALYSIS IN THE MIDDLE DEVONIAN OF NY

Jaclyn Martin (Geology, undergraduate) Faculty Mentor: Alex Bartholomew (Geology)

HYDROGEOCHEMICAL ANALYSIS OF PRIVATE WELLS

Christina Hartwell, Jennifer Geller, Maureen O’Connell (Geology, undergraduate) Faculty Mentor: Shafiul Chowdhury (Geology)

EFFECT OF POST-CONFLICT RECONCILIATION ON PEACE

Amanda Garlin (International Relations/Political Science, undergraduate) Faculty Mentor: Kathleen Dowley (Political Science)

UNDERSTANDING (UNDER)DEVELOPMENT

Amanda Cheney (International Relations, undergraduate) Faculty Mentor: Kathleen Dowley (International Relations)

RECOVERING MINUTE BIOGENIC ELECTRIC FIELDS

Ryan Vinson, (physics, undergraduate) Faculty Mentor: Richard Halpern, Physics; Spencer Mass, (physics; biology)

ALL THE PRESIDENT’S NERDS: UNLEARNED LESSONS

Justin Holmes (Political Science, undergraduate) Faculty Mentor: Nancy Kassop (Political Science)

NONVERBAL BEHAVIOR AND THE INTERVIEWING PROCESS

Leigh Rokitowski, Kristin Markgraf, Brittany Pfeifer, Jessica Ocheret (Psychology, undergraduate) Faculty Mentor: Douglas Maynard (Psychology)

MOTHER BELIEFS ON PARENTING AND ADOLESCENCE

Heather Mangione (Psychology, graduate) Faculty Mentor: Tabitha Holmes (Psychology)

INTERVIEW BEHAVIOR

Rachel Moreau, Leigh Rokitowski, Nadia Fadonougbo, and Anna Lange (Psychology, undergraduate) Faculty Mentor: Dough Maynard (Psychology)

GENDER ROLE EXPECTATIONS AND LEADERSHIP

Sean Brown, Nicholas Johnson  (Psychology, undergraduate) Faculty Mentor: Maryalice Citera (Psychology)

WORD SUPERIORITY EFFECT IN BILINGUALS

Joseph DiPietro (Psychology, undergraduate) Faculty Mentor: Giordana Grossi (Psychology)

ATHLETES SUPPORT FOR SOCIAL ISSUES

Jenna Weinstein (Psychology, undergraduate) Faculty Mentor: Peter Kaufman (Sociology)

RESTORATIVE JUSTICE AND INTIMATE PARTNER VIOLENCE

LeAnn Heathwood (Sociology, undergraduate) Faculty Mentor: Eve Waltermaurer (Sociology)

COSTUME DESIGNING FOR THE PROMISE KEEPER

Mary Hunt (Theatre Arts, undergraduate) Faculty Mentor: Andrea Varga (Theatre Arts)