Student Grant Program for Research and Creative Activity
2010-2011 Grant Recipients
Student(s) (Faculty Sponsors, Department): Project
Francis Alvino (Les Hasbargen, Earth Sciences): Expanding the Geophysical Surveys at Pine Lake Archaeological Site
Ivan Chio, Kelsey Knutsen (Paul French, Physics & Astronomy): Effect of Shape and Volume on Quarter Wave Resonators
Angela Dicorato (Nathaniel Bouman, Communication Arts): Weathered: A Search for Beauty in Loss
Emily Ferencik (Kirsten Hilpert, Human Ecology): Effect of Dairy Foods on Edothelial Health
Eamonn Hinchey (Donna Vogler, Biology): Detection and Control Measures for the Invasive Marsh Thistle Cirsium palustre
Stephen Job (Devin Castendyk, Earth Sciences): Establishing Baseline Surface Water Characteristics of the Butternut Watershed, Mount Upton, NY, Prior to Natural Gas Exploration
Marykate Kalotschke (Jacqueline Bennett, Chemistry & Biochemistry, and Nancy Bachman, Biology): Biological Testing of Imines
Anyango Kamina (Nancy Bachman, Biology, and Jacqueline Bennett, Chemistry & Biochemistry): Cell Imaging using Fluorescent Imines
Chris Keefe, Joseph Krikorian, Duncan MacCrea (Keith Brunstad, Earth Sciences, and Fred Zalatan, Biology): Biomineralization of Acid Mine Drainage Metals
Stephanie Kromhout (Les Hasbargen, Earth Sciences): Determining Hydrologic History From Local Lakes: A Sedimentological Study of Lake Deltas
Tom Lansing (Donna Vogler, Biology): Flora of Mt. Tom, NY
Casey Lewis (Cynthia Falk, Cooperstown Graduate Program): Elmira, NY Female Dressmakers: 1880-1920
Sean Long, Matthew Lagueras, Sing Chung Zeus Chiu (Sen Zhang, Mathematics, Computer Science & Statistics): Exploring Applications of Data Structures and Algorithms Learning Materials on Entertainment Devices and Relevant Techniques
Fiona Lowry, Alexander Soroka, Anyango Kamina (Devin Castendyk, Earth Sciences): Kenya Water Project
Maxine Malikin, Joelle Mazo (Keith Schillo, Biology): Does the Type of Caloric Sweetener Influence Weight Gain and Onset of Puberty in Female Mice?
Alyson Marmet (Jacqueline Bennett, Chemistry & Biochemistry): The Use of X-ray Crystallography to Determine the Exact Structure of New Imines
Erin Mason (Jeffrey Heilveil, Biology): Inheritance of HLA Allelles Contributing to Susceptibility to Type 1 Diabetes
Kelsey Minnich (Patrice Macaluso & Caitlin Smith Rapoport, Theatre): Costume Design for Strong Coffee Stage's "Antigone" by Sophocles
Annelise Muscietta (Martha Growdon, Earth Sciences): Bedrock Geologic Mapping of the Matinicus Quadrangle, Maine
Dylan Nealis (April Harper, History): "The Memory of Arthur, That Most Renowned King...Will Endure Forever": The Establishment of a Legend and the Sanctioning of a Reign
William Oakes (Keith Brunstad, Earth Sciences): The Effects of Jointing on Natural Gas Drilling, Hydraulic Fracturing, and Ground Water Quality: Schoharie, Otsego, and Montgomery Counties, New York
James Orezzoli (Kelly Gallagher, Chemistry & Biochemistry): Secondary Structure Analysis of the CGI-112 Protein
Steven Piteo (Patrice Macaluso & Caitlin Smith Rapoport, Theatre): Sound Designer for Strong Coffee Stage's "Antigone" by Sophocles
Erin Potter (Melissa Godek, Earth Sciences): Assessing the Impact of Air Mass Frequency on Major Flood Events in the Susquehanna River Basin
Shane Putnam (Trudy Thomas-Smith, Chemistry & Biochemistry): The Fate of Triclosan in Oneonta, NY Wastewater; Dilution and the Effects of pH, Iron and Light on By-Product Formation
Racquel Riccardi (Shih-Ming Hu, Human Ecology): The Application of Soy Cheese (Tofu) in the Traditional High Cheese Products
Tyson Robb (Martha Growdon, Earth Sciences): Energy Producing Purification of Acid Mine Drainage: Phase II
Joanna Salvino (Jeffrey Heilveil, Biology): Phylogeography and Post-glacial Range Expansion in Nigronia serricornis (Say) (Insecta: Megaloptera: Corydalidae)
Lauren Shore (Halimah M.M. Jorge, Chemistry & Biochemistry): Molecular Docking of Antituberculosis Drug Pyrazinamide to Mycobacterium Tuberculosis Fatty Acid Synthase I
Rachel Stevenson (Jeffrey Heilveil, Biology): Determining the Taxonomic Utility of Microsatellite Markers Developed for Nigronia serricornis (Megaloptera: Corydalidae) and Estimation of Dispersal Distances of the Species Within New York State
Joe Stressler (Donna Vogler, Biology): Invasive European Marsh Thistle (Cirsium palustre) in Central New York
Christina Vogel, Andrew Feiner, Curtis Frederick (Keith Schillo, Biology, and Trudy Thomas-Smith, Chemistry & Biochemistry): The Occurrence and Fate of Endocrine-Disrupting Compounds (EDC's) in Selected Water Samples and the Effects of Mammalian Tissue
Katherine Whitcomb (Tracy Allen, Geography): Acquiring Baseline Surface Water Quality Data for Otsego County, NY, Prior to Gas Exploration
Danielle Willsey, Lisa Laraque, Michael O'Rourke, Umrhan Habal (Florian Reyda, Biology): Investigation of Pathology caused by Thorny-Headed Worms that Parasitize Otsego Lake Fishes
