Office of Research and Development

The following students received awards at the 2009 Cal State LA Student Symposium on Research, Scholarship and Creative Activity.  Congratulations to all!

Oral Presentations
Creative Arts & Design
1st Place: Tan Hainu*
“Quintet Sound of Wind for Flute, Clarinet, Violin, Cello and Piano “
Faculty Mentor: Dr. John M. Kennedy

2nd Place: Juan Landeros
“Concrete Memories: The Murals of Ramona Gardens”
Faculty Mentor: Dr. Kate Sullivan

Education
1st Place: Diana Neskovska
“Adolescent System Upgrade: Effects of Assistive Technology on Reading”
Faculty Mentor: Dr. Diane Haager

2nd Place: Thor Gibbins
“The Effects of Reading & Writing Workshop as an Intervention on Struggling Adolescent Students: An Action Research Project”
Faculty Mentor: Dr. Deborah Oh

Engineering/Mathematical Sciences
1st Place: Sara Esparza*$
“Supersonic Combustion”
Faculty Mentor: Dr. Darrell Guillaume

2nd Place: Alexander Alegre*
“Implementation and Quantitative Analysis of an Aerospace Information Server”
Faculty Mentor: Dr. Charles Liu
Co-author: Ali Rezaei

Physical Sciences
1st Place Graduate: Sveti Patel*
“Studies on coordination chemistry of Aβ-Cu complex”
Faculty Mentor: Dr. Feimeng Zhou

2nd Place Graduate: Huy Do
“Electrochemical SPR investigation of electron transfer across α-helical peptides”
Faculty Mentor: Dr. Feimeng Zhou

1st Place Undergraduate: Anthony Obisesan*
“Detection of Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbon in Sediment and Water Collected from Ballona Creek”
Faculty Mentor: Dr. Krishna Foster

2nd Place Undergraduate: Larry Lam
“Protein Microarray Imaging with Phase-Modulated Ellipsometry”
Faculty Mentor: Dr. Feimeng Zhou

Humanities & Letters
1st Place: Daniel Pierce*
“Growing up Red: Emigrant Youth and the Role of the Family in the Soviet Union”
Faculty Mentor: Dr. Choi Chatterjee

2nd Place: Jennifer Milanese*
“Vicki Hearne and her Ability to Manipulate and Influence through Rhetorical Means”
Faculty Mentor: Dr. Michelle Hawley

Behavioral & Social Sciences
1st Place: Barney Bartelle
“A Recently Recovered Dog Burial From Tule Creek Village, San Nicolás Island, California: Osteological Analysis and Life-History”
Faculty Mentor: Dr. René Vellanoweth

2nd Place: Tatiana Basáñez
“Effect of TV Stereotypes on Racial Attitudes and Opposition to Affirmative Action among Hispanics”
Faculty Mentor: Dr. Kimberly King

Biological Sciences: Ecology & Evolution:
1st Place: Lisa S. Fong*
“Confirmation of Facilitative Interactions of California Mussels (Mytilus californianus) on Rocky Shores in British Columbia”
Faculty Mentor: Dr. Carlos Robles

2nd Place: Danielle Y. Trathen*
“Comparative phylogeography of Caribbean Sea Slugs with long-lived vs. short-lived larvae”
Faculty Mentor: Dr. Patrick Krug

Biological Sciences: Molecular/Microbiology/Behavior
1st Place: Victor A. Cazares*
“Orbitofrontal cortex lesions impair responses to cue predicting shifts in work to reward in rats.”
Faculty Mentor: Dr. Alicia Izquierdo

2nd Place: Michael Jansen
“Optimization of Fatty Acids Separation using Reverse Phase HPLC and an Artificial Neural Network”
Faculty Mentor: Dr. Edith Porter
Coauthor: Grady Hanrahan

* = Selected as a delegate to the CSU Student Research Competition
$ = Winner of the Phi Kappa Phi Travel Award

Poster Presentations
Group #1
Area: Behavioral and Social Sciences
Kevin Linares, Angie Guan, and Roy Cheng
Title: Exploring Virtual World Social Interaction in Second Life
Faculty Mentor: Dr. Kaveri Subrahmanyam

Group #2
Area: Biological Sciences
Christopher Lam, Stephanie Tan, and Adrian Esqueda
Title: Cloning of Bacterial Essential Genes and Purification of
Encoded Products of Escherichia coli and Acinetobacter baumannii
Faculty Mentor: Dr. Howard Xu

Group #3
Area: Biological Sciences
Cheryl Chow
Title: The Expression of BDNF and TrkB Receptor within Neurons and
oligodendrocytes of the Lumbar Spinal Cord in Spinally transected
Rats after Treadmill Training
Faculty Mentor: Dr. Ray de Leon

Group #4
Area: Biological Sciences
Angels Nguyen, Michael A. Janse, Abebayehu N. Yilma, and
Jivianne Lee
Title: Upregulation of Host-Derived Antimicrobial Peptides and
Lipids in Patients with Chronic Rhinosinusitis
Faculty Mentor: Dr. Edith Porter

Group #5
Area: Physical Sciences
Yi C. Hu, Nareh Abrahamian, and Clarisse S. Juan
Title: Encapsulation of Chlorambucil-Tempol Adduct into PLGA-PEG
Nanoparticles for Targeted Drug Delivery
Faculty Mentor: Dr. Yong Ba