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Eleven students to represent Cal State L.A.
Research to focus on airway secretions, Belize settlement,
Los Angeles, CA – Covering research topics ranging from
clinical outbreak to hypersonic flight, 11 Cal State L.A. students
will represent the University at
the
26th Annual CSU Student
Research Competition
at Cal State Long Beach May 4-5, 2012.
Sponsored by the California State University (CSU) Office of the
Chancellor, the statewide competition will consist of 10 discipline
categories in the undergraduate and graduate levels. Each student will
have 10 minutes to present an oral presentation to an audience and jury,
who will then have five minutes to ask questions.
The
following 11 Cal State L.A. students, who were recently
selected from the
Cal State L.A. Symposium on Research, Scholarship and Creative Activity,
are competing in the research competition:
Mark Anthony Aguilar
- mentored by David Blekhman, associate professor of
technology. Title: “The SHArK Project – Affordable Hydrogen from
Sunshine.”
Jessica Alvarenga
- mentored by Helen Boussalis, professor of electrical
engineering. Title: “Sensitivity Studies of a Strain-Based Shape
Prediction Algorithm.”
Remy Ashe
- mentored by Suzanne Regan, professor of communication
studies. Title: “The Traumatized Mouse and the Dissociated Duck: Trauma
and Resolution in Disney’s Animated Feature-Length Films.”
Kalind Carpenter
and Azizkhan Pathan - mentored by Helen Boussalis,
professor of electrical engineering, and Darrell Guillaume,
professor of mechanical engineering. Title: “Supersonic Combustion
Leads to Hypersonic Flight.”
Wendy Dorenbush - mentored by James Brady, professor of anthropology.
Title: “Settlement Patterns of Cahal Pech, Belize: A Preliminary Report
on the Settlement Survey of 2011 B.V.A.R. Field Season.”
*Angela Guerrero - mentored by Matthias Selke, professor of chemistry.
Title: “Photooxidation of the antioxidant trans-resveratrol.” (CSULA’s
Honorable Mention)
Hanna Koch
- mentored by Patrick Krug, associate professor of biology.
Title: “Local adaptation and range limits for the estuarine sea slugs,
Alderia willowi and Alderia modesta.”
Daniel Ma
- mentored by Edith Porter, associate professor of biology.
Title: “Reduced Antimicrobial Cholesteryl Content in Airway Secretions
in Cystic Fibrosis.”
*Dominic Quagliozzi
- mentored by Mika Cho, professor of art. Title: “There Is
a Yesterday: The Body and Technology in Art.” (CSULA’s 2012 Phi Kappa
Phi Travel Award of $1,000)
Wayne A. Warner
- mentored by Howard Xu, professor of microbiology. Title:
“Phenotypic and molecular characterization of clinical outbreak isolates
of Acinetobacter baumannii obtained from Los Angeles County,
California hospitals.”
The CSU event each year follows the annual Cal State L.A.
Symposium on Research, Scholarship and Creative Activity. The aim of
the campus symposium is to encourage all CSULA students—undergraduate
and graduate in every discipline—to showcase their papers, projects and
research endeavors. It also provides them an opportunity to network with
administrators, faculty and peers. For information about the symposium
and its 11 student delegation, call the Office of Research and
Development at (323) 343-3798.
For more details on the CSU Student Research Competition, go to
http://www.sfsu.edu/~gradstdy/research-competition.htm
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