Twenty-two Roanoke College students presented at MARCUS (Mid-Atlantic Regional Conference of Undergraduate Scholarship) on October 8, 2012. After some directional difficulty, both RC vans and several student-driven cars made it just on time for the first presentations of the day. For a $25/student registration fee, presenters received a continental breakfast, a free lunch, and a full day of student and faculty camaraderie.
Roanoke College Student Presenters:
Bryan Piatkowski: Roanoke College
Examining the Evolution of Polar Auxin Transport in Bryophyte Gametophytes
Sam Bsasley: Roanoke College
A Psychological View of Love
Amanda Newman: Roanoke College
Intimacy and Texting Behaviors
Alyssa Bostrom: Roanoke College
Immigration and the Media
Sarah Ahlbrand: Roanoke College
The Biosynthesis of the Chemotherapeutic Agent ET-743 Focusing on the Heterologous Expression of Key Biosynthetic Genes
Julia Boudrye and Lauren Schwabe: Roanoke College
Smartphone Use in College Students: Implications and Impact
Margaret Anderson: Roanoke College
The Executive Office of the President: Analyzing the Influence on Policy-Making
Ariel Firebaugh: Roanoke College
Lymantria disp-erse! The Effect of Landscape Structure on Male Gypsy Moth Densities
RC Student Presenters
Will Bader: Roanoke College
Examining the Effect of Forest Fires and Increased Nutrient Levels on Algal Blooms in Marine
Ecosystems.
Jonathan Perkins: Roanoke College
Ethers and Fluoroethers from Pentafluorophenyl-Substituted Cyclopentadienes
Caroline Hunter: Roanoke College
Gene Cloning in the Purine Biosythetic Pathway in Archaeoglobus fulgidus
Jeremy Johnson: Roanoke College
Bisamine Boron Cations from 1,4-Dimethylpiperazine
Meagan Tolley: Roanoke College
A Study of Purine Biosynthesis in Sulfolobus solfataricus
Colin David Briggs: Roanoke College
Adsorption and Release of Organic Dyes in Mesoporous Silica Spheres
Sara Blankenship: Roanoke College
Creation of a Substrate Phage Display Library to Study Enzyme-Substrate Interactions of Plasmepsins IX
and X in P. falciparum
Paul Vines: Virginia Bioinformatics Institute
A Computational Approach to Iron Metabolism in Breast Epithelial Cells
Casey Wojtera: Roanoke College
Investigations of the Active Site of 5, 10-methenyltetrahydrofolate synthetase (MTHFS) from
Mycoplasma pneumoniae
Kayla R. Muncy: Roanoke College
Cloning Plasmepsins IX and X to Find Their Function in Malaria
Matthew Corbicz: Roanoke College
Examining Polar Auxin Transport in the Moss Gametophyte of Dicranium scoparium
Kacy Dillon & Steven Huffman: Roanoke College
Students’ Perceptions of Professors