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Summer Undergraduate Research Experience: SURE


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PAST PROJECTS

 

 

Below is a list of projects that students have explored in past years of SURE.

Student Name

Research Project

Melissa Burky

Molecular-Dynamics Similations of Silicon/Silocon Nitride Interfaces

Lynnsey Carrell

Characterizing Detection and Discrimination Thresholds in the Moth Manduca Sexta

Andrew Gentilin

The Effects of Dietary Copper on Lysyl Oxidase mRNA Abundance and Enzymatic Activity

Jessica Hall

Forensically Important Flies in WV: DNA Based Identification Methods

Stephanie Hovatter

Divergence of American Ginseng Populations Due to Selective Harvest

Michael Hushion

Extracting Steroid Hormones from Plasma Samples: A Systematic Study Based on Capillary Electrophoresis

Sarah Kelly

The Effect of the Forest Floodplain Type on Community Composition, Total Aboveground Biomass, and Foliar Nutrient Concentration

Allison Lastinger

Are Endothelin-2 and Endothelin-3 Expressed in the Bovine Corpus Luteum?

Briana Leatherman

Identification and Characterization of a Tripe Homozygous Mutant for UBC 4, 5, & 6 In Arabidopsis

Robert Loar

The Effects of Grain Variation and Choice Feeding on
the Performance of Organic Broiler Chickens

Brian McMillan

Freeze Tolerance of Transgenic Arabidopsis Constitutively Expressing the Human Inositol Polyphosphate 5-Phosphatase

Andrew Must

The Impact of Past, Curren, and Future Land Use Change on CO2 Dynamics in Central Hardwood Forests of North America

Anju Patel

Microbiological Analysis of Coliforms and Escherichia coli in Poultry Litter

Anna Plumley

The Presence of Methamphetamine and Cocaine Pyrolytic Products in Lightbulb Trace Evidence and trans-Phenylpropene as a Marker of Smoked Methamphetamine in Urine

Amanda Rack

The Effects of Grain Variation and Choice Feeding on
the Performance of Organic Broiler Chickens

Kimberley Santiago

Fluorescent Tagging of Viral RNA for Subcellular Localization in Live Cells

Benjamin Saunders

Analysis of Genetic Diversity of American Ginseng Populations

Lyndsay Shaffer

The Effects of Transforming Growth Factor-Beta1 and Seminal Plasma on
Conception Rates in Beef Cattle

Tyler Simmons

Effect of Shear Rate and Time on the Spreading of Liquid Bender on Core Particles

Jodi Smith

Effects of Supplementation on Forage Fiber Digestibility

Katherine Taylor

Computer Aided Design and Manufacturing:
Analysis and Development of Research Issues.

Jennifer Thayer

Rapid Identification of Wood-Inhabiting Fungi

Donna Radice

Roman Spectroscopy of Aged Fibers

Kimberley Santiago

Effects of Feed Form and Nutrients on Intestinal Morphology of Roaster Chickens

Jamie Canfield (Nichols)

Bovine Luteal Endothelial Cells Express the Prostaglandin F2 alpha receptor and Endothelin3

Zachary Schwertfeger

Modeling the Onset of Type 1 Diabetes

Bryan Vandigo

Weathering of Wood Plastic Composites

Adam Flack

Online Determination of Quaternary Ammonia Compounds in Amine Copper Quaternary Wood Treating Compounds

Michelle Fowler

Capillary Electrophoresis: Internet Based Learning and Asarone

Tia Spontak

Macroscale Protein Expression for Microscale Manipulation

Spencer Connor

LIF imaging of neutral lte

Veronica Coptis

The Development of Mushroom Bodies in the Insect Tribollum Castaneum

Keri Morgan

Effects on Reproductive Cycles Induced by Weight Gain by Sugar in Female Rats

Curran Gehring

Quantitative Analysis of Dietary Nutrient Content and Feed Form Effects on Proximal Ileal Morphology and Roaster Chick Performance

Alisha Neal

Estimating the Age of a Bloodstain, Polymorphic Individuals, and Crime Scene Investigations

Robert Leonard

Short-Medium Measures of Order in Crystalline Si

Jamie Walters

Specific Detection of the Cancer Marker Protein VEGF using Micro-cantilever Resonators

Neha Kumar

Soil Bacterial Diversity in 2FO rested Flood Plains of the Southeastern US

Melissa Burky

A Comprehensive Analysis of Tape

Jennifer Beach

Ulit of Pt-Gc-Ms to Analyze GHB, CHU, GBL & GUL in Beverages

Morgan Bridi

Response-Reinforcer Independence After FI and VI Schedules of Reinforcement

Rachel Byerly

Synthesis of salviadione from salvia miltiorrhiza

Kellen Calinger

Impact of CO2 and Fertilization of Chlorophyll and Protein content in sweet gum leaves

Veronica Coptis

Nest Success

Maria Dalzot

Safety of Krill Protein Concentrate

Joseph Duperre

Sparrow biosensors

Jacob Fennick

General Utility Lattice Program (GULP)

Curran Gehring

improvement of pellet quality with proteins recovered from whole fish using isoelectric solubilization/precipitation

Samuel Hall

The Biological Control of Meloidogyne incognita with Arthrobotrus oligspora

Zane Harvey

Construction or Operation of a Retarding Field Energy Analyzer

Andrew Higgins

Current-induced microwave generation in magnetic nanopillars

Patrick Joyce

Mapping Spatial Distributions of Insects in an Apple Orchard

Allison Kenyon

The Use of Remote Sensing to Monitor Phenological Change in American Ginseng

Miranda King

Saprophytic Activity of Cyphonectria parasitica on American Chestnut trees

Kelley Lilly

The effect of genotype and choice-feeding on organically reared broilers fed diets devoid of synthetic methion

Jennifer Manor

Egyptian Fractions

Katie Phillips

Soil standards for explosives

William Reinikie

Preliminary Computational Design and Testing of Injection Valves in Methane Powered Generators

Barbara Shock

Effects of Salinity Stress on Uca pubnax's survival, metabolism, limb regeneration, and molting cycles

Molly Simis

Genetic Analysis, Characterization of Freezing Tolereance and Population Distribution of Cornus canadensis

Victoria Wheaton

Evaluating Hibiscus species for Phytoextraction of Zinc from Conaminated soil

Karon Wynne

Synthesis of Au nanoparticles

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