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Graduate Research Forum Winners

We are pleased to announce the 2009 Sixth Annual Graduate Research Forum Best in Category Award Winners. Awards given for best poster presentations in each category were selected based on feedback from a team of faculty judges.

LIFE AND HEALTH SCIENCES

Mary Beth Majerovic
A Tale of Two Tactics: How Male Reproduction Is Influenced by Behavior and Physiology
Mentor – Jane Waterman, PhD

Melinda Donnelly
Recruitment, Growth and Survival of the Exotic Brazilian Pepper (Schinus terebinthifolius) at Resorted Mosquito Impoundments in Mosquito Lagoon, Florida
Mentor – Linda Walters, PhD

Katherine Grablow
Co-authors: David Jenkins, PhD, Roberts Virnstein, Seagrass Ecosystems Analysts
Recovery and Restoration of Halodule Wrightii Seagrass after Boat Propeller Scar Damage in Mosquito Lagoon, Florida
Mentor – Linda Walters, PhD

EDUCATION

Janet L. Proly
Co-authors: Jessica Rivers, Kara Delaney, Chad Nye, PhD, Jamie Schwartz, PhD
Graphic Organizer Use with Elementary through Post-Secondary Students for Reading Comprehension of Expository Text
Mentors – Chad Nye , PhD, Jamie Schwartz, PhD, Barbara Ehren, PhD

Didem Akyuz
Co-authors: Erhan Haciomeroglu, PhD, Sirin Coskun
An Empirical Investigation into Prospective Teachers’ Use of Different Representations
Mentor – Erhan Haciomeroglu, PhD

BUSINESS

Jason Chen
The Accuracy of Financial Report Projections of Environmental Capital Expenditures: A Second Look
Mentors – Robin Roberts, PhD, Sean Robb, PhD

FINE ARTS AND HUMANITIES

Elizabeth Brendel
Aphra Behn’s “The Rover” A Study of Feminism and Class
Mentor – Megan Alrutz, PhD

ENGINEERING, COMPUTER SCIENCE, OPTICS, PHYSICAL SCIENCES, MATHEMATICS, MODELING AND SIMULATION

Christopher Lorscher
Co-authors: Aniket Bhattacharaya, PhD, Tapio Ala-Nissila Polymer Translocation Induced by a Bad Solvent
Mentor - Aniket Bhattacharaya, PhD

Scott Keller
Critical Fracture Experiments of Mercury Liquid Embrittlement
Mentor – Ali Gordon, PhD

Hari Paudel
Co-authors: Archana Dubey, PhD, R.H. Cheiber, Uppsala University Sweden, S.R. Badu, R.H. Pink, T.P. Das, SUNY Albany
Test of Current Variational Procedures for Electronic Properties of Multi-Center Systems by Application to Atomic Systems
Mentor – Archana Dubey, PhD

Benjamin Pearman
Co-authors: Nahid Mohajeri, PhD, Marianne Rodgers, PhD, Darlene Slattery, PhD;, Leonard Bonville, Russell Kunz, PhD, James Fenton, PhD Effect of Solvent on the Proton Conductivity of PFSA Membranes
Mentors – Diego Diaz, PhD, Darlene Slattery, PhD

SOCIAL SCIENCES

Sarah Kindschuh
Sex and Ancestory Detemination of the Hyoid of the Robert J. Terry Anatomical Collection
Mentor – Tosha Dupras, PhD

Cristina Berrios
Co-Authors: Katrina Daniels, Valynn Sala-Diakanda, Claudine Hawthorne, Maria Augustin, Beverly Tuitt It Takes a Village: Building the Capacity of Community-Based Nonprofit Organizations
Mentor – Naim Kapucu, PhD

Gail Humiston
Victim Services by Illinois Prosecutors: An Analysis of Loose Coupling
Mentor – Karol Lucken, PhD

Abstracts for these, and all the research presented at the forum, can be found online at www.graduate.ucf.edu/researchforum. A special thanks to all the presenters who made our Sixth Annual Graduate Research Forum a huge success!