Summer Research Program 2009 Seminar Schedule
Refreshments will be served starting at 3:30 pm in the Ethyl Center, 3 rd Floor Martin
Seminars begin at 4:00 pm in Martin 315
(except May 29 and final presentations)
Wednesday, May 20
Dennis Stevens, Dean of the College and Vice President for Academic Affairs
Topic: The Road to Publishing and Political Science Research
Friday, May 29, *10 am*
Mary Pinckney Wood ’88, Global Currents Investment Management
Topic: Global Investment Management and How to Get There
Tuesday, June 2
Student Proposal Presentations
Wednesday, June 3
Student Proposal Presentations
Wednesday, June 10
Karin Warren, Department of Environmental Studies, Randolph College
"Randolph College's Blackwater Creek monitoring project: Integrating watershed management with the environmental curriculum"
Wednesday, June 17
Yesem Kurt, Department of Mathematics, Randolph College
“How Secure is the Cyber World?"
Thursday, June 25
Kacey Meaker ’08, University of California at Berkeley
Topic: Going to Grad School and Scanning Tunneling Microscopy Luminescence
Wednesday, July 1
Lisa Bukovac-Duncan DO, FACOOG, OHI, Inc., class of '92
Topic: Experiences as an OB-GYN and How I Got There
Friday, July 10, 9:00 am – 12:00 pm
9:00-10:30 Oral Session (Martin 315)
- 9:00-9:20 Rosha Poudyal, Poojan Pyakurel, Kurt Seidman (advisor) “A Theoretical Investigation of the Potential Connection Between Polyaromatic Hydrocarbons and Cancer”
- 9:20-9:40 Eric Struble, Rhiannon Knol, Susan Stevens (advisor) “Epistulae aliarum gentium (Other People's Mail): An Intermediate Latin Reader”
- 9:40-10:00 Kate Allen, Kurt Seidman (advisor) “The Correlation of Thermal Bloom Diameters Obtained from the Thermal Lensing of Organic Liquids with the Physical Properties of the Liquids”
- 10:00-10:20 Helena Brown, Karl Speer, Randy Speer (advisor) “Randolph College's Musical Heritage: Exploring and Preserving Four Decades of Musical Performances at Randolph-Macon Woman's College”
- 10:20-10:30 Final Remarks
10:30-12:00 Poster Session (Martin 3rd Floor)
- Jillian Barlowe, Christina Shi Hua, Dennis Goff (advisor) “Finger Length Ratio as a Predictor of Individual Difference Variables”
- Alexis Mandarakas, Carl Coffey, Beth Schwartz (advisor) “Two Investigations in the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL)”
- Caleb Moxley, Yanpaing Oo, Yesem Kurt (advisor) “Cryptographic Primitives”
- Marja Copeland, Peter Sheldon and Peggy Schimmoeller (advisors) “The Efficacy and Replication of hands-on Inquiry Science Methods for ImprovingTeacher Quality and Student Science Achievement”
- Organic Garden Internship Program
