The Student research Symposium is an event for the presentation and recognition of student scholarship (both graduate and undergraduate). Students with any major in the university, in any college or school of the university, graduate or undergraduate are invited to participate. All students who have participated with faculty or under faculty supervision -- for example as part of a senior seminar, or in independent study, or in supervised work -- in original, independent research, critical reviews, laboratory projects or field studies eligible to present their work as a poster presentation.  The presentation titles and photographs of last year's SRS can be found below.

The 2007 SRS is scheduled for Friday, April 27, 2007. The abstract submission deadline is March 30th.

Those students who wish to present their research at the Student Research Symposium should consult with a faculty advisor and submit an abstract (abstract instructions).

2006 SRS Schedule:
Friday April 28, 2006
12:30-1:30 pm Keynote speech, CSB Auditorium:
Louise-Anne McNutt, Associate Professor
Department of Epidemiology, SUNY Albany
Topic: Research ethics
Lunch provided for participants at 12:00pm, CSB Lobby
1:30-1:45p Poster set up (all posters)-Lecture Center North Lobby
1:45 Introductions
2:00-2:45p Poster session I-Lecture Center North Lobby
2:45-3:30p Poster session II-Lecture Center North Lobby

Poster Presentations:
POSTER SESSION I

ANTIMICROBIAL ACTIVITY OF (+)R AND (-)S ENANTIOMERS OF CARVONE, LIMONENE AND PINENE
Carrie Briscoe (Dr. Teresa Snyder-Leiby, Biology and Dr. Preeti Dhar, Chemistry)

THE EFFECT OF MICROGRAVITY ON T LYMPHOCYTE ACTIVATION
Ravon Venters (Dr. Maureen Morrow, Biology)

EFFECT OF CYLCIC TERPENE ENANTIOMERS POSSESSING INTRINSIC ANTIMICROBIAL ACTIVITY ON MORPHOLOGY OF COMMON MICROORGANISMS
Christopher Phillips and Luis Vargas (Dr. Teresa Snyder-Leiby, Biology and Dr. Preeti Dhar, Chemistry)

THE DETERMINATION OF VARIATIONS IN CALCIUM AND ARTHROPOD ABUNDANCE IN RESIDENTIAL YARDS ALONG AN URBAN TO RURAL GRADIENT
Laura N. Murawski (MENTOR SCIENTISTS: Dr. Katalin Szlavecz1, Dr. Richard Pouyat2, Dr. Carol Reitsma31Johns Hopkins University, 2USDA Forest Service, Northern Research Station, 3SUNY New Paltz)

A COMPARATIVE NMR STUDY OF A TETRALOOP CONTAINING OLIGONUCLEOTIDE WITH LOCKED NUCLEIC ACID (LNA) SUBSTITUTIONS
Thomas Ormond, (Pamela St. John, Dept of Chemistry)

POLYACRYLAMIDE GEL ELECTROPHORESIS TO DETERMINE STRUCTURAL CHANGES IN DNA HAIRPINS WHEN LNA IS SUBSTITUTED INTO THE HAIRPIN STRUCTURE
Meg Mackey (Pamela St. John,Chemistry)

DEGRADATION OF DDT USING HIGH -ENERGY RADIATION
John Schwind (Dr. Preeti Dhar, Chemistry)

ANTIMICROBIAL ACTIVITY OF STRUCTURALLY SIMILAR LACTAMS
AND THEIR SULFONYL CHLORIDES
Pui Yee (Elaina) Chan (Dr. Preeti Dhar, Chemistry, Dr. Teresa Snyder-Leiby, Biology)

THE CORRELATION BETWEEN FATTY ACID COMPOSITION OF MICROORGANISMS AND THEIR SUSCEPTIBILITY TO a-PINENE COMPOUNDS
Sarah Gibbons (Dr. Preeti Dhar, Chemistry, Dr. Teresa Snyder-Leiby, Biology, Ellen Dickstein, University of Florida)

SCREENING OF PSORALIA CORYLIFOLIA (BABCHI) FOR PHOTOTOXIC COUMPOUNDS
Igor Gembitsky, Andrew Farnham (Dr. Preeti Dhar, Chemistry, Steve Jury, MariCal.)

PHOTOXIDATION AND SEASONAL CHANGES IN LEAF PIGMENTS
Peter Lorenzo (John P. Harrington, Chemistry)

EVOLUTIONARY AUTONOMOUS MUSIC COMPOSER
Robert Foster and Gregory Destin (Dr. Yaser Khalifa, Electrical and Computer Engineering)

THE HETEROSTRACAN ALLOCRYPTASPIS, A NEW ADDITION TO THE VERTEBRATE FAUNA OF THE LATE EARLY DEVONIAN (EMSIAN) OF THE MID-HUDSON VALLEY OF NEW YORK
Robert E. Chiarello, Tim Allaire, (Dr. Russell H. Waines, Geology)

TINSEL WILL HEAL NO WOUNDS: CELEBRATIONS OF CHRISTMAS DURING WORLD WAR I
Liz Asta (Professor Andy Evans, History)

TORRICELLI SOLIDS
Anna Haensch, Joan Kim (Dr. Diego Dominici, Mathematics)

Existential Play-doh: A Foundation-Free Ontology for Postmodern Political Theory
Emily Hallock (Professor Jeffrey Miller, Department of Political Science and International Relations)

An investigation of word and pseudoword superiority effects in native Italian and native English speakers
Jeremy Murphy (Dr. Giordana Grossi, Psychology)

WORD AND PSEUDOWORD SUPERIORITY EFFECTS FOR ENGLISH AND ITALIAN IN NATIVE ENGLISH SPEAKERS
Michael Rotelli & Fernanda Santos-Shaw (Dr. Giordana Grossi, Psychology)

Sustainable Development and the Ethics of Finitude
Thomas Meli (David Appelbaum)

A MODERN COMMUNIST MANIFESTO
Kristen Dean (Peter Kaufman, Sociology)

UNDERSTANDING THE IMPORTANCE OF VOULUNTEERISM: DOES A SOCIOLOGY CURRICULUM HELP?
Joanne Weed (Eve Waltermaurer, Sociology)

POSTER SESSION II

ZONAL CHLOROSIS OF HONDYCRISP APPLE LEAVES IN TREES WITH VARYING CROP LOAD
Shixiong Wang Department of Biology, SUNY at New Paltz (Faculty sponsor: Dr. Teresa Snyder-Leiby)

THE STRUCTURE OF NDC80 AND ITS ROLE IN MICROTUBULE ATTACHMENT TO THE KINETOCHORE DURING MITOSIS
Jason Baade (Jennifer Waldo, Biology)

CLONING, EXPRESSION AND PURIFICATION OF THE YEAST KINETOCHORE PROTEIN MCM22
Janet Lee (Jennifer Waldo, Biology)

CLONING, EXPRESSION, AND PURIFICATION OF KINETOCHORE COMPLEX PROTEINS HSK3 & SPC34
Tobi Schnier (Dr. Jennifer Waldo, Biology)

PURIFICATION OF DUO 1 PROTEIN OF THE KINETOCHOR COMPLEX OF SACCHAROMYCES CERIVISIAE
Christopher Saylor (Jennifer Waldo, Biology)

CLONING, EXPRESSION, AND PURIFICATION OF KINETOCHORE-CENTROMERE COMPLEX PROTEINS
Nathan Hutson (Dr. Jen Waldo, Biology)

MOLECULAR STRUCTURE OF SKP1, A COMPONENT OF THE CBF3 COMPLEX OF THE KINETOCHORE
Panchamia, Jason K., Waldo, Jennifer (Biology)

ISOLATION OF KINETOCHORE PROTEIN spc24
Nicholas J. Day, (Jennifer Waldo Biology)

ELECTROCHEMICAL AND SPECTROELECTROCHEMICAL STUDIES OF A SERIES OF RUTHENIUM-NITRO AND NITROSYL COMPLEXES
Matthew P. McLaughlin and Seth A. Kruger (Dr.Daniel A. Freedman, Chemistry)

[Ru(bpy)(CH3CN)3NO2]+: A CONVENIENT SYNTHON FOR Ru(bpy)(L3)NO2 AND Ru(bpy)(L3)NO COMPLEXES.
Seth Kruger (Dr. Daniel Freedman, chemistry department)

SYNTHESIS AND CHARACTERIZATION OF BzRu(L)Cl AND Ru(phen)2(L)
(L = CH3C(O)CHC(O)CH3, CH3C(NPh)CHC(O)CH3 or CH3C(NPh)CHC(NPh)CH3)
Josh Moore (Daniel Freedman, Chemistry)

SYNTHESIS AND CHARACTERIZATION OF Phfac (CF3C(NPh)CH(O)CF3) AND (p-cym)Ru(Phfac)Cl (p-cym=h6-para-cymene)
Ellen Shapiro (Dr. Daniel A. Freedman, Chemistry)

APPLYING EPA’S DRASTIC MAPPING METHOD TO THE TOWN OF GARDINER, NEW YORK
Dan Wheeler, Robert E. Chiarello, Anthony Macchiarola (Dr. Shafiul H. Chowdhury, Geology)

SOIL ANALYSIS AT ORGANIC PHILLIES BRIDGE FARM, NEW PALTZ, NY
Athena Colucci, Kristin Muller, Frances Osborne (Dr. Shafiul Chowdhury, Geology)

Correlating the Factors Controlling the Water Quality in the Wallkill River
Colin Mills, Annabel Hallgren, Caryn Silhan (Dr. Shafiul Chowdhury, Geology)

SOIL ANALYSIS AT ORGANIC BROOK FARM, NEW PALTZ, NY
Renee Jones, Erica Adamczyk, Adam Watson (Dr. Shafiul Chowdhury, Geology)

WATER QUALITY ANALYSIS OF KARST TERRAIN
Courtney Giles, Mark Folsom, Mike Margiotta (Dr. Shafiul Chowdhury, Geology)

CHANGES IN WATER QUALITY AT FOUR SITES ALONG THE RONDOUT CREEK
Justine Seksinsky, Chris Kiernan, Chris Luhmann, (Dr. Shafiul Chowdhury, Geology)

ROLE OF MACROPORES IN SOIL WATER FLOW
Adam Watson, Daniel Wheeler, Anthony Macchiarola ( Dr. Shafiul Chowdhury, Geology)

A COMPUTATIONAL STUDY OF CADMIUM SULFIDE NANCLUSTERS WITH AMINO ACIDS AS ORGANIC CAPPING AGENTS
Don Bunk (Sponsored by Stacie Nunes of the Physics department)