Georgia State Undergraduate Research Conference - GSURC


GSURC 2012 Winners

ORAL PRESENTIONS

Provost Award & First Place: 
Catherine Stankus
"Framing a Political Position:  How the Duc de Choiseul Snuffbox uses Changing 
Aesthetic Trends to Illustrate Choiseul’s Sociopolitical Agenda"
Art History
Faculty Sponsor:  Dr. Kimberly Cleveland 

Second Place: 
David Alexander Phillips
“What Do Etiologies Do?"
Anthropology
Faculty Advisor:  Dr. Cassandra White

Third Place:
Ralph Culpepper, Lionel McNamara
Daphne Ikola, T.J. Fernandez
Janie Hostetter, Mimi Williams
Jalisa Mott, Apryl Lamaster, Macy Lister
“The Georgia State Prison Initiative”
English
Faculty Sponsors:  Sarah Higinbotham and Dr. Michael Galchinsky

POSTER PRESENTATIONS

First Place:
Kristin Johnson
"New Beginnings"
Interior Design
Faculty Sponsor:  Dr. Michael White

Second Place:
Elizabeth Dlouhy, Theresa Maglio, Jonathan McNair, & Gwen Frishkoff
“A New Scheme for Annotating Contextual Semantic Cues to Word Meaning”
Psychology
Faculty Advisor:  Gwen Frishkoff

Third Place:
John Williams, Hanan El-Mayas, Sigurdur Greipsson, & Daniel Deocampo
“Phytoremediation of Lead (Pb) by Suppression of Arbuscular Mycorrhizal Fungi on Zea 
mays Grown in Iron (Fe) and EDTA Supplemented Sand Culture"
Biology
Faculty Advisor:  Dr.Hanan El-Mayas

ARTISTIC DISPLAY

First Place:
Tamara Argo
“Sanctity”
Art and Design/Ceramic
Faculty Sponsor:  Mark Burleson

GSURC 2011 Award Winners

Poster Presentation

First Place Poster and Provost Award:
Nicole Dingels, Rafaela O’Toniolo, Payal Arora, Joanna Skinner, & Meera Penumetcha
“Higher Levels of Vitamin E Are Not Always Associated with Lesser Oxidation in Commonly Consumed Foods”
Nutrition
Faculty Sponsor: Meera Penumetcha

Second Place Poster:
Thomas Polstra
“An Approach to the Casas-Alvero Conjecture for the Complex Plane”
Mathematics and Statistics
Faculty Sponsor: Florian Enescu

Third Place:
Eva Jones, Alexis Kelley, Andrew Matey, Chinwe Ohanu, Eleanor Carr, Joanna Farah, Kamica Ross, Obiannauju Nduka, & Renee Johnson
“Sleep Characteristics of Nursing Students”
Nursing
Faculty Sponsors: Shih-Yu Lee, Dawn Aycock and Eva Horn

Oral Presentation

First Place:
Gretchen Lawhorn
"Addressing identity and Authenticity:  An Examination of Yink Shonibare"
Art History
Faculty Sponsor: Kimberly Cleveland

Second Place:
Tyler Theus
"Touching Death:  The Tactile Logic of the Encounter with Death in Grizzly Man"
Communication
Faculty Sponsor: Jennifer Barker

Third Place:
Isaac Boring
"Growth Empirics and Economic Convergence in the European Union"
Economics
Faculty Sponsor: Grace O

Artistic Display

First Place:
Pattie Acevedo & Blacki Li Miglozzi
"The MODA Interactive Donor Wall"
Graphic Design
Faculty Sponsor: Ruth Stanford


 

GSURC 2010 Award Winners

 

Emily Pidgeon discusses her artistic display
"No Place," with GSU President Mark Becker.
Photo by: Amy Wetsel.

"No Place"
Emily Pidgeon
Art and Design
Faculty Sponsor:  Dr. Nancy Floyd
This image is of a foreclosed home in my Atlanta neighborhood, Reynoldstown. It is a "transitional" neighborhood where on every block there is at least one boarded up home. I placed the legs in the image to symbolize the home as a burden for modern Americans after the mortgage and economic crises. My work uses text to initiate an emotional experience in the viewer by referring to subjects of popular culture. Here, "There is no place like home" refers to the Wizard of Oz, where a catastrophic event displaces the main character into a world of struggle and fear as she searches for what she loves most.... her home.
Poster Presentation:

First Place Poster and Provost Award:
Julia Eidelman
Expression of the Nitric Oxide Synthase Protein in Helisoma Trivolvis Brain and Buccal Ganglion
Biology
Faculty Sponsor: Dr. Vincent Rehder

Second Place Poster:
Taiwannika Walker
A Mack by Nature: A Sociological Approach To Exploring Machiavellianism in African American Adolescents
Sociology
Faculty Sponsor: Dr. Shirlene Holmes

Oral Presentation

First Place:
Imani Mandela
Rape Attribution for African American Students
African-American Studies
Faculty Sponsor: Dr. Jonathan Gayles

Second Place:
Keisha Parker
The Implications of Textual Borrowing in a Standardized & Integrated English Proficiency Examination for International Students
Applied Linguistics
Faculty Sponsor: Dr. Sara Weigle

 

Artistic Display

First Place:
Emily Pidgeon
No Place
Art and Design
Faculty Sponsor:  Dr. Nancy Floyd

 

GSURC 2009 Award Winners
2008 GSURC Winning Presentation Abstracts

The 2008 GSURC winners' abstracts serve as excellent examples to guide prospective participants in their own writing.