CONGRATULATIONS TO THE 2006 SHOWCASE OF UNDERGRADUATE RESEARCH EXCELLENCE SCHOLARSHIP WINNERS

ARTS AND HUMANITIES

First Place: Alice F. Kramer, Christian Franqui, Michael Carney,

Lillian Vincent, Max Ferrer

“Shadows of Canaveral: A New Dawn”

Faculty Mentors: Lori C. Walters (History, Institute for

Simulation and Training),

Eileen Smith (Digital Media, Institute for Simulation and Training)

Second Place: Christine J. Dellert

“News Media Construction of Life and Death:

The Impact of Language in Coverage of the Terri Schiavo Case”

Faculty Mentor: Richard Kenney (Communication)

ENGINEERING, COMPUTER SCIENCE, AND OPTICS

First Place: James R. Hughes, Matthew Murrian

“Passive Liquid/Vapor Separation Using

an Inertia Driven Rotating Drum”

Faculty Mentor: Louis Chow (Mechanical, Materials,

and Aerospace Engineering)

Second Place: Brian C. Becker, Christina M. Vargas

“Ontology-Based Search Engine for Real-World

Decision Support System”

Faculty Mentor: Avelino J. Gonzalez

(Electrical and Computer Engineering)

LIFE AND HEALTH SCIENCES

First Place: Brian C. Schanen

“Role of Selenium in Arsenic-Induced Cancer”

Faculty Mentor: William T. Self (Molecular Biology

and Microbiology)

Second Place: Daniel A. Hernandez

“ISLANDS Version 2.0”

Faculty Mentor: David G. Jenkins (Biology)

PHYSICAL SCIENCES AND MATHEMATICS

First Place: Simon Mostafa

“Decomposition of Methanol on Size Selected

Iridium Nanoparticles”

Faculty Mentor: Beatriz Roldán Cuenya (Physics)

Second Place: Naomi C. Brownstein

“Transformation of Variables in Statistics”

Faculty Mentor: Marianna Y. Pensky (Mathematics)

SOCIAL SCIENCES I

First Place: Darcy J. Cope

“The Effects of Household Corrosive Chemicals on Human Bone

and Teeth: A Murderer’s Attempt to Mask the Identity

of Their Victim”

Faculty Mentor: Tosha L. Dupras (Anthropology)

Second Place: Stephanie C. Ernst

“Relationships Among Parenting Style, Parental Self-Efficacy,

Parents’ Perceptions of Children, and Preschoolers’ Emotion

Regulation”

Faculty Mentors: Kimberly Renk (Psychology),

Valerie K. Sims (Psychology), John P. Manning (Child, Family,

and Community Sciences)

SOCIAL SCIENCES II

First Place: Rachel E. Wiley

“Psychological Correlates of the Quality of Life in Children

and Adolescents with Cerebral Palsy”

Faculty Mentor: Kimberly Renk (Psychology)

Second Place: Michael T. Strand

“Interactions Between Visuo-Spatial Working Memory,

Activity, and Ratings of ADHD”

Faculty Mentors: Valerie K. Sims (Psychology), Mark D. Rapport

(Psychology), Stephen A. Sivo (Educational Research,

Technology, and Leadership)

Undergraduate Studies

Eileen M. Abel

Carole E. Adams

Wilma Anton

Carol M. Bast

Issa E. Batarseh

Jeffrey S. Bedwell

Kevin D. Belfield

Kathleen Bell

Steven L. Berman

Randal Blades

Melody Bowdon

Clint Bowers

David F. Bowie

Cristina E. Bradatan

John E. Brandenburg

Gabriel Braunstein

Alexander Brice

Daniel Britt

James C. Brown

Ryan Burkhart

John F. Butler

Anna Campbell

Andres Campiglia

Mason Cash

F. Necati Catbas

Debopam Chakrabarti

Arlen F. Chase

Diane Z. Chase

Po-Ju Chen

Matthew Chin

Hyoung Jin Cho

S. Roy Choudhury

Lee Chow

Louis Chow

Steven Collins

Kristin G. Congdon

Annabelle Conroy

Lesia Crumpton-Young

Niels da Vitorio Lobo

Andrew Daire

Henry Daniell

Tracy L. Dietz

Eduardo Divo

Aristide Dogariu

Spencer Downing

Tosha L. Dupras

Ronald D. Eaglin

Julie D. Eberwein

Costas Efthimiou

Julie A. Elston

Terri Susan Fine

Stephen M. Fiore

Randy D. Fisher

Barry G. Fookes

Barbara Fritzsche

Shaun Gallagher

Denise Gammonley

David Gay

Avelino J. Gonzalez

Maria de Jesus Gonzalez

Laurie A. Gould

Anthony Grajeda

Cheryl E. Green

Glenda A. Gunter

Scott C. Hagen

Chan Ham

Kerstin Hamann

Helge Heinrich

Florencio E. Hernandez

Lorrie L. Hoffman

Kathie K. Holland

Steven Hornick

Rosalyn Howard

Susan S. Hubbard

Charles E. Hughes

Jana L. Jasinski

Bobby Jeanpierre

David G. Jenkins

Roger W. Johnson

Bernadette M.E. Jungblut

Samar Jyoti Kalita

Jayanta S. Kapat

Naim Kapucu

Alain J. Kassab

James A. Katt

David Kaup

Richard Kenney

Robert F. Kenny

Jennifer Kent-Walsh

Joo Kim

Mary P. Kosarzycki

Stephen M. Kuebler

Ranganathan Kumar

Richard E. Lapchick

Shawn A. Lawrence

Alexander Leonessa

Aaron Liberman

Ralph A. Llewellyn

Lisa Logan

Martha S. Lue

Weili Luo

John P. Manning

Larry Marks

Artem Masunov

Barry J. Mauer

Pamela R. McCauley-Bell

John M. McGuire

Kevin Meehan

Wasfy B. Mikhael

Cecilia Y. Rodríguez Milanés

D. Howard Miles

Kevin J. Miller

Eugene Montague

J. Michael Moshell

Karen Mottarella

Mustapha Mouloua

Michael A. Mullens

Jennifer Mundale

Elizabeth Mustaine

Jeanette A. Nadeau

Charles Negy

Christopher Niess

Chad Nye

Dawn M. Oetjen

Christopher L. Parkinson

Sumanta Pattanaik

Robert E. Peale

Marianna Y. Pensky

Eric L. Petersen

Janice Z. Peterson

Otto Phanstiel

Carla Poindexter

Fritz G. Polite

Albert V. Pryor

Tison Pugh

Pedro F. Quintana-Ascencio

Mark D. Rapport

M. Shawn Reichert

Kimberly Renk

Kenneth Reynolds

Kathleen A. Richardson

Kenyatta O. Rivers

Beatriz Roldán Cuenya

Michael Rothenberg

Houman A. Sadri

Hari P. Saha

Craig J. Saper

Patrick K. Schelling

Alfons Schulte

Jamie Schwartz

Sudipta Seal

David M. Segal

Thomas Selby

William T. Self

John Wayne Shafer

Mubarak A. Shah

Z. John Shen

Elzbieta Sikorska-Simmons

Valerie K. Sims

Steven A. Sivo

Frances B. Smith

Eileen Smith

Janan A. Smither

Yon-Ho Sohn

Christopher Stapleton

Kiminobu Sugaya

Stacey Tantleff-Dunn

James S. Taylor

Kristina Tollefson

Dawn Trouard

Barbara F. Turnage

Randall S. Upchurch

Rajan Vaidyanathan

Mary P. Van Hook

Martine Vanryckeghem

Laurence H. von Kalm

Linda J. Walters

Alvin Y. Wang

Martin P. Wanielista

Jane M. Waterman

Stephen M. Watson

Earl D. Weaver

John F. Weishampel

Roseann S. White

Shannon N. Whitten

Timothy D. Wieck

Thomas A. Winningham

Earl Wright II

Cynthia Y. Young

Kurt B. Young

Antonis S. Zervos

Elayne Zorn

The dedication of the faculty is pivotal to the success of UCF’s research-based undergraduate programs. The Office of Undergraduate

Studies extends its sincerest appreciation to all UCF faculty who work with undergraduate researchers and especially those whose students have

presented at the annual Showcase of Undergraduate Research Excellence.

Undergraduate Studies

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