Dear TU community,

 

Please take pride in our students' performance last week in our Tenth Annual Student Research Colloquium and congratulate our winners and participants as presenters, session chairs, and judges.  TU undergraduate, graduate, and law students as well as high school students from the surrounding Tulsa area participated during the three days in a total of 48 oral presentations, 7 TURC posters, and 35 high school poster presentations from 7 area high schools; this was concluded on the fourth day with an awards banquet on Thursday evening. 

 

Our students are to be commended for more than their personal performance; this is a student-led function with co-chairs Srinivas Kolla and Rachel Wiedeman determining the overall organization of the Colloquium, and graduate and undergraduate students serving as session chairs and judges.  I also greatly appreciate the faculty and staff that judged and therefore helped make this event a success.  A total of 41 judges and 6 session chairs covered all the oral and poster presentation sessions. 

 

There are 11 TU student winners listed below.  The awards are to consist of a 1^st, 2^nd, and 3^rd place and three Honorable Mentions; the competition was quite keen this year and we had a tie for third place and more honorable mentions.  The morning and afternoon oral sessions of each day had a winner. 

 

If you were unable to attend the Colloquium last week, you may still view this year’s submissions by TU undergraduate, graduate and law students.  Several of the TU students agreed to post their PowerPoint presentations online.  These will be available soon at the Graduate Student Organization website at http://orgs.utulsa.edu/gsa/, along with a complete electronic version of the Colloquium program and submitted abstracts.

 

All of our students did a wonderful job this year and we hope to see continued interest and participation in the Research Colloquium for the upcoming year.  Please congratulate all student participants, judges, session chairs, and co-chairs as well as the faculty and staff judges for a job well done.

 

Sincerely,
Janet A. Haggerty
Associate Vice President for Research and Dean of the Graduate School

 

 

2007 Colloquium Award Winners

 

 

2007 Colloquium Program

 

 

 

Tenth Annual Student Research Colloquium Awards

 

1^st Place

Daniel Howard

Doctoral Student, Biological Sciences

Lek Spatial Dynamics in Gryllotalpa Major Saussure (Orthoptera: Gryllotalpidae): The Influence of Above-ground Botanical Biomass and Grass Height on Male Spacing

ADVISOR:  Peggy Hill

 

2^nd Place

Kshiti Dave

Master’s Student, Chemical Engineering

Effect of Corrosion Inhibitor for Oil and Gas Wells when Sand is Produced

ADVISOR:  Kenneth Roberts

 

3^rd Place

Carla Landrum

Undergraduate Student, Geosciences

An Investigation into the Prevention of Vertical Capillary Transport of Brine Contamination

ADVISOR:  Kerry Sublette

 

3^rd Place

Valerie O’Brien

Doctoral Student, Biological Sciences

An Invasive Species is a Highly Competent Amplifying Host for a Bird-borne Virus

ADVISOR:  Charles Brown

 

Honorable Mention

Apivat (Paul) Hanvongse

Master’s Student, Industrial/Organizational Psychology

Feedback Framing in Performance Appraisal Sessions: An Experimental Study

ADVISOR:  Corrie Pogson

 

Honorable Mention

Daniel Weber

Undergraduate Student, Geosciences

The Potential for Boron Phytotoxicity in Produced Water-Contaminated Tallgrass Prairie Soils

ADVISOR:  Kerry Sublette

 

Honorable Mention

Debarshi Chatterjee

Master’s Student, Electrical Engineering

Cool Solution for Hot Chips

ADVISOR: Theodore Manikas

 

Honorable Mention

Hannah Pennington

Master’s Student, Clinical Psychology

Predictors of Replicative Nightmares     

ADVISOR:   Joanne Davis

 

Honorable Mention

Andre Boustani

Undergraduate Student, Biochemistry

Investigation of N-methyl-5H-benzocycloheptanaphthalene-5, 12-Imine Induced Cell Toxicity

ADVISOR: John DiCesare

 

Honorable Mention

Stephen Miska

Master’s Student, Mechanical Engineering

Particale Velocity Measurements in the Evaluation of Erosion Ratio Equations

ADVISOR:  Siamack Shirazi

 

Honorable Mention

Renata Madinger

Undergraduate Student, International Business and Spanish

Impact of Socioeconomic Change and Globalization on Child Labor in Argentina

ADVISOR:  Eduardo Faingold