Annual Celebration of Excellence by Students (ACES)

ACES 2007 Award Winners

Graduate Morning

First Place - Lewis, Timothy Allen (Aerospace Engineering)
Title: Probabilisitc Target Trajectory Prediction for Interception in a Sensor Network

Second Place - Petrovich, James C (Social Work)
Title: From Hell's Half Acre to the Community of Hope: A Community of Homeless People in Fort Worth, Texas

Third Place - Zhang, Hexiang (Chemistry)
Title: Separations using Carbon Dioxide

Honorable Mention - Ram, Sripad (Biomedical Engineering)
Title: Resolution beyond Rayleigh's criterion - a novel resolution measure for modern optical microscopes

Honorable Mention - Johnson, David Robert (Quantitative Biology)
Title: Experimental and natural herbivory differently affect two arctic plant species

Graduate Afternoon

First Place - Bhatt, Heather Sarita (Psychology)
Title: The Effect of Cell Phones on Social Interactions

Second Place - Larkin, Erin Kendall (Anthropology)
Title: The Significance of the Linear B Tablets' Spices to Mycenaean Culture Viewed Through Ancient Egyptia

Third Place - Okafor, Blossom C (Biology)
Title: Timing the Mosquito Evolution

Honorable Mention - Woodard, Stefanie Lynne (English)
Title: A Different Kind of Wound Culture in The Lovely Bones

Honorable Mention - Maloney, Shea Ryan (Anthropology)
Title: Bronze Age Water Management in Crete

Undergraduate Afternoon

First Place - Boyette-Davis, Jessica Ann (Psychology)
Title: Decrements in Attentional Mechanisms in Response to Acute Pain

Second Place - Eberle, William Fred (Computer Science)
Title: Graph-based Anomaly Detection

Third Place - Gulaka, Praveen K (Biomedical Engineering)
Title: A Novel Spectroscopic Approach to Localize Biliary Tract Tissues during Laparoscopic Cholecystectomy

Honorable Mention - Tucker, Jayme Lynn (Aerospace Engineering)
Title: Derivation of the Dynamics Equations of Receiver Aircraft in Aerial Refueling

Honorable Mention - Florence, Meri (Math Science - Mathematics)
Title: Complete Resolutions

Graduate Poster

First Place - Milani, Jennifer Lynn (Anthropology)
Title: Comparative Analysis of Art Motifs in Three Hunter-Gatherer Societies

Second Place - Holland, Travis Aaron (Criminology and Criminal Justice)
Title: The CSI Effect: Hollywood Justice

Third Place - Gama, Jorge M (Psychology)
Title: Attention's role on rule-based rejection

Honorable Mention - Chandler, Mone't A (Exercise Science)
Title: Comparison of Forces and Torques acting on the Knee during Cutting Movements

Honorable Mention - Lee, Ivan Timothy (Biochemistry)
Title: Re-evaluation of potential hSigma-1R ligands utilizing a reliable and sensitive screening assay

Undergraduate Poster

First Place - McGavern, Ashley L (Exercise Physiology)
Title: Landing Forces and Muscle Activity for Professional Baseball Pitchers

Second Place - Schart, Carrie Michelle (Architecture)
Title: The Greenhouse Classroom

Third Place - Haque, Mohamed Adil (Civil Engineering)
Title: Dynamic characteristics and stability analysis of municipal solid waste in bioreactor landfills