Annual Celebration of Excellence by Students (ACES)

Congratulations to all of the award recipients and thank you to all of the presenters!

Graduate Morning

President's Award ($300) - Kelly A. Bradley (Biology)
Title: Headstarting the Anegada Iguana, Cyclura pinguis
Faculty Mentor(s): Dan Formanowicz
Group Members: Kelly A. Bradley; Glenn P. Gerber, PhD

Provost's Award ($200) - John K. Pace, II (Quantitative Biology)
Title: Space Invaders! Repeated horizontal transfers of a DNA transposon in mammals and other tetrapods
Faculty Mentor(s): Cedric Feschotte
Group Members: John K. Pace, II and Cedric Feschotte

Graduate Dean's Award ($100) - Meri Florence (Math Science - Mathematics)
Title: Complete Resolutions
Faculty Mentor(s): David Jorgensen

Honorable Mention ($50) - Saket Karajigkar (Mechanical Engineering)
Title: Electromigration Bump Parameters
Faculty Mentor(s): Prof. Dereje Agonafer
Group Members: Dr. Senol Pekin, Intel

Honorable Mention ($50) - Kenneth Crane (Quantitative Biology)
Title: A general mathematical model to explore nutritional strategies in mixotrophic algae.
Faculty Mentor(s): James P. Grover

Graduate Afternoon

President's Award ($300) - Mauro Fianchini (Chemistry)
Title: Coinage metals "store" ethylene
Faculty Mentor(s): Dr H.V.R. Dias

Provost's Award ($200) - Jessica Boyette Davis (Experimental Psychology - Health)
Title: An Investigation of the Mechanisms of Chemotherapy-Related Cognitive Detriments
Faculty Mentor(s): Dr. Perry N Fuchs

Graduate Dean's Award ($100) - Troy A. Smith (Experimental Psychology)
Title: Learning from tests: Delayed feedback improves retention
Faculty Mentor(s): Daniel R. Kimball

Honorable Mention ($50) - Kara Jenkins (Psychology - Health)
Title: Using plausibility judgments to improve recognition memory.
Faculty Mentor(s): Dr. Timothy Odegard
Group Members: Authors: Kara jenkins,Joshua Koen, and Dr. Timothy Odegard; Acknowledgements: Candice Berkebile and Serah Obayangban

Honorable Mention ($50) - Cheng-Yu Ko (Biomedical Engineering)
Title: Biosynthetic Nerve Implants in Long Nerve Gap Repair
Faculty Mentor(s): Dr Mario Romero-Ortega
Group Members: Dr Mario Romero-Ortega, Dr Sean Bidic, Dr Kevin Hanz, and Mr Pedro Galvan-Garcia

Undergraduate Afternoon

President's Award ($300) - Darius Bonds (Biology)
Title: Measurement of Hydroxyl-Radical Formation in the Rat Striatum by In Vivo Microdialysis and Gas Chromatography–Mass Spectrometry
Faculty Mentor(s): Laszlo Prokai
Group Members: Darius Bonds, Vien Nguyen, Laszlo Prokai

Provost's Award ($200) - Dejanira Castillejos (Spanish)
Title: La Femme du Modernisme
Faculty Mentor(s): Dr. Christopher Conway

Graduate Dean's Award ($100) - Codi Renee Blackmon (English)
Title: The Image of the African in Early Europe
Faculty Mentor(s): Dr. Thomas Ryan

Honorable Mention ($50) - John Kretzer (Psychology)
Title: Morphometric Analysis of the Dyslexic Brain: Post Treatment Comparison of Therapy Responders and Non-responders
Faculty Mentor(s): Dr. Timothy Odegard
Group Members: Stephanie Smith, Jerry Ring, Jeff Black, Maxi Wilson

Honorable Mention ($50) - Magen Rigdon-Turner (History)
Title: Bandits, Broads, and Brothels: Prostitution in Waco, Texas
Faculty Mentor(s): Dr. Sam Haynes

Honorable Mention ($50) - Husein Anshur (Industrial Engineering)
Title: Use of Filtering to Improve the Estimates of Low-cost GPS Systems Using Known Geometric Configurations of Multiple GPS receivers
Faculty Mentor(s): Dr. Brian Huff
Group Members: [Ala06] Alappat, Vinu Jose. “Application Of Wireless Sensor Network Motes To Enhance GPS Localization.” Masters Thesis. UT Arlington. Oct 2006. [CNN97] CNN WORLD NEWS. “100 million land mines worldwide.” CNN World News. October 10, 1997. . [Elm05] El-Magd, I. "Remote sensing and GIS for estimation of Irrigation crop water demand." International Journal or Remote Sensing. 26, 1110 June 2005 2359-2370. 26 APR 2007 . [

Graduate Poster

President's Poster Award ($200) - Tre Welch (Biomedical Engineering)
Title: Influence of Thermal Annealing on the Mechanical Characteristics of a Resorbable PLLA Stent
Faculty Mentor(s): Dr. Cheng-Jen Chuong
Group Members: Dr. Cheng-Jen Chuong, Dr. Robert Eberhart

Provost's Poster Award ($100) - Aniket Wadajkar (Biomedical Engineering)
Title: Biocompatibility Studies of Thermally Responsive Poly(N-isopropylacrylamide) Nanoparticles
Faculty Mentor(s): Kytai Nguyen
Group Members: Thuy T. Chastek, Thomas Chastek, Steven D. Hudson, Kytai Nguyen

Graduate Dean's Poster Award ($50) - Lara A. Kachlic (Experimental Psychology - Health)
Title: Comparison of Near-Infrared Spectroscopy and Laser Doppler Imaging in a Common Acute Inflammatory Model
Faculty Mentor(s): Dr. Yuan B. Peng
Group Members: Dheerendra Kashyap, Chris E. Hagains, Ji Wei He, Dr. Hanli Liu, Menaka Herath

Undergraduate Poster

President's Poster Award ($200) - Claudia P. Marquez (Biology)
Title: Phantom a new family of Mutator transposons
Faculty Mentor(s): Ellen J. Pritham
Group Members: Ellen J. Pritham

Provost's Poster Award ($100) - William J. Muntean (Psychology)
Title: Increasing False Memory by Testing Related Information First
Faculty Mentor(s): Daniel R. Kimball
Group Members: Troy A. Smith

Graduate Dean's Poster Award ($50) - Randall Bradshaw (Physics)
Title: DMSP Observations of Auroral Arcs that Brighten
Faculty Mentor(s): Ramon E. Lopez
Group Members: Jose Barona, Robert Bruntz, Ramon E. Lopez