Ball State University Louis Stokes Scholars
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Simvastatin Inhibition of Farnesylation Reduces
Staphylococcus aureus Infection of Endothelial Cells
Undergraduate Poster Presentation, Department of Chemistry, Ball State University - July 18, 2006
Dr. Susan McDowell, Mentor
Population Variation of Ginger over East Central Indiana
Dr. Donald Ruch, Mentor
Synthesis and Study of Crown Ethers Functionalized with Phosphine Groups
Oral Presentation, Department of Chemistry, Ball State University - June 1, 2006
Undergraduate Poster presentation, Department of Chemistry, Ball State University - July 18, 2006
Dr. Bruce Storhoff, Mentor
Quantum Dots CdSe Nanoparticles: Synthesis and Characterization
Oral Presentation, Department of Chemistry, Ball State University - June 30, 2005
Poster Presentation, Department of Chemistry, Ball State University - Summer, 2005
Poster Presentation, LSAMP Indiana and Midwest Crossroads AGEP First Annual Joint Conference - November 11, 2005
The 11th Annual Student Symposium, Ball State Student Center, Cardinal Hall - March 21, 2006
NSF LSAMP/REU Poster Session, National Meeting of ACS, Atlanta, GA - March 27, 2006
Undergraduate Poster Presentation, National Meeting of ACS, Atlanta, GA - March 27, 2006
Awards:
NSF LSAMP Travel Award - March 2006
Travel Grant, Ball State Office of Research and Sponsored Programs - March 2006
Dr. Patricia Lang, Mentor
Synthesis and Study of Crown Ethers Functionalized with Phosphine Groups
Oral Presentation, Department of Chemistry, Ball State University - July 6, 2006
Undergraduate Poster Presentation, Department of Chemistry, Ball State University - July 18, 2006
Dr. Bruce Storhoff, Mentor
Synapse Loss and Reinnervation in the SoD1 Mouse Model of Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis
Oral Presentation, Department of Chemistry, Ball State University - Summer, 2005
Poster Presentation, Department of Chemistry, Ball State University - Summer, 2005
Poster Presentation, LSAMP Indiana and Midwest Crossroads AGEP First Annual Joint Conference - November 11, 2005
Dr. Derron Bishop, Mentor
Amino Acid Identification by Paper Chromatography
Poster Presentation, Department of Chemistry, Ball State University - Summer, 2004
Dr. Jason Ribblett and Dr. Deanna Ojennus, Mentors
Synthesizing a Symmetrical Dihydroxydibenzo-26-crown-8
Oral Presentation, Department of Chemistry, Ball State University - Summer, 2005
Poster Presentation, Department of Chemistry, Ball State University - Summer, 2005
Poster Presentation, American Chemical Society, Indiana Section - October 10, 2005
Poster Presentation, LSAMP Indiana and Midwest Crossroads AGEP First Annual Joint Conference - November 11, 2005
Poster Presentation, Undergraduate Poster Session, National Meeting of ACS, Atlanta, GA - March 27, 2006
NSF LSAMP/REU Poster Session (invited), National Meeting of ACS - March 27, 2006
Award:
NSF LSAMP Travel Award - March 2006
Dr. Lynn Sousa, Mentor
Investigation of the Structure of Subunit G of the V-ATPase V1 Domain
Poster Presentation, Department of Chemistry, Ball State University - Summer, 2004
Poster Presentation, Indiana Academy of Science - October 26, 2004
Oral Presentation, Louis Stokes Conference, IUPUI - November 5, 2004
Dr. Deanna Ojennus and Dr. Karlett Parra-Belky, Mentors
Assessment of Virulence and Regulator Gene Expression
in Bacillus cereus Using a Novel Real-time Detection Method
Poster Presentation, The 11th Annual Student Symposium, Ball State Student Center, Cardinal Hall - March 21, 2006
Dr. John McKillip, Mentor
Characterization of Cysteine Mutants in the Yeast V-ATPase Subunit D
Oral Presentation, Department of Chemistry, Ball State University - Summer, 2003
Poster Presentation, Department of Chemistry, Ball State University - Summer, 2004
Dr. Karlett Parra-Belky, Mentor
Computational Studies of the Reactivity of 3-phenyl Propyl Radicals
Poster Presentation, Poster Co-author, Rxn Mechanism Conference, University of Maryland - July 2006
Dr. James Poole, Mentor
Synthesizing a Symmetrical Dihydroxydibenzo-26-crown-8
Oral Presentation, Department of Chemistry, Ball State University - Summer, 2005
Poster Presentation, Department of Chemistry, Ball State University - Summer, 2005
Poster Presentation, American Chemical Society, Indiana Section - October 10, 2005
Poster Presentation, LSAMP Indiana and Midwest Crossroads AGEP First Annual Joint Conference - November 11, 2005
Poster Presentation, The 11th Annual Student Symposium, Ball State Student Center, Cardinal Hall - March 21, 2006
Undergraduate Poster Presentation, Department of Chemistry, Ball State University - July 18, 2006
Award:
Undergraduate Poster Award, Ball State Chapter of Sigma Xi - 2005
Undergraduate Poster Award, Ball State Chapter of Sigma Xi - 2006
Cooper Science Award, Ball State University - 2006
Dr. Lynn Sousa, Mentor
Computational Analysis of Carbon Centered Free Radical-Thiocyanate Anion Transition State
Oral Presentation, Department of Chemistry, Ball State University - July 13, 2006
Undergraduate Poster presentation, Department of Chemistry, Ball State University - July 18, 2006
Dr. James Poole, Mentor
Nanotechnology in Design
Department boards presentation, ACADIA Boston Conference, http://daheadley.iweb.bsu.edu/nano_studio
Dr. George Elvin, Mentor
Progress on the Synthesis of a Symmetrical Dihydroxydibenzo-26-crown-8
Oral Presentation, Department of Chemistry, Ball State University - July 13, 2006
Undergraduate Poster presentation, Department of Chemistry, Ball State University - July 18, 2006
Poster Presentation, Local ACS - October 10, 2006
Indiana Academy of Science, Ball State University - November 3, 2006
Dr. Lynn Sousa, Mentor
Synthesis of 3-aryl-isoxazoles
Poster Presentation, Department of Chemistry, Ball State University - June 13, 2006
Dr. Robert Sammelson, Mentor
Gresham Smith Competition in Architecture
Poster Display, Ball State University - April 26, 2006
Dr. Glenn E. Sweitzer, Mentor
Simvastatin Inhibition of Farnesylation Reduces
Staphylococcus aureus Infection of Endothelial Cells
Undergraduate Poster Presentation, Department of Chemistry, Ball State University - July 18, 2006
Award:
Velvet Day Scholarship, Ball State University Biology Department - Fall 2006
Dr. Susan McDowell, Mentor
How to Teach Math to Black Students
Oral Presentation, Ball State University - March 2, 2006
Dr. Annette Leitze, Mentor
Expression of Outer Surface Protein Genes in Borrelia burgdorferi in
Questing and Fed Ixodes scapularis Ticks
Oral Presentation, Entomological Society of America's North Central Branch, Bloomington, IL - March 28, 2006
Dr. Robert E. Pinger, Mentor
Use of Factorial Design for the Optimization of Microwave Popcorn Conditions
Poster Presentation, Department of Chemistry, Ball State University - Summer, 2004
Oral Presentation, Undergraduate Colloquium Series, Department of Mathematics, Ball State University - March 3, 2005
Dr. Patricia L. Lang, Mentor
Synthesis of Indolizines and Benzoindolizines
Undergraduate Poster Presentation, Department of Chemistry, Ball State University - July 18, 2006
Dr. Robert Sammelson, Mentor
Epitope Tagging of the VATPase Subunits C and E
Oral Presentation, Department of Chemistry, Ball State University - Summer, 2005
Poster Presentation, Department of Chemistry, Ball State University - Summer, 2005
Oral Presentation, LSAMP Indiana and Midwest Crossroads AGEP First Annual Joint Conference - November 11, 2005
Poster Presentation, Ball State Student Symposium, Cardinal hall - March 21, 2006
Award:
Outstanding Undergraduate Research in Laboratory Sciences Award, Biology - 2006
Dr. Karlett Parra-Belky, Mentor
Expression and Purification of the Yeast V-ATPase
Subunit E for High Resolution Structural Studies
Poster Presentation, Department of Chemistry, Ball State University - Summer, 2004
Oral Presentation, Indiana Academy of Science, Hanover University - October 26, 2004
Oral Presentation, Louis Stokes Conference, IUPUI - November 5, 2004
Award:
Outstanding Peer Mentor, Department of Chemistry, Ball State University - 2005
Dr. Deanna Ojennus and Dr. Karlett Parra-Belky, Mentors
Development of a Website for Chem 101 Lab,
http://web.bsu.edu/jwribblett/chem101/lab
Poster Presentation, Department of Chemistry, Ball State University - June 13, 2006
Undergraduate Poster Presentation, Ball State University, July 18, 2006
Oral Presentation, Ball State University - July 20, 2006
Dr. Jason Ribblet, Mentor
Chromatographic Study of Lipid Peroxidation
Dr. Scott Pattison, Mentor
Development of New Pre-Lab Questions for Chem 111
Dr. Paul Coan, Mentor
Synthesis of Dithiol-Derivatized Gold Nanoparticles
Poster Presentation, Department of Chemistry, Ball State University - Summer 2005
Poster Presentation, LSAMP Indiana and Midwest Crossroads AGEP First Annual Joint Conference - November 11, 2005
NSF LSAMP/REU Poster Session, National Meeting of ACS, Atlanta, GA - March 27, 2006
Undergraduate Poster Presentation, National Meeting of ACS, Atlanta, GA - March 27, 2006
The 11th Annual Student Symposium, Ball State Student Center, Cardinal Hall - March 21, 2006
Awards:
NSF LSAMP Travel Award - March 2006
Travel Grant, Ball State Office of Research and Sponsored Programs - March 2006
Dr. Patricia L. Lang, Mentor
Mutagenesis Analysis of the Yeast V-ATPase Subunit D
Oral Presentation, Department of Chemistry, Ball State University - Summer 2005
Poster Presentation, Department of Chemistry, Ball State University - Summer 2005
Oral Presentation, LSAMP Indiana and Midwest Crossroads AGEP First Annual Joint Conference - November 11, 2005
Poster Presentation, ASBMB Conference, San Francisco, CA - April 2006
Awards:
Cooper Science Award, Ball State University - 2006
Pre-Professional Chemistry Student Award, Ball State University - May 2006
Dr. Karlett Parra-Belky, Mentor
V-ATPase Subunit d2 Isoform in Human Kidney Membranes
Student Internship at Cambridge England - Easter Term, 2006
Dr. Fiona Karet, Mentor
Sampling and Identification from Various Water Sources
Dr. Carl Warnes, Mentor
Use of Factorial Design for the Optimization of Microwave Popcorn Conditions
Oral Presentation, Department of Chemistry, Ball State University - Summer 2003
Oral Presentation, Department of Chemistry, Ball State University - Summer 2004
Poster Presentation, American Chemical Society, Indiana Section, DePauw University - October 11, 2004
Oral Presentation, Louis Stokes Conference, IUPUI - November 5, 2004
Award:
Undergraduate ACS Award in Analytical Chemistry - 2004
Dr. Patricia L. Lang, Mentor
Educational Analysis of the General, Organic and Biochemistry Laboratory
Oral Presentation, Department of Chemistry, Ball State University - Summer, 2004
Poster Presentation, Department of Chemistry, Ball State University - Summer, 2004
Dr. Deanna Ojennus and Dr. Jason Ribblett, Mentors
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