Science Students Present Their Research on Tuesday,
April 17
NEW
YORK, N.Y., April 9, 2001 -- Thirteen Barnard
College students will present the results of their
year-long scientific research projects at the
Ninth Annual Student Research Symposium at 4 p.m.,
Tuesday, April 17, in the Ella Weed Room of Milbank
Hall.
All of the students are Research Interns whose
work was sponsored by the Hughes Science Pipeline
Project, which is in turn funded by grants from
the Undergraduate Biological Sciences Education
Program of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute.
Paul
E. Hertz, Ann Whitney Olin Professor of Biological
Sciences, who is director of the project, will
give opening remarks at 4 p.m., followed by 15-minute
presentations by the students.
"These
year-long Research Internships provide our students
with the opportunity to experience nearly every
aspect of scientific research: defining a specific
hypothesis, working out the bugs in an experimental
system, collecting and analyzing data, and presenting
results and conclusions in a public forum," said
Hertz. "The
Student Research Symposium is the culmination
of their fine efforts, and it provides a forum
in which Barnard students and faculty from all
of the natural sciences can meet and describe
how they have spent the past year."
The
following schedule identifies the Research Interns,
their faculty mentors, and the titles of their
presentations:
4:15 p.m., CYNTHIA YANG, Research Mentor, Peter
Balsam, Samuel R. Milbank Professor of Psychology,
"Mechanisms of Extinction"
4:30
p.m., ELTA SMITH, Research Mentor, Peter Bower,
Senior Lecturer in Environmental Science, "Population
Dynamics and Deer Management in Black Rock Forest"
4:45
p.m., ELIZA E. LONG, Research Mentor, John Glendinning,
Assistant Professor of Biological Sciences, "How
Do Animals Overcome Their Taste Aversion to Harmless
'Bitter' Taste Stimuli?"
5:00,
p.m., ADRIENNE DAVIS, Research Mentor:, John Glendinning,
Assistant Professor of Biological Sciences, "Bitter
vs. Bitter: Tests for Discrimination Between Bitter
Taste Stimuli"
5:15 p.m., NILE KURASHIGE, Research Mentor: Hilary
Callahan, Assistant Professor of Biological Sciences,
"Cold-Induced Plasticity in Artificially Selected
Shade-Plastic Lines of Arabidopsis thaliana"
5:30
p .m., JING LUCY SUN, Research Mentor: Ann E.
Shinnar, Assistant Professor of Chemistry, "Cloning
the cDNA Encoding Antimicrobial Peptides from
Larval Sea Lamprey Intestine"
5:45 p.m., JOAN SHU, Research Mentor: Ann E. Shinnar,
Assistant Professor of Chemistry, "Biosynthesis
of Squalamine: Isolation of Enzymes from the Dogfish
Shark Liver"
6:00
p.m., DANA STERN, Research Mentor: Reshmi Mukherjee,
Assistant Professor of Physics & Astronomy, "Multi-Wavelength
Study of Unidentified Gamma-Ray Source 3EG J1621+8203"
6:15 p.m., EVE LOCASTRO, Research Mentor: Laura
Kay, Associate Professor of Physics and Astronomy,
"The 2000 Superoutburst of OY Carinae"
6:30 p.m., ALISON RINDERSPACHER, Research Mentor:
Martin Stute, Associate Professor of Environmental
Science, "Sea Surface Temperatures of the Great
Australian Bight Over the Last 40,000 Years"
6:45
p .m., CHRISTINE COIRO, Research Mentor: Paul
Currie, Assistant Professor of Psychology, "Differential
Effects of Hypothalamic Urocortin Injections on
Food Intake"
7:00
p.m., JENNIFER BARSKY, Research Mentor: Barbara
Woike, Assistant Professor of Psychology, "The
Effect of Motive Priming on the Recognition of
Differentiated and Integrated Stimuli"
7:15 p.m., YUMING ZHANG, Research Mentor: Jym
Mohler, Professor of Biological Sciences, "Constructs
for Assay of Hh-Dependent Protein Translation"
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