AASU Announces Winners of Research and Scholarship Student Exhibition

SAVANNAH, GA—Armstrong Atlantic State University announces the winners of its Ninth Annual Research and Scholarship Exhibition. The exhibition gives students who have conducted original scholarship the opportunity to show their work to fellow students, faculty, and visitors. Judges from various disciplines assessed each poster presentation on clarity, merit, visual presentation, research independence, and articulation. The projects that earned top scores in these areas received cash prizes of $200 or $400.

In the undergraduate division, the top five research projects were:
Katherine Harris (psychology) presented "Ethnic and socioeconomic predictors of performance in Chatham County schools." (Faculty advisor Stephen Taylor, social and behavioral science)

Christina Bethune (psychology) presented "Experiments on colostrum, an element in "mother’s milk", and learning in test animals." (Faculty advisor Keith Douglass, psychology)

Nathan Grassi (biology) presented "Effects of contraception on the ringtailed lemur population on St. Catherine’s Island." (Faculty advisor Suzanne Kempke, biology)

Tanja Payne, Laurent Gillou, Joshua McKenzie, Terry Breunig, and Audie Sanks (biology) presented "Detecting the presence of a pathogen in southeast Georgia’s cow’s milk that may cause intestinal illnesses in cows and humans." (Faculty advisor Judy Awong-Taylor, biology)

Frances Delano, Marcy Mitchell, Lynn Armstrong, and Lauren Stagnitto (biology) presented "Three different techniques for the detection of bacteria in water." (Faculty advisor Judy Awong-Taylor, biology)

In the graduate division, the top three projects were:
Ruslan Hristov and Stefan Wirtz (computer science) presented "Programming of a robot that learned through trial-and-error to reverse while pushing a trailer." (Faculty advisor Mark Burge, computer science)

Chris McCarthy and Ben Page (computer science) presented "Development of a programming solution with smart card technology to the problem of paper tickets at large venues." (Faculty advisor Mark Burge, computer science)

Patricia Boston (public health) presented "Scholarship on the effects of culture and lifestyle on rural African-American women’s health." (Faculty advisor Richard St. Pierre, public health)

 

May 28, 2003