Catawba College students from various disciplines shared their diverse research projects during the 2012 Interdisciplinary Research Symposium held Thursday, April 26 in the Leonard Lounge of the Cannon Student Center. Faculty, staff and students on campus dropped by during the two-hour event to listen and learn from these students.

As usual, Catawba faculty members served as research advisors, and in some cases, co-authors, of the projects. Academic areas represented included athletic training, biology, chemistry, honors, modern foreign languages, and psychology.

Following is a list of presentations that were on display, along with the names of those students and faculty members who were involved in the research for them (view abstract details):

ATHLETIC TRAINING

• May Thurner Syndrome: A Case Report
  Alissa Foote; Research Advisor: Dr. James Hand
  
  
• Do Athletes Feel Confident and Secure When Wearing a Functional Knee Brace When Performing in Their Primary Sport?
  Rebecca Shomo; Research Advisor: Dr. James Hand
  
  
• The Link Between Alzheimer's Disease and Head Injuries
  Lindsay Smith; Research Advisor: Dr. James Hand
  
  
• Rotator Cuff Injuries and the Pitching Mechanism: Is there a Correlation?
  Lauren Teodorovici; Research Advisor: Dr. James Hand
  

BIOLOGY

• Photomicrography - Cell Biology Spring 2012
  Savanna Athey; Coauthors: Adrienne Barnhardt, Meredith Brown, Jonathan Cooley, Jackie Davis, Jeremy DeWolf, Lori Fraley, Ashley Freeze, Jacob Hill, Maggie Keeble, Hannah Kovach, Justin Smith, Carley Tatum, Renee Welfare, Amanda Williams; Research Advisor: Dr. Steve Coggin
  
  
• Changes in Composition of Coral Larvae Exposed to Different Levels of Carbon Dioxide
  Jessica Bound; Coauthors: Dr. Constance Rogers-Lowery; Research Advisor: Dr. Constance Rogers-Lowery
  
  
• Analyses of the Spread of the Invasive Bradford Pear (Pyrus calleryana Decene.) in the Catawba College Ecological Preserve
  Sarah Moore; Research Advisor: Dr. Michael J Baranski
  
  
• The Germination Ecology of the Federally Endangered Michauxii Sumac (Rhus michauxii, Anacardiaceae) including Endozoochory
  Jeremy Proctor & Renee Welfare; Research Advisor: Dr. Jay Bolin
  
  
• Metabolic Response to Ocean Acidification in the Colonial Cnidarian Hydractinia symbiolongicarpus
  Amanda G. Williams; Coauthors: Dr. Constance Rogers-Lowery; Research Advisor: Dr. Constance Rogers-Lowery
  

CHEMISTRY

• Separation and Quantification of 5 Sunscreen Components Using HPLC Analysis
  Alan Burgess and Lori Fraley; Research Advisor: Dr. Mark Sabo
  
  
• Temperature and Carbon Dioxide Effects on Carbonic Anhydrase in Aiptasia spp.
  Rachel Cone; Research Advisor: Dr. Constance Rogers-Lowery, Dr. Mark Sabo
  
  
• Understanding Rates of Corrosion, Diffusion of Corrosive Species, and Failure of Steel through Fluorescent Polymers in Thin Films
  Jacob Hill; Coauthors: Josh Hanna; Research Advisor: James W. Rawlins
  
  
• Effects of Oxide Layer Thickness on Wavelengths Reflected from Anodized Niobium Using AFM
  Blake Rushing; Research Advisor: Dr. Carol A. Miderski
  
  
• Frescoes
  Michaela Boyd, Collette Riddle, and Jodye Carroll; Research Advisor: Dr. Carol Ann Miderski
  
  
• Metallic Art
  Mark Freeze, Jacqueline Loy, and Nic Richardson; Research Advisor: Dr. Carol Ann Miderski
  
  
• The Art of Glass
  Leana Guzman, Megan Bean, and Sydney Smith; Research Advisor: Dr. Carol Ann Miderski
  
  
• Dyes & Fibers – Cotton, Silk & Wool
  Haley Lanier, Taylar Whittlesey, and Danielle Rivera; Research Advisor: Dr. Carol Ann Miderski
  
  
• Early Photography Methods
  Annabelle Prince and Savannah Tomlinson; Research Advisor: Dr. Carol Ann Miderski
  

HONORS

• Would the Cream Still Rise?  An Evaluation of Upward Bound
  Julie Gilley; Research Advisor: Dr. Gary Freeze
  
  
• Asia vs. the IMF: Why the Countries Fought Back
  Sarah Matulis; Research Advisor: Eric Hake, Janice Fuller, Jason Hunt
  
  
• What Are You Wearing? Major Theories of Dress, Past and Present
  Claire Robinson; Research Advisor: Dr. Beth Homan
  
  
• Determinants of Proenvironmental Behavior in College Students
  Sarah Robinson; Research Advisor: Dr. Sheila Brownlow
  

MODERN FOREIGN LANGAUGE  (Spanish)

• El Camino de Santiago
  Tracy Brown; Research Advisor: Dr. Miren Hodgson
  
  
• The Golden Age
  Madelin Contreras; Research Advisor: Dr. Miren Hogdson
  
  
• The Spanish Civil War
  Karina Hernandez; Research Advisor: Dr. Miren Hodgson
  
  
• The Discovery of American Crops and their Impact on the World
  Donald McIntyre; Research Advisor: Dr. Miren Hodgson
  
  
• The Role of the Spanish Inquisition throughout the 15th-19th Centuries
  Chelsea Starr; Research Advisor: Dr. Miren Hodgson
  

PSYCHOLOGY

• Does Author Ethnicity Matter to the Evaluation of Blog Posts?
  David R Bowling; Coauthors: Jennifer McDonnell; Research Advisor: Dr. Sheila Brownlow
  
  
• The High Cost of Cheap: Music Downloads and Song Liking
  Megan Howard; Coauthors: Alec Thompson; Research Advisor: Dr. Sheila Brownlow
  
  
• Judgments of Children's Transgressions as a Function of Ethnicity
  Katherine Zink; Coauthors: Maura Pantone, Michelle Lyons; Research Advisor: Dr. Sheila Brownlow

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