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GSA AWARDS WINNERS: 2008
Winners of the 2008 awards competition are listed below. Those winners who have granted permission to post their materials online are hyperlinked.
Vada Trimble Outstanding Mentor
Holly Hazlett-Stevens, Psychology
Outstanding Graduating Graduate Student
Paul Roth, Music and Dance
Poster Competition A
1st: Rose Ellen Dixon, Cellular & Molecular Pharmacology
"Functional Role of Pacemaking Cells in the Female Reproductive Tract"
2nd: Kaustav Sinha, Chemical and Metallurgical Engineering
"Development of Nanoscale Magneto-Rheological (nMR) Fluid: Effect of Particle Size on Flow and Thermal Characteristics through Microchannels"
3rd (t): Leyla Hernandez-Gomez
"Strategies for the Production and Selection of Halophytic Green Algae Species as Elite Biofuel Feedstocks"
3rd (t): Yang Xiang
"Novel Targets for Cardiac Protection against Ischemic/reperfusion Injury — CFTR Chloride Channels"
Poster Competition B
1st: Sandra Noffsinger, School of Public Health
"Youth Violence and Suicidal Behaviors among Methamphetamine Using High School Students: Implications for Programs and Policy"
2nd: Kathryn Krasinski, Anthropology
"Interpreting Eastern Beringian Late Pleistocene/Early Holocene Extinctions: The Role of the Radiocarbon Record"
3rd: Takahiro Yamaguchi, Psychology
"The diluted face prototype effect shifts when lateralized"
Paper Competition A
1st: Omar Akbari, Biology
“A Novel Promoter-Tethering Element Regulates Enhancer-Driven Gene Expression at the Bithorax Complex in the Drosophila Embryo”
2nd: Andrea Achilli, Biochemical and Mollecular Biology
“The Forward Osmosis Membrane Bioreactor: A Low Fouling Alternative to MBR Processes”
3rd: Kaustav Sinha, Chemical and Metallurgical Engineering
“Dynamic Light Scattering Study of Reverse Micellar Solutions for the Synthesis of Magnetic Nanoparticles”
Paper Competition B
1st: Sean McMurry, Anthropology
"Tied Together: Railroad Tie Architecture in Rabbithole Springs, Nevada"
2nd (t): Jennifer Westerman, English
"To Alter a River: Labor, Race, and Envoronmental Justice"
2nd (t): Paul Roth, Music
"Emergence of the Soul Aesthetic in Jazz"
3rd: Tiffany Threatt, English
"The Language of Feminism within the College Classroom"
Presentation Competition A
1st: Yang Xiang, Pharmacology
“Novel Targets for Cardiac Protection against Ischemic/reperfusion Injury: CFTR Chloride Channels”
2nd: Rose Ellen Dixon, Cellular & Molecular Pharmacology
"Mechanisms Underlying Gamete Transport in the Female Reproductive Tract”
3rd: Kaustav Sinha, Chemical and Metallurgical Engineering
“Valve drain Friction Reduction and Wear with Thin Film Coatings”
Presentation Competition B
1st: Brian Wygal, Antrhopology
“Archeological Survey of Denali National Park & Preserve, Alaska”
2nd: Kathryn Krasinski, Anthropology
“A Painted Fossil Bison Skull - Rare Finds from Denali National Park, Alaska”
3rd: Sean McMurry, Anthropology
“Tied Together: Railroad-tie Architecture in Rabbit hole Springs, Nevada”
Outstanding Graduate Student
Kyhl Lyndgaard, English
James Bishop, English
Andrew Bourelle, English
Sarah Perrault, English
Marcia Kmetz, English
Sean McMurry, Anthropology
Margaret Walsh, Public Health
Fletcher Lindsay, Psychology
Tara Mullen, Public Health
Tiffany Threatt, English
Outstanding International Graduate Student
Sanjeev Dey, Chemistry
Kaustav Sinha, Chemical and Metallurgical Engineering
Eamonn Dickson, Physiology
Rajan Bista, Physics
Suchitra Datta, Chemistry
Michael Dornoo, Educational Specialties
Lucrecia Rodriguez, Resource Economics
Gholamreza Amayeh, Computer Science
Alireza Tavakkoli, Basque Studies
Ada Diaconu-Muresan, Social Psychology
Charles Assuah, Curriculum, Teaching, and Learning
Rajan Chakrabarty, Chemical Phsyics
Muhanna Muhanna, Computer Science
Rajesh Masina, Business Administration
Outstanding Graduate Student Researcher
1st: Rajan Chakrabarty, Chemical Physics
2nd: Sanjeev Dey, Chemistry
3rd: Omar Akbari, Biology
Research Grant Winners
Rajan Bista, Physics
"Vibrational Spectroscopy of Self-forming Synthetic Lipids and Nanvesicles"
Salah Abu, Phsyiology
"Molecular and Functional Role of Stretch K+ Channels in Urinary Bladder"
Lauren Tolle, Psychology
"A Family-focused Adherence Intervention for Teens With Type-I Diabetes"
Melisa Soland, Animal Biotechnology
"Invisible Mesenchymal Stem Cells for Transplantation"
Eamonn Dickson, Physiology
"Identification and Characterization of Intrinsic Sensory Neurons"
Bryce Alves, Microbiology
"Lipid Dependent Enhancement of Tumor Cell Killing by T Cells"
Marcia Kmetz, English
"'Meanwhile Back at the Ranch': Rural Rhetorical Strategies from Cicero"
Christopher Briggs, NRES
"Body Condition and Reproductive Success of Swainson's Hawks"
Rose Ellen Dixon, Physiology and Cell Biology
"Mechanisms Underlying Gamete Transport in the Female Reproductive Tract"
Alyson Andreasen, Ecology
"Modeling Mountain Lion Movements in NV: A Landscape Genetic Approach"
Bernard Wone, Ecology
"Changes in Metabolism Resulting from Artificial Selection"
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