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Latest Issue of RC Research Newsletter

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I’ve created an newsletter (called “RC Research”) to highlight Roanoke College students’  success and to communicate programs to Roanoke College faculty, staff, students, and others. Our December 2011 issue (pdf) has just been published. Previous issues are available here:  August 2011 issue (pdf) and September 2011 issue (pdf).

Detailed tables of contents are below. If you have suggestions on content, format, etc., please let me know!

Thanks for reading!
Dr. Julie Lyon, Director of Student/Faculty Research
(my email is my last name at  roanoke.edu)

 

December 2011 issue of RC Research Table of Contents:

  • Student/Faculty Showcase of Research & Creativity a big success
  • This year’s new Faculty Scholars
  • Welcome new URAP Scholars
  • Need money to present at a conference? Apply now.
  • Present at RC Conference
  • Recent off-campus research presentations

September 2011 issue of RC Research Table of Contents:

  • Attend the Family Weekend Student/Faculty Showcase of Research & Creativity
  • Work-study research assistantships available
  • Need money to present at a conference? Apply now.
  • Summer off-campus research presentations

August 2011 issue of RC Research Table of Contents:

(note: this issue’s contents were directed primarily at faculty)

  • Family Weekend Student/Faculty Showcase of Research & Creativity
  • Send students to MARCUS
  • Opportunity to pay students to do research
  • Apply for a URAP student
  • Funding for students to present at conferences

For more information on our programs, please visit: roanoke.edu/research

22 RC Students Present at Sweet Briar’s Conference (MARCUS)

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Twenty-two Roanoke College students presented at MARCUS (Mid-Atlantic Regional Conference of Undergraduate Scholarship) on October 8, 2012. After some directional difficulty, both RC vans and several student-driven cars made it just on time for the first presentations of the day. For a $25/student registration fee, presenters received a continental breakfast, a free lunch, and a full day of student and faculty camaraderie.

Roanoke College Student Presenters:

Bryan Piatkowski: Roanoke College
Examining the Evolution of Polar Auxin Transport in Bryophyte Gametophytes

Sam Bsasley: Roanoke College
A Psychological View of Love

Amanda Newman: Roanoke College
Intimacy and Texting Behaviors

Alyssa Bostrom: Roanoke College
Immigration and the Media

Sarah Ahlbrand: Roanoke College
The Biosynthesis of the Chemotherapeutic Agent ET-743 Focusing on the Heterologous Expression of Key Biosynthetic Genes

Julia Boudrye and Lauren Schwabe: Roanoke College
Smartphone Use in College Students: Implications and Impact

Margaret Anderson: Roanoke College
The Executive Office of the President: Analyzing the Influence on Policy-Making

Ariel Firebaugh: Roanoke College
Lymantria disp-erse! The Effect of Landscape Structure on Male Gypsy Moth Densities

RC Student Presenters

Will Bader: Roanoke College
Examining the Effect of Forest Fires and Increased Nutrient Levels on Algal Blooms in Marine
Ecosystems.

Jonathan Perkins: Roanoke College
Ethers and Fluoroethers from Pentafluorophenyl-Substituted Cyclopentadienes

Caroline Hunter: Roanoke College
Gene Cloning in the Purine Biosythetic Pathway in Archaeoglobus fulgidus

Jeremy Johnson: Roanoke College
Bisamine Boron Cations from 1,4-Dimethylpiperazine

Meagan Tolley: Roanoke College
A Study of Purine Biosynthesis in Sulfolobus solfataricus

Colin David Briggs: Roanoke College
Adsorption and Release of Organic Dyes in Mesoporous Silica Spheres

Sara Blankenship: Roanoke College
Creation of a Substrate Phage Display Library to Study Enzyme-Substrate Interactions of Plasmepsins IX
and X in P. falciparum

Paul Vines: Virginia Bioinformatics Institute
A Computational Approach to Iron Metabolism in Breast Epithelial Cells

Casey Wojtera: Roanoke College
Investigations of the Active Site of 5, 10-methenyltetrahydrofolate synthetase (MTHFS) from
Mycoplasma pneumoniae

Kayla R. Muncy: Roanoke College
Cloning Plasmepsins IX and X to Find Their Function in Malaria

Matthew Corbicz: Roanoke College
Examining Polar Auxin Transport in the Moss Gametophyte of Dicranium scoparium

Kacy Dillon & Steven Huffman: Roanoke College
Students’ Perceptions of Professors

 

Welcome new URAP Scholars

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Welcome new URAP Scholars! The Undergraduate Research Assistant Program (URAP) would like to welcome our newest batch of freshmen to the program:

Elsa is seated

 

Elsa Weiboldt will be working with Dr. Rachel Collins on “Assessing the Role of Exotic Earthworms on Forest Understory Diversity”

 

 

Annie is standing

 

Annie Shreckhise will be working with Dr. Matt Rearick on “Understanding the Choices We Make: A Psychological, Physiological and Kinematic Examination of Human Motion”

 

 

Logan

 

Logan Brown will be working with Dr. Vern Miller on “Reactions of Amine Iodoboranes with Carbon-Carbon and Carbon-Oxygen Double Bonds”

 

 

Ashley

 

Ashley Nyitray will be working with Dr. Tim Johann on “Investigations of the Enzyme 5,10-Methenyltetrahydrofolate Synthetase”

 

 

Michelle is on the right

 

Michelle Pasier will be working with Dr. Cathy Sarisky on “Purine Biosynthesis in Archaea”

 

Davalyn

 

 

Davalyn Pugh will be working with Dr. DB Poli on “A Rock Garden: Understanding Botany through Natural History”

 

 

(not pictured) Nathan Sliwa will be working with Dr. Chad Morris on “Community-Based Public Health Promotion: Diet and Non-Communicable Disease in Palau”