2014 Holster Scholar Presentations
Friday, September 19th
9am-2:30 pm
Konover Auditorium
The Holster Scholars First Year program is a highly selective enrichment opportunity for curious first-year Honors students. Inspired by Robert Holster’s own excitement in discovering new paths of learning as a member of the inaugural class of UConn’s Honors Program, the Holster First Year Project supports a small number of motivated students who wish to complete independent study in the summer following their first year of college. These presentations are the fruits of this summer’s cohort of scholars.
Please join us in supporting these amazing students. Their projects represent a variety of disciplines and are terrific examples of early undergraduate research for aspiring researchers! The schedule of presentations is below; please encourage your students/classes to attend all or some of the following presentations:
9:00 Introduction – Jill Deans
- 9:10 Presentation 1 – Adam Kuegler, “Voter Identification Laws: It’s all in the Implementation”
Faculty Mentor: Dr. Thomas Hayes (Department of Political Science)
- 9:35 Presentation 2 – Marissa Piccolo, “Redefining the Role of Mental Health Services in Public High Schools: An Exploration of Mental Health Care Access in the Positive Behavior Interventions and Supports Framework”
Faculty Mentor: Dr. Jennifer Freeman (Department of Education Psychology)
- 10:00 Presentation 3 – Joseph DeSisto, “The Centipedes of Great Smokey Mountain National Park”
Faculty Mentor: Dr. Jane O’Donnell, Scientific Collection Manager (Department of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology)
- 10:25 Presentation 4 – John Ovian, "Oxoammonium Salts and Their Uses in Green Chemistry"
Faculty Mentor: Dr. Nicholas Leadbeater (Department of Chemistry)
- 10:50 Presentation 5 – Patrick Adams, “Iterated Two-Sided Matching”
Faculty Mentor: Dr. Victoria Knoblauch (Department of Economics)
- 11:15 Presentation 6 – Isabel Nip, “Exploring the Role of the Cytoskeleton in Neurodegenerative Diseases”
Faculty Mentor: Dr. Kenneth Campellone (Department of Molecular & Cell Biology)
- 11:40 Presentation 7 –Brian Liang, “The Role of the Extracellular Matrix on Nanoparticle Adhesion to Ovarian Cancer Cells”
Faculty Mentor: Dr. Xiuling Lu (Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences)
12-1:30 Break for Lunch
- 1:30 Presentation 8 – Andrew Harnedy, “Whose Victory? A Debate for the Ages”
Faculty Mentor: Dr. Daniel Caner (Department of History)
- 1:55 Presentation 9 – Sarah Mosure, “Investigating the Reproductive Role of Fat Tissue Secretions in Female Drosophila.”
Faculty Mentor: Dr. Jianjun Sun (Department of Physiology & Neurobiology
For more information, contact: The Office of National Scholarships & Fellowships at Marlene.Coughlin@uconn.edu