Friday, September 30, 2016
8:15am – 2:00pm
Storrs Campus
Konover Auditorium
Please join us for the Holster Scholar 2016 Research Presentations. The Holster Scholars First Year Project is a highly selective enrichment opportunity for curious first-year Honors students that supports in-depth, individualized learning experiences in the summer following their first year. The nine 2016 Holster Scholars will be sharing their research projects at this event.
8:25 a.m. Kayleigh Granville (Faculty Mentor: Dr. Ashley Helton, Natural Resources and the Environment) Effects of Salinity on Ephemeral Wetland Food Webs
8:50 a.m. Akshayaa Chittibabu (Faculty Mentor: Dr. Bandana Purkayastha, Sociology) Evaluating Rural Knowledge, Constraints, and Perceptions of Cervical Cancer Screening: A Study in Rural South India
9:15 a.m. Sarah Ferrigno (Faculty Mentor: Dr. John Salamone, Psychological Sciences) The Role of Adenosine in Motivational Symptoms of Depression: Studies on the Effects of Preladenant in Animal Models
9:40 a.m. Mary Szarkowicz (Faculty Mentor: Dr. Virginia Hettinger, Political Science) Analyzing the Lobbyist-Legislator Relationship
10:20 a.m. Sricharan Kadimi (Faculty Mentor: Dr. Mu-Ping Nieh, Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering) Intracellular Fate of Lipid Bicelles in A549 Epithelial Cancer Cells
10:45 a.m. Grace Lee (Faculty Mentor: Dr. Reinaldo Rojas, Urban and Community Studies) Navigating and Understanding Healthcare: The Importance of Health Insurance Literacy and Community Health Workers
11:10 a.m. Tyler Daddio (Faculty Mentor: Dr. Ion Mandoiu, Computer Science and Engineering) Pairing T Cell Receptor α and β Sequences Using Combinatorial Pooling and Min-Cost Flows
1:00 p.m. Kathrine Grant (Faculty Mentor: Dr. Shaun Dougherty, Educational Leadership) Hartford Public Schools: An Exploration of Public Perception and Opinion
1:25 p.m. Alyssa Matz (Faculty Mentor: Donna Ellis, Plant Science and Landscape Architecture) Investigating the Chemical Signals of Galerucella for Effective Biological Control of Lythrum salicaria
An event flyer can be viewed at http://honors.uconn.edu/holster-2016-poster/
For more information, contact: ONSF at onsf@uconn.edu