During Family Weekend, the Summer Scholar program showcased the work of some of this year’s Roanoke College Summer Scholars. The recipients of the Summer Scholar awards hail from departments across the college curriculum. Working with faculty supervisors, they spent the past summer researching topics appropriate to their majors.

Each Summer Scholar participant presented with a poster session and a 20-minute oral presentation featuring their work.

Dr. Curt Camac, director of the Summer Scholars program and chair of the psychology department,said “We were pleased on the quality of the presentations. Eight of the presentations will be presented regional or nationally throughout the coming year.”

Poster Presentations

Maggie C. Brown: Forensic Tests With Animal Blood

Matthew Bryant: Hydrostatic pressure is unequally distributed in the gill chambers of the walking blue crab: is gill hemolymph flow affected?

Matthew C. Burkhead: Borane Exchange Reaction on 1,4-Dimethylpiperazine

Andrew Fleming: Accessible Accessibility

M. Lee Henebry: Fecundity of the Sicklefin Redhorse, Carolina Redhorse, and Harelip Sucker (Pisces, Catostomidae)

Gregory Hess: Shoulder fatigue following a pitching bout: A case study examination of time to recovery.

Liên-Thành: Zebrafish (Danio rerio)

C. Kratzke: androgen receptor: cDNA fragment cloning and messenger RNA levels during embryonic development

Chad Lawrence: The Inverse Electron Demand Diels-Alder Reaction of Perfluorinated Cyclopentadienones

David Myer: The Mathematics of Ranking Systems

Caitlin O’Callaghan: Evaluation of Enterococcus spp. Genes for Animal-Source Specific DNA Sequences

Megan Poore: The Implicit Association Test and Social Value Orientation

Adriana Quirós: The Role of International Humanitarian Organizations in the Evolution of Global Human Rights: The United Nations and Amnesty International

Christopher Smith: A Study of Mobile Agent Algorithmic Implementation and Development

Amanda M. Strutner: An investigation of enzymes involved in apoptosis: inhibition of caspase 3 and cathepsins S and L

Heather R. Studebaker: A molecular analysis of the CesA3 gene in Arabidopsis thaliana

David Whitt: New and Expanded Uses of the New 400 MHz NMR Instrument in Laboratory Experiments.

Jessica Young: Behavioral Based Visual Querying

Oral Presentations

Lauren R. Harrison: Going Back to Get It: Sankofa and Black Cultural Identity in Fiction and in Life

Kathryn Vernon: The Spread of Caravaggio’s Influence in Northern Europe in the Seventeenth Century

Miroslav Batka: The Making of a Central European Tiger

Ashley L. Gilliam: Jane Austen’s Emma: ‘Cinderella’ and the Use and Failure of Fantasy

Hampton Smith: Natural Language Database Interface Portability

Jake Bennett: Growth and Characterization of Carbon Nanotubes

Richard Warren: Honoring the Forgotten: Summer Scholar Project of History and Memorial on East Hill Cemetery North