URS 2000 Abstracts

Here are the abstracts from the Undergraduate Research Symposium 2000.

1) The Origin in the Constellations

Aaron M. Berkowitz

2) The Death Penalty in Illinois

Alejandra Cantero and M. Lippman

3) ECP Characterization of CdTe Grown by ELOG

A. Prociuk, R. Sporken, D. Grajewski, Y. Xin, F. Wiame, G. Brill, P. Boieriu, S. Rujirawat, N. K. Dhar and S. Sivananthan

4) Genome-Wide Search for Genes Involved in Curing and Growth Inhibition of [PSI+] Prion

Amina M. Khan, Sue Liebman and Michael E. Bradley

5) New Software Characterizing the Lympho-hematopoietic System

Angel A. Alvarez

6) Effect of Site –Directed Mutagenesis on PS & DHPS

Anna Tartakover, Adina Stoia, and Brian P. Nichols

7) Identification of Peromyscus Leucopus and Peromyscus

Chimnoya Nwagwu and Oliver Pergams

8) Amine and Peptides on Polymer Surfaces

David Limsui and Luke Hanley

9) Minority Performance After A Remedial Mathematics Course

David Tello

10) Improved Cardiac Cell Cultures Using Microtextured Surfaces

George Nijmeh and Brenda Russell

11) The AML Tumor Suppressor Gene on Chromosome 5, Band q31: Localization and Evaluation of Novel Genes

Haley B. Naik and Carol A. Westbrook

12) Application of Fractal Theory in Modeling Asphaltene Aggregation

Junaid N. Mansuri and G. Ali Mansoori

13) Structural Analysis of Phosphoglucose Isomerase Complexes

Kathy Z Chang and Constance Jeffery

14) Memory for Your Memory

Kevin T. King and Gary Raney

15) Potentiation of Truncated Epidermal Growth Factor-like Receptor on Human Cervical Cancer Cell Line

Klaudia Urbaniak and John V. Ilekis

16) Orthodox Religious Culture in Late Imperial Russia

Leonidas C. Pittos and Jonathan Daly

17) Hazard Alert & Notification System

Luis Bravo and Vladimir Goncharoff

18) Recombinant Adenovirus that Mediate a Reversible Cell Cycle Arrest in Primary Oral Keratinocytes

Matthew A. Wettergreen and Guy R. Adami

19) Birth Control in Greek Antiquity: New Insights on an Old Debate

Peter P Moschovis and Alexander MacGregor

20) In the Beginning: Theories of Creation in Late Antiquity

Peter P. Moschovis and Spyridon Rangos

21) The Logic of Tragedy and the Tragedy of Logic: Reason and Rhetoric in Sophocles' Oedipus Tyrannus and Plato's Ion

Peter P Moschovis and Frederick Ahl

22) Structural Preferences for CO Bonding Modes in Transition Metals on Ag(110)

Pooja S Pathak, Robert Koniecny and Roald Hoffmann

23) Why Metro Chicago Needs a Crosstown Rapid Transit Line

Richard Garza and Perry Duis

24) Evolution of Animal-Mediated Seed Dispersal Systems

Roman Yukilevich and Henry F. Howe

25) The Effects of Reactive Oxygen Species on Steroidogenesis in MA-10 Cells

Salil Ginde, and Dale Buchanan

26) The Harmonious Dissonance of Two Worlds:The Street and School Identities of Inner-City Latino Students

Sofia Mohammad and Nilda Flores-Gonzalez

27) Toxic Epidermal Necrolysis

Yassine Kanaan and Omeed Memar

28) Identification of UNC-11A binding partners

Yolanda M. Lopez and Aixa Alfonso