2002 Petersheim Academic Exposition Program

 


On-Going Events

April 8-May 31    Walsh Library Gallery      Art Gallery Exhibition

April 11                 Walsh Gymnasium             Honors Lecture Series – Toni Morrison

April 12                 Peterson Reading Room    Experiential Education Student Awards

April 12-May 3    Walsh Library Rotunda     “The Still Life” Studies: Warm & Cool

                                                                                Lauren Schiller   Sponsor

Everett Babcock

Jennifer Ferro

Andrea Foster

Cary Frank

Lauren Hahn

Lauren Liuzzi

Saranna Mathura

Kevin Metcalfe

Pedro Moncado

Tasha Nassy

Lynda Picinic

Jennifer Sorgi

Kathleen White

Jason Van DeWalle

Victoria Gonzalez

Ryan Bennett

April 14 at 4 p.m. Kozlowski Hall                    Evening of Roses

April 19-21,          Theatre-in-the-Round         “The Nerd”

         26-28

May 17                   Main Lounge, UC                GME Research 12th Annual Research Colloquium       

      

 

Saturday, April 13, 2002                   


 

10:00 a.m.             Main Lounge, UC                A Day of Percussion (10:00 a.m.-4:00 p.m.)

and Auditorium, KH                           

               

4:00 p.m.               Auditorium, KH                   Music Department Student Piano Recitals   

               

Sunday, April 14, 2002

 

10:00 a.m.             Immaculate Conception      Mass

Chapel                  

11:30 a.m.             Main Lounge, UC                Welcome and Brunch                                                        

12:30 p.m.             Pirates Cove, UC                 Housing & Residence Life Family Day

               

1:00 p.m.               Main Lounge, UC                On-going Viewing of Poster Projects                            

 

Carolyn Bentivegna            Sponsor

Anne Marie Ciancio            Genetic Diversity of Balbiani Ring I in Chironomid

                                                                                Xequiel Hernandez              Investigating the Genetic Diversity of Ribosomal Protein Gene in Chironomids

 

                                                                                Allan Blake                           Sponsor

                                                                                Richard Wnek                       Chemokine Receptor States on Astrocytes

 
Byron Hargrove                   Sponsor

Gina LaTona                         Attitudes About Marriage and Divorce of College Students

 

                                                                                Linda Hsu                             Sponsor

Maranatha Lougheed          The Cell and Molecular Biology of Cystic Fibrosis

Lisa Hague                            Triclosan: Effective Anti-microbrial or Harmful Chemical?

Shirley Hanna                       Tamoxifen: The therapeutic Choice for Breast Cancer?

 

Marco Morazan                   Sponsor

Kai H Fan                              Hashing Symbols and Functions in the MT-Evaluator

Kristine Joy Apon

Gregory Van De Moere       Stack Memory Implementation in MT Virtual Machine

Gregory Van De Moere       The MT Primitives: Basic Operations for Functional Languages

Joaney Feeney                    

Kai H Fan

Peter Laurina                         Paging the Code Space in the MT System

Steve O'Brien                        Heap Memory Implementation in MT Virtual Machine

 

Fr. Bob Meyers                    Sponsor

Giacomo Savoia                    Seton Hall students serving and becoming beneficial participants in their community.

Jody Smith                            Don Bosco Youth Center

Marie Connell

 

Gerald Ruscingno               Sponsor

Karen Pokallus                     The Discovery of Estrogen Receptor Beta

                               

Michael Vigorito                 Sponsor

Psychology Club                 Psychology Department Web Site Resources for Undergraduates - Graduate School Database and Advisement Worksheets

 

1:00 p.m.               Main Lounge, UC                Biology Senior Seminar Proposals

 

Sulie L. Chang                     Sponsor

Badway, Amy C.                  Neurogenesis in the Neocortex of Adult Primates

Blair, Cherise L.                    Effects of Estrogen on the Cardiovascular System

Carrero, Janice K.                 Re-evaluation of Estrogen Replacement Therapy

Di Stefano, Valeria M.         Neurobiological Effects of Child Abuse

Ferro, Jennifer M.                 Genetic Determinants of  Cornelia de Lange Syndrome

Jemison, Linn A                   Evaluating the Progress and Long-term Effects Following LASIK

Kim, Dae Hwan                     The Effect of Mega Dose of Vitamin C

Leyva, Kimberly R.              Estrogen as a Neuroprotectant in Stroke

Morton, Alena J.                   National Mammography Study

Placeres, Ana L.                   The Risk of Thrombolytics

Pokallus, Karen E.                Distribution of Estrogen Receptors in the Brain

Schlip, Christopher J.          Epidural Analgesia

Souverain, Regine L.           Antenatal Corticosteroid Treatments

 

1:00 p.m.               Main Lounge, UC                Nursing School Poster Attending Presentation

                                                                               

                                                                                Nursing Departments

                                                                                Alexandria Papa                   Asthma: Take Control

Mabel Pinto

Linda Saundry

 

Kimberly Fritz                       Polypharmacy in the Elderly

Jessica Miglin

Lauren O’Donnell

 

Priscilla Dzurich                    Increasing  Awareness of HIV and Other STD’s Within Irvington Township

 Kristine Broger                    and Facilitating Communication Between  Community Members and

Thomas Hack                        Community Resource Centers

 

Amy Erbeck                          Safe Pregnancy: Vaginal Birth After Cesarean Delivery

Tammy Matthews

 Christopher Pont

 

Michelle Abboud                 Lead Poisoning and Lead Screening

 Corrine Kayler

 

Andrea Garfinkel                  Diabetes

Maritza Gallegos

Igor Kharchenko

Kyle Sanders

 

Azuka Emenuga                   Safer Drinking: Five Smart Steps to Help You Think About Drinking

 

Jennifer Mattaliano              Controlling High Blood Pressure and Exercise

Jennifer McDonald

Maria Ponce

Alessandra Ruggiero

Susan Schmitt

 

Laura Espinosa                     Smoking…And Benefits of Quitting

Irena Janiec

Ewa Robl

 

Andrew Galego                    Early Defibrillation

Casey Grillo

Jeff Parayno

Max Runtu

 

Cara Davidson                      Osteoporosis

Regina Grice

Jennifer De Guzman

 

Sylvia Duruh                         Have You Had Any Lab Tests Done Lately: What Does It All Mean?

Heather Kaplan

Ngozi Okoro

Pauline Sah

Jeanne Wiseman

 

Stephanie Agresta               The Benefits of Breastfeding

Megan Madara

Tara Murphy

 

Dennis Lobaina                    Partnership for a Drug-Free NJ

 

1:00 p.m.               Foyer, UC                              Modern Languages/School of Diplomacy Slide Show

Anne Mullen-Hohl              Sponsor

Gabriele Regus              A Magic Presentation of the Paris Program

Valerie Menos

                                                            Ange Munyazaki           Rwanda: A Beautiful Country

 

1:30 p.m.               Chancellor Suite, UC         Dennis Lobaina – Partnership for a Drug Free NJ

 

2:00 p.m.               Main Lounge, UC                PowerPoint Presentations

 

                                                Marco Morazan                   Sponsor

Steve O'Brien                        The MT-Evaluator Virtual Machine

Gregory Van De Moere

Joaney Feeney                    

Kai H Fan

Peter Laurina

Kristine Joy Apon

 

                                                Thelma Stich                        Sponsor

Jacqueline Smith                  Child Passenger Safety

 

                                                Fr. Bob   Meyers                  Sponsor

David Saoud                         Community Service

Jody Smith                            Don Bosco Youth Center

Marie Connell

 

Marian Glenn                       Sponsor

Yasin Samatar                       The Development of Newly Independent States 

                                                and Their Implication on  Regional Stability.

 

2:00 p.m.               Faculty Lounge, UC            Ines A. Murzaku                 Sponsor

Ramon Orama Jr.                  Orientalia -- New York Metro Eastern Varieties Project

Nace Naumoski

Antonio N. Rocha

 

2:00 p.m.               Theatre-in-the-Round         Department of Communication

Images Festival of the Visual Arts

                                                                               


Jason Yanuzzi

Mario Comesanos

April Darcy

Bong-Su Choi

David Kochowski

Jon Colon

Emilia Moran

LaShonda Bailey

Jenn Monk

Derek Nelson

Roger Gonzalez                                                                   

Mitul Patel

Erik Nilson

Rob DiMeo

Carl Carabelli

Paul Ferguson

Chris Hart

Gina Frassetto

Erin Sharp             

 

2:00 p.m.                    Pirates Cove, UC             Kristin Kucsma                   Sponsor

Economics Club – Creating a Winning Portfolio: The Ins and Outs of Personal Investing

 

2:30 p.m.                    Chancellor’s Suite, UC  Life Science Symposium   (Bio Society and Psychology Honors Program)

 

The IVth ANNUAL BIOLOGY SOCIETY STUDENT RESEARCH SYMPOSIUM

 

Carolyn Bentivegna            Sponsor

Eva Vagueiro                        Acute toxicity of Manganese and Iron in Chironomus riparius

 

Allan Blake                          Sponsor

                                                                                Nicole Kupinski                    Genetic Pharmacology: dsRNAi as a Novel Pharmacological Tool in Targeting

                                                                                                                                     the sst2 Receptor

Matthew Giangrant              Oxidative Stress and Chemoprevention

 

Sulie L. Chang                     Sponsor

Xin Yu                                    Regulation of mu opioid receptor (MOR) Expression by Morphine and Differentiation Agents in   SH-SY5Y Neuroblastoma Cells

Frank Ocasio                         Lipopolysaccharide-mediated vascular coagulation in chronic morphine treated rats

Badway, Amy C.                  Neurogenesis in the Neocortex of Adult Primates

Di Stefano, Valeria M.         Neurobiological Effects of Child Abuse

Souverain, Regine L.           Antenatal Corticosteroid Treatments

 

PSYCHOLOGY   HONORS PROGRAM

 

Janine Buckner                  Sponsor

Dana Murphy                       The Effects of Background Noise and Locus of Control on Memory

 

Jeffrey Levy                          Sponsor

James F. Sumowski              Self-Reference and Reading Comprehension

 

Giuliana Mazzoni                Sponsor

Lisa Goncalves                     Not All False Memories are Created Equal

                                                                               

                                                                                Susan Nolan                         Sponsor

Kaitlin Cassella                     Role of Hopelessness in Attributional Styles

Antoinette del Rosario        The Role of Culture in the Perception of Depression

Joanne M. Magee                The Role of Religion in Perception of Depression

 

Susan Teague                      Sponsor

Kristin Gasser                       Effects of Parenting Styles on Emotional Reactions

 

Michael Vigorito Sponsor

Brent F. Costleigh                Using the Successive Negative Contrast Procedure to

Measure the Effects of Circadian-Phase-Shift Stress in Rats

3:00 p.m.               Faculty Lounge, UC            Theta Alpha Kappa, Religious Studies Theology Honor Society induction

 

4:30 p.m.               Main Lounge, UC                Leadership Award Ceremony

 


 

Monday, April 15, 2002

 

9:00 am-5:00 p.m.   Main Lounge, UC             Viewing of Poster Projects

                                                                                Refreshment is provided around noontime

                               

10:00 a.m.             Main Lounge, UC                Forrest Pritchett                 Sponsor

Symposium on the First-Year Experience: All are welcome!

 

10:00 a.m.             Chancellor Suite, UC         Mary Balkun                        Sponsor

Witchy Women: Representations of the Witch in Literature By and About Women             

               

12:00 noon            Galleon Room, UC               Department of Communication

Computer Graphic Demonstration    

 

12:00 noon            Main Lounge, UC                Forrest Pritchett                 Sponsor

                                                                                Symposium on Social Justice

 

4:30 p.m.               Faculty Lounge, UC            Debro Zinicola & Mary Mueller      Sponsors

Lessons that integrate Math/Science/Technology

 

 

5:30 p.m.               McNulty Room 219             Cecilia H. Marzabadi          Sponsor

                                                                                Chemistry Club Invited Speaker 

Dr. Shana Kelley, Department of Chemistry, Boston College “Structural and Functional Defects in Disease-Related Human tRNAs”

 

Tuesday, April 16, 2002

 

1:00 p.m.               Beck Rooms,                        TLTR Best Practices Showcase (1-3:00 p.m.)                              

                                Walsh Library

 

4:45 p.m.               Chancellor Suite, UC         Roberta Devlin-Scherer     Sponsor

Academic Exhibition Experience: An Educational Exhibition: Lesson Study                            

 

7:00 pm                 Main Lounge, UC                Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry Poster Presentations

 

Alex Fadeev                           Sponsor

Stephen Marcinko               Adsorption characterization of organosilicon self-assembled monolayers supported on TiO2 and Z

                                                                                Roy Helmy                            Densely Packed Organic Monolayers Supported On Titania And Other Materials

Christopher P. Zhao            Silica Modified with Oligo(dimethylsiloxanes) - Novel Hydrophobic Adsorbent for HPLC

 

Mark Chiu                            Sponsor

Marissa Healy                      Effect of Thiols on the Thiostrepton-Induced Multiple Drug Resistance in Streptomyces lividans.

Jaime M. Ferreira                  Calorimetric Studies of Protein-Detergent Interactions

               

James Hanson                      Sponsor

Hye Jung Han                       Cyclopropane ring containing denerimer

Alfredo Mellace                   Synthesis and Characterization of Novel Dendritic Tiptycenes

Sue Y Li                                 Polymerization Within Dendrimer from the Nanocompo

Lucy Zhao                             Dendritic Sulfone Polymer

Elizabeth Miklius                  Hyperbranched Poly(phenylene sulfides)

Edward Mulligan

Valentine Ongeri

Alfredo Mellace

 

Maureen Marsales               Soluble Interpenetrating Polymer Nanoparticles

Katie Poremba

Guida Reis

James Wilckens

 

Yuri V. Kazakevich          Sponsor

Subhash Patel                       Effect of eluent pH and Organic modifier on the HPLC Retention of Acidic Analytes

 

Cecilia H. Marzabadi          Sponsor

Michael De Castro               The Synthesis Of Carbohydrate-Derived Oxazolines

Jack Ferguson                      Solid Phase Reactions of Thioglycosides: A Solid Phase Approach to the Synthesis of Novel Cyclic Carbohydrates

Irene Negrete                        Solid-phase Approaches To Cyclic Oligonucleosides

Michele P. Pereira                Preparation of Europium Complexes of Alternan

Pamela Sullivan                    Progress Towards The Synthesis Of Deoxysugars

Maria M. Tamarez.               The Reactions Of Sulfur Ylides With Reducing Sugars

 

W. Rorer Murphy               Sponsor

Richard Allston                    Photophysical Measurement of a Series of Tricarbonyl Polypyridyl Rhenium (I) Complexes

Stephen Toth                        Self-Assembly of Molecular Squares Featuring Octahedral Rhenium(I) Corners

Imara Charles                        Investigation of Model Cell Membrane Disruption by Biocides and Surfactants via Fluorescence Methods

Adela LoGiudice                  One and Two-Dimensional Inorganic Polymers: Synthesis and Characterization of Ruthenium Complexes

Matthew T. Mongelli          Synthesis and Characterization of Self-Assembled Supermolecular Cubes

 

Nicholas Snow                     Sponsor

William Fish                          Development and Characterization of a Molecular Imprinted Polymer-Solid Phase Extraction Method for Cinchona Alkaloids

Panagiotis Tavlarakis          Fundamental Aspects of Gas Chromatography Using Short, Resistively Heated Capillary Columns

 

John R. Sowa, Jr.                Sponsor

Joseph Laquidara                 Asymmetric Transfer Hydrogenation of Acetophenone:  Ligand Electronic Effects and Enantioselectivity

Erin Sharp                              Distinction of Chiral Alcohols Using Naproxen

Lubabalo T. Bululu              Heterogenously Catalyzed Suzuki Cross-Coupling of Aromatic/Heteroaromatic Substrates

 

Richard D. Sheardy            Sponsor

Heba Abbas                          Salt Effects on Structural and Thermodynamic Conformational Properties of G4T4G4 Quadruplex

Tara J. Butler                         Salt Effects on Stability and Ligand Binding Properties of  the Quadruplex Formed From T4G4

Lilit Karapetian                     Salt Effects and Porphyrin Studies on GGTTGGTGTGGTTGG                                 

Anthony M. Paiva               The Biophysical Basis of Triplet Repeat-DNA Expansion in Genetic Disease

Jaime M. Ferreira.                 Calorimetric Studies of Protein-Detergent Interactions

Cosimo Antonacci               The Synthesis of Quadraplex- Carbohydrate Conjugates

 

 

 

Co-Chairs:

Vivienne Baldini, Ph.D., Director of Academic Projects, Office of the Provost

Sulie L. Chang, Ph.D., Associate Professor and Chair of Biology

 

Members of the Program Committee:

Marla Brinson, Associate Dean, Community Development

Reesa Greenwald, Associate Director, The Career Center

Jennifer Hopek, Account Manager, Public Relations and Marketing

Giuliana Mazzoni, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Psychology

Ines Murzaku, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Religious Studies

Frank Ocasio, Graduate Student, Biology - Neuroscience track

Forrest Pritchett, Faculty Mentor, Freshman Studies

Kathleen Donohue Rennie, M.A., Faculty Associate, Communication

Thomas Rondinella, M.F.A., Assistant Professor, Communication

Kelly Shea, Ph.D., Faculty Associate, English & Director of the Writing Center

Regine Souverain, Student, Vice President, Biology Society

Michael Vigorito, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Psychology

Dawn Williams, Ed.D., Dean, Community Development

Xin Yu, Graduate Student, Biology - Neuroscience track

 

 

 

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