The reserach symposium held each fall the same weekend that the Berea College Trustees visit campus is an opportunity for the students and faculty to share research work with each other as well as these important campus visitors. This has been organized by the science departments in the past but participation is open to all members of the college community. In recent years we have structured the symposium with both talks and poster presentations as well as a plenary session.

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The symposium for Fall 2008 was held on Friday, October 17th starting after lunch and concluding with a plenary talk by Dr. Mark Lovell who works at the University of Kentucky. Mark is also a Berea College graduate so it was exciting to bring him back to campus to share his work.

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The following students have registered to do presentations for 2008

Name	Title	Type	Major	Edit/Display
Dikshya Bastakoty	p63 defines an epithelial phenotype and represses mesenchymal-specific gene, COL5A1	oral	biology	edit data
Jessica R. Price	Behavioral Ecology and Translocation of the Endangered Stephens’ Kangaroo rat (Dipodomys stenphensi).	oral	biology	edit data
Jessica R. Price	Influence of Elevation, Host Species, and Host Size on the Density of Mistletoe, Phoradendron robustissimum (Viscaceae) in Costa Rica	oral	biology	edit data
Megan Jackson	Effect of commensal bacterium, Prevotella nanceiensis, on experimental autoimmune encephalomyelitis, an animal model for Multiple Sclerosis	oral	biology	edit data
Miluka Gunaratna	The loss of stromal TGF-β leads to increased expression of STATIP1	oral	biology	edit data
Anthony Reynolds	Liquid-liquid phase transition of nanoscaled supercooled silicon	oral	chemistry	edit data
Justin Cornelison, Enchanta Jackson	Oliver Street Community School	oral	other	edit data
Ehidiamhen Akhetuamhen, Arlett Franco	Living in Hope in Louisville: An Assessment of the Hope VI Redevelopment Project	oral	other	edit data
Bradley Steele, Brandon Brown	Numerical Simulations of Disorder in Classical Spin Models	oral	physics	edit data
Ramesh Adhikari, Chase Cole	Variable Star Observations at the Berea College Observatory	oral	physics	edit data
Alaina Faust, Alisha Holmberg, Elizabeth Fleming	Proterometra macrostoma (Digenea: Azygiidae): The effect of osmolality on the retraction of the distome body into its cercarial tail	poster	biology	edit data
Oliver Pogue	Effects of human disturbance on ground beetle diversity	poster	biology	edit data
Patricia Stephens, Yili Gan, Jordan Harrison	The Perception of Phagostimulants Is Context Dependent in Larval Manduca Sexta	poster	biology	edit data
Tsering Dolma	Kinetic Imaging of Single Molecule Interaction (KISMI): SNARE Proteins and UNC-18 Interactions	poster	biology	edit data
Kayla G. Kinker	Analysis of the Telomere Position Effect and the Role of RecQ Helicases in the Genomic Integrity of Model Organism Aspergillus Nidulans	poster	biology	edit data
Kabindra Kafle, Efua Wilmot	Design and synthesis of Proline Containing Cationic antimicrobial peptides ( PCAMPS)	poster	chemistry	edit data
Donia Arthur	Chelation and N-Heterocyclic Carbene Complexes	poster	chemistry	edit data
Josh Schmeling, Theint Theint	Pyridylidene N-Heterocyclic Carbene Complexes	poster	chemistry	edit data
Etagegn Bekele	SOLUBILITY DETERMINATION OF SILATECAN 7-t-BUTYLDIMETHYLSILYL-10-HYDROXYCAMPTOTHECIN (DB-67) IN VITAMIN-E TPGS IN THE PRESENCE AND ABSENCE OF A SECONDARY EXCIPIENT	poster	chemistry	edit data
Oliver Munyaradzi	HER2-overexpressing, PIK3CA mutated breast cancer cells rely on HER3 for their survival	poster	chemistry	edit data
Andrea Paezold	Dancing: Dance and Choreography Intelligent Nondeterministic Generator	poster	computer science	edit data
Jessica Carnes, Amy Jones	Scientific Inquiry: Factors that influence evolution of scientific skills and disposition	poster	other	edit data
Shannon Baldon, Amber Stanton	In Search of Us: Black Women Identifying “Right” Representation in Contemporary Films	poster	other	edit data
Ashley Crockett	Self-Selected Walking Pace as a Predictor of Maximal Oxygen Consumption	poster	physical education & health	edit data
David Gilmour, William Dean Norris	Laser Ablation of Diamond	poster	physics	edit data
Matthew Bailey	Investigating Blue Straggler Production without Cluster Dynamics: A Binary-Evolution-Only Approach	poster	physics	edit data
Danielle Pelenkahu	The effect of stereotype threat on Sudoku performance	poster	psychology	edit data
Samantha Buchanan	The Effects of Physical Appearance and Subjective Description on Rated Likability	poster	psychology	edit data
Lacey Owens	The Effects of Gender and Condition on Fifth Graders’ Block Stacking Performance	poster	psychology	edit data
John Damron	To Tell the Truth: The Effects of Viewer and Presenter Personal Political Preferences on Perceptions of Sincerity	poster	psychology	edit data
Brian Owens	Robbers Cave Revisted: The Effects of Race and Instructions on Implicit and Explicit measures of Racial Prejudice	poster	psychology	edit data
Julia Price	The Effects of Object Familiarity and time on Incidental Recall	poster	psychology	edit data
Kaleigh McCoy, Megan Rodgers	Predicting Academic Success in the Third Semester	poster	psychology	edit data
Debra Bulluck, Kim-Dung Nguyen	Kentucky African American Encyclopedia: Black Life and Culture in the Commonwealth	poster	sociology	edit data
Christopher Dueker, George Shea, Noah McGraw	Development of Ultralight Personal Electric Vehicles	poster	technology & industrial arts	edit data