The Berea Undergraduate Research Symposium (BURS), 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.
The program for Fall 2010 will be held on Friday, October 22rd starting after lunch
and concluding with a plenary talk “Metabolism: Old or Gold?” by
Dr. Teresa Whei-Mei Fan
who works at the University of Kentucky in the Department of Chemistry.
Teresa uses NMR spectroscopy to study biological systems.
We will start at 2:30 PM with a poster session in the lobby of the science building with posters from various fields
(in the past this included chemistry, biology, physics, psychology, industrial arts, computer science, physical
education & health, and mathematics.) We then move into dual lecture sessions at 4 PM while continuing the posters in the lobby.
Generally one seminar section is devoted to biological sciences and the other to physical sciences. Other disciplines are
also welcome to give a talk and are placed in one section or the other based on research topic.
Students and faculty interested in attending or participating in the 2019 BURS should either contact
Jay Baltisberger or
Anes Kovacevic of the chemistry program. Alternatively a student may elect to register online via the link on the Chemistry department
web server.
Registration for the 105th Kentucky Academy of Sciences Meeting should follow this link
KAS Registration
The following students have registered to do presentations for 2010
Oral Internship Presentations
| # | Name | Host | Title | Mentor | Major |
Oral Presentations
| # | Name | Host | Title | Mentor | Major |
| 1 | Kayla G. Kinker | Vanderbilt University | Immune Response to Vimentin Peptides and the Role of Smoking in an HLA Transgenic Mouse Model of Rheumatoid Arthritis | Unknown | biology |
| 2 | Alisha Holmberg | Vanderbilt University | The E3 ubiquitin ligase NEDD4L interacts with and polyubiquitinates ∆Np63α following genotoxic stress | Unknown | biology |
| 3 | Theint Theint | Iowa State University | 2H NMR Studies of Dynamics in Protein Sidechains | Mei Hong | chemistry |
| 4 | Ramesh Adhikari | Argonne National Laboratory | Quench Localization in Superconducting Radio-frequency Cavities | Unknown | chemistry |
| 5 | Katherine Simonson | Unknown | The Impact of Gardening on College Students' Eating Behaviors | Unknown | child and family studies |
| 6 | Tyler Vanover | Berea College | Pulsed Laser Ablation of Solids in Liquid Environment | Amer Lahamer | physics |
| 7 | Christopher B. Yaluma | Unknown | The Optical Reflectivity of Graphene | Unknown | physics |
| 8 | Tommy Boykin | Berea College | Copper-Based Superconductors | Amer Lahamer | physics |
| 9 | Rohan Isaac | Berea College | Synthesis of FeGe | Amer Lahamer | physics |
Poster Presentations
| # | Name | Host | Title | Mentor | Major |
| 1 | Jane Tonello | Unknown | Glucose Clamping in the Conscious Mouse | Unknown | biology |
| 2 | Jalicia Sturdivant & Charli Bobit | Unknown | Nitric Oxide Synthase Isoform Expression in Regenerating Axolotl Salamander Retina | Unknown | biology |
| 3 | Kathryn Massana & Abigail Wier | Berea College | Localization and characterization of photoreceptors in the cercariae of the trematode, Proterometra macrostoma | Ron Rosen | biology |
| 4 | Premila Samuel | Unknown | Constructing an Inducible System for the Study of Rod Cell Degeneration and Regeneration | Unknown | chemistry |
| 5 | Jose Victoria & Dhadon Dhadon | Berea College | Reactions of imidazolium and triazolium salts with [Ir(H)2(PPh3)2(OCMe2)2]BF4 | Anes Kovacevic | chemistry |
| 6 | Kelly Njine Mouapi | Unknown | Monoclonal antibody 1A5 abrogates TGF-beta induced tumor cell migration | Unknown | chemistry |
| 7 | Dominic Suma & Parker Shuler | Berea College | Synthesis of Enantioenriched β-Ketoesters via a Ketene-Claisen Condensation | Mary Robert Garrett | chemistry |
| 8 | Horton Li, James McCarty, & Ivan Titaley | Berea College | Struvite precipitation in anaerobic swine lagoon liquid at Berea College Farm: effect of pH and Mg:P ratio | Paul Smithson | chemistry |
| 9 | Violet R.Katiyo, Casey Gray, Alexcia Moore, & Grace Par | Berea College | Nutrient and waste management at Berea College Farm: Analysis of soil samples for the availability of phosphorus | Paul Smithson | chemistry |
| 10 | Imelda Hot | Unknown | Histidine-Functionalized Water-Soluble Nanoparticle as Mimics of Hydrolytic Enzymes | Unknown | chemistry |
| 11 | James Brian Hamblin & Zelalem Demissie Mekonnen | Berea College | Chemical and phosphorus-31 NMR characterization of phosphorus in a swine facility waste stream | Paul Smithson | chemistry |
| 12 | Chido Hambira | Unknown | Development of an HPLC assay for the analysis of adducted DNA-protein cross-links | Unknown | chemistry |
| 13 | Justin McGlothlin | Unknown | Establishing Density Profile of Ultra-Cooled Gas in a Harmonic Potential | Unknown | physics |
| 14 | William Norris | Berea College | BEC to BCS crossover in a rotating Fermionic Gas | Martin Veillette | physics |
| 15 | Hodari-Sadiki James | Unknown | The Importance of Glia in Chemosensory Modulation of Respiration | Unknown | physics |
| 16 | Zachary Danneman & Tara Shumate | Unknown | Pedagogy of Place: The Development of an Invisible Curriculum | Unknown | psychology |
| 17 | Yuta Katsumi, Victoria Fulton, Jordan Harrison, & Ali Hassan | Berea College | EEG Spectral Analysis of Neurocognitive Style in Relation to a Remote Associations Task | Rob Smith | psychology |
| 18 | Jessica Barnes, Jenipher Dennis, & Rachel Krebs | Unknown | The Effects of Scenes Presented on Cognitive Tasks | Unknown | psychology |
| 19 | Rita Yalda & Damika Jones | Berea College | Infrared Reduction Analysis and Photometry | Unknown | technology & industrial arts |
