Provost Office: Memorandum
To: The Drexel University Community
From: Ken Blank, Ph.D. Vice Provost for Research
Subject: Award Recipients of Research Day
Date: 23 April 2008
Provost Director announced the award recipients of the Research Day poster presentations at a post event reception. Congratulations and thanks to all who participated in a great Research Day.
Biological and Biomedical Research
Grad
Eugenia Zandonà, Department of Bioscience and Biotechnology
Fish isotopic niches along a predation gradient in Trinidadian streams
Mihir Shanbhag, Department of Biomedical Engineering, Science and Health Systems
Directed lineage differentiation of neural progenitor cells using a multi-functional alginate construct
Undergrad
Jennifer Schuster, Department of Bioscience and Biotechnology
Establishment of an in vivo model for identification of regulators of APP metabolism
Business Research Initiatives
Grad
Lee Zane, Department of Management: Management Information Systems
What Does Opportunity Value Mean to the Entrepreneur, and How Does it Influence Opportunity Pursuit?
Undergrad
Alysson Cwyk, Department of Performing Arts Students: Mural Arts Program's Key to a Successful Future
Clinical and Translational Research
Grad
Sue Groveman, Department of Bioscience and Biotechnology
New Preterm Infant Growth Curves
Undergrad
Michael Thomas, Department of Bioscience and Biotechnology
Assessment of Internet Nutrition Fraud Related to Diet Recommendations for Cancer
Computation, Modeling, and Simulation (Biological)
Grad
John Madsen, School of Public Health
Valuing the BioWatch Program
Undergrad
Vinay Gadia, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Using term frequency, inverse document frequency text mining measures for Genome discrimination
Pak Kau Lim, Department of Mechanical Engineering
Application of the Lattice Boltzmann Equation Method to Fibroblast Growth Factor-2 Transport through Biological Tissues
Computation, Modeling, and Simulation (other than Biological)
Grad
Donald Pellegrino, College of Information Science and Technology
Hypothesis Generation by Associative Network Analysis
Undergrad
Matthew Prockup, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Interactive Viewing of Medical Images Using a Multi-Touch Display
Creative Arts/Design
Grad
Lauren Ciccarelli, Department of Performing Arts Grief to Grace: An Examination of Jacqueline Kennedy’s reflection on the assassination of John F. Kennedy
Undergrad
Dan Steinberg, Department of Media Arts
You Are Now Here - A Renewal of Philadelphia’s Metropolitan Transportation System
Humanities & Social Sciences
Grad
Joan Beaudoin, College of Information Science and Technology
Image Users Behavior
Undergrad
Deborah Yarchun, Department of Media Arts
Pulling the Illusion of the Ecstatic Nature of The Cult of Dionysus from the Origins of the Theatre
William Mulgrew III, Department of History and Politics
America's Culture of Divorce: Broken Law, Broken Families
Innovation In Education and Outreach
Grad
Ezgi Taslidere, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Wireless Sensor Networking Platform Experiments as Pedagogical Learning Tools
Undergrad
John Sakoian, Department of Architecture
Winnsboro Community Classroom: A Sustainable Portable Classroom, Team 7
Research in Physical Science and Engineering (other than Biological)
Grad
Matthew Hood, Department of Materials Science and Engineering
Morpholigical Control of Segmented Polyurethane/Silica Nanocomposites by Tailoring Crystallization of Hard/Soft Segments
Anna Fox, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Complex Structures Formed using a Thin-Film Adaptable Photomask
Undergrad
Holly McIlwee, Department of Materials Science and Engineering
Chitosan thin films for SPR and LSPR sensing of metal ions