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Awards for Outstanding Graduate Student Presentations

The conference will recognize outstanding graduate student paper and poster presentations with awards, which will be accompanied by prizes of $100. Awards will be made based on the significance of the topic and results, appropriateness of the approach, clarity of the presentation, as well as the effectiveness of addressing the interdisciplinary/cross-disciplinary goals of the conference.

Scoring Rubric is coming soon.

2010 Award Winners

2010 Winners

John Hays (Philosophy)

Author(s):  John Hays

"Manners of Interpretation in Aesthetics:  Re-thinking Moderate Formalism"

Tien Chih (Mathematical Sciences)

Author(s):  Tien Chih

"Constructing Designs using Near-rings"

Katherine Harris (Chemistry)

Author(s):  Katherine Harris, Michael DeGrandpre, Burke Hales

"Coastal Oregon Seawater pH Variability"

Adrienne Keller (Ecosystem and Conservation Sciences)

Author(s):  Cory Cleveland, Sasha Reed

"The effects of microbial community composition on soil organic matter decomposition"

Jiang Gong (Linguistics)

Author(s):  Jiang Song Gong

"The Acquisition of Chinese Specific and Container Classifiers by Adult English Speakers"

Katlyn Roggensack (Communication Studies)

Author(s):  Jessica McFadden, Anne Sherwood, Shiloh Sullivan

 "I Got Dumped on Facebook:  New Media's Role in Conflict Management"

Jerod Merkle (Wildlife Biology)

Author(s):  Jerod A. Merkle, Paul R. Krausman, Nick J. DeCesare, James J. Jonkel

 "Predicting the spatial distribution of human-black bear interactions across an urban area"

Tom Simones (Biomedical and Pharmaceutical Sciences)

Author(s):  Tom Simones, Jaishree Bankoti, David M. Shepherd

 "Dioxin Alters Dendritic Cell Growth and Phenotype"

Nicholas Heck (Psychology)

Author(s):  Nicholas C. Heck, Annesa M. Flentje, Bryan N. Cochran

 "High School Gay-Straight Alliances:  An Environmental Indicator for Healthy Development"

Colin Sorenson (Economics)

Author(s):  Colin Sorenson, Tyron Venn, Helen Naughton, Nate Anderson, Dan Loeffler, Greg Jones, Woodam Chung

 "Financial analysis of biomass energy production:  A comparative case study in southwest Oregon"

Shandy Lemperle (Modern and Classical Languages and Literatures)

Author(s):  Shandy Lemperle

 "The ‘Problem' of Non-Western Art in the West:  Controversy and Contradictions Surrounding the Musée du Quai Branly"

Sean Sullivan (Environmental Studies)

Author(s):  Heiko Langner, Lisa Eby

 "Community Composition Analysis and Trace Metals Concentrations in Benthic Biota:  A Pre-Restoration Description of the Upper Blackfoot Mining Complex, Montana"

Gustavo Guajardo (Linguistics)

Author(s):  Gustavo Guajardo

 "On the Syntax of Tenselessness:  Why Languages should not have tensed verbs in embedded clauses"

Meghan Gill (Psychology)

Author(s):  Meghan Gill, Joy Gabrielli, Lynne Sanford Koester

 "Mental Health in the Context of ‘Acute on Chronic' Trauma in Haitian Children"

Katie Hoffman (Biomedical and Pharmaceutical Sciences)

Author(s):  Katie Hoffman, Alicia Angell, Dave Bonislawski, Dave Poulsen, Mike Babcock, Michael Kavanaugh

 "The effect of glutamate transport on learning and memory

Benjamin Adams (English)

Author(s):  Benjamin Adams

 "Text & Context:  Some Ideas on Paul de Man's Wartime Journalism"

Rita Billow (Psychology)

Author(s):  Rita Billow, Kimberly Wallace, Gyda Swaney, Ciara Hansen, Shawna Smith, Mary DeRoche

 "Preliminary Findings from a Qualitative Investigation of the Strategies used by a Sample of Native American Older Adults to Cope with Racism-Related Stressors"

Milena Oganesyan (Anthropology)

Author(s):  Milena Oganesyan

 "Constructing and Deconstructing Histories:  The Ethnicity Factor"

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