RADFORD – Twenty-four of 27 RU student submissions have been accepted for presentation at the 2008 Annual Meeting of the National Conferences on Undergraduate Research. Of the 307 colleges and universities presenting at this year’s conference, only 24 schools had more presentations accepted than RU.

Students and their faculty research sponsors will travel to Salisbury University for the April conference. Presentations will represent the disciplines of anthropology, criminal justice, biology, chemistry, media studies, communications, communication sciences and disorders, interior design, psychology, information technology and English. Presentation topics range from ubiquitous computing to Appalachian folk ballads.

Students who will present at the conference are listed below with their faculty sponsors’ names in parentheses:

• Patricia Jacobs and Brittony Fitzgerald (Melinda Wagner, anthropology) “Arrivals and Departures: In and Out Migrations, Floyd County, Virginia.” Oral Presentation
• Stacey Moore (Emil Moldovan, criminal justice) “No Second Chances.” Presentation
• Courtney N. Lerch (Todd W. Burke, Stephen S. Owen, criminal justice) “Familial DNA.” Oral Presentation
• Shanley H. Ignacio, James E. Muller and Stuart A. Cofield (Georgia A. Hammond, biology) “Bacterial Communities from a Headwater Stream at an Abandoned Arsenic Mine.” Oral Presentation
• James A. Lenhart (Timothy W. Johann, chemistry) “Investigating the Role of Tryptophan 153 in the Enzyme 5,10-methenyltetrahydrofolate synthetase.” Oral Presentation
• Richard Johnson (Timothy W. Johann, chemistry) “Investigation of 5,10-methenyltetrahydrofolate synthetase.” Oral Presentation
• Holly A. Hinte (Matthew Turner, media studies) “An Exploration of Authenticity in Brazil: The Dramatic Transformation of Carnival.” Oral Presentation
• Lauren Alexander, Katherine K. Decker, Caitlin R. Grubaugh and Joshua Nash (Erin Bachinsky, communications) “Media and Its Influence on Self Image.” Poster
• Marcia L. Hubble (Kristin Froemling, communications) “The Importance of Patient Compliance: A Case Study.” Oral Presentation
• Chelsea Archer (Betty Kennan, communications) “Has Facebook Taken the Place of Personal Interaction Among College Students?” Oral Presentation
• Monica Havens (Ken Cox and Diane Millar, communication sciences and disorders) “Auditory Evoked Potentials & Auditory Processing in Children With Autism.” Poster
• Theresa Gilfrich (Holly Cline, interior design) “Sustainable Solution.” Poster
• Stephen King (Sean Robson, psychology) “Role of Perceptions and Beliefs on the Validity of Personality Inventories.” Poster
• Joshua Hearne, Manuel Gomez, Walter Shackelford, and Alyson Woleslagle (Pamela Jackson, psychology) “Effects of Adolescent Marijuana Use on Adult Anxiety.” Oral Presentation
• Manuel Gomez, Joshua Hearne, Alyson Woleslagle, and Walter Shackelford (Pamela Jackson, psychology) “Does Prenatal Stress and Adolescent Marijuana Exposure Produce Schizophrenia?” Poster
• James Jones (Hwajung Lee, information technology) “Application-Oriented and Hardware-Constraint-Oriented Routing Protocol Selection in Mobile Ad-hoc Networks.” Oral Presentation
• Eric Balance (Hwajung Lee and E. Joseph Derrick, information technology) “Investigating Ubiquitous Computing Through the Use of IR, WI-FI, and Bluetooth Technologies to Enhance Microsoft Onenote for the Tablet PC.” Oral Presentation
• Thomas Matthew Prater (Jo Ann Asbury, English) “The Folk Ballad In Central Appalachia.” Oral Presentation
• Elizabeth DiSalvo, Katelyn Gimbel, Aysha Bodenhamer and Julie Ann Ilowiecki (JoAnn Asbury, English) “Illuminating AASIS Stars: Many Paths, One Appalachia.” Performing or Visual Arts
• Laura D. Cline, Christine L. Clayton, Brittany J. Langford and Zoe Lasky (JoAnn Asbury, English) “Mountaintop Removal.” Presentation
• Ariel Hylton (Moira Baker, English) “A Man in Uniform: Broken Promises in Toni Morison’s Sula.” Oral Presentation
• Christine Herndon, Kathryn H. Kelly (Moira Baker, English) “Romeo and Juliet: Alive!” Oral Presentation
• Sabra Swilley (Moira Baker, English) “’My Lonely is Mine’: Denial and Loneliness in Sula.” Oral Presentation
• Kate Thomas (Moira P. Baker, English) “Kurt Vonnegut's Slaughterhouse-Five as an Anti-Memoir.” Oral Presentation