Utah State Students Present Research to Group of 2,000 at NCUR 2003

A group of Utah State University students shared their research expertise with 2,000 other undergraduates from across the country at the 17th National Conference on Undergraduate Research (NCUR) at the University of Utah March 13–15.

NCUR 2003 brings together undergraduates involved in scholarly and artistic activities representing a range of disciplines, including creative arts, mathematics, business, social science, humanities, physical and life sciences, natural resources and engineering, among others. Participants come from more than 300 colleges and universities, representing almost every state in the nation.

Twenty-one students, representing all of Utah State's seven colleges made presentations at the NCUR 2003 conference that encourages awareness of undergraduate research, scholarship and creative opportunities as they exist in various disciplines and institutions.

Utah State students who participated in NCUR 2003, along with their research topics, are as follows:

Andrew Auman, FAST: NASA's Developing Program for Student Research Via Experiment Payloads on the International Space Station
Brian Layton Cardall, An Investigation of Toxicity in the Rough-Skin Newt
Stephanie Chambers, Structural Determinants of Cardiac RGS Protein Function
Marchet Clark, Unraveling the Past: The Knitting Mills of Logan, Utah, Circa 1904
Jodie Corbridge, Secondary Electron Emission of Graphitic Carbon Small Bandgap Semiconductors
Brandt Esplin, Activation of Plant Defense Genes
William Cragun, Linking Gully Erosion to Precipitation Magnitude and Intensity at Lee's Ferry, Arizona
Jeffrey Duce, Nucleic Boiling in a Microgravity Environment
Christopher Fox, Pluronic Adsorption, Distribution and Stability
Michael Huston, Acknowledging the Social Learner: Moving Beyond the Process Approach to Writing Instruction
Brandon Morton, Social and Economic Impacts of Industrial Farming in Rural Utah
Julia Nielsen, Quality and Distribution of Soil Organic Carbon in Rangeland and Forest Soils: Implications for Global Climate Change
Kurtis Reed, A Glimpse Into the Past: Using Lake Sediment Cores to Study Invertebrate Responses to Changing Environments
Kyle Tubbs, Chemical Properties of Copper Alkoxide Complexes
Katherine Ward, Microbiol Cell Signaling and Biofilm Formation
Daniel Webb, Visions of Hell in Navigatio Sancti Brendani Abbatis
Dustin Williams, Central Cord Syndrome in a Football Player with Congenital Spinal Stenosis: A Case Report
Jill Williams, The Efficient-Market Theory During a Recession
Jared Younker, Mechanistic Study of Aryl Sulfate Diesters