9th Annual Southeast Missouri State University

Student Research Conference

Tuesday, April 10, 2001 in the UC Program Lounge, 3rd Floor

9:00 - 9:25            Audience is invited to share coffee, juice, and pastries

9:25 - 9:30            Opening Remarks, Andrea Holloway, 2001 SRC Co-Chair 

**Session Chair – Phyllis Rowe**

9:30 - 9:45            Kendra S. Johnson and Courtney M. Eklund, The Use of Item Memory Cues and Temporal Cues in Serial Learning

9:45 - 10:00            Jeff Renaud, An Economic Comparison of Two Farmland Use Options: Row Crops or Hunting Club?

10:00 - 10:15            Mary Ellen Farmer, Test Anxiety Inventory

10:15 - 10:30            Chris Holloway, Expectations of Privacy Regarding Computers.

10:30 - 10:45            Travis Stevens, Matt Stohldrier, Paula Hankins, and Carrie L. Petrowske, Controlled Release Versus Water Soluble Fertilizers for Pansies (Viola x wittrockiana Gams.)

 10:45 - 11:00 break

 **Session Chair – Jordan Bingham**

11:00 - 11:15            Denise A. Leonard, Habitat Utilization and Social Dominance in a Captive Colony of Petaurus brevicep

11:15 - 11:30            Anne Herzog, Houses by Mail: History of Sears, Roebuck, and Co.

11:30 - 11:45            Michael Dorris, Relationship between Road Rage and Dimensions of Anger

11:45 - 12:00            Jocelyn Wilson, The Tuskegee Syphilis Study: Unethical Research or Genocide? 

12:00 - 1:00            The audience is invited to share a light lunch and participate in a Roundtable Discussion led by Nathan Springer. Nathan is currently a postdoctoral student in the Biology department at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. While a student at Southeast, he presented several times at our Student Research Conference. He will talk about Undergraduate Research: Why am I Doing all This Work? and lead discussion with the audience on the topic of doing research as an undergraduate. 

**Concurrent Sessions 1:00 to 1:45**

**Posters will be presented concurrently in the UC Lobby Tuesday, April 10, 2001**

**Session Chair – Bradley Haynes**

Mary M. Triefenbach and Bruce A. Hathaway, Preparation of Acetophenone and Indanone Azines as Potential Organic Non-Linear Optical Materials

Krystal Kelley, Cystic Fibrosis in Children

Donna M. Kridelbaugh and Wendy L. Decker, Preparation of Pyrylium Tetraflouroborate Salts via One-Step Aldol Condensation Mechanism and Conversion to Pyridinium Salts

Kristi L. Hadder and Rebecca L. Rowe, Self-Reported Clinical Abilities of Undergraduate Clinicians and First- Year Graduate Clinicians

Justyce Jedlicka and Kristen Gilbert, Azulene Chemistry and NLO Compounds

 **Concurrent Sessions 1:00 to 1:45**

**Papers will be presented concurrently in the Program Lounge Tuesday, April 10, 2001**

 **Session Chair – Dwayne Crites**

1:00 - 1:15  Christopher Todd Hittinger, Isolation and Characterization of a Gene Ecoding a Putative Amino Acid Permease from Schizophyllum commune via targeted RT-PCR  

1:15 - 1:30  Vineendra Vira Jain, Collaborative Planning, Forecasting, and Replenishment (CPFR): A New Paradigm in Supply Chain Management

1:30 - 1:45  Melissa A. Hartman, Two-dimensional electrophoresis enzyme study in Schizophyllum commune

1:45 - 2:00 break

 Poster Sessions continue in the Program Lounge from 2:00 to 4:30

 **Session Chair – John Mayfield**

2:00 - 3:15 Posters

Candace J Wiggin, Laura Holman, and Rejina Diekemper, Synthesis of Triarylmethane Dyes Through a Grignard Reaction Using 4-Bromo-N, N-Dimethlyaniline

Crista Straub and Kelli McFarland, Hydrolytic enzyme activities in  Schizophyllum commune grown on non-uniform nutrient substrates.

Courtney J. Evans, Amber L. Swain, Jason G. Watts, Synthesis of Zybanฎ, Bupropion hydrochloride, An Anti-Depressant and Nicotine Withdrawal Easement Drug

L. LeAnne Wood, Autism and Communication

Scott Dankel, Tony Kronk, and Erica McQuay, Product Optimization in SN2 Williamson Synthesis of Substituted Benzyl Phenyl Ethers 

**Session Chair – Brandy Holshouser**

3:30 - 4:30 Posters

Christina E. Costin, Jennifer E. Shands, and Lucy J. Thurston, Synthesis of Insect Pheromones Using Varying Lengths of Carbon Chains

Karen A. Lawrence and Rex Meade Strange*, Comparative Neuroanatomy and Reproductive Strategies among Percids

Shereen Khan, TV, Children and Aggression

Heather Haley, Scott Lucchese, and Ketan Patel, Nucleophilic Substitution Using an Ambident Nucleophile, Sodium  Saccharin, and the Manipulation of Reaction Conditions to Control the Site of the Nucleophilic Attack

Sarah Nondorf, Maria Palmieri, and Lucinda Swatzell*, Optimal Spore Germination Conditions of Cheilanthes feei

Wednesday, April 11, 2001 in the UC Ballroom

 9:00 - 9:05  Opening Remarks, Jill Fuehne

 **Session Chair – Becky Halter**

9:05 - 9:20  Debbie Bibb and Bonnie Stepenoff*,  The Delassus-Kern House, Ste. Genevieve, Missouri

9:20 - 9:35  Donna M. Kridelbaugh and Mohammed Ali*, Catalytic Oxidation of Sulfides to Sulfoxides with Silica Gel Supported Ceric Ammonium Nitrate (CAN) in Methylene Chloride

9:35 - 9:50  Brandon Blattel, Kevin Pollock, and Shawn Huston, Rice Hulls as a Substrate for Pansies

9:50 - 10:05  Break  

**Session Chair – Karen Lawrence**

10:05 - 10:20  Sebastian Guettler,  Scott Lucchese, and Loren Honaas, Expressed sequence tags from Schizophyllum commune grown under different nitrogen conditions

10:20 - 10:35  Kristi L. Hadder, Helping Parents Identify Normal Disfluent Speech from Stuttering in the Preschool Years

10:35 - 10:50  John D. Mayfield, Kathy S. McLean* and Aaron J. Palmateer*, Characterization of Phomopsis spp. by Molecular Techniques

10:50 - 11:05  Break

**Session Chair – Courtney Stevens**

11:05 - 11:20  Jennifer N. Smith, Changes in Regional Free Amino Acid Composition of Schizophyllum commune

11:20 - 11:35  Branden C. McCullough, Steps Toward Munich: Reich Foreign Policy & the Sudetenland

11:35 - 11:50  Jeremy Wachter, Dale Randolph, and Paul Albers, Utilization of the Motorola DSP56001 for real-time audio digital signal analysis in both the time and frequency domain at Southeast Missouri State University

11:50 - 12:05  Keith Uelsmann, Internet: How It Works

12:05 - 12:10   break

12:10-12:15  Introduce Keynote Speaker, Jill Fuehne, SRC-9 Co-Chair

12:15-1:15  Keynote Speaker, Dr. Sally Boysen

Dr. Sally Boysen will present The State of the Ape: Current Directions in Studying Chimpanzee Cognition during the Common Hour on Wednesday, from 12:15 - 1:15 in the UC Ballroom. Dr. Boysen is a professor of Psychology at the Ohio State University. Her research interests include: 1) Primate conceptual capabilities; animal cognition, with specific interests in the emergence of representational skills, including numerical competence and symbol manipulation; 2) Organization of neurobehavioral systems underlying cognition. 3) Captive primate enrichment; chimpanzee and gorilla social behavior; tool use in animals. She has over 70 publications, including articles in scientific journals and book chapters.   

1:15 - 1:30  Question and answer session with Dr. Boysen

**Concurrent Sessions 1:30 to 2:15**

**Papers will be presented concurrently in the UC Ballroom, April 11, 2001**  

**Session Chair – Hanoz Kapadia**

1:30 - 1:45  John D. Mayfield, Tibet: Past, Present, and How to End Its Oppression

1:45 - 2:00  Jill R. Fuehne, The Effects of Consistent Self-handicapping on Others’ Impressions of the Self-handicapper  

2:00 - 2:15  Thomas Eaton, Noetics, Ego Fixedness, and Constructs: The Gender Tower of Babel

**Concurrent Sessions 1:30 to 2:15**

**Posters will be presented concurrently in the UC Missourianna Room, April 11, 2001** 

**Session Chair – Kristin Schulte**

Daniel Deck, Nick Spantgos, and Ronnie Studie, The Decarboxylative Elimination of Cinnamic Acids Illustrating the Effect Solvents have on the Stereochemical Course of the Reaction

Kamealya L. Pounds and Julie L. Pyrtle, Feel No Pain with Lidocaine

Lindsey Eilers and Lisa Harris, The Preparation of Azo Dyes Using 4-Nitroaniline and m-toluidine as Diazo Components Coupling with Phenol and 2-Naphthol.

 

2:15 - 2:20   Award Presentations, Andrea Holloway, SRC-9 Co-Chair, and Dr. Debbie Beard, for Phi Kappa Phi

2:20 - 2:30  break  

Paper Sessions continue in the UC Ballroom from 2:30 to 3:20

**Session Chair – Brandy Holshouser**

2:30 - 2:45  Paul Albers, Impedance Matching of Coaxial Cable

2:45 - 3:15  Travis Partney, Travis Puhse, Victoria Devereux, and Taffi Schurz, An Examination of the Impacts of Technology on America's Food Supply  

**PAPER ABSTRACTS, in ORDER of APPEARANCE click here** 

 **POSTER ABSTRACTS, in ORDER of APPEARANCE click here**