Don’t miss Josh Birdwell’s presentation at the FRS Colloquium on April 12, 2013

Posted on April 9, 2013 by Tim O'Neil

Josh Birdwell (Oklahoma City) will present “Smart Home Applications” at this year’s Freshman Research Scholars Colloquium on April 12, 2013.

Project Question

How to apply xbee hardware in the home environment?

Project Description

Using XBees for multiple application. First, I had to understand how to communicate voltage from one XBee to another. I learned from a PhD student as we went over an application for oil wells. XBee would uses sensors to monitor voltage, current, and power. I then used this new found knowledge to apply it to smart home applications. I will continue my research in this field now.

Project Mentor

Satish T.S. Bukkapatnam, Ph.D & Vignesh Rajamani, Ph.D

Freshman Research Scholars Colloquium
Friday, April 12, 2013 | 3:00 to 5:00 p.m.
Student Union Ballroom, Stillwater, OK 74078
For more information, visit FRS Colloquium 2013

Don’t miss Mary Temple-Lee’s presentation at the FRS Colloquium on April 12, 2013

Posted on April 9, 2013 by Tim O'Neil

Mary Temple-Lee (Pauls Valley, OK) will present “Evaluation of Multiple Ancillary Therapies Utilized in Combination with an Antimicrobial in Newly Received High-risk Calves Treated for Bovine Respiratory Disease ” at this year’s Freshman Research Scholars Colloquium on April 12, 2013.

Project Question

Does combining an Ancillary therapy treatment with an antimicrobial help treat a calf with symptoms of Bovine Respiratory Disease, and if so which Ancillary therapy is more successful?

Project Description

The primary objective of this experiment was to determine if combining an Ancillary therapy treatment (flunixin meglumine, viral vaccine, vitamin C) with an antimicrobial will help in treatment of a calf with symptoms of Bovine Respiratory Disease, and if so which Ancillary therapy is more successful in treatment. The secondary objective of this experiment, which has not yet been completed, will be to analyze the blood samples collected at receiving and at subsequent treatments to determine if immune response variables differ between treatments. The immune response variables to be analyzed include serum haptoglobin and cytokines.

Project Mentor

Clint Krehbiel

Freshman Research Scholars Colloquium
Friday, April 12, 2013 | 3:00 to 5:00 p.m.
Student Union Ballroom, Stillwater, OK 74078
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Don’t miss William Jennings’s presentation at the FRS Colloquium on April 12, 2013

Posted on April 9, 2013 by Tim O'Neil

William Jennings (Tulsa, OK) will present “What Motivates You to Exercise?” at this year’s Freshman Research Scholars Colloquium on April 12, 2013.

Project Question

How can we help people be more intrinsically motivated?

Project Description

I have been sorting and collecting data from existing literature about exercise and health habits in children. We plan to use the data I am extracting to write a paper about exercise habits and how we can influence people to exercise. I also have been preparing smart phones that will be used by people who have agreed to take part in our study.

Project Mentor

Dr. John Chaney

Freshman Research Scholars Colloquium
Friday, April 12, 2013 | 3:00 to 5:00 p.m.
Student Union Ballroom, Stillwater, OK 74078
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Don’t miss Wesley Christopher Maxcey’s presentation at the FRS Colloquium on April 12, 2013

Posted on April 8, 2013 by Tim O'Neil

Wesley Christopher Maxcey (McAlester, OK) will present “Mycobacteriophages” at this year’s Freshman Research Scholars Colloquium on April 12, 2013.

Project Question

How do you identify previously undiscovered viruses of mycobacteria?

Project Description

We collected soil samples that were prime candidates for the inclusion of mycobacteriophages. We then isolated the bacteria and stocked the solution so that phages would grow. In an attempt to classify the phages, we isolated the phage DNA.

Project Mentor

Patricia Canaan

Freshman Research Scholars Colloquium
Friday, April 12, 2013 | 3:00 to 5:00 p.m.
Student Union Ballroom, Stillwater, OK 74078
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Don’t miss Todd Edmonds’s presentation at the FRS Colloquium on April 12, 2013

Posted on April 8, 2013 by Tim O'Neil

Todd Edmonds (Inola, OK) will present “Temperature Stress Screening of the Optobox through Thermal Cycling ” at this year’s Freshman Research Scholars Colloquium on April 12, 2013.

Project Question

Will the optobox be durable for extended periods of time during operation?

Project Description

We test a small circuit board known as an optobox by putting it in a temperature chamber and taking it from -60 degrees to +125 degrees centigrade to calculate the approximate lifetime of the device. Once we find the lifetime we will then be able to tell if the prototype will be reliable enough to be put on the ATLAS detector on the large hadron collider. the goal is for it to last at least ten years.

Project Mentor

Dr. Flera Rizatdinova

Freshman Research Scholars Colloquium
Friday, April 12, 2013 | 3:00 to 5:00 p.m.
Student Union Ballroom, Stillwater, OK 74078
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Don’t miss Samantha Jo Fox’s presentation at the FRS Colloquium on April 12, 2013

Posted on April 8, 2013 by Tim O'Neil

Samantha Jo Fox (Holdenville) will present “Learning the Muskogee Creek Language” at this year’s Freshman Research Scholars Colloquium on April 12, 2013.

Project Question

How do people of different attitudes and cultures learn the Muskogee Creek Language?

Project Description

I taught a Muskogee Creek language class to volunteers. I provided a survey that asked them about specific aspects of their lives and compared them to other volunteers based on their learning ability. I wanted to see what personality traits learned the language best, and I also wanted to know if gender or background played any role on the ability to learn the language.

Project Mentor

Shelia Kennison

Freshman Research Scholars Colloquium
Friday, April 12, 2013 | 3:00 to 5:00 p.m.
Student Union Ballroom, Stillwater, OK 74078
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Don’t miss Sydnee Homeyer’s presentation at the FRS Colloquium on April 12, 2013

Posted on April 8, 2013 by Tim O'Neil

Sydnee Homeyer (Arlington, TX) will present “The Effect of Oxidative Stress on Connexin Gene Expression in Coronary Smooth Muscle.” at this year’s Freshman Research Scholars Colloquium on April 12, 2013.

Project Question

What is the effect of oxidative stress on connexin gene expression in coronary smooth muscle?

Project Description

Dr. Shaw’s laboratory is working to better understand the signaling within the coronary vessel wall in healthy versus unhealthy vessels. In doing so, Dr. Shaw hopes to elucidate the processes that preclude compromised arteriogenesis in a highly oxidative environment in patients with cardiovascular disease. In Dr. Shaw’s lab, we have cultured human coronary artery smooth muscle cells, isolated the RNA from these cells using the RNeasy system from Qiagen, conducted cDNA synthesis, and used quantitative real time polymerase chain reaction, qPCR, to measure the connexin gene expression of these cells in order to determine the effect of oxidative stress on connexin gene expression in coronary smooth muscle cells.

Project Mentor

Dr. Jennifer Shaw

Freshman Research Scholars Colloquium
Friday, April 12, 2013 | 3:00 to 5:00 p.m.
Student Union Ballroom, Stillwater, OK 74078
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Don’t miss Karen McPhearson’s presentation at the FRS Colloquium on April 12, 2013

Posted on April 8, 2013 by Tim O'Neil

Karen McPhearson (Weatherford, OK) will present “In Vivo Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy in the Diabetic Heart Muscles” at this year’s Freshman Research Scholars Colloquium on April 12, 2013.

Project Question

Does diabetes inhibit glucose transport in the heart causing diastolic dysfunction?

Project Description

In this project we investigated the affects of diabetes on the heart. To do this we took three sets of mice, half of these mice were artificially made diabetic while the other were a control. The three sets, were regular diabetic, and the other two were one set diabetic and one set diabetic and also transgenic, they had an up-regulated gene. We then took the mice to Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation and imaged them on a Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy machine. The data was then analyzed to find a correlation between the glucose transport and diabetic heart failure.

Project Mentor

Veronique Lacombe

Freshman Research Scholars Colloquium
Friday, April 12, 2013 | 3:00 to 5:00 p.m.
Student Union Ballroom, Stillwater, OK 74078
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Introducing Elise Amundson from Garber, OK

Posted on April 8, 2013 by Tim O'Neil

College: Spears School of Business elise_2012_47
Major: Accounting

What do you most anticipate about life at OSU?
Walking to class, living in Stout, great professors, and all of the orange!

Pluto . . . Planet or Plutoid?
Plutoid

OSU football Coach Mike Gundy famously declared, “I’m a man! I’m 40!” When will you join the ranks of adulthood? How will you know?
When someone else is dependent on me, I will be an adult. Also, when I stop getting Easter presents from the Easter bunny.

What’s your favorite Dr. Seuss book?
The Foot Book

If you could have one superpower, what would you want? Why?
I wouldn’t want telepathy because my feelings would get hurt way too fast. So, I’ll go with the ability to fly.

Which Mythbuster is most like you: Adam, Jamie, Kari, Grant or Tory?
Tory Belleci

What television family would you most want to be a part of? Why?
Definitely the Tanners from Full House. John Stamos.

What’s your favorite midnight snack?
Ice Cream

What’s the best costume you’ve ever worn?
I had an Elvis costume in the 1st grade for Halloween.

If you had to live under the sea, which animal would you be? Why?
Octopus. No reasoning for that one.

Star Wars, Star Trek, Stargate or Dancing with the Stars?
Star Wars

What do you hope to accomplish in FRS?
I want to get research experience and gain further knowledge of my field of study. I’m very excited to be on the “real” side of research, which is studying something that has not been studied before.

Anything else we should know?
I drive a VW bug, play the piano, and bake lots of pies.

Don’t miss Aaron Cromer’s presentation at the FRS Colloquium on April 12, 2013

Posted on April 8, 2013 by Tim O'Neil

Aaron Cromer (Elk City, OK) will present “Are Radio Pop Songs Getting Longer?” at this year’s Freshman Research Scholars Colloquium on April 12, 2013.

Project Question

Have the top songs in the country since 1955 gotten longer with each year that passes?

Project Description

The question I have wanted answered for many years is “Are Songs Getting Longer?” Although many books by Joel Whitburn have been released stating which songs are “top” and which songs are “the best,” there has never been a true answer to my question. By the compilation of the lenth of every Top 100 Year-End Song since 1955, I hope the results will show a general trend of getting longer, getting shorter, or maybe some kind of combination, such as reaching a peak average length in a decade then steadily falling.

Project Mentor

Dr. Brant Adams

Freshman Research Scholars Colloquium
Friday, April 12, 2013 | 3:00 to 5:00 p.m.
Student Union Ballroom, Stillwater, OK 74078
For more information, visit FRS Colloquium 2013