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8th Annual URC Research and Creativity Activities Fair

8th Annual URC Research and Creativity Activities Fair (October 3, 2008)

This fair is an opportunity for the research and creative activity community at New Mexico State University to demonstrate the diversity of its scope, develop new linkages with colleagues across the university and show the community the innovations taking place on campus. The fair is open to individuals, laboratories, and special programs involved with research and creative activities across the campus. The Fair exhibitions are the faculty and professional staff involved with the projects and is held in conjunction with the New Mexico Alliance for Minority Participation ( New Mexico AMP) Annual Student Research Conference and represents a good opportunity to recruit students to NMSU.

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Winners of the 8th Annual URC Research and Creativity Activities Fair:

  • Complexity in Rodent Community Responses to Grassland-Shrublands Transitions
    Andrea Campanella, Brandon Bestelmeyer, Gary Roemer, Deb Peters
  • Dairy Manure-based Microbial Fuel Cell Energy Production
    Christopher Arrigo, Amy Fierro Lopez, N. Khandan, Geof Smith
  • Hydrologic Modeling on the Rio Grande Using the Automated Geospatial Watershed Analysis (AGWA) Tool
    Ashraf El-Sadek, Max Bleiweiss, Manoj Shukla, Steve Gulden, Sam Fernald

    Fair Participants

    1. Peering Inside the Sun with Helioseismology Jason Jackiewicz, Laurent Gizon, Aaron Birch
    2. Instrument Development for In-Situ Organic Detection Nancy Chanover, David Glenar, David Voelz, Penelope Boston, Paul Mahaffy, William Brinckerhoff
    3. The Sloan Digital Sky Survey: Phase III Programs G. VanDoren, K.S..J. Anderson
    4. The 3.5 Meter ARC Telescope: Special Instruments for Special Projects Instrumentation at Apache Point Observatory K.S.J. Anderson, G. Van Doren
    5. The Adsorption Properties of Bacillus Atrophaeus Spores on Single Wall Carbon Nanotubes P. Cortes, S. Deng, G.B. Smith
    6. Evaluating the Impact of Three Introduced Parasitoids, Oomyzus Incertus, Bathyplectes spp. And Microctonus spp., on Biological Control of Alfalfa Weevil (Hypera Postica Jane Breen Pierce, Patricia Yates Monk, and Carol Sutherland
    7. Small Drugs for Big Diseases: the Efficacy of Novel Derivatives of Ribavirin for the Control of Flavivirus Replication Kathryn A. Hanley, Michael McDowell, Sarah Gonzales, Sid Kumarapperuma, Jeffrey B. Arterburn
    8. Detection of Signals in the Presence of Noise Mohammed Y Hussain
    9. Partnership for the Advancement of Cancer Research Helena Loest
    10. Design and Synthesis of Pyridin-2-yl-Hydrazine-Derived Dual Functional Fluorescent-Radiometric Probes. Sudath Hapuarachchige, Bj K. Bryant, Jeffrey B. Arterburn
    11. Spiders of the Mexican Borderland of Hidalgo County, New Mexico David B. Richman
    12. Complexity in Rodent Community Responses to Grassland-Shrublands Transitions Campanella, Andrea, Brandon Bestelmeyer, Gary Roemer, and Debra Peters
    13. Population Genetics of Southern Rocky MountainCutthroat Trout David E. Cowley, Victoria L. Pritchard, Jessica L. Metcalf, & Andrew P. Martin
    14. 16S rRNA Genotyping using PCR/RFLP (Restriction Fragment Length Polymorphism) Analysis to Identify Bacterial Symbionts from Loliginid Squid Light Organs R.C. Guerrero-Fereira, C. Gorman, E. Shipp, M.K. Nishiguchi
    15. Population Genetic Structure of a Squid-Vibrio Mutalism Daniel J. Zamborsky
    16. Identification of an Entepicondylar Foramen on the Humerus of An East African Miocene Catarrhine. Monte McCrossin, Brenda Benefit, Lauren Gonzales
    17. Mapping Seismic Wave Attenuation within the Earth Tom Hearn
    18. A Hydro-Economic Perpective on the Value and Management of Groundwater Resources in New Mexico Praseniit N. Ghosh, Brian H. Hurd
    19. Estimating a Pecan Water Production Function Using Remote Sensing Techniques Rhonda Skaggs, Zohrab Samani, A. Salim Bawazir, Max Bleiweiss
    20. Dairy Manure-based Microbial Fuel Cell Energy Production Christopher R. Arrigo, Amy Fierro Lopez, N. khandan, Geof Smith
    21. Sustaining the U.S.-Mexico Border Environment Erin Ward
    22. Bioelectricity Production from Cattle Manure using Microbial Fuel Cell Yunhee Lee, N. Khandan
    23. Biohydrogen Production from Cattle Manure K Rasika Perera
    24. Effect of Wastewater on the Transport and Retention of As (V) on Desert Soils Sylvia Nemmers, April Ulery, Manoj Shukla
    25. NMDA Aquifier Sensitivity: Drastic Model Mark Smith, Bobby Creel
    26. Potential Impacts of Changes in Rainfall Intensity on Flood Control Infrastructure in the Lower Rio Grande of New Mexico Susanna Glaze, Bobby Creel
    27. Rio Grande Basin Initiative.New Mexico Interactive Statewide and County Maps Online Kristen Ronning, Bobby Creel, Leeann DeMouche, Susanna Glaze
    28. Progress Report on Development of An Annotated Bibliography for Transboundary Aquifier Systems of the Mesilla Basin-Paso Del Norte Area, New Mexico, Texas, USA, and Chihuahua (Mexico) John Hawley, Alfredo Granados-Olicas, Bobby Creel
    29. Hydrologic Modeling on the Rio Grande Using the Automated Geospatial Watershed Analysis (AGWA) Tool Ashraf N El-Sadek, Max P. Bleiweiss, Manoj Shukla, Steve Gulden, Sam Fernald
    30. Producing Biodiesel: Environmental Factors Determining Lipid Content in Nanochloropsis and Limiting Undesired Organisms Wiebke J. Boeing, Marijn de Jong, Peter J. Lammers, Virginia G. Lee, J. Isaac Rhodes, Wayne van Voorhies, Janet K. Winkler
    31. Uranium Absorption by Natural Clinoptilolite Zeolite Lucy Mar Caracho, Shuguang Deng
    32. Harvesting Health: Alamo Navajo Gardeners Know Their Roots Forster-Cox, S., Huttlinger, K, Lombard, K & Rafelito, A
    33. On An Arbitrarily Oriented Crack in A Transversely-Isotropic Medium Felicia Guerrero
    34. Prediction of Levy Flight Behavior in Stochastic Biological Models Suzanne Galayda
    35. Initial Implementation of a Comparative Data Analysis Ontology Grancisco Prosdocimi, Brandon Chisham, Enrico Pontelli, Julie D. Thompson, Arlin Stoltzfus
    36. Optimization Algorithms to Solve Distribution Problems with Set-up Costs: Chile Industry and Armed Services Elizabeth W. Schot, Delia J. Valles-Rosales, Eduardo Quionez, Hansuk Sohn, Mariani, Libbin, Beccar Varela, Eric A. Butcher, Christopher Erikson
    37. Monitoring of Buried Pipes using GPR M. Dawood, A. P. Venugopal
    38. Image Enhancement Using Golay Sequences in Coded Radar Systems M. Dawood, H. Mohammed
    39. Rotman Lens offers Inexpensive Electronically Scanned Antenna M. Dawood, S. Mohammed
    40. Phase-Modulated Antennas for Bandwidth Efficiency and Cost Reduction B. Uhl, M. Dawood, N. Cheedu
    41. Evaluating Those Who Initiate Condom Use Michael Young, Tina Penhollow, William Bailey
    42. Ecological and Sociocultural Aspects of Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza/A (HPAI/A) H5N1 in Egypt. Susan L. Wilson, PhD and Mohammed Y. Hussain
    43. Online Detection of Contamination on Air Filter Samples using Statistical Methods Yair Grof
    44. Enumeration of 12- and 14-Bar Planar Closed Kinematic Chains Using Hierarchical Graphs Without Isomorphism Testing Eric Butcher
    45. Protein Studies with Circular Dichronism Praveen Patidar, Megha Khandelwal, Dr. Shelley Lusetti
    46. Habitat Suitability Models throughout Niche Ecological Modeling for A Suite of Mesocarnivores across the US-Mexico Border Aaron Bueno-Cabrera & Gary Roemer
    47. MOF-177: Promising Candidate of H2 Storage for Fuel Cell Driven Automobiles Dipendu Saha, Shuguang Deng
    48. Biodiesel Production from Waste Cooking Oil Using Supercritical Methanol method Shuguang Deng, Prafulla Patil
    49. Storytelling Organizations and Ethics David Boje
    50. Me? A Film-maker? A No Nonsense Approach for Non-techie Librarians Alisa Gonzalez
    51. Regina Davis - A Ritz Vector Applied to Model Reduction for Nonlinear Systems Regina Davis, T. D Burton