7th Annual URC Research and Creativity Activities Fair (October 5, 2007)

Winners of the 2007 URC Posters

Joseph Berning, 1st Prize

Chris Cramer, 2nd Prize

Cheryl Fiore, 3rd Prize

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.

Winners of the 7th Annual URC Research and Creativity Activities Fair:

• 1st Prize: Joseph Berning for his project, The Effect of Acute Exertional Fatigue on Muscle Power Generation after 3, 4, and 5 Minutes of Recovery: Integrating Science and Human Performance.
• 2nd Prize: Chris Cramer for his project, Effects of Harvesting on Bulb Firmness and Single-centeredness in Winter-Sown Onions
• 3rd Prize: Cheryl Fiore for her project, Water Use Analysis of Weeds Common to the Greater Las Cruces Canal System

Fair Participants

1. Weeds for Identifying Water Efficient Biofuel Crops for the Southern High Plains
   Sangu Angadi (PI)
2. Required Habitat Size for Fish Conservation
   David Cowley (PI)
3. Effects of Harvesting on Bulb Firmness and Single-centeredness in Winter-Sown Onions
   Chris Cramer (PI)
4. Absorption of E. Coli and Staphylococcus Aureus on Carbon Nanotubes
   Shuguang Deng (PI)
5. Absorption Equilibrium Kinetics of H2 in Metal Organic Framewords (MOF)-5
   Shuguang Deng (PI)
6. Synthesis of Ru-Ni Core-and-Shell Nano Particles with Spray-Pyrolysis
   Shuguang Deng (PI)
7. Economic Impacts of Climate Change on New Mexico.s Water Resources
   Brian Hurd (PI)
8. Valuing Breeding Bull Attributes in a Semiarid Environment: A Hedonic Pricing Model
   Jay Lillywhite (PI)
9. Electricity from Cattle Manure Solid Waste in Large Microbial Fuel Cells
   Maung Thein Myint
10. Land Application of Water Waste Containing Arsenic: Impacts on Sorption and Mobility of Arsenic in Soil
    Sylvia Nemmers (PI)
11. Yield Response and Compensation from Simulated Bollworm injury in New Mexico
    Jane Breen Pierce (PI)
12. Socio-Economic-Ecological System Dynamics of Southwestern U.S. Range Lands
    Rhonda Skaggs (PI)
13. The Productivity of Water in Irrigated New Mexico Pecan Production: Measurements and Policy Implications
    Rhonda Skaggs (PI)
14. Characterization on the Effects of Chili Pepper, Yellow Nutsedge and Purple Nutsedge on Meloidogyne Incognita Reproduction
    Jacqlueline Trojan
15. Membrane Distillation for Brackish Water Desalination for Enhanced Oil Recovery
    ZuoJun Wei (PI)
16. Beans in the Basura: Serendipitous Hybridization and the Origin of Crop
    Donovan Bailey (PI)
17. Integrating Life Sciences and Mechanics in A Bio Engineering Context
    Joe Cecil (PI)
18. Water Use Analysis of Weeds Common to the Greater Las Cruces Canal System
    Cheryl Fiore (PI)
19. Minority Institution/Cancer Center Partnership Program-NMSU and FHCRC
    Lene Loest (PI)
20. Analyzing Nucleotide Diversity in Free Living and Symbiotically Expressed Vibrio Fishcheri Genes
    Michele Nishiguchi (PI)
21. The Effect of Acute Exertional Fatigue on Muscle Power Generation after 3, 4, and 5 Minutes of Recovery: Integrating Science and Human Performance
    Josef Berning (PI)
22. Biodiesel Production from High FFA Jatropha Oil
    Prafulla Patil (PI)
23. Modeling of Anerobic Fermentation for Predicting Fermentation Products
    Malarmagal Perinapanayaga (PI)
24. Development of Novel Small Molecule Inhibitors for Cancer Research
    Charles Shuster (PI)
25. Process Analysis of Moldable Bioplastics
    Delia J. Valles-Rosales (PI)
26. Experiences of Religious Heterosexuals Who Are Gay Affirmative
    Eve Adams (PI)
27. Does the Border Bridge: Cross Culture Interactions between College Students
    Eduardo Arellano (PI)
28. Beyond the Black Legend: Spain and the Scientific Revolution/ Mas alla de la Leyenda Negra: Espana y la Revulcion Cirentifica
    William Emon (PI)
29. NSF-PAID Partnering for Diversity New Mexico Institutions of Higher Learning
    Cathilia Flores (PI)
30. Get Your Degree from Educational ATM: An Empirical Study in Online Education
    Yu-Feng Lee (PI)
31. A Search for Galactic Halo Planetary Nebula in the SDSS Footprint
    Kurt Anderson (PI)
32. Development of Educational Media-Games, Video, Interactive Simulations
    Barbara Chamberlain (PI)
33. NSF-ADVANCE at NMSU: Transformation to Increase Faculty Diversity
    Tracy Sterling (PI)
34. Drinking Water Purification for U.S.A.-Mexico Border Regions
    Arely Torres (PI)
35. The Alliance for the Advancement of Teaching and Learning and Literacy Cadre/>
    Theresa Rowlison (PI)
36. Disaster Preparedness in Rural Southern Appalachia
    Susan Wilson (PI)
37. Applications and Usage of Jasco 810 Circular Dichroism Spectroscopy
    Jeremy Standiford (PI)
38. Does the border bridge: cross-cultural interactions between college students
    Kathryn Valentine (PI)
39. APOLLO at Apache Point Observatory
    Kurt Anderson (PI)
40. A North-South Comparison of Saturn.s Infrared Spectrum
    Nancy Chanover (PI)
41. Software Methods and Tools Identification of CIS-Elements
    Desh Ranjan (PI)
42. Office of Strategic Initiatives
    Sudha Murthy
    Ann Lewis
    Hamid M. Rad
    Barbara Myers
    Gabe Rivera