UTSA Honors College students present at national conference
(May 1, 2003)--Eleven students from The University of Texas at San Antonio recently presented research papers at the 17th annual National Conference on Undergraduate Research in Salt Lake City, Utah.
The conference, the first for UTSA students, is the largest gathering in the U.S. of young scholars involved in undergraduate research.
Pictured are Ann Eisenberg (back row center, in purple), associate dean of the Honors College, and UTSA scholars who attended the Utah conference.
The 11 Honors College scholars represented the College of Liberal and Fine Arts and the College of Sciences.
For more information, contact Ann Eisenberg at (210) 458-4106.
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The students, their majors and the titles of their research presentations are:
Crystal Davenport, chemistry, "Investigating Cytokine Expression in Tolerant, Antigen Transgenic Mice Immunized with Torpedo Acetylcholine Receptor"
Dinah Elias, communication, "How Gender and Relationship Status is Related to the Emotional or Behavioral Reaction in Emotional Jealousy"
Angelique Eslami, chemistry, "Studying the Ligand Receptor Interactions of TRP86 on Substrate Enzyme Binding for ACh-AChe"
Jose Estrada, biology, “The Role of Mushroom Bodies in the Manifestation of Functional Ethanol Tolerance”
Rebecca Falkenberg, psychology, "Differences in Negative Life Events Reported as the Cause of a Recent Depressive Mood"
Leah Figueroa, psychology, "The Impact of Thought Suppression on Negative Stereotypes of the Mentally Ill"
Claudia Flato, psychology, "Cross-Cultural Comparison Study of the Effects of the News Media on Psychological Distress"
Noelle Fritz, psychology, "Exploring Gender and Ethnic Differences in the Storage and Retrieval of Autobiographical Memory"
Sarah Luna, anthropology, "Excavating the Construction of Gender in Archaeologist Institutional Culture"
Anthony Wells, psychology, "The Relationship Between Anger and Depressed Mood"
Jose Villalobos III, political science, "Reaganism and the Rhetorical Skills of the Great Communicator"
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