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This year's SOURCE Symposium and Poster Session, held in mid-April, gave undergraduate students at Case an opportunity to present their research and creative projects to the university community. The session also allowed the university community: faculty, staff, students, and administrators, to come together and celebrate the work of Case's undergraduate students and see how undergraduate student involvement in research and creative endeavors contributes to and enhances the undergraduate educational experience and Case as a research university.
Award winners at the session were selected in seven categories: humanities; arts; natural sciences and mathematics; engineering and computer science; management and accounting; school of nursing; and social sciences. One $200 award and one $100 award was given in each of the academic areas. The winners from Arts and Sciences include, with faculty advisor names in parenthesis:
Humanities
First place: Joshua Ehrenreich (philosophy) - "An Investigation into Meaning: Language and Context" (Prof. Laura Hengehold, philosophy)
Arts
First place: Margaret Wuerdeman (Spanish) - "The Buhrer Theater Project: Empowering Inner-City Children Through Theater" (Prof. Beth McGee, theater and dance)
Natural and Mathematical Sciences
First place: John Poirier (biology) - "Evaluations of Alternative Isoforms of IAPI" (Prof. Ruth Keri, pharmacology)
Second place: Amanda Bringard (biology) - "Complement Deficiency Delays Pathology Development In a Mouse Model of Alzheimer's Disease" (Prof. Bruce Lamb, genetics
Honorable Mention: Diane Meredith, Lauren Brown, Leina Doleh, and Kristine Ilagan - "Heart Development in casanova Mutant Zebrafish" (Prof. Jennifer Liang, biology)
Honorable Mention: Eric Carnevale (biology) - "A Multiplex PCR-LDR Assay for Polymorphism Determination in Plasmodium falciparum pfmdr1 Gene" (Prof. Nancy Dilulio, biology)
Social Sciences
First place: Ryan Conrad (economics) - "The Effects of Medicare Prescription Reform on Pharmaceutical Research" (Prof. Mark Votruba, economics)
Second place: John Mack (music) - "Mental Health Symptoms in Women Who Use Cocaine During Pregnancy Longitudinal Evaluation Over a Six-Year Period (Prof. Elizabeth Short, psychology)
Additional students also received SOURCE summer funding for research and creative projects. Below is the list of students in Arts and Sciences who received funding, with faculty mentors in parenthesis:
Katherine Allen (geological sciences) - "Changes in Lake Erie Sediments: Understanding the Influences of Climate and Great Lakes Hydrology" (Beverly Saylor, geological sciences)
Michael Gisondo (physics) - "Cherenkov Detector Testing Proposal Corbin Covault, physics)
Qilei Hang (chemistry) - "Mapping the Literary Debate Between Virginia Woolf and Arnold Bennett" (Kurt Koenigsberger, English)
Vincent Ledezma (mathematics and physics) - "Oxygen-Free Electrochemical Deposition of Indium Antimonide" (Kathleen Kash, physics)
Lindsey McGowen (theater) - "There's No Business Like Noh-Business" (Linda Ehrlich, modern languages and literatures)
Daniel Oravetz (astronomy) - "Star Streams in the Milky Way: (Paul Harding, astronomy)
Erin Shellman (economics) - "Motivations For Using The "Buy-It-Now" Feature in e-Bay's Online Auction" (Robert Slonim, economics)
Thomas Teets (chemistry) - "New Routes to Nanorods" (Thomas Gray, chemistry)
David Ziegler (economics) - The Impact of Nursing Home Report Cards" (Marcus Stanley, economics)
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