The Graduate Research Forum features poster displays representing UCF's diverse colleges and disciplines. Click on the buttons below to view the research abstracts from the March 31, 2015, event. The Research Forum is an opportunity for students to showcase their research and creative projects and to receive valuable feedback from faculty judges. Awards for best poster in each category were given and all participants received recognition.
Congratulations to the 2015 Best in Category
Graduate Research Forum Winners
BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION AND HOSPITALITY MANAGEMENT
First Place
Rebeca Perren
Business Administration PhD – Marketing Track Assembling Peers: Advancing a Typological Theory of Collaborative Consumption Markets Mentor: Glenn Lambie, PhD
Co-Authors: Carolyn Massiah, PhD, Xin He, PhD
EDUCATION
First Place
Shainna Ali
Education PhD – Counselor Education Track Coming-Out in Counseling: Are Counselors Prepared to Assist Clients Through the Coming Out Process? Mentor: Glenn Lambie, PhD
Second Place
Erika Nicsinger
Education PhD – Communication Sciences and Disorders Track Teaching Social Skills to Promote Community Inclusion and Independence Mentor: Eleazar Vasquez, III, PhD, BCBA-D
Co-Authors: Eleazar Vasquez, III, PhD, BCBA-D; Justin Wood, RBT, Our Children's Academy, Lake Wales, FL
ENGINEERING, COMPUTER SCIENCE, AND MODELING AND SIMULATION
First Place
Zenan Yu Materials Science and Engineering PhD Energy Storing Electrical Cables Mentor/Co-Author: Jayan Thomas, PhD
Second Place
Yi Ding Materials Science and Engineering PhD Light-Matter Interaction at the Nanoscale Using Multi-Frequency Atomic Force Microscopy Mentor: Laurene Tetard, PhD
Honorable Mention
Kevin Gleason Aerospace Engineering MSAE – Thermofluid Aerodynamic Systems Design and Engineering Track Steady-State Microdroplet Evaporation
Mentor: Shawn Putnam, PhD
Co-Author: Harish Voota
FINE ARTS AND HUMANITIES
First Place
Jose Flores History MA Immigrants in Florida: Exploring Meta-Data in the Florida Historical Quarterly Mentor: Scot French, PhD
Second Place
Kevin Mercer History MA State of Protest: Academic Representations of Dissent in Florida as Understood Through the Florida Historical Quarterly Archive
Mentor: Scot French, PhD
HEALTH SCIENCES
First Place
Taylor Johnson Biotechnology MS PTEN Inhibitor Reduces Cardiac Remodeling in Doxorubicin-Induced Cardiomyopathy Mentor: Dinender Singla, PhD
Second Place
Swaran Nandini Biomedical Sciences PhD Development and Characterization of a Cytoplasmic Dynein Mutant Mouse Carrying a Human Charcot Marie Tooth Mutation Mentor: Stephen King, PhD
Co-Authors: Thywill Sabblah; Aaron Ledray; Rachal Love; Julio Pasos; Nikhil Patwardhan; Vanessa Nascimento: Linda King; Stephen King, PhD
LIFE SCIENCES
First Place
Carolina Rodrigues Felix Biomedical Sciences PhD The Search for New TB Drugs Goes Underwater Mentor: Kyle Rohde, PhD
Co-Authors: Amy Wright, Harbor Branch Oceanographic Institute; Rashmi Gupta; Sandra Geden
Second Place
Marisa Fuse Biomedical Sciences PhD Inhibition of Src Kinase for Treatment of Schwannomas Associated with Neurofibromatosis Type 2 Mentor: Cristina Fernandez-Valle, PhD
Co-Authors: Stephani Klingeman-Plati; Nicklaus Sparrow; Marga Bott
Honorable Mention
Gerald Mangine Education PhD – Exercise Physiology Track The Effect of Training Volume and Training Intensity on Improvements in Muscular Strength and Size in Resistance-Trained Men Mentor: Jay Hoffman, PhD
Co-Authors: Jay Hoffman; PhD, Adam Gonzalez; Jeremy Townsend; Adam Wells; Adam Jajtner; Kyle Beyer; Carleigh Boone; Ran Wang; Amelia Miramonti; Michael LaMonica; David Fukuda, PhD; Jeffrey Stout, PhD
MATHEMATICS, OPTICS AND PHYSICAL SCIENCES
First Place
Amy Van Newkirk Optics and Photonics PhD Multi-Parameter Sensing Using Seven-Core Fiber Mentor: Axel Schülzgen, PhD
Co-authors: Guillermo Salceda-Delgado; Enrique Antonio-Lopez; Rodrigo Amezcua-Correa, PhD; Axel Schülzgen, PhD
Second Place
Ryuichi Tsuchikawa Physics PhD Measurement of Resistance Induced by a Single Atom on Carbon Nanotubes Mentor: Eduardo Mucciolo, PhD
Co-Authors: Daniel Heligman, Amin Ahmadi, Eduardo Mucciolo, PhD; Masahiro Ishigami, PhD; Zhengyi Zhang, Columbia University; James Hone, Columbia University
Honorable Mention
Daniel Franklin Physics PhD Color Tunable Metasurfaces for Reflective Displays Mentor: Debashis Chanda, PhD
Co-Authors: Yuan Chen; Shin-Tson Wu;Debashis Chanda, PhD
Javaneh Boroumand Physics PhD Efficiency Enhancement in Thin-Film Solar Cells Mentor: Debashis Chanda, PhD
SOCIAL SCIENCES
First Place
Zorina Manoni Anthropology MA Osteoarthritis in the Andes: Prevalence and Patterning of Disease Among Pre-Columbian Agro Pastoralists from Kuelap Mentor/Co-Author: Marla Toyne, PhD
Second Place
Eric Patz Anthropology MA Do Subfloor Caches at Altun Ha Represent Quadripartite Partitioning or a Changing Late Classic Maya Cosmology? Mentor: Arlen Chase, PhD
Honorable Mention
Natalie Yrisarry Communication MA Managing Face and Politeness in Instructor Responses to Classroom Incivility Behaviors Mentors: Ann Miller, PhD; Lindsay Neuberger, PhD
The UCF College of Graduate Studies and the Graduate Student Association will host the Twelfth Annual Graduate Research Forum on March 31, 2015, from 12:00 PM to 4:00 PM in the Pegasus Ballroom, Student Union. The Graduate Research Forum, a part of the Student Research Week, features poster displays representing UCF's diverse colleges and disciplines. The Research Forum is an opportunity for students to showcase their research and creative projects and to receive valuable feedback from faculty judges. Cash awards for best poster in each category are given and all participants receive recognition.
For more information on submission form criteria please visit graduate.ucf.edu/research-forum/.
The Graduate Research Forum features poster displays representing UCF's diverse colleges and disciplines. Click on the buttons below to view the research abstracts from the April 1, 2015, event. The Research Forum is an opportunity for students to showcase their research and creative projects and to receive valuable feedback from faculty judges. Awards for best poster in each category were given and all participants received recognition.
Business Administration and Hospitality Management
Minoo Talebi Ashoori
Business Administration PhD – Marketing Track The Impact of Customer’s Feeling of Betrayal on the Profitability of Targeted Promotions Mentor/Co-author: Axel Stock, PhD
Education
Jarrad Plante
Educational Leadership EdD – Higher Education EdD Track Lessons without Borders: The Impact of International Service Learning on a Student’s Worldview
Mentor: Thomas Cox, PhD
Co-authors: Lauren Murray and Thomas Cox, PhD
Diana Dawn Scott
Applied Learning and Instruction MA A Multimedia Pedestrian Safety Program and School Infrastructure: Finding the Connection to Child Pedestrian Risk Taking Attitudes and Risk Perception of Pedestrian Behavior Mentor: Bobby Hoffman, PhD
Engineering, Computer Science, and Modeling and Simulation
Ahmadreza Amirahmadi Electrical Engineering PhD Three Phase Micro-Inverter Mentor: Issa Batarseh, PhD
Co-author: Lin Chen
Alan Paris Modeling and Simulation PhD Advanced Signal Processing Methods for Brain-Computer Interfacing Mentor: Azadeh Vosoughi, PhD
Co-author: George Atia, PhD
Mark Varvak Modeling and Simulation, PhD Pattern Classification Using Radial Basis Function Neural Networks Enhanced with the Rvachev Function Method Mentor: Peter Kincaide, PhD
Amir R. Zamir Electrical Engineering PhD Visual Geo-Localization and Location-Aware Image Understanding
Mentor: Mubarak Shah, PhD
Fine Arts and Humanities
Leanne Wiggins History MA Viewpoints on Seminole Education: An Analysis of the Efforts to Improve the Florida Seminole Tribe’s Educational System, 1969-1989 Mentor: Daniel Murphree, PhD
Health Sciences
Debarati Mukherjee Biomedical Sciences PhD Kruppel-like Factor 8 Acts as the Transcriptional Activator of CXCR4 Receptor to Promote CXCL-12-depnedent Invasion and Transendothelial Migration of Breast Cancer Cells Mentor: Jihe Zhao, PhD
Swaran Nandini Biomedical Sciences PhD Characterization of Altered Dynein/Dynactin Function on Intracellular Motility Mentor: Stephen King, PhD
Life Sciences
Kyle Beyer Sport and Exercise Science MS – Applied Exercise Physiology Track Neuromuscular Economy of the Vastus Lateralis is Related to Measures of Strength and Power Mentor: Jeffery Stout, PhD
Carleigh Boone Sport and Exercise Science MS – Applied Exercise Physiology Track Bilateral Differences in Muscle Morphology in Relation to Strength and Power in Untrained Young Men Mentor: David Fukuda, PhD
Michael LaMonica Sport and Exercise Science MS – Applied Exercise Physiology Track Bilateral Muscle Architecture Symmetry is Related to Greater Vertical Jump Power Mentor: David Fukuda, PhD
Co-authors: Gerald Mangine, Adam Gonzalez, Adam Wells, Jeremy Townsend, Adam Jajtner, Edward Robinson, William McCormack, David Fukuda, PhD, Maren Fragala, PhD, Jeffrey Stout, PhD and Jay Hoffman, PhD
Gabriel Pruna Sport and Exercise Science MS – Applied Exercise Physiology Track Less than 48-hour Recovery Period May Not be Sufficient to Maintain Performance in Women’s Soccer Mentor: Jay Hoffman, PhD
Mathematics, Optics and Physical Sciences
Veerachart Kajorndejnukul Optics PhD Conservation Laws and Optical Interactions as Dielectric Interfaces Mentor: Aristede Dogariu, PhD
Co-authors: Wequiang Ding, Sergey Sukhov, David Haefner, Aristede Dogariu, PhD, Cheng-Wei Qiu, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering in National University of Singapore; Girish Agarwal, Department of Physics in Oklahoma State University
Janardan Nath Physics PhD Optical Salisbury Screen with Design-Tunable Resonant Absorption Bands Mentor: Robert Peale, PhD
Co-author: Isaiah Oladeji, SISOM Thin Films LLC, Orlando
Amy Van NewKirk Optics PhD Multicore Optical Fiber for High Temperature Sensing Mentor: Axel Schulzgen, PhD
Co-authors: Zeinab Sanjabi Eznaveh, Enrique Antonio-Lopez, Guillermo Salceda-Delgado, Rodrigo Amezcua-Correa, and Axel Schülzgen, PhD
Social Sciences
Lindsay Dhanani Psychology PhD – Industrial and Organizational Track Outcome of Perceived Workplace Discrimination: A Meta-Analysis of 35 Years of Research Mentor/Co-author: Dana Joseph, PhD
Rachel Kangas Anthropology MA
Unraveling Ix Tab: Revisiting the Acient Maya “Suicide Goddess” in Archaelogy
Mentor/Co-author: Beatriz Reyes-Foster, PhD
Julie Krupa Criminal Justice MS – Research Track Examining Trajectories of Delinquent Behavior among Families to Adolescence to Early Adulthood Mentor: Kristina Childs, PhD