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.

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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.

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