| Fall, 2011 |
| Week 1 Aug. 22. Triad Day Meet at
4:30
|
| Aug. 29, 4:00 Week 2 Jessica Irons - Investigation of Rhodobacter sphaeroides
protein function. Mentor: Dr.
Steven Cartier |
| Aug. 29, 4:30 Laura Lilley - The Mutarotation of Glucose in Dimethyl Sulfoxide. Mentor: Dr. Dean C. Kahl |
| Sept. 5 4:00 week
3 - Alumni Seminar - Dr. Ben Stanford - Drugs You Take Don't Really Go
Away. |
| Sept. 5 4:30 - Poster
Session for Summer Research - postponed to later date to
be announced. |
|
Sept. 12 4:00 week
4 . Matt Desaix Characterization
of Groundwater Nitrate around a Waste Lagoon.
Mentor: Dr. Laura Lengnick (on sabbatical).
Introduced by Dr. Mark Brenner. |
| Sept. 12 4:30 Adama Loos-Diallo Allelopathic growth
stimulation by Glechoma
hederacea. Mentor: Dr. Michael
Torres. |
| Sept. 13
(Tuesday). Sigma Xi. Professor Dave Erb on "Sustainable Transportation - A
Future Worth Creating", 7:00 pm Brevard
College. Collins will leave at 5:00. Dinner at
BC. (~$8.00). Can count as extra attendance credit. |
| Sept. 19 4:00 Stacy Edmond Lead
Concentrations Absorbed from Brass and Nickel Plated
Keys in Water, Saliva, and Nitric Acid.
Mentors: Dr. Vicki Collins and Linda Block |
| 4:30 week 5 Phelan O’Connor The Effectiveness of Raw Milk Whey as a Pasture Fertilizer. Mentor: Dr. Laura Lengnick Introduced by Dr. Dave Ellum. |
| Sept. 26 4:00 (week 6) David Grace Effect of EFN Removal on Ant Visitation and Damage to Common Vetch (Vicia sativa). Mentor: Dr. Amy Boyd |
|
Sept. 26 4:30 Alice Sloan. The Suitability of Lower Peterson Creek (Queensland, Australia) as Habitat for the Platypus, Ornithorhynchus anatinus. Mentor: Dr. Michael Torres |
| Oct. 3 4:00 (week 7) Martha Skelley. - Analysis of Apple Blossom Volatile Emissions: Day and Night Concentration Variations Mentor: Dr. Dean Kahl. |
| Oct. 3, 4:30 Sunny Cooper. Diversity Patterns of Western North Carolina Songbirds at Feeders Across Three Seasons. Mentor: Dr. Brian Olechnowski |
| Thursday, Oct. 6,
7:00 pm Sigma Xi at UNC-Asheville, Robinson Hall
239. Dr. Brett Laverty, state hydrologist - Groundwater Pollution in North
Carolina. Collins will leave Spidel at 5:45
- let him know by Wed. if you wish a ride for UNC-A dinner
($8.50) |
|
Oct. 10 4:00 (week 8) Hannah Lauzon - "No Hoof No Horse" - Effects of body weight on sole concavity in Equus ferus caballus. Mentors: Dr. Bob Eckstein and Dr. Lou Weber |
|
Oct. 10
4:30 Sydney Darden
- Observation of Colorado
Potato Beetle (Leptinotarsa decemlineata) as Affected by Straw
Mulch. Mentor: Dr. Vicki Collins |
| Fall
Break Oct. 17-21 |
| Oct. 24 Week 9 4:00. Alison Larocca Larvicidal potential of fresh garlic and fresh onion against common mosquito, Culex sp. Mentor: Dr. Mark Brenner |
| Oct. 24 4:30 Micah Wiles Habitat Conditions of Yellow Morels, Morchella esculenta, in Buncombe County, North Carolina. Mentor: Dr. Mark Brenner |
| Oct. 31 Week 10 4:00 Tim Comstock Just an eyesore or toxic waste? Heavy metals in cigarette butts. Mentor: Dr. Stephen Cartier |
| Oct. 31 4:30 Jessica Schaner Untapped Abundance: Antioxidants in Edible Invasive Plants. Mentor: Dr. Dean Kahl |
| Nov. 7 Week 11 4:00 Ian Higgins The Influence of Roads on Watershed Scale Lotic Systems in the Coastal Range of Oregon and Washington. Mentor: Dr. Brian Olechnowski |
| Nov. 7 4:30 Charles Moore - Biological efficiency of Pleuretus ostreatus grown on waste paper and spent barley. Mentor: Dr. Mark Brenner |
| Thursday, Nov.
10 7:00 pm - Sigma Xi at WWC. Dr. Kevin Moorhead
(WWC Alumnus) - Morse 209 |
| Nov. 14 4:00 week 12 open |
|
Nov. 14 4:30 Open |
| Friday Nov. 18 Week
12. Thesis drafts to mentors. |
| Nov. 21
4:00 Week 13 Kira Santulli. Spatial
Analysis of Regeneration of Vegetative Communities in
Group Selection. Mentor: Dr. Dave
Ellum |
| Nov. 21 4:30 Open |
| Nov. 28 4:00 Week 14 Camille Taylor. The Incidence of Early Blight (Alternaria solani) and Late Blight (Phytophthora infestans) on Grafted Tomatoes in Western North Carolina. Mentor: Dr. Amy Boyd |
| Nov. 28 4:30 Week 14 Laila
Ewing - Varied Light Regimes on
Growth and Protein Content of the American Groundnut (Apios
americana).
Mentor:
Dr. David
Ellum |
| Friday Dec. 2
4:00 pm Week 14. Theses due to Spidel 205. Two
copies plus Permission
to Photocopy |
| Dec 5, 430 week 15 Choena Galloway. Effects of Different Soil Environments on Growth and Condensed Tannin Content in AU Grazer Lespedeza cuneata. Mentor: Dr. Vicki Collins |
| Dec. 5. 4:00 week15 Gordon Tutor Kinetics of nano crystalline photocatalysed oxidation of phenol. Mentor: Dr. Stephen Cartier |
| Dec.
12, 4:00 week 16 Lily
Walton. Environmental factors that
contribute to the distribution of Cantharellus lateritius
in Buncombe County, North Carolina. Mentor: Dr. Mark Brenner |
| Dec. 12, 4:30 Melanie Kemp Palatability and Nutritive Content of Woffia arrhiza for Warren Wilson College Laying Hens. Mentor: Dr. Vicki Collins |