Student Participation in The Annual Research Symposia
Each year USC Upstate students contribute to the Annual Research Symposium program by making presentations or displaying posters of their work. Click here to view more details about previous and upcoming meetings of the SC Upstate Annual Research Symposium, including the session schedule, times and dates, and pictures taken during previous events.
Student Presentations at Sixth Annual Symposium:
March 26th, 2010
Race to the Front: Frontloading and Voter Turnout
Allison Pingley and Donna Randolph
Toward Including Linguistic Awareness in Diversity Education: Applications of a “Universal” Approach to All Varieties of English
Jena Rowland and David Marlow
The South Carolina Language and Life Project
Stephen Davis and David Marlow
Playing God – World Making Words
Sharon Kelley and David Marlow
A Survey of Fecal Coliforms of Different Domesticated Animals
Holly Stamey and Jack Turner
Use of Urban Greenways by Small Mammals
Nada Hyatt and Jonathan Storm
Effectiveness of the NAAMP Protocol in Evaluating Anuran Calling Activity in the Piedmont of South Carolina
Carl Alexander, Chelsea Kross, Joel Price, and Melissa Pilgrim
Species Richness of Foraminifera off the Coast of South Carolina
E. Carl Alexander, Sarah Campbell, and Lyle Campbell
An Underwater Adventure with Jacques Cousteau
Tim Foster
Choose Your Letter
Josh King
A ‘Fishen in the Dark Lagoon
Lane Brown
Richard Mack, Faculty Mentor
Digital Media: Interactive Narratives
Deception in Advertising
Holly Anderson
Student Posters at the Sixth Annual Symposium:
March 26th, 2010
Rule Mining the HCUP Dataset Using the Tukey Method
Daniel Hagerman and Wei Zhong
Community-Based Participatory Recruitment Methods for African American Women
Hadassa Legrand and Lynette Gibson
A Drift Fence Study Evaluating Seasonal Changes in Amphibian and Reptile Movement
Chelsea Kross, Joel Price, Nada Hyatt, Carl Alexander, and Melissa Pilgrim
On Comparison of Two Survival Functions
Brent McCracken and Seunggeun Hyun
Scientific Illustration meets Deep Sea Ooze
Leidy Espinal, Sarah Campbell and Lyle Campbell
On Anti-Bias Approaches to Higher Education Student Development: Queering the Quad by Abandoning Un-Safe Zones and Collapsing Tunnels of Diversity
Adrienne Jones
Use of Adomian Decomposition Method for Fourth Order Non-Newtonian Pipe Flow
Brett Michaud and Muhammad Hameed
Automatic Classification of Musical Instruments
Keith Bell and Angelina Tzacheva
Action Rules and Meta-Actions
Jennifer Burkett and Angelina Tzacheva
Personal Revelations
Cody Brooks and Andrew Beer
Effects of 1983 Revisions to the Social Security Act
Elizabeth Cole, Alyssa Mason and Rob Routman
2010 USC Upstate Senior Exhibition
Brittany Tuckfield, Holly Anderson, DJ Morrison, Angela Dillinger, Josh King, Hieu Ngo, Samantha Bartley, Nick Schneiders, Alexis Rogers, Tyler Bishop, and Lisa Anderson
Untitled Pate-Moulder Film Project
Henry Moulder and Aaron Pate
Student Presentations at the Fifth Annual Symposium:
March 27th, 2009
Using Spatial Assessment of Drift Fence Captures to Investigate Juvenile Dispersal of Ranid Frogs
Helsea Kross and Melissa Pilgrim
Environmental Activism in the Middle East
Joni Hammond and Lizabeth Zack
A Novel Robotic Approach to Contour Recovery using Structured Light
Nicole Tobias, Robert Mahmoudishad, Mark Parrish, and Sebastian van Delden
Mining Exceptions as interesting Knowledge
Stephen St. Peter and Rick Chow
Talkin' 'bout South Carolina: Addressing Dialect Diversity in Middle School Classrooms
George Reed and David Marlow
Race and Clas Identity in The Great Gatsby and Passing
John Crocker and Celena Kusch
The Peer Mentoring Program: A Pilot Program for the USC Upstate School of Education
Daphine Dawson and Tina Herzberg
Romare Bearden: Contribution and Contrast to the Harlem Renaissance
Mckensie Hall and Rachel Snow
Student Posters at the Fifth Annual Symposium:
March 27th, 2009
Investigation of the Role of Promoter Methylation and Histone Modification in the Down-regulation of the Colon Tumor Suppressor, DRA
Derek Griffth and Jeannie Chapman
An In-Depth Study of the Length of Hospital Stays with Regard to the Procedures performed on Type II Diabetes Patients
Anneliese Schmidt and Wei Zhong
Implementation of the North American Amphibian Monitoring Program in the Upstate Region of South Carolina
Alexsis Ferguson and Melissa Pilgrim
Size of Rank Tests for Location in Linear Models with Repeated Observations
Danial Hagerman and Bernard Omolo
On the Properties and Applications of the Space of Linear Functions L(R)
Michael Blackmon and Gamal Elnagar
Oil and Western Friendliness, The Cause for Russian Interference in Former Soviet-bloc Nations
Seth Rubenstein and Trevor Rubenzer
The Effects of Exposure to Domestic Violence on Child and Adolescent Development
Vernette Porter, Jennifer Parker, and Stephanie Keen
Implementation of Hierarchical Clustering Algorithm for Type-2 Diabetes Patients
Nicole Tobias and Wei Zhong
Student Presentations at the Fourth Annual Symposium:
April 11th, 2008
Cultivating Citizens through Community Outreach: Engendering Civic Awareness in a University Youth Program
Kerrie-Ann Wilkins, Jennifer Parker and Timothy Dale
Black Panther Political Posters
James Risher and Rachel Snow
Initial Steps to Voice-Guided Robotic Manipulation
Ben Overcash and Sebastian van Delden
Assessing the use of Artificial Structure in a Fragmented Landscape: Herpetofauna as a Case Study
Jared Ballenger, Lauren Horton, Will Reid and Melissa Pilgrim
Enhancing Reading Comprehension and Literacy in First-Year College Students Through the Use of a Student-Led Conference
Anthony DeClue and Celena Kusch
Student Posters at the Fourth Annual Symposium:
April 11th, 2008
Size-Frequency Distribution of Molluscs from a Pliocene Fauna, 22Florence, South Carolina
Katie Pruiksma, Sarah Campbell and Lyle Campbell, USC Upstate
Robot-Camera Orientation Recovery from the Optical Flow of High Interest Points in an Unknown Scene
Frank Hardy and Sebastian van Delden
Lucid Echoes
Daniel Fowler and Ray Merlock
Discriminating to Sell: Discrimination in Jewelry Stores
Jennifer Rayner and Kim Purdy
2008 Senior Exhibition Catalog Design and Production
Stephanie Huskey, Gregory Bradham, Holly Coupe, Rachel Dickey, Brian Hefner, Veronica Lewis, Brandon Pendred, Derek Revan, and Lisa Anderson
Student Presentations at the Third Annual Symposium:
April 6th, 2007
Instability Involving Taylor Series Solutions of a Heat Conduction Problem
Ricky Farr and Gamal Elnagar
Enhancing Machine-Human Interaction through Grammatical Awareness
Shea Menge and David Marlow
Senior Exhibition Catalogue
Mollie Brown, Lisa Anderson, Marius Valdes, and Rebecca Lamb
Absorption of Coliphage T4 to Clay Particles
Jennifer Cowan and Jack Turner
Sergio Giral & The Other Francisco: the Denouncement of Romantic Myths in Cuban Slavery
Zachary Snow and June Carter
"Death's Day Off"
Zachary Snow and Jorge Salvo
All Resources Exhausted: An Analysis of Adolescent Depression and the Resources Available and Promoted amoung National, State and Local Agencies
Shawn Maxwell and Kendra Ogletree-Cusaac
Vision-Based Control of Robots Playing Pong
Derrick Thompson, Jose Reyes, and Sebastian van Delden
Fourier Series Solution of a Stable Heat Conduction Problem
Frank Darwin and Gamal Elnagar
Student Posters at the Third Annual Symposium:
April 6th, 2007
Surgical and Non-Surgical Physical Therapy Patients: Differences in Anxiety, Depression and Mood
Lyman Keller and Kim Purdy
Distributed Fractal Generation: The Mandelbrot Set
Michael Blackmon and Kelly Waters
The Effects of Obesity on Vascularity of Heart and Brain of Zucker Rats
Tia Pilikian, Jessica Clark, Sam Subramanian, and Jeanne Kowalczyk
Use of the Polymerase Chain Reaction to amplify the actin gene from the snail, Biomphalaria glabrata
LeAnna Ledford and Vince Connors