Research by a number of St. Bonaventure University students has been accepted for the 17th Annual Penn-York Conference for Undergraduates that will be held from 8:30 a.m. to 3 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 5, on campus. 

Undergraduate college students in any field of study were invited to submit their research for presentation, particularly those in the behavioral and social sciences; biological, computational and physical sciences; health-related and applied sciences; and the humanities. In addition to St. Bonaventure, students from Pitt-Bradford, Hilbert College, Alfred University, Houghton College, and Pitt-Titusville will be participating.

The following are St. Bonaventure students who will give oral presentations and the titles of their projects:

• Tyler Grudi — “From College Communication to Biblical Scholarship: The Integrative Path of the Theological”
• Leah Middagh — “Candidate Framing at Fox Business News during the 2016 GOP Presidential Primary”
• Eleanor Gerhard — “Ghana and Cote d’Ivoire: A Case Study Comparison to Determine Health Policy Success”
• Wendy Santos — “The Problems and Coping Strategies of Social Workers”
• Ryan Nation — “The Effects of Exercise and Physical Activity on the Elderly Brain: A Literature Review”
• Alexander Mazanek — “Determining the Function of Active Groups on Polyisoimide Stability”
• Theodore Nguyen — “Gene Expression & Regulation in Food Restricted Mice”

Poster presentations detailing research by the following St. Bonaventure students and faculty will be presented:

• Usman Asif, Soquania Henry and Dr. Michael Conley — “Animacy Techniques & their Usefulness in Memory Retention & Recall”
• Deeanna Welling, Gabriela Tejada, Nichole Sweazy and Dr. Greg Privitera — “No Calorie Comfort: Viewing & Drawing ‘Comfort Foods’ Similarly Augments Positive Mood for those with Depression”
• Travis Barber — “The cognitive effects of e-learning strategies on information recall"
• Erin Izydorczak and Dr. Johanna Schwingel — “Virulence testing of a Pseudomonas Aeruginosa mutant using Caenorhabditis Elegans as a Bacterial Pathogenesis Model”
• Hayley Majot, Shradah Mamidi, Nyshidha Gurijala and Dr. Johanna Schwingel — “Battling Biofilm Development: Construction of Nari Mutant & the visualization of associated Proteins in Pseudomonas Aeruginosa”
• Hannah Ball, Nikhil Gowda and Dr. Xiao-Ning Zhang — “Novel SR45-Associated Motifs in Arabidopsis thaliana”
• Monica Saleeb, Varsha Parthasarathy and Dr. Ziao-Ning Zhang — “Using yeast-two hybrid to examine potential interactions of SR45 and other splicing factors in Arabidopsis thaliana”
• Fernanda Juarez and Dr. Douglas Guarnieri — “Transcriptional Analysis of Bipolar Candidate Genes in Models of Stress Suggests a Common Role for ER Stress”
• Simran Reddy and Dr. Douglas Guarnieri (including S. Terhaar, E. Gerhard & A. Panahi) — “Analyzing the Canine Genome using RFLP’S to Locate Cancer Biomarkers”
• Thomas King, Courtney Meyers and Dr. Darryl Mayeaux — “Childhood obesity and the health implications of high fat and high sugar diets”
• Justin Bui and Chantal Nguyen (including L. Kim, S. Singhal, Dr. M. Conley, Dr. D. Hilmey, Dr. A. Bauernschmidt and Dr. T. Palmer) — “The effectiveness of instructional online chemistry videos with regards to student memory”

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