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Graduate Student Council Presents Research Symposium
March 25-26, 2008 

The main events of this symposium were a Poster Presentation Session, a Research Colloquium

Poster Session with judges loking over poster

Research Colloquium

Judges at work

Poster Session

Rita Koch of School of Forest Resources and Environmental Science presenting at the Colloquium

View Colloquium

Some of the GSC Members who sponsored the colloquium

Poster Session

Pictures and Titles

First Place Award

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Lakshmi Krishna   Materials Engineering
PMN-PT epitaxy on R-plane sapphire substrates

Second Place Award

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Kristopher K Nitz Biological Sciences
Environmental Factors Related to Adfluvial Migration by Coaster Brook Trout (Salvelinus fontinalis) in the Salmon Trout River in Northern Michigan.

Third Place Award

Eric J. Minner Biomedical Engineering
Hydrogel System Delivers Interleukin-10 and Glutathione to Mitigate Spinal Cord Injuries

 
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Julian Mills-Beale Dept. of Civil and Environ. Engineering with his advisor, Dr. Zhanping You
Measuring the Specific Gravities of Fine Aggregates in Michigan: An Automated Procedure
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Yu Liu Dept. of Civil and Environ. Engineering
with his advisor, Dr. Zhanping You
Discrete Element Simulation of Asphalt Mixtures using User-defined Model
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Santosh R. Ghimire   Dept. of Civil and Environ. Engineering
Impact of storage tanks on energy consumption in municipal water distribution networks
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Shu Wei Goh  Dept. of Civil and Environ. Engineering, with his advisor, Dr. Zhanping You
Warm Mix Asphalt: a Pavement Material for Energy Saving and Emission Reduce
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Sanjeev Adhikari   Dept. of Civil and Environ. Engineering
Distinct Element Modeling of the Asphalt Mixtures: from Two-dimensional to Three-dimensional Models
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Ashwini S. Kashelikar   Dept. of Civil and Environ. Engineering
Improving Forecasts of Flood Risk by Incorporating Climate Variability into Bulletin 17B LP3 Model

Colvin, A Dept. of Geological & Mining Engg

Monitoring thermal activity at Santa Ana volcano, El Salvador
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C. P. McDonald Civil & Environ. Engineering
Applying information theory to determine optimal model complexity in aquatic biogeochemical modeling
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Pradeep Kumar  Department of physics
Nonlinear Magnetophotonic Crystals
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Matthew J. Van Grinsven Dept. of Geological & Mining Engg
Associations Between Groundwater-Surface Water Dynamics and Coaster Brook Trout Spawning Habitat in the Salmon Trout River, Marquette County, Michigan
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Archana Pandey Department of physics
Effect of Flow Rate and Deposition Time on Growth of vertically aligned Multi-walled Carbon Nanotubes
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Sara C. Robinson School of Forest Resources and Environmental Science 
Fungal Interactions in Sugar Maple: A Closer Look At Spalting
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Chee Huei Lee   Department of physics
Low Temperature Growth of Boron Nitride Nanotubes
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Bharat Pokharel   School of Forest Resources and Environmental Science 
Why is the Performance of the Lake States Variant of FVS so Poor?
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Abhishek Prasad Department of physics
Controlled growth of Zinc Oxide Nanostructures and its applications
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Sarah Stehn School of Forest Resources and Environmental Science
Drivers of herbaceous species composition and richness in spruce-fir forests of the southern Appalachians

Jared M. Cregg Biomedical Engineering

Anisotropic Micro-fibrous Scaffolds for Nerve Regeneration Applications

Alex Zevalkink   Materials Engineering

Mechanical Alloying of PbTe based Thermoelectric Materials
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Andrea Muñoz-Hernández    Dept. of Civil and Environ. Engineering
The Impacts of Climate Change and Variability on Water Resources in a Semi Arid Region in Mexico: The Rio Yaqui-Basin.
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Lawrence Mailloux Department of Chemistry
The Granitoid Concrete Pavement of Calumet, Michigan – Over One Hundred Years of Service
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Aneet D Narendra ME-EM
Molecular dynamics simulation to calculate the pressure exerted by a system of Lennard Jones atoms
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Xiang Zhang Department of Chemistry

Synthesis and catalytic applications of chiral Benzoferrocenyl ligands as enantioselective catalysts.
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Manoranjan Acharya Dept. of Electrical & Comp. Engineering

Focused Ion Beam Fabrication of Sub-20nm Inter-electrode Gaps for Room Temperature Operating Single Electron Transistor
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Vidur Parkash Dept. of Electrical & Comp. Engineering
Electrostatic Capacitance Extraction for Carbon Nanotube Interconnects
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Agustin Robles Morua  Dept. of Civil and Environ. Engineering
Water-related Risk Perceptions in the Sonora River Basin, Mexico
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Sherri L. Wiseman Biomedical Engineering
Development of Novel Sol-Gel Glasses that Facilitate Neural Adhesionand Neurite Extension In Vitro

Zijun Xu  Department of Biological Sciences

Rice genes with retrotransposon insertions, polymorphisms and their evolutionary history

Louis Pignotti Department of Chemistry

Synthesis and Characterization of bimetallic compounds with a Novel bridging ligand based on a substituted hydroquinone motif

Daw Don Cheam Dept. of Electrical & Comp. Engineering

Mass Production of Room Temperature Single Electron Transistors using Step & Flash Imprint Lithography and Lift-off Technique
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Lisa McTavish
School of Forest Resources and Environmental Science
Characterizing Ozone Tolerance in Trembling Aspen: Implications for Improving Carbon Sequestration Potential in Populus
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Amalia Anderson   Department of physics
Analysis of climatic data via statistics of record-breaking extreme

Zezhou Wang  Department of Chemistry

Soft Lewis Acid-Catalyzed Cycloisomerization of Epoxy Alkynes

Han Bing Wang  Department of Chemical Engineering

Optimizing Electrospinning Parameters to Create Aligned PLLA Fibers for Nerve Regeneration Applications
 

Brandon Johnson   Biomedical Engineering

Controlled Release of Glucosamine Affects Chondrocyte Activity in Vitro

Graduate Student Council 2007-2008

President: Emily McCarthy
Vice President: Lakshmi Krishna
Treasurer: Madhana Sunder
Secretary: Karl Haapala

Academic Committee Chair: Mohit Law
Academic Committee Members: Melissa Roberts, Lorna Henney, Santosh Ghimire,Vikas Malpani

 

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