Graduate Studies and Research Summit 2010The purpose of this summit was to highlight the advanced studies and projects conducted at UAA by students and faculty. This is a great opportunity for graduate students to share their work with fellow UAA colleagues and the greater Anchorage community. We encourage students from all schools and colleges within UAA to present their work. A call for abstracts is sent out in February of each year through the GSA listserve. The symposium was held Friday, April 9th, 2010 in Rasmuson Hall Room 110 (RH 110) and Room 101 (RH 101) on the UAA campus. The morning session started at 9am and the afternoon session began at 1:30pm. Robert White, PhD, Vice Provost for Research and Dean of the Graduate School, spoke at the plenary session at 12:00 noon. Following the summit, there was a graduate student mixer from 5-7pm in the Ecosystem-Biomedical Health Laboratory (EBL) located across from the parking garage on Alumni Drive. Thank you to all in attendance for your participation and support.
 Poster Session Attendees at the 2010 GSA Summit  A Presentation at the Graduate Studies and Research Summit 2009  Graduate Students Enjoying Refreshments at the 2009 Summit Provided by the GSA UAA Graduate Student Association
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Morning Schedule |
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Presentations in Room RH 101 |
Presentations in Room RH 110 |
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9:00 |
Introductions/Welcome |
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9:30 |
Knowledge, attitudes, and behavior of health, education, and service professionals as related to fetal alcohol spectrum disorders Rebecca Volino Robinson, Psychology |
The threespine stickleback as an indicator of environmental contamination in the Aleutian Archipelago, Alaska Leah Kenney, Biology |
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9:50 |
To reproduce or not: Nutritional-hormonal influence on reproductive decisions in seasonally synchronous breeders Cory Stantorf, Biology |
Identifying the needs of female breast cancer survivors living in urban and rural Alaska Virginia Cress, Psychology |
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10:10 |
The making of “To the Moon”, A student's film about poet Theodore Roethke, who taught at University of Washington, and died in 1963. Sandra Kleven, Creative Writing |
Warmer summers combined with increases in rain lead to major changes in the trace gas feedbacks from high arctic polar semi-deserts in NW Greenland to the atmosphere Elizabeth Sharp, Biology |
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10:30 |
Coffee Break and Door Prizes |
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11:00 |
An evaluation of the current methods of monitoring annual production of midcontinent Greater White-fronted Geese (Anser albifrons) that breed in Interior and Northwest Alaska Wade Schock, Biology |
Training needs of healthcare providers related to CDC core competencies for fetal alcohol spectrum disorders Rachel V. Boschma-Wynn, Psychology |
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11:20 |
Innate storytelling: A Darwinian Consideration William B. Swears, English |
The major histocompatability complex as a new measure of genetic diversity: a study of Alaskan brown bears and their endoparasites Becky Sawyer, Biology |
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11:40 |
Why are arctic flowers so colorful? Pollinator and herbivore mediated selection on floral pigmentation in the Arctic Mustard, Parrya nudicaulis Justin Fulkerson, Biology |
Secondary trauma in mental healthcare professionals in Alaska Erin Trimble, Psychology |
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12:00 |
Plenary Speaker – Robert White, PhD. Dean of the Graduate School RH 101 |
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12:30 |
Lunch Break |
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Afternoon Schedule |
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Presentations in Room RH 101 |
Presentations in Room RH 110 |
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1:30 |
The role of the histone fold protein CHRAC17 in Xenopus development Elvin Brown, Biology |
Evaluating discharge planning from an inpatient psychiatric hospital to rural communities using telehealth technology Jaedon Avey, Psychology |
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1:50 |
Alkane and long-chain alcohol recovery in moose: implications for diet composition analysis in browsing herbivores Anthony Carnahan, Biology |
Using linear discriminant analysis to classify threespine stickleback along the benthic-limnetic axis James Willacker, Biology |
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2:10 |
Assessing snowmelt water use by evergreen and deciduous plants in Alaskan tussock tundra: a field D2O labeling experiment Lisa Ebbs, Biology |
Dating historic structures using tree-rings or dendroarchaeology on the Kenai Peninsula, Alaska Tiffany Ann Curtis, Anthropology |
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2:30 |
Coffee Break and Door Prizes |
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3:00 |
Non-dimensional analysis of In Situ burning of oil in an ice environment Peter W. Bellino, Engineering |
Exploring health practices among undergraduate university students Cody Chipp, Psychology |
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3:20 |
Mechanisms of selection for defensive armor traits in threespine stickleback (Gasterosteus aculeatus) in Wallace Lake, Alaska Emily Lescak, Biology |
Genetic changes under climate change in Arctic fishes (Coregonus spp.) Veronica Padula, Biology |
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3:40 |
Trophic ecology of non-native Alaska blackfish (Dallia pectoralis) in Cook Inlet Basin, Alaska Dona Eidam, Biology |
The singular and interactive effects of herbivory and simulated warming on the carbon cycle in an arctic ecosystem Sean Cahoon, Biology |
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5:00-7:00 |
Graduate Student Mixer in Ecosystem-Biomedical Health Laboratory (EBL) – Located North of Social Science Building Parking Lot |
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