Taylor CR&I Concludes Successful Summer 2007 Research Program

September 1, 2007

Summer at Taylor University is a busy time as our research programs shift into high gear. A weekly highlight for summer researchers is a pizza lunch on Wednesdays where students present their projects. Typically two projects are presented over the lunch hour, and below is a list of projects and presentation dates.

A variety of research areas are covered, funded by various grants administered by CR&I. The areas include physics, environmental science, history, chemistry, mathematics, computer science, psychology and others.

Toward the end of the summer we video taped the presentations. Below you will find links to the presentations, and we hope you will gain an appreciation for the students' hard work, and high quality of the research programs at Taylor.

Summer Research Pizza Lunch Presentations

June 6 - over 40 in attendance

•  Sean Moriarty - Linear Accelerator

June 13 - 39 in attendance

•  Matt Reichert (King) - Molecular modeling of phytopathogenic enzymes
• Nick Moser (King) - Construction and testing of a continuous flow fast kinetics apparatus
•  Troy Tomasik - Carbon Nanotube Research

June 20 - 46 in attendance

• Eric Peterson, Derek Shied (Guebert, Reber) - Grant County Watershed Conditions
• Jason Haupt (Rothrock) - Taylor University Arboretum

June 27 - 49 in attendance

• Dr. Lay - Bishop William Taylor Journals
• David Bertsche (Voss) - Astronomy

July 4 - Holiday

July 11 - 40 in attendance

• Jenna Hanchey, Kevin Little (Kiers) - CP Violation
• Jessica Hyne, Emily Hart, Liz Tien (Snyder) - Intercultural Study

July 18 - 54 in attendance

• Jonathan Schrock, Matthew Russell (DeLong) - Research in Knot Theory
• Zach Palmer, David Patterson, Mark Voss (Voss) - Linear Accelerator

July 25 - 43 in attendance

•  Hugh White (Voss) - High Altitude Airship (View this Presentation)
• Thomas Nichol, David Pomeroy (Brandle) - Autograder (View this Presentation)

August 1 - 45 in attendance

• Jill Godorhazy - Career Development
• Spencer Creasy, David Colgan (Brandle) - Information Retrieval (View this Presentation)
• Jon Carmicheal (Takehara) - Biomass Gasification (View this Presentation)

August 8 - 40 in attendance

• Sergey Milashuk (Voss) - Well Drilling at Taylor (View this Presentation)
• Kara (Gremaux) Reichert,  (Hammond) - Using GCMS to monitor the incorporation of heavy carbon (13C) labeled CO2 into metabolites (View this Presentation)