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Undergraduate
Research
Spring 2003
These
faculty mentored undergraduate research projects are underway
in the spring 2003 semester. For more information on undergraduate
research at La Salle - or on becoming a faculty mentor - please
contact Jim Butler,
Director of the Undergraduate Research program, or visit the
program Web
site.
Jason
Ager, “The Poetry of Else Lasker Schüler”
(Faculty Mentor: Prof. Bernhardt Blumenthal)
Brenda
Brabham, “Gender Difference in Ethical Decision-Making”
(Faculty Mentor: Prof. Lynn Miller)
Ludwika
Chrzastowska, “Integration of Poland Into the European
Union” (Faculty Mentor: Prof. Edward Turzanski)
Renée
D’Angelo, “Study of Instructional Procedures and
Interventions for the Autistic Student” (Faculty Mentor:
Prof. Carole Patrylo)
Colleen
Davin, “Jealousy, Gender, and Sexual Intimacy”
(Faculty Mentor: Prof. Lynn Collins)
Lindsay
DeMuth, “Development of Emotion Perception in Infants”
(Faculty Member: Prof. Diane Montague; collaborative project
with Jennifer E. Higgins and Jolene Westraad)
Elena
DiGiovanna, “The Effects of a Human Sexuality Course
on Knowledge, Attitudes, and Comfort About Sexuality Among
College Students” (Faculty Mentor: Prof. Janine Mariscotti)
Richard
Haas, “Mental Imagery in Tunnel Vision Patients”
(Faculty Mentor: Prof. Sharon Armstrong)
Jennifer
E. Higgins, “Development of Emotion Perception in Infants”
(Faculty Mentor: Prof. Diane Montague; collaborative project
with Lindsay DeMuth and Jolene Westraad)
Stephen
J. Kohut “Psycopharmacology” (Faculty Mentor:
Prof. Ellen Walker)
W.
Thomas McAllister, “Literary Representations of the
Holocaust” (Faculty Mentor: Prof. Marjorie Allen)
Adam
McGrath, “Irish Art and Literature: Louis le Brocquy
and Seamus Heaney” (Faculty Mentor: Prof. Siobhan Conaty)
Merisa
Palovcak and Magdalena Wilson will present their research
on "A Language Inquiry Model for Developing Science with
Young Children" at the Pennsylvania Speech-Language-Hearing
Convention, in March 2003, in Harrisburg. (Faculty Mentor:
Evelyn Klein)
Joshua
Schneiderman, “Thomas Pynchon” (Faculty Mentor:
Brother Gabriel Fagan)
Jillian
Szczepaniak-Gillece, “Shakespeare and Mental Illness”
(Faculty Mentor: Prof. Claire Busse)
Jolene
Westraad, “Development of Emotion Perception in Infants”
(Faculty Member: Prof. Diane Montague; collaborative project
with Jennifer E. Higgins and Lindsay DeMuth)
Undergraduate
Research in Psychology
Dr.
Ellen Walker consistently mentors undergraduate student researchers
in her psychology lab. Dr. Walker describes her work with
undergraduates as follows: "My goal has been to introduce
the psychology and biology undergraduate students to alll
levels of the research process. They conduct the experiments,
analyze their data, present their findings at local, regional,
and national conferences, and may even publish a journal article."
Students
currently working with Dr. Walker include:
Edward K. Brown, Jr., Biology
Amy M. Falcone, Biology
Richard Hass, Psychology
Stephen J. Kohut, Psychology
Amy Schneider, Biology
Christopher Plachta, Psychology/Criminal Justice
Steven Sterious, Biology (Temple University)
Their
work is represented in the following publications and presentations.
(Student names in italics.)
Articles in refereed journals
Sterious,
S.N. and Walker, E.A. Pharmacological characterization
of the selective, m-opioid peptide antagonist CTAP [D-Phe-Cys-Tyr-D-Tryp-Lys-Thr-Pen-Thr-NH2]
in the rat warm-water tail-withdrawal procedure. Journal of
Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics, 304:301-309.
Abstracts
and presentations
Plachta,
C.R. Kohut, S. Hass, R., Falcone, A.M., Brown, E.K.,
Walker, E.A. Rate-decreasing effects of 5-HT2C compounds in
mice and rats. Mid-Atlantic Pharmacology Society, Wilmington,
DE, September 30, 2002.
Sterious,
S.N., Brown, E.K., Falcone, A.M., Hass, R., Kohut, S., Schneider,
A., Walker, E.A. Comparison of naloxone, naltrexone,
and nalorphine as precipitators of withdrawal jumping in mice.
Mid-Atlantic Pharmacology Society, Wilmington, DE, September
30, 2002.
Brown,
E.K. Potency analysis for behavioral disruption produced
by atypical antidepressants in rats. Kimmel Cancer Center
Undergraduate Poster Competition, Philadelphia, PA, October,
2002.
Falcone,
A.M. Opioid antagonists differentially precipitate withdrawal
jumping in morphine dependent mice. Kimmel Cancer Center Undergraduate
Poster Competition, Philadelphia, PA, October, 2002.
Walker,
E.A., Plachta, C.R., Sterious, S.N. Naltrexone and
naloxone can be differentiated according to relative efficacy
in the mouse precipitated withdrawal jumping assay. Presented
at the Society for Neurosciences, Orlando, FL, November, 2002.
Hass,
R.W., Kohut, S.J., Walker, E.A. Chronic treatment with
serotonin agonists and antagonists produces tolerance and
sensitization to the rate-decreasing effects of m-chloropiperazine
(mCPP) in rats. Eastern Psychological Association, Baltimore,
MD, March, 2003.
Kohut,
S.J., Hass, R.W., Walker, E.A. Pharmacological investigation
of the aversive stimulus porperties of serotonin agonist MK212.
Eastern Psychological Association, Baltimore, MD, March, 2003.
Plachta,
C.R.,Walker, E.A. Rate decreasing effects of serotonin2C
agonist and antagonists in Swiss-Webster mice. Eastern Psychological
Association, Baltimore, MD, March, 2003.
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