The 25th Annual SRC winners are...

On Friday, March 11, 2011, CSU Stanislaus held its 25th Student Research Competition at the Faculty Development Center, featuring presentations byTwenty-Six students. This was a great opportunity for us to highlight and celebrate the academic accomplishments of our diverse student population. We are proud to have collaborated with the Commitment to Excellence in Graduate Education (CEGE) Center to offer Undergraduate and Graduate Qualitative and Quantitative categories as well as a Doctoral category for this years' competition. Top presenters of the competition qualified to advance to the statewide CSU Student Research Competition held at CSU Fresno on May 6th and 7th. At this event, students from all 23 CSU campuses submitted written papers and make oral presentations before juries of professional experts from major corporations, foundations, public agencies, and universities in California.

And the winners are...

Doctoral Category

1^st Place - Steve Charbonneau
Education Ed.D.
Becoming culturally proficient: A crosscultural study on the public school experience of Sikh students.
Mentored by Dr. Ramon Vega de Jesus, Teacher Education.

 

2^nd Place - Heather A. Contreras
Education Ed.D.
The relationship between Title I funding allocationsand student achievement.
Mentored by Dr. Dawn Poole, Advanced Studies in Education.

 

3^rd Place - Lena Moua
Education Ed.D.
Navigating multiple worlds: a qualitative study of the lived experiences of Hmong women leaders.
Mentored by Dr. Jim Riggs, Advanced Studies in Educaiton.

Graduate Category

Quantitative

1^st Place - Joseph E. Gonzales
Master of Arts in Psychology
Ovulatory effects on women's sexual desire and use of red in self-ornamentation..
Mentored by Dr. Victor Luevano, Department of Psychology.

Qualitative

1^st Place - Jenny Hamby
Master of Arts English
Derrida's deconstruction: An overview of the theory that rocked the world.
Mentored by Dr. John Wittman, Department of English.

 

Undergraduate Category

Quantitative

1^st Place - Charlene Emerson
Bachelor of Science in Biology
Phylogenetics of Freshwater Sculpin.
Mentored by Dr. Marina Gerson, Department of Biology.

 

2^nd Place - Rodolfo Lopez Jr., Josh Casara, Gregorio Franco Jr., Steven Lee
Bachelor of Science in Physics
Perfecting a super-recipe: A study of Pb-doped Bi₂SR₃CA₂CU₃O_11-8 superconductors.
Mentored by Dr. Lu Rose Zhang, Department of Physics.

 

3^rd Place - Erika Todd, Kai Battenberg
Bachelor of Science in Biology
The effects of cigarette smoke on glucose, insulin, and cortisol levels.
Mentored by Dr. Flora Watson, Department of Biology.

Qualitative

1^st Place - Michelle Kittel
Bachelor of Arts in Anthropology and English
The settings of power and prestige: Elite archetecture at Los Naranjitos, El Parasio Valley, Western Honduras.
Mentored by Dr. Richard Wallace & Ellen Bell, Department of Anthropology.

 

2^nd Place - Lauren Hall, Vanessa Castro
Bachelor of Arts in Antropology and History
Farmers' markets: Building communities by buying local..
Mentored by Dr. Richard Wallace, Department of Anthropology.

 

3^rd Place - Kelly Olsson
Bachelor of Arts in English
Suicide (Jisatsu) and Groupism (Shuudan) in Japan.
Mentored by Dr. Helena Janes, Teacher Education.

 

Judges

The judges this year consisted of eight CSU Stanislaus faculty members: Dr. AnaMarie Guichard (Psychology), Dr. John Sumser (Communication Studies), Dr. Dennis Sayers (Teacher Education), Dr. Ramon Vega de Jesus (Teacher Educaiton), Dr. Betsey Eudey (Gender Studies), Dr John Wittman (English), Dr. Debra Tavernier (Nursing), and Dr Xun Liu (Communication Studies).