The 26th Annual SRC winners are...

On Friday, March 9, 2012, CSU Stanislaus held its 25th Student Research Competition at the Faculty Development Center, featuring presentations by Thirty-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 Center for Excellence in Graduate Education (CEGE) 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 Long Beach on May 4th and 5th. 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 - Jeffrey Rhoades
Education Ed.D.
The effects of physical education class site on externalizing student behavior.
Mentored by Dr. Shawna Young, Teacher Education.

 

2^nd Place - Debra Tavernier
Education Ed.D.
Critical thinking development: Using student narrative to understand women's developing role in the birth experience
Mentored by Dr. Dennis Sayers, Advanced Studies in Education.

Graduate Category

Quantitative

1^st Place - Sarah Hartman
Master's in Psychology
The effects of father absence on woman's sexuality and baseline cortisol
Mentored by Dr. Victor Luevano, Department of Psychology.

 

2^nd Place - Monique Karina Preciado
Master's in Education Technology
Vocabulary development and the use of a technology software program.
Mentored by Dr. Dawn Poole, Department Teacher Education.

 

3^rd Place - Brook Altamirano
Master's in Social Work
Health related quality of life: Explaining pediatric populations diagnosed with unilateral hearing loss
Mentored by Dr. Robin Ringstad, Department of Social Work.

Qualitative

1^st Place - Trevor Jackson
Master's in English
Agon of an author: The artist's self creation in The real life of Sebastian Knight
Mentored by Dr. John Wittman, Department of English.

 

2^nd Place - Michele Zugnoni
Master's in English
Incorporating self into composition
Mentored by Dr. John Wittman, Department English.

 

3^rd Place - Amanda Martin
Master's in Public Administration
Administrative and fiscal policy in higher education
Mentored by Dr. Dan Underwood, Department of Public Administration.

Undergraduate Category

Quantitative

1^st Place - Karen Murata and Jessica DeSilva
Bachelor's in Mathematics
The alignment of arbitrary contours.
Mentored by Dr. JungHa An, Department of Mathematics.

 

2^nd Place - Sean E. Brooks, Paulo Costa, and Elya Assourian
Bachelor's in Physics
High temperature superconductors and applications.
Mentored by Dr. Rose Zhang, Department of Physics.

 

3^rd Place - Jose M. Perez, Armando Garcia, and Emmanuel Ware
Bachelor's in Mathematics and Computer Science
Building a useful California Department of Education database.
Mentored by Dr. Megan Thomas, Department of Computer Science.

 

Honorable Mention - Andrew Adams
Bachelor's in Biology and Chemistry
Distribution of Stem Galls caused by the Wasp Andicus Californicus on Valley Oak Trees (Quercuz lobata).
Mentored by Tommi Lou Carosella, Department of Biology.

 

Qualitative

1^st Place - Michael Vargas
Bachelor's in Anthropology and English
Community supported agriculture: Shareholder experience in the Central Valley.
Mentored by Dr. Richard Wallace, Department of Anthropology.

 

2^nd Place - Sarah Shraeder
Bachelor's in History
The extent of knowledge: What ordinary Germans knew about the Jewish genocide, 1938-1944.
Mentored by Dr. Richard Wiekart, Department of History.

 

3^rd Place - Jessica Wersky
Bachelor's in English
Socratic reasoning on Originalism and Living Constitutionalism.
Mentored by Dr. Jesse Wolfe, Department of English.

 

Judges

The judges this year consisted of six CSU Stanislaus faculty members: Dr. Dennis Sayers (Teacher Education), Dr. Betsey Eudey (Gender Studies), Dr Angel Sanchez (Department of Institutional Research/Sociology), Dr. Dawn Poole (Advanced Studies in Education), Dr JungHa An (Mathematics), and Dr. Chris DeVries (Physics).