ORAL PRESENTATIONS*

Nancy Davenport and Asare Nkansah,"SYNTHESIS AND CHARACTERIZATION OF SULFONATED POLYSULFONE FOR PROTON EXCHANGE MEMBRANE (PEM)"

George Howell, Zandra X. Floyd and Felix M. Rivas, "SYNTHESIS OF TWO ANTBACTERIAL HEPTAPEPTIDES: CICADAPEPTINS I AND II"

POSTER PRESENTATIONS*

Jason Bardwell, Samuel Bowen, "OPTIMIZATION OF A SMALL TREBUCHET - AN EXERCISE IN CLASSICAL MECHANICS"

Crystalann Jones and Mel Sabella, "EVALUATING STUDENT UNDESTANDING OF MASS, VOLUME, AND BUOYANCY"

Kristy L. Mardis, William Lawrence and Dominique Morgan, "NOVEL EXPERIMENTS THAT LINK REAL WORLD APPLICATION TO UNDERGRADUATES SCIENCE COURSES TO IMPROVE SCIENCE MAJOR RETENTION"

Zandra X. Floyd and Felix M. Rivas, "COMFORMATIONAL STUDIES ON TWO HEPTAPEPTIDES WITH ANTBACTERIAL ACTIVITY: CICADAPEPTINS I AND II"

Danielle Johnson and William L. Kennedy, "STUDIES OF DIABETES AND RELATIONSHIP TO PERIODONTAL DISEASE"

Adrienne Eastland1, Kristy L. Mardis1  and David Tiede2 "THE EFFECTS OF THE PORPHYRIN OXIDATION STATE ON THE CONFORMATIONS OF C-TYPE CYTOCHROMES," Chicago State University1 and Argonne National Laboratory2.

John Davis, Max Ukaigwe and LeRoy Jones II, "PREPARATION AND CHARACTERIZATION OF BINARY AND TERTIARY NANOPARTICLES FROM MICROEMULSIONS"

*MBRS-RISE students identified in boldface