2012 Spring Symposium & Student Research Conference in STEM, Chicago, Illinois, February 3-4.

 PRESENTATIONS BY RISE STUDENTS AND ALUMNI

 (RISE students and alumni identified in boldface)

Saharah R. Bobo, LaJoy Stewart, Kevin Swier, Andrew Maselli and Tina Perkins,* Identification of Genes Involved in Degradation After Phagocytosis.

Lawal Abbas Labaran,1,2 Devi Prasad Potluri1 and Burkhard Schulz, 2 A Pharmacological Impact Study of Brassinosteroid Biosynthesis Inhibitors in Sorghum.

1Department of Biological Sciences, Chicago State University, Chicago, IL 60628; 2Department of Horticulture & Landscape Architecture Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN 47907.

Linda Omer, Precious Edmonds, William Woolfork and Rong L. He, Serum Amyloid a Can be Defined as a Chemokine.

LaJoy A. Stewart, Saharah R. Bobo, Tina Perkins*, Musediq Ismail‐Rasheed,

Andrew Maselli and Kevin Swier, Screening Dictyostelium Mutants for Inefficient Degradation after Phagocytosis.

Shamir Fuller, Pablo Guzman* and LeRoy Jones II, Preparing Gram Quantities of Ruthenium Bidentate Schiff‐Base Complexes via Microwave Irradiation.

Rodney Onwu,* Melissa Rangel, Brittany House, Robert Richter and Andrew Maselli The Development of Assays to Evaluate the Chemical Composition and Potential Toxicity of Commercial Tattoo Ink.

Brittny Ridenbaugh and Robert LeSuer,  Dye Sensitized Solar Cells, Silicon Solar Cells, and Alternative Energy.

Ashley Wardlow, Nataliya Sidelnikova and Ehab A. Abourashed, Isolation and Yield Maximization of the Major Constituents of Horse Apple Fruit.

Brittani McClure, L. Lawal, and V. Potluri, Role of Brassinosteroids in Salt Stress Tolerance of Sweet Potato Under in vitro Conditions.

Stephanie Fox and Asare Nkansah, Development of New Dendrimer‐Based Drug Encapsulation Polymeric Materials.

Kiara S. Mason and Asare Nkansah,  Studies on the Use of β‐ Cyclodextrin to Enhance the Solubility and Efficacy of Silybin.

Triejaye McDowell, Nataliya Sidelnikova and Ehab A. Abourashed, Adopting a Traditional Phytochemical Approach to Solve the Riddle of Nutmeg.

Karen Cossyleon* and Edmundo Garcia, VHMPID: A Proposed New Detector for the ALICE Experiment.

Tawanda Hitchcock*, Austin Harton and Edmundo Garcia, Modeling the Effects of Mirror Misalignment in a Ring Imaging Cherenkov Detector.

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*RISE Program alumni.