Current Fellows • Prospective Fellows • Achievements
1999 - 2000 University Undergraduate Research Fellows
Research Activities
SARAH FORBEY, English
INTERNSHIP
American Pavilion/Kodak Worldwide Student Program at the Cannes Film Festival. May 2000.
STACY GRANBERG, Poultry Science
PRESENTATIONS
"Evaluation of In Situ Apoptosis and Cell Proliferation in Neonatal Chick B-Lymphocytes,"Agriculture Program of the Texas A&M University System, January 2000.
"In Situ detection and quantification of bursa of Fabricius apoptosis in normal or steroid treated neonatal chicks," Southern Poultry Science Association annual meeting, Atlanta, Georgia, 17 January 2000.
LORI HINZE, Plant and Soil Sciences
PUBLICATION
A. Calvo, L. Hionze, H. W. Gardner, N. P. Keller, "Sporogenic effect of polyunsaturated fatty acids on Aspergillus spp. Development." Applied Environmental Microbiology 65 (2000):3668-3673.
SARA K. LITZSINGER, Psychology
.PUBLICATION
T. Williams, S. Litzsinger, & D. Gleaves, "Childhood sexual abuse, body image, and disordered eating: Areview." Manuscript in preparation for submission.
PRESENTATION
T. Williams, D. Gleaves, S. Litzsinger, "Childhood sexual abuse, body image, disordered eating: A structural modeling analysis." Association for the Advancement of Behavioral Therapy Conference, November 1998, Washington, D.C.
THOMAS F. MILLER III, Chemistry
PUBLICATIONS
‘Linear Semibridging Carbonyls 6. Structure and Bonding in the Dimers of Seventeen-Electron Tantalum Hexacarbonyl and Tetracarbonyl Diphosphine’ Thomas F. Miller III, Douglas L. Strout, and Michael B. Hall. Organometallics, Vol. 17, No. 19, 1998, pp. 4164-4168.
‘Structure and Stability of Palladium-Carbon Cations’ Douglas L. Strout, Thomas F. Miller III, and Michael B. Hall. Journal of Physical Chemistry A, Vol. 102, No. 31, 1998, pp. 6307-6310.
‘Structural and Bonding Trends in Platinum-Carbon Clusters’ Thomas F. Miller III and Michael B. Hall. Journal of the American Chemical Society, Vol. 121, No. 32, 1999, pp. 7389-7396.
‘The Bis(difluoramide)amide Anion: A Comparative Analysis of the -NO2 and -NF2 Moieties’ Thomas F. Miller III and Rodney J. Bartlett. (paper finalizing in Florida before submission to Chemical Physics Letters)
‘Army Ants Algorithm for Efficient Trajectory Surface Hopping Calculations on Systems with Weakly Coupled Adiabatic Electronic States’ Thomas F. Miller III, Michael D. Hack, Yuri L. Volobuev, and Donald G. Truhlar. (paper finalizing in Minnesota before submission to the Journal of Chemical Physics)
‘Theoretical Study of the Photoelectron Spectrum of Ni(5-C5H5)(NO)’ Thomas F. Miller III and Michael B. Hall. (in progress)
CONFERENCE ORAL PRESENTATIONS
‘Army Ants: A New Method for Performing Trajectory Surface Hopping Calculations’ Thomas F. Miller III , Michael D. Hack, and Donald G. Truhlar. Supercomputer Institute Summer Internship Symposium. Minneapolis, Minnesota. 16 August - 18 August 1999.
‘Structural and Bonding Trends in Platinum-Carbon Clusters’ Thomas F. Miller III and Michael B. Hall. Fellows Research Symposium. College Station, Texas. 27 April - 29 April 1999.
‘Structural and Bonding Trends in Platinum-Carbon Clusters’ Thomas F. Miller III, Michael B. Hall. 2nd Annual Student Research Week at Texas A&M University. College Station, Texas. 22 March - 27 March 1999.
‘Coupled Cluster Calculations of High Energy Density Materials’ Thomas F. Miller III, Rodney J. Bartlett. CIRENT Semiconductor Facilities. Orlando, Florida. July 1998.
CONFERENCE POSTER PRESENTATIONS
‘The Bis(difluoramide)amide Anion: A Comparative Analysis of the -NO2 and -NF2 Moieties’ Thomas F. Miller III, Rodney J. Bartlett. Sanibel Symposium. St. Augustine, Florida. 28 February - 6 March 2000.
‘Structural and Bonding Trends in Platinum-Carbon Clusters’ Thomas F. Miller III, Michael B. Hall. Sanibel Symposium. St. Augustine, Florida. 27 February - 5 March 1999.
‘Linear Semibridging Carbonyls 6. Structure and Bonding in the Dimers of Seventeen-Electron Tantalum Hexacarbonyl and Tetracarbonyl Diphosphine’ Thomas F. Miller III, Douglas L. Strout, Michael B. Hall. 215th National Meeting of the American Chemical Society. Dallas, Texas. 29 March - 2 April 1998.
‘Structure and Bonding in the Dimers of Tantalum Hexacarbonyl and Tetracarbonyl Diphosphine’ Thomas F. Miller III, Douglas L. Strout, Michael B. Hall. TAMU First Annual Student Research Week. College Station, Texas. 23 March - 28 March 1998.
MATTIE KATHERINE PENNEBAKER, English
PRESENTATION
"’The Will of Men’: Victimization of Women During India’s Paritition," 15th Annual National Undergraduate Literature Conference, Weber State University, Ogden, UT, 6-8 April 2000.
AMY PINKHAM, Psychology
.PRESENTATION
"Social Influence, Evolutionary Theory, and Symmetry" by Amy E. Pinkham, Brad E. Sheese, and William G. Graziano, PhD, American Psychological Association convention 2000..
KAREN O’BRIEN, Psychology
PRESENTATION
Collie, C.F., Erath, S., Hines, B., O'Brien, K., & Hughes, J.N. "Minimization of vulnerable emotions among aggressive children." American Psychological Association Annual Convention, Washington, D.C., August 4-8, 2000.
SARAH SPIVEY, Agricultural Economics
PRESENTATION
Reesearch findings in a selected paper at the Southern Agricultural Economics Association Meetings in Lexington, Kentucky, 31 January 2000.
JENNIFER TACKETT, Psychology
PRESENTATION
J. . Tackett, Renee M. Tobin, and William G. Graziano, "Social Influence in Judging Beauty in People and Birds." American Psychological Association, August 2000, Boston, MA.
TARA TEETER, History
PRESENTATION
"’And I shall make thee a Great Nation’: Anglo-Israelites and the quest for a racial theology of Empire," at the National Conference for Undergraduate Research in
Missoula, Montana in April.
PUBLICATION
"’And I shall make thee a Great Nation’: Anglo-Israelites and the quest for a racial theology of Empire," National Conference for Undergraduate Research Journal, forthcoming.
JOCYLIN WILLIAMS, Psychology
PUBLICATION
Meyer, E.F., Swanson, S.M., and Williams, J.A., (2000) "Molecular Modelling and Drug Design," in Pharmacology and Therapeutics, forthcoming 2000.