Four Biology students received six awards at the 2009 Undergraduate Scholars Forum held on April 7 at IUP. Forum participation is designed to foster scholarship and collegiality among undergraduate students and faculty members and to provide a forum for undergraduate students to discuss their academic work with a community of scholars.
Award winners were:
- Thomas Melvin, “Gauging the Nature of Science for Non-Science Majors” (Faculty Advisor, Dr. Tom Lord) [Outstanding Paper Presentation Award]
- Patricia Tolu-Ajayi, "Effects of temperature on the ability of Tamoxifen (Novaldex), a drug used in the treatment of breast cancer, to induce breast cancer cells to behave more like normal cells.” (Faculty Advisor, Dr. Barkley Butler) [Best Poster Award and Best Bibliography Award from IUP Libraries]
- Joseph Rocco, "Induction and Modulation of Host Murine Toll-Like Receptor-2 (TLR2) and Cytokine Responses on Infection with Different Mycobacterium avium serovars and their ssGPL Mutants" (Faculty Advisor, Dr. Vida Irani) [Sigma Xi Best Science Posters Award (second place) and Best Posters Award]
- Danielle Botelho, "Metabolic Responses of Acid Mine Drainage and Non-Acid Mine Drainage Campostoma anomalum" (Faculty Advisor, Dr. David Pistole) [Best Bibliography Award from IUP Libraries]
Joseph Rocco and Patricia Tolu-Ajayi
