ISOLATION OF MOLECULAR MARKERS LINKED TO Sw-5 USING GENETICALLY DIRECTED REPRESENTATIONAL DIFFERENCE ANALYSIS (GDRDA)

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Rachel E. Raphael and Dr. Mikel R. Stevens, Agronomy and Horticulture Tospoviruses, including tomato spotted wilt virus (TSWV), infect over 550 plant species worldwide. In the commercially grown tomato (Lycopersicon 1 esculentum) TSWV decreases fruit yields and quality in up to 80-90% of the crop in South Africa2 with similar losses in Hawaii3 and other […]

OLD MASTERS TECHNIQUE IN OIL PAINTING

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Zhenhui Qian With the changing of the style, oil painting techniques have been invented differently. My research is focused on three great periods: Renaissance, Baroque and modernism. In term of techniques, it includes two things: the painting process and painting materials. Painting materials determine the painting process, and the painting process had to avoid the […]

THE THREE GORGES DAM: A PERSPECTIVE ON RELOCATION

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Glen T. Porter and Dr. David Honey, Asian and Near Eastern Languages China’s Three Gorges project is much more than the construction of the world’s largest dam. It includes an array of projects ranging from constructing suspension bridges to planting tangerine orchards. The centerpiece of this massive project is a concrete and steel dam that […]

CAFFEINE INHIBITS THE RATE OF NUCLEOTIDE EXCISION REPAIR IN MULTIPLE HUMAN CELL LINES

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Bryan S. Poe and Dr. Kim L. O’Neill, Microbiology During the course of a lifetime the human genome encounters endless assaults on its fragile genetic material, many of which are potentially teratogenic, mutagenic or even oncogenic events. To counter these genetic insults, the cell (the fundamental building unit of the human body), has in place […]

INVESTIGATE THE FUNCTION OF THE 5′ LEADER IN THE HUMAN AT1 ANGIOTENSIN RECEPTOR

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Erik J. Petersen and Dr. Terry S. Elton, Chemistry and Biochemistry A comparison of several published hAT1R cDNA sequences revealed that, although these clones shared an identical open reading frame, they differed in portions of their 5′-UTRs.1 Therefore these data suggest that alternative splicing events combine various 5′-UTR exons with the exon that harbors the […]

ANALYZATION OF THE CELLULAR mRNA CONTENT FOR 6 AND CYCLOOXYGENASE IN RAT ADRENAL CELLS

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Sean David Paulsen and Dr. Allan M. Judd, Zoology Recent neuroimmunoendocrine research has focused on points of convergence between what have traditionally been labeled the “nervous,” “immune,” and “endocrine” systems. We are beginning to realize that the walls marking the boundaries of these systems are not as exclusive as once thought. Certain commonalities or areas […]

A CHAPBOOK OF POETRY

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David Joseph Passey and Dr. Lance Larsen, Philosophy The finished manuscript, entitled Coming Up, is nearly fifty pages long, consisting of the standard front material, and thirty-three poems, some several pages long. Of the poems, roughly half were written since the receipt of the grant. The remainder is previously written poems that were revised and […]

THE RADIAL TURBINE: A SIMPLE ENCAPSULATION OF ITS DESIGN

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Matthew B. Parkinson and Dr. Jordan J. Cox, Mechanical Engineering The design, manufacture, and testing of turbines involves many aspects of engineering: fluid mechanics, computer-aided design, computer-aided manufacturing, instrumentation, heat transfer, and optimitization. This project encapsulates these and provides for rapid design, manufacture, and testing of a prototype turbine wheel (figure 1). Although the models […]