- University News Archive - 糖心Vlog传媒 Little Rock /news-archive/tag/caroline-kornelsen/ 糖心Vlog传媒 Little Rock Thu, 07 Feb 2019 17:05:26 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 Four 糖心Vlog传媒 Little Rock students receive SURF research fellowships /news-archive/2019/02/07/surf-fellowships-2/ Thu, 07 Feb 2019 17:05:26 +0000 /news/?p=73359 ... Four 糖心Vlog传媒 Little Rock students receive SURF research fellowships]]> Four 糖心Vlog传媒 Little Rock students have received the prestigious Student Undergraduate Research Fellowships from the Arkansas Department of Higher Education to conduct research this spring with help from faculty mentors. The (SURF) program provides up to $2,750 to undergraduate students to conduct in-depth research projects in their specific fields of study with the assistance of faculty mentors. To be eligible, all fellowship recipients must have a minimum grade-point average of 3.25, at least 30 hours of credit toward a degree, and support of a faculty mentor. Funds also are provided for students to travel to conferences to present their accomplishments. The students will complete their research this spring semester and will exhibit their work at the Student Research and Creative Works Showcase on April 18 in the Jack Stephens Center. In addition to the SURF grants, the students receive some matching funds through 糖心Vlog传媒 Little Rock鈥檚 Office of the Vice Provost for Research. The 糖心Vlog传媒 Little Rock fellows include the following: Bonn Belingon – 鈥淓nzymatic Studies of BbI06 from Borrelia burgdorferi,鈥 ($2,750 from SURF, $1,250 match to equal $4,000) Belingon, of Marion, Arkansas, is researching how to isolate and target specific enzymes that are found in 聽B. burgdorferi, the bacterium that causes Lyme disease. Currently, drug resistance to B. burgdorferi has surged and new strategies are needed to combat the disease. Belington and his mentor, Dr. Shanzhi Wang, will purify and characterize the BbI06 enzyme and determine 10 inhibitors against the bacterium. Madeline Burke – 鈥淒uck and Cover: How the Outdated Maritime 1851 Limitation of Liability Act Shields Shipowners From Liability,鈥 ($2,750 from SURF, $1,250 match to equal $4,000) Burke, of Little Rock, is investigating the legal and ethical considerations of the 1851 Limitation of Liability Act that protects shipowners from liability. This act was cited by Ride the Ducks, the company that owned the duck boat that sank and killed 17 people on Table Rock Lake in Missouri on July 19, 2018. Burke will use library and government databases to create a research presentation for a national conference and submit an article for publication in a peer-reviewed journal. Dr. Casey Rockwell from the Department of Marketing and Advertising is Burke鈥檚 mentor. Caroline Kornelsen – 鈥淯nderstanding of 贵枚谤蝉迟别谤 Resonance Energy Transfer in Ionic Materials,鈥 ($2,750 from SURF, $1,250 match to equal $4,000) Kornelsen, of Fallbrook, California, and her faculty mentor, Dr. Noureen Siraj, are researching novel and inexpensive approaches to developing new materials that possess 贵枚谤蝉迟别谤 Resonance Energy Transfer (FRET) characteristics. FRET is a non-radiation energy transfer process between donor and acceptor moieties. Ionic material with FRET characteristics will be developed using a fluorescent organic ion as donor and counterion as acceptor. FRET characteristic in an ionic material will be understood by developing several derivatives of ionic materials using same cation but variable anion or vice versa. These materials are important in the arena of energy, healthcare, and the environment. This project will allow Kornelsen and Siraj to learn more about the parameters that depend on FRET efficiency in ionic material. Michael Meziere – 鈥淓xamining the Relationships between Religiosity, Rape Myth Acceptance, and Sexual Misconduct,鈥 ($2,125 from SURF, $625 match to equal $2,750) Meziere, of Little Rock, is examining if religiosity plays a factor in the misconceptions and myths surrounding sexual assaults on college campuses. To carry out this study, Meziere will conduct surveys to gather information on religious beliefs and sexual attitudes. The data gathered will be presented in a poster presentation at the Academy of Criminal Justice Studies annual meeting in Baltimore, Maryland, in March 2019 and the 糖心Vlog传媒 Little Rock Student Undergraduate Research Expo in April 2019. Dr. Molly Smith from the Department of Criminal Justice is Meziere鈥檚 mentor. Madeline Burke is one of four 糖心Vlog传媒 Little Rock students to receive a聽Student Undergraduate Research Fellowship. She is researching an old maritime law which says the owner of a sunken vessel is not legally responsible for its cargo. Photo by Benjamin Krain]]> 糖心Vlog传媒 Little Rock students use wits to beat escape room challenge /news-archive/2018/12/07/chemistry-escape-room-challenge/ Fri, 07 Dec 2018 16:11:40 +0000 /news/?p=72915 ... 糖心Vlog传媒 Little Rock students use wits to beat escape room challenge]]> A group of chemistry students at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock found out that book smarts alone were not enough to overcome an escape room final project.聽 Inspired to build teamwork amongst his students and to make class more exciting, Dr. Anindya Ghosh devised a unique escape room group project to challenge the students in his Intro to Inorganic Chemistry class. 鈥淚 was inspired by Dr. Kedar Jambhekar, radiologist and diagnostic radiology residency director at 糖心Vlog传媒MS, who recently did this for his residents to encourage teamwork,鈥 Ghosh said. 鈥淚 think that homework needs to be fun to help teach the students. No one has ever done this in the Chemistry Department. I hope that the students learn teamwork. This helps them to think outside the box and to think critically.鈥 Students in the class include Cecilia Cayll, Samantha Crosby, Robert Hill, Akeia Joyner, Arsalan Karimi, Caroline Kornelsen, Thuy Le, Tyler Maxwell, Victoria Mchargue, November Palmer, David Standridge, and Caleb Stein. The class divided into groups of four, and each group was responsible for creating puzzles involving chemistry lessons from class. The groups also had to use images from popular culture to give the teams additional clues. One group determined their number was eight after noticing that their clues contained a picture of a brown recluse spider with eight legs and a picture of a piano player whose hand spanned eight keys. 鈥淵ou would have to be a musician to figure it out, and I鈥檓 glad I am,鈥 said Akeia Joyner, a senior chemistry major. A second group figured out their number was five after having an image from the movie 鈥淭he Fifth Element,鈥 an image from a Cinco de Mayo celebration. Additionally, one of the answers to their chemistry problems was Boron, which has an Atomic Number of five on the periodic table.
Chemistry students Akeia Joyner and Victoria Mchargue had to solve a series of science problems to get clues to unlock their classroom door during an escape room challenge. Photo by Benjamin Krain.

Chemistry students Akeia Joyner and Victoria Mchargue had to solve a series of science problems to get clues to unlock their classroom door during an escape room challenge. Photo by Benjamin Krain.

鈥淚 think this is fun,鈥 said Cecilia Cayll, a junior chemistry major. 鈥淚t鈥檚 better than sitting in the classroom listening to a lecture or taking an exam.鈥 Each group needed to come up with one number as their answer. The combination of the numbers from all four groups would provide the answer to escaping the room. Even after all four groups worked together to escape the room, Ghosh put one more roadblock in the road to victory. The combination needed to open the chain that locked the classroom door only used three numbers, so students were also tasked with figuring out which number was left out and what order to put the remaining three numbers. It turns out that the most difficult part of the escape room challenge was putting the correct combination into the lock. Fellow classmates commented that it was 鈥渉ilarious鈥 to watch their classmates unsuccessfully try to figure out the combination. 鈥淲e鈥檙e book smart, not street smart,鈥 Cayll said. Students finally reached the correct combination, before the end of the class period, after they realized the lock was backward, and they had been inputting the combinations the wrong way. 鈥淚t was freaking awesome!鈥 Victoria Mchargue, a senior chemistry major, said. 鈥淚f every homework problem could be like this, where we have to find a way to get out of the room, it would be a lot of fun.鈥 In the upper right photo, chemistry students (L to R) Arsalan Karimi, Victoria Mchargue, and Caleb Stein celebrate their victory in escaping from their chemistry classroom after solving a series of puzzles. Photo by Benjamin Krain.聽]]>