(April 15, 2014)

College announces Student Research Forum winners

SHREVEPORT, LA — Ten students received awards in four separate divisions during Centenary's 23rd Annual Student Research Forum, April 4 and 11. The annual forum is sponsored by the Douglas A. and Marion S. Attaway Foundation.

Humanities oral presentation

1st place	Tianna Murphy	Feminism, Orientalism and Polemics: Two American Muslim Feminists and their Jihads
2nd place	Kayla Marion	African American Confederates of the Lost Cause

Natural Sciences oral presentation

1st place	Luke White	Controlling the "Stickiness" and Electronic Properties of Graphene by Doping
2nd place	Michael Free	The Synthesis of a Tetraether Glycerophospholipid with Two Different Headgroups
3rd place	Andrea Argueta Lemus	Florigen Makes the Whorl Go Round: A Survey of the FT-like PEBP family in Sorghum bicolor

Social Sciences oral presentations

1st place	Cameron Hughes	Determinants of Field Goal Success Rates: A Study of Placekicking in the 2012 National Football League Regular Season
2nd place	Angela Impson	Examining Heteronormative Gender Enactment Among Gay Men
3rd place	Matthew Scott	Self-Efficacy's Mitigating Role on the Consequences of Negative Feedback

Poster session

1st place	Tierra Range	Inflammatory demyelination is suppressed by a disease-modifying drug in Theiler's virus model of multiple sclerosis
2nd place	Ryan O'Donnell	Optimization of Shreveport Public Transportation Routes
3rd place	Payton Weidner	Epithelium of GAD65-GFP Mice: A New Model For Studying Olfactory Sensory Neuron Maturation?

This year, students shared more than 30 independent studies, senior seminars, or summer research projects with the Centenary community.