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Student research presented at NCHC

September 22, 2003

CARROLLTON, GA - For the fourth time in the last six years, the University of West Georgia has had more Honors students’ research proposals accepted for presentation at the annual meeting of the National Collegiate Honors Council (NCHC) than any other U.S. college or University.

According to Dr. Donald Wagner, dean of UWG’s Honors College, West Georgia students are in competition for this honor with many research universities and with many universities far larger than UWG in terms of numbers of students or research facilities.

“The selection process is quite rigorous and very competitive,” Wagner said. “It is a tribute to our students and to their faculty advisors that our students have been so successful in this endeavor.”

Dr. Beheruz N. Sethna, UWG president, is proud of the Honors College’s 100 percent acceptance rate.

“Fourteen of the 97 accepted papers are from our University,” Sethna noted. “So, 14.4 percent of the nation’s best undergraduate research projects at NCHC came from one University — UWG!”

Two major research universities are tied for second place with five papers each and added together, they do not equal the performance of UWG, Sethna pointed out.

Students presenting research at the NCHC include Melanie George from Carrollton, “The Impact of SARS in China’s Transitioning Economy”; Logan Leslie from Carrollton, “Formation of Microscopic Water islands on the Surface of Mica”; Jesse McAtee from Marietta, “Behavioral Functions of Bioluminescence in Hydrozoans”; Sarah Mistak from Maryville, TN, “Oysters without Odostomes: An Archaeological and Ecological Riddle”; Toma Omonuwa from Douglasville, “The Naked Electron-Photo-Excitation of Tryptophanamide”; Tyler Graff from Snellville, “Rocket Guidance Systems”; Patricia Onuegbu from Lawrenceville, “Effect of Age-Dependent Modifications of a-Crystallin on its Chaperone Function”; Taylor Proctor from Carrollton, “The Structural Collapse of the World Trade Towers”; Eric Smith from Carrollton, “The Dynamic Presence of Color in Tom Tykwer’s Winterschlafer”; Cathy Van Tran from Stockbridge, “The Fatty Zucker Rat: An Autosommal Recessive Disorder”; Laura Altom from Carrollton, “The Promiscuous Behavior of a Molecular Chaperone”; Brian Bockelman from Snellville, “A Food Chain with a Competitor”; Idoreyin Esenyie from Lithia Springs, “The Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990” ; and Rhett Bridger from Albany, Bockelman and Amanda Bradley from Carrollton, “Papa John’s Pizza — A Cut Above the Competition.”

The NCHC annual meeting will be held Nov. 5-9 in Chicago.

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