Students present, win awards at research symposium

Several SMU students gave oral presentations at the Seven Rivers Undergraduate Research Symposium in La Crosse, Wis., last Friday including:

Anna T. Skonieczny — The Effects of Demethylating and Methylating Chemicals on Mitotic Activity of Vicia faba in Different Stages of the Cell Cycle

Emily Zentgraf — Testing the Chemical Used in Teflon©, Perfluorooctanoic Acid and Mutagenicity as Determined by Using the Ames Test

Bridget M. Emmett — Response of Fish Predators to Tadpole Madtoms (Noturus gyrinus)

Stephen J. Schmitt — Use of Rock Ledge Habitat by Six-lined Racerunners on Southeast Minnesota Bluffs

Sarah J. Schroeder — Examination of the Diet of the Freshwater Drum, Aplodinotus grunniens, for Zebra Mussels, Dreissena polymorpha from the Mississippi River.

Zentgraf and Emmett were each awarded second place awards in their respective sessions. (There was a total of 17 oral presentations in two concurrent sessions.) Skonieczny and Zentgraf worked with Dr. Dick Kowles, and the others worked with Dr. Phil Cochran.