Health Sciences Division Mississippi Academy of Sciences report from annual meeting 2006.Thanks to the following sponsors of the Health Sciences Division: Department of Orthopedics and Rehabilitation at University of MS Medical Center; University Neurology Group; and University of MS School of Nursing. In addition, we would like to recognize Ricky Nations, Shelter Insurance Shelter Insurance Company is a mutual insurance company which focuses on Auto, Life, Home, Business, and Farm coverage. It operates in fourteen U.S. states and the headquarters is in Columbia, Missouri. ; Godwin Dafe, State Farm Insurance; and Johnny Ray, BankPlus for their support for the Drug Delivery Symposium. Election was held and Co-chairs for the Health Sciences Division are Dr. Tina Martin and Dr. Lisa Haynie. Vice Chairs are Dr. Mary Tan and Dr. Ed Dr. Doctor. dr. dram. Switlo. Reporters are Dr. Pam Jones and Dr. LaToya Richards. The Health Sciences Division has already started on working towards next years meeting. Thanks to all the students and faculty that presented their research and we strongly encourage them to present next year as well. The following are the awards given on behalf of the Health Sciences Division. Thanks to all the judges for their hard work in evaluating the students. Your efforts are greatly appreciated. Faculty Awards: Excellence in Health Sciences Education: Faye Johnson Excellence in Applied Science Education: Carolyn Beck Student Awards: Poster Presentations: High School: 1st place: Rachel Lockhard 2nd place: Erin Wiggers 3rd place: LaRue Sutton Undergraduate: 1st place: Derrick Huang 2nd place: Michael Opata 3rd place: Joshua Swan, Gabrielle Pickle, Matthew Burford CHS (Cylinder Head Sector) An earlier method of addressing a hard disk by referencing all three physical elements of the drive. It was superseded by logical block addressing (see LBA). Undergraduate: 1st place: Katie Womack and Cassie McClendon 2nd place: Heather DeLaSalle 3rd place: Mary Gao Graduate: 1st place: Laura Franklin 2nd place: Leshundra Young 3rd place: Janelle Pryor CHS Graduate: 1st place: Scott Wingerter 2nd place: LaToya Richards 3rd place: Joel Davis Oral Presentations: High School: 1st place: Sara Ali Undergraduate: 1st place: Katrice Martin 2nd place: Christopher Bennett 3rd place: John Stoker Medical Students: 1st place: Crystal Berry 2nd place: Laura Piazza 3rd place: Courtney Shires Graduate Students: 1st place: Chinwendu Onwubiko 2nd place: Pamela Ruffin 3rd place: Alexis Hand Mississippi Academy of Science Divisional Report: Physics and Engineering--February 2006 Meeting There were eight professional and fifteen student oral presentations, and one student poster presented. The symposium, which was given in six technical sessions, was well attended by members of other conference divisions with attendance increasing for each subsequent session. I am pleased to report that the quality of talks presented was excellent. I was very much impressed with presentations done by graduate students from the University of Mississippi The University of Mississippi, also known as Ole Miss, is a public, coeducational research university located in Oxford, Mississippi. Founded in 1848, the school is composed of the main campus in Oxford and three branch campuses located in Booneville, Tupelo, and Southaven. and Mississippi State University Mississippi State University, at Mississippi State, near Starkville; land-grant and state supported; coeducational; chartered 1878 as an agricultural and mechanical college, opened 1880. From 1932 to 1958 it was known as Mississippi State College. . We had interesting and fruitful discussions of every paper presented. I believe that the graduate students and professionals are encouraged to keep a professional level of the symposium at the future meetings. Graduate Student Awards Oral Competition (15 presentations) 1st Place Mahmoud Ismail $50.00 Paper: "Performance of Dual-Branch Maximal Ratio Combining Diversity Over Non-Identical Correlated Weibull Fading Channels Using Pade Approximation" 2nd Place Tutku Karacolak $40.00 Paper: "Simulation of Double-Sided Rounded Bow-Tie Antennas For UW Communications" 3rd Place 1. Yizhe Zhang $30.00 Paper" FDTD FDTD Finite Difference Time Domain FDTD From Dusk 'Til Dawn Analysis of a Probe-Fed Dielectric Resonator Antenna If the dielectric resonator is placed in an open environment, power is lost in the radiated fields. This fact makes dielectric resonators useful as antenna elements. Dielectric resonator antennas (DRA) offer following attractive features: 2. Dalia Elsherbeni $30.00 Paper: "Design of a Wideband Microstrip Power Divider" The $150.00 cash award in oral competition was donated by the School of Engineering at The University of Mississippi. The meeting was chaired by Dr. Alexander Yakovlev of the Electrical Engineering Department at The University of Mississippi and co-chaired by Dr. S. Kant Vajpayee of the University of Southern Mississippi Division Officers elected for 2006-2007 are: Chairman: Dr. S. Kant Vahpayee, The University of Southern Mississippi Vice Chmn: Dr. Erdem Topsakal, Mississippi State University Mississippi Academy of Science Divisional Report Division of Zoology zoology, branch of biology concerned with the study of animal life. From earliest times animals have been vitally important to man; cave art demonstrates the practical and mystical significance animals held for prehistoric man. and Entomology entomology, study of insects, an arthropod class that comprises about 900,000 known species, representing about three fourths of all the classified animal species. During this past Seventieth Annual Meeting, all the activities of the Division were held in the afternoon {from 1:00 to 4:00 pm) on Thursday, February 23, 2006. The Division hosted six oral presentations and three posters representing several universities including: Mississippi University for Women • • [ , Mississippi Valley State University Mississippi Valley State University is a historically black university located in Itta Bena, Mississippi. The university is commonly referred to as MVSU or simply "The Valley." MVSU is a member school of the Thurgood Marshall Scholarship Fund. , Alcorn State University Alcorn State University, located near Lorman, Mississippi, United States, is a public land grant university. It was founded in 1871 as the nation's first state-supported higher education institution for blacks. , University of Mississippi, Jackson State University Jackson State University, often abridged as Jackson State or by its initials JSU is a historically black university located in Jackson, Mississippi founded in 1877. , and Mississippi State University. The attendance was very good. About 25-30 individuals attended the presentations; however only 10 individuals attended the Business meeting. In our Business meeting our Vice-Chair Dr. Julius Ikenga from Mississippi Valley State University was elected as the Division Chair and Dr. Aex D. W. Acholonu from Alcorn State University as the Vice-Chair. Dr. Acholonu has been the Chair of the Division during 2003-2004 and 2004-2005 Meetings, and we thank him to accept to come back. During the discussion, recommendations were made to encourage more participation. Division Chair, Elgenaid Hamadain |
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