Undergraduate Research

Recent Undergraduate Capstone Projects

2012

• Lindsay Hansen, A Mathematical Look at Meteorology. Internship, WSAZ Meteorology.
• David Facemyer, The Hybrid Phonoriton in Organic-Semiconductor Heterostructures. Advisor: Dr. Q. Huong Nguyen, Physics
• Brittany Whited, Modelling Gravitropic Curvature in Pea Stems. Advisors: Dr. Marcia Harrison, Biological Sciences, and Dr. Scott Sarra, Mathematics
• Mallory Price, Data Analysis of Respiratory Rates of Freshwater Mussels in Declining Oxygen Conditions. Advisors: Dr. Jeffrey Kovatch, Biological Sciences, and Dr. Anna Mummert, Mathematics
• Ayo Akinsete, Degrees of Skewness. Advisor: Dr. Laura Adkins, Mathematics

2011

• Jeremy Brooks, Predicting the Offensive Play Calling of the 2011 Marshall Thundering Herd Football Team. Advisor: Dr. Alfred Akinsete
• Jamie Burchett, Counter-steering on single-track vehicles. Advisor: Dr. Bonita Lawrence
• Stephen Deterding, Differential Equations on the Complex Plane. Advisor: Dr. Evelyn Pupplo-Cody
• George Chappell, The Fundamental Correspondence. Advisor: Dr. Peter Saveliev
• Jack Goodman, Riemann Surfaces. Advisor: Dr. Bonita Lawrence
• Brittany Massie, "Optimal" Blackjack Strategy and the Mathematics. Advisor: Dr. Laura Adkins
• Derek Muskgrave, Ulam's Spiral and Its Diagonals. Dr. John Drost
• Samantha Skelley, Time Scales Calculus and the Differential Analyzer. Advisor: Dr. Bonita Lawrence
• Sean Sovine, The Implicational Logic of Reverse Mathematics. Advisor: Dr. Carl Mummert
• Kacie Sutton, Discretizing the SI Epidemic Model. Advisor: Dr. Anna Mummert
• Leah Treadway, Conics Graphed on a Sphere. Advisor: Dr. Judith Silver

2010

• Maggie Elizabeth Chenoweth, The Mathematics of Numerical Computing.
• Anthony Michael Hernandez, The Mathematics of an Interferogram of a System in Motion During a Brief Time Interval.
• David Hines, Particular to General: An Introduction to Time-Scales Calculus.
• Alex King, Von Staudt Theory: The Synthetic Treatment of Imaginary Elements within Projective Geometry.
• John Linville, Improvements in Titanium-Dioxide Thin-Film Dye Sensitized Solar Cells.
• Tyson Joseph Lipscomb, Gödel's Incompleteness Theorems: A Revolutionary View of the Nature of Mathematical Pursuits.
• Chad Lott, A Study of Einstein's Theory of Relativity.
• Andrew Merritt, Time Scales and the Cantor Set.
• Carla Ramirez, Game Theory and the Question of Work: Modeling Economic Work Decisions in West Virginia using 2-Person Non-Zero Sum Games.
• Kole Shannon, Fractals: Mandelbrot's Gift to the World.
• Kevin Western, Different Picture Planes of Perspective.
• Jewelia Williams, The Effects of Multiple Representations on Mathematical Academic Performance.