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Posted
4/10/2008
Public Health Students Recognized
On Graduate Student Day
Approximately 100 graduate students from across the
university submitted posters or did oral presentations on their research
in a Graduate School competition. Nineteen presentations from 21
students in the Arnold School of Public Health were submitted in several
categories. Of those, 10 graduate students in the Arnold School of
Public Health won awards for their posters or oral presentations in four
categories at the Graduate Student Day ceremony held on April 2, 2008 at
the Russell House.
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Dr. Andrew Sorensen with first place winners Alexis Koskan
Health Promotion Education and Behavior and Daphney Barr Journalism and
Mass Communications and Dr. James Buggy. |
Arnold School student winners in the competition are as follows:
HEALTH SCIENCES & POLICY (poster sessions)
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First Prize:
Erin Rivers,
Exercise Science, Examining the efficacy and feasibility of an intense
mobility intervention in individuals with chronic stroke: A pilot study
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Second Prize:
India Rose, Health Promotion, Education, & Behavior, Using a
multi-level conceptualization of health literacy to explore older
African-American men's knowledge, information seeking, and message needs
about prostate cancer prevention
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Third Prize:
Mark Cairns &
Jamie
McClellan, Exercise Science, Glucose and lipid metabolism in a mouse model
of cancer cachexia
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First Runners-Up:
Sarah Huggins &
Jelanie Kerr, Health
Promotion, Education, & Behavior, Neighborhood stress and its
relationship to risk behaviors among adolescents in Columbia, SC
COMMUNICATION, JOURNALISM, & LINGUISTICS (oral presentations)
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First
Prize: Daphney Barr &
Alexis Koskan, Journalism & Mass Communications,
Mobilizing for disaster: An examination of disaster/emergency
preparedness information on television news web sites
MOLECULAR, BIOMEDICAL, & MATERIALS RESEARCH (poster sessions)
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Third
Prize: Benjamin Bey, Environmental Health Science, An efficient method for
extracting high molecular DNA from microbial mats
HEALTH & PHYSIOLOGY (oral presentations)
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Second Prize:
G. William Lyerly, Exercise
Science, Effects of combined aerobic and resistance exercise training on
lean tissue mass in HIV-infected men
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Third Prize:
Brandy Duncan, Exercise
Science, The effect of intensive mobility training booster session in an
individual with chronic spinal cord injury
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