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The ³Ô¹Ï±¬ÁÏ's 5th Annual Northeast Undergraduate Research Development Symposium (NURDS) held March 2-3 on ³Ô¹Ï±¬ÁÏ‚ Biddeford Campus drew 160 student researchers from Connecticut to New Brunswick, Canada.  

Representing 39 colleges and universities, the students presented research in biology, marine biology, physics, biochemistry, neuroscience, ecology and - new to NURDS this year - the humanities and social sciences.

The symposium, originated with funding from the National Science Foundation and now supported by the ³Ô¹Ï±¬ÁÏ Provost's Office, is the largest interdisciplinary undergraduate research conference in northern New England.  It is created, organized and run each year by undergraduate students.

This year's winners include:

First place

Roxanne Pelletier, Université de Moncton, New Brunswick, CAN, "An analysis method for the manganese content of saliva by ICP-MS"

Second place:

Justin Morse, Boston University, Boston, MA, "Calcium Handling Deficits Induced by Systemic Inflammatory Mediators in Rat Cardiomyocytes"

Third place:

Cassidy Peterson , ³Ô¹Ï±¬ÁÏ, ME, "Gestational analysis of the spiny dogfish (Squalus acanthias) by coupling ultrasound and steroid hormone analysis"

List of top 10 posters (unranked):

Madison Van Orden, Salve Regina University
Erika Albretson, Salve Regina University
Laura Cronley, Colby College
Matt Mulé, Tufts University
Katherine Egan, University of Rhode Island
Joseph Langan, ³Ô¹Ï±¬ÁÏ
Chandni Patel, Massachusetts College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences
Soren Hough, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
Elizabeth Velazquez and Tatiana Perez, University of New Haven
Stephanie St.Pierre, Université of Moncton

Talks:

Honorable mention
Gary Forster, Adam Zec, Kirsten Randle: University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA, Presentations on dark matter