Below is a list of winning Posters and Oral Presentations delivered at past Black Hills Research Symposia

Winning Oral Presentation from 2011

• Lindsay Stephens

“Here Is No Water:” A Platonic Consideration of T.S. Eliot’s The Waste Land

Faculty Mentor: Courtney Huse-Wika

Winning Undergraduate Poster Presentation from 2011

• William Rob Casey

  Printing Photographic Images on Hand Coated Metal Sheets

                  Faculty Mentor: Shawna Norman

• Clinton Lurz

  Common Stock Volatility and Dividend Policy: Evidence from Taiwan

                  Faculty Mentor: Sheng Yang

Winning Graduate Poster Presentation from 2011

• Jay L. Jacobs

  Isolation and determination of an antimicrobial compound extracted from Artemisia ludoviciana

  Faculty Mentor: John Dixson

 

Winning Oral Presentation from 2010

• Cara Bandalos, Dr. Nicholas Wallerstein and Dr. Margee Husemann,"The Wife of Bath vs. The Medieval Church"

   

Undergraduate Poster

• Brett Montieth and Dr. Cheryl Anagnopoulos, "NRXN3, DAT1 and Impulsivity"

Graduate Poster

• Joseph D. Manthey and Dr. Garth M. Spellman, "Ecological niche modeling corroborates cryptic species delimitation in the Brown Creeper (Certhiaamericana)" 

Winning Posters from 2009

Undergraduate Poster

• Jake Miller, senior biology major from Spearfish - “Microsatellite Development and Characterization in finescale dace (Phoxinus neogaeus) and interspecific amplification in northern redbelly dace (Phoxinus eos).” Miller was mentored by Dr. Cynthia Anderson, research faculty in the Center for the Conservation of Biological Resources (CCBR), and by Dr. Shane Sarver, professor and director of CCBR.
• Wendy O’Lexey, junior special education major from Rock Springs, Wyo. - “The relationship between Word Use Fluency and Reading Comprehension among Caucasian and Native American students.” O’Lexey was mentored by Dr. Lee Pearce, associate professor of education.
• Matthew O. Luebeck, sophomore psychology major from Hot Springs - “Are Negative Childhood Experience and 5-HTTLPR Genotype Associated with Alcohol Problems?” Luebeck was mentored by Dr. Scott Stoltenberg, associate professor of psychology.

Graduate Poster

• The award for best graduate poster went to Joseph D. Manthey, from Fond Du Lac, Wisc., who is pursuing a masters degree in integrative genomics. Manthey’s winning poster was titled “Methods for Development of PCR Primers for Twenty Anonymous Nuclear Loci in the Brown Creeper (Certhia americana).” He was mentored by Dr. Garth Spellman, assistant professor of science.

 Winning Posters from 2008

• PHYLOGEOGRAPHY OF THE BUSHTIT (PSALTRIPARUS MINIMUS)  
  Students: Jess Moser and John Klicka
  Faculty: Garth M. Spellman
  1st Place Winner
   
• THE INFLUENCE OF LEGAL AGE STATUS ON GAMBLING AND DRINKING PROBLEMS IN COLLEGE STUDENTS    
  Student: Krista B. Highland           
  Faculty: Scott F. Stoltenberg
  2nd Place Winner
   
• GENDER MODERATES ASSOCIATIONS BETWEEN IMPULSIVITY AND NEUROTRANSMITTER GENES
  Student: Melissa Lehman
  Faculty: Scott F. Stoltenberg
  3rd Place Winner
   

Winning Oral Presentations from 2008

• MATTHEWS OPERA HOUSE
  Students: Anne Dickman, Tami Blewett, and Hayley Jones
  1st Place Winner