From left to right: Jose Pineda, mentor, with his scholar Jada Aikman; Denise Emerson, Ashley Richardson and Frederic Nguyen.
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At its annual spring banquet in April, the University Scholars Program announced the winners of the 2004 Best Paper Competition. There was one overall winner of Best Qualitative Paper, Ashley Richardson, for "No One Knows Their Names: The Women of the Southern Regional Council and the South Carolina Council on Human Relations." Finalists included Jared Binstock and Denise Emerson.
Judges could not agree on a Best Quantitative Paper, so there was a four-way tie between Jada Aikman, for her paper "Functional Degradomics of Proteolytic Processing of Cytoskeletal Proteins by Caspase-3 and Calpain Following Traumatic Brain Injury in the Immature Rat Brain," Ryan Chancey for "Fragmentation of Fullerenes," Micah Coleman for "An (almost) Optimal Answer to a Question by Wilf," and Frederic Nguyen for "The Effects of Mannitol-Induced Hypersmolality on rAAV2-Mediated Transduction in Rat Striatum." Honorable mentions went to Jennifer Jeung and Erica Chambers.
The Best Paper Competition is judged by the Dial Center for Written and Oral Communication and other faculty members across campus. Submissions are welcomed from all current students in the University Scholars Program and the deadline to apply is February 1 each year.
