Poster presentation for the 2012 University Scholars Day at the University of North Texas discussing research on the prevalence of heart disease in African-American men and the influence of cultural factors.

Poster presentation for the 2012 University Scholars Day at the University of North Texas discussing research on preventing, rather than curing, cancer.

Poster presentation for the 2012 University Scholars Day at the University of North Texas discussing research on the process of harvesting lightning as electrical energy.

Poster presentation for the 2012 University Scholars Day at the University of North Texas discussing the relative influences of personal psychological factors on conversational interpretation and behavior.

Poster for the 2012 University Scholars Day at the University of North Texas discussing skeletal lymph muscles as effectors of the arterial baroreflex in the cane toad (Rhinella marina).

Poster for the 2012 University Scholars Day at the University of North Texas discussing the socioeconomic and cultural impact of the homeless on the Denton, Texas community.

Poster for the 2012 University Scholars Day at the University of North Texas discussing the socioeconomics and the ethics of organ donation.

Poster for the 2012 University Scholars Day at the University of North Texas discussing science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) education and America's future.

Poster for the 2012 University Scholars Day at the University of North Texas discussing research on suicide across time and culture.

Poster presentation for the 2012 University Scholars Day at the University of North Texas discussing a trace element analysis of mineral water samples through XRF and ICP-MS.

Poster presentation for the 2012 University Scholars Day at the University of North Texas discussing research on transitioning coal-fired power plants into combined solar and wind energy power plants.

Poster presentation for the 2012 University Scholars Day at the University of North Texas discussing a scientific game to discover new mapping algorithms for domain-specific architectures named, "Untangled."

Poster presentation for the 2012 University Scholars Day at the University of North Texas discussing the most important factors for maximizing fan attendance at sporting events.

Poster presentation for the 2012 University Scholars Day at the University of North Texas discussing research on what is in our drinking water.

Poster from the Turtle Creek Chorale Collection advertising an emergency benefit concert which assisted people in Haiti following a massive earthquake in 2010. Proceeds from the concert would go towards the Clinton Bush Haiti Fund.

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The Environmental Molecular Sciences laboratory (EMSL) is a national scientific user facility operated by the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) for the U.S. Department of Energy's Office of Biological and Environmental Research. Located in Richland, Washington, EMSL offers researchers a comprehensive array of cutting-edge capabilities unmatched anywhere else in the world and access to the expertise of over 300 resident users--all at one location. EMSL's resources are available on a peer-reviewed proposal basis and are offered at no cost if research results are shared in the open literature. Researchers are encouraged to submit a proposal centered around one of EMSL's four Science Themes, which represent growing areas of research: (1) Geochemistry/Biogeochemistry and Subsurface Science; (2) Atmospheric Aerosol Chemistry; (3) Biological Interactions and Dynamics; and (4) Science of Interfacial Phenomena. To learn more about EMSL, visit www.emsl.pnl.gov.

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Physicochemical and microbiological processes taking place at environmental interfaces influence natural processes as well as the transport and fate of environmental contaminants, the remediation of toxic chemicals, and the sequestration of anthropogenic CO2. A team of scientists and engineers has been assembled to develop and apply new experimental and computational techniques to expand our knowledge of environmental kinetics. We are also training a cohort of talented and diverse students to work on these complex problems at multiple length scales and to compile and synthesize the kinetic data. Development of the human resources capable of translating molecular-scale information into parameters that are applicable in real world, field-scale problems of environmental kinetics is a major and relatively unique objective of the Institute's efforts. The EMSI team is a partnership among 10 faculty at The Pennsylvania State University (funded by the National Science Foundation Divisions of Chemistry and Earth Sciences), one faculty member at Juniata College, one faculty member at the University of Florida, and four researchers drawn from Los Alamos National Laboratory, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (funded by the Department of Energy Division of Environmental Remediation Sciences). Interactions among the applied and academic scientists drives research approaches …

This poster describes the Changes in Microbial Community Structure During Biostimulation for Uranium Reduction at Different Levels of Resolution

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Our goal is to use isotopic measurements to understand how contaminants are introduced to and stored in the vadose zone, and what processes control migration from the vadose zone to groundwater and then to surface water. We have been using the Hanford Site in south-central Washington as our field laboratory, and our investigations are often stimulated by observations made as part of the groundwater monitoring program and vadose zone characterization activities. Understanding the transport of contaminants at Hanford is difficult due to the presence of multiple potential sources within small areas, the long history of activities, the range of disposal methods, and the continuing evolution of the hydrological system. Observations often do not conform to simple models, and cannot be adequately understood with standard characterization approaches, even though the characterization activities are quite extensive. One of our objectives is to test the value of adding isotopic techniques to the characterization program, which has the immediate potential benefit of addressing specific remediation issues, but more importantly, it allows us to study fundamental processes at the scale and in the medium where they need to be understood. Here we focus on two recent studies at the waste management area (WMA) T-TX-TY, which …