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Several representatives from Elizabeth City State University made poster presentations during this years "Posters on the Hill" event at the capitol in Raleigh, North Carolina. They were accompanied by Dr. Mickey L. Burnim, Chancellor and Dr. Carolyn Mahoney, Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs. Students representing ECSU were Carl Seward, Golar Newby, Danielle Graves, Nelson Veales, and Linwood Creekmore. More information regarding their presentations can be found at the 2002 Summer Internships page.

ECSU Students with UNC President, Molly Corbett Broad

Student researcher Danielle Graves explains her research to Dr. Burnim Dr. Mahoney and Dr. Burnim with student researcher Linwood Creekmore Dr. Burnim and Dr. Mahoney with student researcher Golar Newby Student researcher Carl Seward Research Title: Working on A Toroidal Large Hadron Collider Apparatus Transition Radiation Tracker (ATLAS TRT) Experiment Poster in .jpg format Student researcher Nelson Veales Research Title: Forward Finite Difference Modeling of Seismic Wave Propagation Poster in .jpg format Student researcher Danielle Graves Research Title: The Analysis of Fuel Optimal Periodic Trajectories Poster in .jpg format Student researcher Golar Newby Research Title: Quality of Service Networking Utilizing Protective Preferential Treatment over a Gigabit Ethernet Environment Student researcher Linwood Creekmore Research Title: CdSe Semiconductor Nanomaterial Synthesis and Nonlinear Optical Spectroscopy for Optical Power Limiting Applications Poster in .jpg format