Date: 04/07/2009

The San José State University Research Foundation and the Office of Graduate Studies and Research have selected the winners of the 30th annual SJSU Student Research Competition. The following individuals will be honored at a forum at noon Tuesday, April 7, in Engineering 285/287. Also, all three students will present their work at a systemwide competition in May.

• John Shrader, "Conflicted: The Barry Bonds Home Run Chase," faculty mentor Associate Professor Robert Rucker, master's in mass communications. Documentary interviews with 15 Bay Area sports writers examining media coverage of the controversial baseball player as he sets the home-run record.
• Julie Chun, "Reexamining Korean Modernist Painting Under Japanese Colonialism, 1910-1945," faculty mentors Professor Anne Simonson and Assistant Professor Beverly Grindstaff, master's in art history. Reexamination of Korean art under Japanese colonization. Research demonstrates state-run Japanese art schools accelerated the demise of traditional forms and the emergence of modernism.
• Andrew J. Ingram, "Advancing the Use of Chiral Europium and Terbium Complexes in Circularly Polarized Luminescence, an Analytical Tool, " faculty mentor Associate Professor Gilles Muller, bachelor's in chemistry. Five lanthanide complexes were studied in order to determine their viability as probes for an analytical technique used to study chiral molecules known as circularly polarized luminescence.