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Research Award Recipients

Project Descriptions: Natural Science and Engineering, Social Science and Humanities

Undergraduate researchers speak about their work at research lunches on Tuesdays and Fridays.

President's Award for Undergraduate Research

2006
John Di Camillo: Il Terrorismo in Italia nel 1978: La Vicenda Moro
Michael D. Grosack: Revisiting the Iron Cage: New Insights in Institutions Theory from Max Weber's The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism
Sarah Bertozzi: Vicious Geography: The Spatial Organization of Prostitution in Twentieth Centry Philadelphia
Max Fraser: Blue-Collar Patriots: The New York Hard Hat Riots and the Remaking of Class in America
Lindsay Owens: The Effects of Physician Trust on Preferences for and Beliefs about Genetic Testing
Lauren Tang: Neural Adaptation of the Hair Cell Afferent Synapse
Amelia Duffy Tumasz: Credit and Co-wives: Exploring Empowerment in Senegal
Thomas Lay: "Account Mee Man": Economic Incarnation and Commonwealth in Paradise Lost
Melissa Miller

2005
Noah Pink - Foreign Perceptions of Joola Resistance in the Casamance: Over Three Centuries of Misinterpretation and Misunderstanding
Albert Lang - Catalytic mechanism of phytochelatin synthase, a cysteine protease-like transpeptide
Samantha S. Goldman - Self Discipline Predicts Academic Performance in Low-Achieving Adolescents
Rachel Rouhana - Yes, Madam! The Exploitation of Female Migrant Domestic Workers in Lebanon
Jessica Fain - Tides of Resistance and Resiliance: Changes in Cuban Art in the Periodo Especial
Zachary James Silver - The Excommunication of Mordecai Kaplan: How an Act of Intolerance Paved the Way Towards Cultural Pluralism in Post-war America
Samuel Kahn - Kant, Negative Freedom, and Contingent Evil
War and Identity: Stalin, Khmelnytsky, and Russo-Ukrainian Relations
Penina Bernstein - Creating a World of Trust (photographs)
Willa Rohrer - Stinging Red, Smarting Pink: The Ethics of Representation in Nabokov's Lolita

2004
Sean Cusack, Joyce Tam and Eiji Takizawa (Chemical Engineering)
Andria Bibiloni (Fine Arts)
Emily Blumenthal (History)
Jennifer Burgess (Spanish)
Natalia Adler (French)
Lynn Huang (English)
Terri Ginsberg (History)
Alastair Green (African Studies)
Justin Hulbert (Psychology)
Philip Labo (Biology)
Kate Lehman (PPE)
Erica Miao (English)

Association of Alumnae Scholars Rosemary D. Mazzatenta Award

2006
Giselle Aris: Internship at Bureau of African Affairs, US Dept of State
Rachel Han: The Health of Philadelphia Photo-documentation Project
Megan Peppel: Policy-Making in Argentina and Bolivia

2005
Nataliya Biskup: Children of Chernobyl Relief Fund
2005 - Kate Wallis: New York Dept. of Health & Mental Hygeine

2004
Karina Totah
Alison Silber

2002
Zoya Bozhko (COL '04)
Nicole Lovelock (COL '03)

2001
Miriam Ackerman (COL'02)
Melissa Torres (COL'02)

College Research Grant

2006
Brian Anderson: Ayahuasca and environmental beliefs in Bahia
Brianne Bharkhda: Papal politics & urban transformation of Rome
Mehul Bhatt: Injury-induced caspase activity and cell death
Sarah Breger: Sentenced to Marriage: “Chained Women” in wartime
Amy Chowansky: Obese individuals & stress-reduction mediation
Joshua Cook: Pathogenesis of type 2 diabetes
Maxwell Elia: Novel coupling of benzyl halides to aryl trifluoroborates
Fei Fang: Water and sanitation programs in developing countries
Arun Ganesh: Characterization of proteins in Toxoplasma gondii
Lauren Gaydosh: Evaluating HIV prevention programs in Malawi
Sarah Gilbert: Religiosity and AIDS preventive Behaviors in Senegal
Sara Gorman: 15th century marginal annotations of the Book of Margery Kempe
Aviva Horrow: Development of Biocentric Thought in Industrial America
Anton Matytsin: Fideistic Skepticism in France, 1680-1730
Ellen Mossman: Elite preservation of an idealized history
Mana Nakagawa: Hikikomori phenomenon amongst Japanese youth
Athma Pai: Genetic Diversity of Saraswati Brahmins
Zev Rosen: Mindfulness training for adults with ADD
Andrea Seligman: African-European diplomacy, 1300-1590
Noah Snyder-Mackler: How cowbirds find others of their own species
Stephanie Yee: Influenza and pneumococcal vaccination in cancer patients

2005
Joanne Baron: Mayan Archeology
Jay Solomon: 18th c. Unitarian & Trinitarian theology
Cristina Suroiu: Belief Maintenance
Mary Zeng: Germans and the Armenian genocide
Amelia Aldao: Psychology of speech recognition
Gregory Berger: Policy impact of NixonÕs ÒWar on DrugsÓ
Philip Berkman: Victorian architecture in Philadelphia
Megan Birdsill: 19th c. British conceptions of Argentina
Amelia Duffy Tumasz: Microcredit in Senegal
Rebekah Flake: 1920s German housing
Di Hu: Structural change of Roman coinage
Melanie Liu: Production and characterization of antibodies
Jessica Morton: DADA in New York from 1916 to 1921
Kirtesh Patel: Oral cancer
Justin Raphael: Origins of Anglo-American alliance
Robert Rennert: Inhibition of HIV release
Hadassa Sigel: Alvar Aalto
Kimberly Siegal: Oral history of 1967 Newark riots
Ryan Tracy: Use of term ÒgenocideÓ in Nigerian civil war
Elise Schweitzer: Paintings of the female nude
Jennifer Stellar: Social context, dominance, & reprodution
Alice Tang: Neural training with the MC Square Device

2004
Nikki Chow - "Applying the Theory of Planned Behavior to Predict Adolescent Fruit Consumption"
Janna Hoffman - "Behavioral Assays related to schizophrenia onto NRG1 mouse models"
Sara Clopton - "Social Stratification of Spanish /s/ and /O/ variants"
Danielle Trief - "A Cross-Cultural investigation of the motivations underling acts of altruism"
Alex Aronson - "Fraudulent Profiteering in United States history"
Erica Miao - "A textual study, literary analysis, and musical history of the medieval Christian Latin hymn Salve Mundi Salvatore"
Robert MacNeil - "Primitive Hut in the Modern City: An Analysis of protest Architecture in Philadelphia"
Alison Silber - Internship, Bureau of Democracy, Labor and Human Rights and Internship, Seeds of Peace
Christina Gravatt - "Agricultural Effects of the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Century on the Landscape and Environment of the Northern Half of the Isle of Arran, Scotland"
Linshuang Lu - "Chinese identity and attitudes towards the world: a comparative study between secondary school literature and popular literature"
Robert Scheyder - "Pattern Matching in Neanderal and Early Modern Human mtDNA Hypervariable Region"
Alexandra Verini - "The Pilgrimage to Santiago de Compostela: Romanesque Sculptre on the via Tolosana"
Dana Katz - "The Iconography of Mosaics in the Cappella Palarina in Norman Sicily of the 12th Century"
Emily Conn - "Obstetric and Sociodemographic Factors associated with Epidural Anesthesia During Labor and Vaginal Delivery"
Poornima Vanguri - "Understanding Motivations of Bariatric Surgery"
Rena Zheng - "The Role of CIP4 in a Cytotoxic Immunologic Synapse"
Dave Hindin - "Reverse Micelle Characterization of DsRed"

2003
Anthony Ambrosini - "Archaeology Straddling Time: Malloura, ca. 600 BCE and Athienou, ca 2000 CE"
Rachel Bybee - "The Effect of Social Darwinism on French Imperialism in Morocco at the Dawn of the 20th Century"
Carol Chyau - "Sustainability of Microfinance Institutions: A Case Study on Edyficar"
Lauren Cohen - "The Effects of Instant Messenger and Self-Disclosure on Trust"
Mei Elansary - "A Possible Solution to the Antibiotic Resistance Problem: Studying the role of integrases in resistance acquisition through optimization of expression and crystalization of the different variants of integrases"
Meredith Gamer - "Political and Cultural Implications of Seventeenth-Century Maps and City Views of Paris, France"
John Guinan - "The Incidence and Outcome of Medical Malpractice Cases Involving Hospital-Acquired Infections in Pennsylvania"
Madhu Kumar - "Characterization of Chromosome Aberrations in Head and Neck Cancer by Array Comparative Genomic Hybridization"
Melissa LaVigne - "Benjamin Franklin's Diplomatic Mission to Paris in 1777"
Frank Lin - "Interaction between TACE and Signal Transduction Proteins"
Hayley Lofink - "Obesity and Type-II Diabetes in the Children of Hispanic Migrant Workers in Southern New Jersey"
Paul Samuelson - "A study of how interactions between Samuel Beckett and W. Bion affected their work"
Marc Tarlock - "The Battle of the Teaching of Evolution and Creationism in the 1980s"
Sarah Tobey - "Regulation and Function of the Hormone Ghrelin Involved in Body Weight Homeostasis"
Elizabeth Todd - "An Investigation of Black/Jewish Relations in Chicago During the Interwar Period, in a Labor Context"
Joannie Yeh - "In 3D: Examining the Correlation between Lewy bodies, senile plaques and neurofibrillary tangles in Alzheimer's Disease and Parkinson's Disease"
Mateusz Zadrozny - "An Historical Anatomy of the Argentine Crisis: 1991-2001"
Nicholas Zwang - "Individualist Anarchism in the United States"

2002
Ariel Amdur: "Applications of the Hodge Decomposition Theorem"
Eugene Brudno: "Investigation into the Stereochemistry of the [2+2] photocylcoaddtion/retro-Mannich/Mannish sequence of vinylogous amides"
Nicole Giuliani: "Dissociating Maintenance + Response in Working Memory: A Functional MRI Study"
Claudia Jones: "The Effect of Climate Change on the Health of Coral Reefs in the Eastern Caribbean "
Eric Knibbs: "The Biblical exegesis of Mattia Bellintani da Salo"
Stephanie Langin-Hooper: "Hellenistic Greek and Indo-Parthian cultural influences on Bactrian mythology and iconography in first century CE goddess figurines"
Andrew Lee: "Determine the Effect of Age on MRL/lpr Mice in the Efficacy of Bone Marrow Stem Cell Transplant"
Marc-Edouard Leon: "Examining the French Perspective on the Cultural Consequences of Americanization and Postmodernism"
David Levin: "An Analysis of the Hitherto Success of the Global Compact and the Implications of its Core Competency of Networking for Promoting Cooperative Development Projects"
Frank Lin: "The use of bacteria two-hybrid system for the identification of TAC interacting proteins"
Jonah Lowenfeld: "Architectural Theory in Architectural History: Contextualizing Carlludwig Franck"
Adrian O'Connor: "To Wear Two Masks: British Images of National Self-Identification in 1916"
Timothy Pirolli: "Treatment of Pressure-Overload Cardiac Hypertrophy with Gene Therapy in Rats"
Rosalyn Plotzker: "The effect of abuse on women¹s risk of acquiring HIV through injection drugs"
Rishi Porecha: "Purification and subsequent characterization of the catalytic core of Complex I/NDH-1, a multisubunit protein, by use of EPR spectroscopy and other optical techniques"
Amanda Sadacca: "Effects of Ghrelin Administration in the Caudal Brainstem: Ghrelin as an ³Eat Now² Signal?"
Ariane Schwartz: "The Commentary on a Latin Text"
Azul Schwartz: "Landscape and urbanscape painting in Umbrian region of Italy"
Ankoor Shah: "Identification of Domains of Myc that are required for lymphomagenesis"
Sarah Tobey: "Finding a Cellular Internal Ribosome Entry Site"
Luba Voinov: "VirA/VirG Regulatory System in Agrobacterium Tumefaciens"
Alyson Waxman: "The Involvement of the Prefrontal Cortex in Memory Distraction"

2001
Elizabeth Baker (COL'02): "Trade and Trade Systems as Evidenced in the Archaeology of Cerro La Cruz, Peru"
Patrick Brett (COL'02): "Adobe Manufacture in the Andean Past"
Amanda Doherty (COL'03): "Regulation of Soluble Adenylyl Cyclase Expression"
Laura Geller (COL'02): "Nostalgia and the Resurgence of Model Plays in Contemporary China"
Ana Maria Gomez Lopez (COL'03): "Ser Macizeno: The Role of Cultural Discourse in a Colombia Social Movement"
Jennifer Hui Bon Hoa (COL'02): "The Four-Dimensional Object: Towards an Articulation on the Non-Place in Abstract Photography"
Amanda Jagolino (COL'02): "Regulation of Brain Blood Flow Following Newborn Hypoxia and Ischemia"
Sangmin Lee (COL'03): "Study of the Localization of EnvZ in e.coli"
Lindsey Mathews(COL'02): "Evaluating Whether the Way that the Mature Global Economy Interacts with Emerging Economies is Appropriate"
Amrom Obstfeld (COL'04): "Participation of CD 11b/CD 18 in Production of Reactive Oxygen Species"
Eileen Weinstein (COL'02): "Patronage Patterns from the Revolution to the Empire as a Reflection of the Relationship Between Time, Place and Art"

Class of 1971 Robert J. Holtz Endowed Fund for Undergraduate Research

2006
Sujit Datta: Electrostatic Force Microscopy Characterization of Carbon Nanotubes and Nanotube-Derived Structures
Amber Woodward: Li Yang and His Crazy English

Rose Award

2006
Hannah Shacter: Access to emergency contraception
Phillip Berkman: Recreation of Colonial Philadelphia
Sarah Eskreis-Winkler: 1943 BRUSA Agreement
Josh Gordon: Capture Terroism in the 1970s & 80s
Michael Grosack: Weber’s Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism
Ashley Johnson: Identity formation
Thomas Lay: “Account Mee Man”: Economic Incarnation and Commonwealth in Paradise Lost
Claudia Moser: Naked Power: The Phallus as an Apotropaic Symbol in the Images and Text of Roman Italy
Kirtesh Patel: Identification of a Gene Signature for Rapid Screening of Oral Squamous Cell Carcinoma
Melissa Shive: The Heavenly Host: Angel Pietas of the Italian Renaissance

2003
Corey Brooks - "The Effect of the Electoral College on Voter Turnout"
Lauren Delfs - "The Hunt for the Proto-Augment: Cross-Linguistic Parallels for Developments in Indo-European"
Adam Furman - "Characterization of Phase Locking in the Chick Cochlear Nerve"
Meredith Gamer - "Iconoclasm in Art History: The Reformation, the French Revolution, and the Taliban"
AnaMaria Gomez Lopez - "Legitimacies of Justice: Nasa Communities, the State and Legal Luralism in Northern Cauca, Columbia"
Lauren Gross - "The 1961 Non-Renewal of the US-Saudi airfield Agreement"
Danielle Kudla - "Foreign Intrusion: Western Involvement in the Exportation of Internet and Surveillance Technology to China"
Katherine Monohan -
Rachel Moser - "An Expressive Writing Intervention for Canine Search and Rescue Team Handlers Deployed after Sept 11, 2001"
Michael Perling - "Effect of Brand and Outlet Variation on Price in Malaysia, China, Singapore and Thailand"
Ankoor Shah - "Generation of Retroviruses Expressing Anti-Apoptotic Genes for the Study on Turnorigenic Conversion of Murine Bone Marrow Cells"
Claire Sherman - "Revelation: Psychological Relationships within Contemporary Figurative Painting"
Katie Turner - "Diversity of Arbuscular Mycorrhizal Fungi and its Influences on Soil Dynamics"

2002
Lawrence Bish - "Gene Transfer of HGF I's superior to VEGF in Inducing Coronary Agiogenesis and Preserving Myocardial Contractility"
Amanda Jagolino - "Protein Tyrosine Kinase and Mitogen-Activated Protine in Kinase Activation Contribute to NOC/oFQ Induced Impairment of Hypercapnic Cerebrovasodilation After Hypoxia/Ischemia"
Saurabh Moonat and Heather Schloss - "A Comparison of Cognitive Restructuring and Emotional Processing as Coping Responses to a Depressing Life Event"
David Muir - "New Technology as the Impetus for Change in the Behavioral Patterns of the Firm in the Movie Industry"
Yaran Noti - "Pieces of Poetry and Poetry in Pieces: A Print History of Spenser's Faerie Queene"
Christie Olsen and Elizabeth Santarsiero- "Qualitative Analysis of African-American Adolescent Females' Beliefs Regarding Emergency Contraception"
Amy Rosen - "Measurement of Spatiotemporal Cytoskeletal Deformation in Living Endothelial Cells"
Emily Sama Martin - "Volunteer Satisfaction and Tenure in the West Philadelphia Tutoring Project and the Kite & Key Society at the University of Pennsylvania"
Alisa Valderrama - "Vincente Blasco Ibanez: Journalist and Radical Republican"
Aparna Wilder - "Postpartum Smoking and Relapse in the African-American Community: A Look into the Public Health of Tobacco"

2001
Joseph Auriemma (COL'01): "Sex Differences in Self-Report Bias and Socially Desirable Responding in BDS-II"
Ashara Cashaw (COL'01): "Sex Differences in Self-Report Bias and Socially Desirable Responding in BDS-II"
Emil Corsillo (COL'01): "Do You Like Pretty Things? Anthrobot Family Portraits, Three Futile Attempts at Comprehending Infinity, and All New Robot MammaryLand Mines in 9 Delicious Flavors!!!"
Cristian Dobre (COL'01): "Reproducibility of Retinopic Mapping of Primary Cortex"
Erica Fruiterman (COL'01): "Printing, Binding and Reading in 17th Century England: The Production and Reproduction of George Herbert¹s The Temple
Alfred Hanssen (COL'01): "Metaphysical Manifestations of the Fourth Dimension"
Jaideep Hebbar (WH'01): "Escaping the Inescapable: Developing Strategies to Manage Risks from Catatastrophes"
Brooke Kelly (COL'01): "Inquiry Into Forms of Non-Verbal Communication"
Robert Pringle (COL'01): "To Educate the Head, the Hand and the Soul: the Challenges to State Supported Higher Education in the Post Bellum South"
Asgeir Sigfusson (COL'01): "The effect of trade dependence and cultural affinity on small state voting behavior in the General Assembly of the United Nations"
Caroline Sokol (COL'01): "Dendritic Cell Alterations in Lupus Prone lpr. Mice"

Nassau Fund Award

2005

Michelle Attner: KIX transcription factor binding domain
Rebecca Bixby: Pesticide exposure & migrant farmworkers
Yvonne Chan: Genetics
Ryan Cochran: Yeast cytoskeletons
Hormuzdiyar Dasenbrock: Wartime protection of monuments
Tim Ganser: International social security systems
Maryellen Guinan: Physicians' communication styles
Justin Hulbert: Sleep and memory
Emmanuelle Humblet: Riparian ecology
Erik Malmgren: Genetics of attention deficit disorder
Erin O'Brien: Psychology of third-party punishment
Kirtesh Patel: Oral cancer
Christopher Sales: Wastewater treatment
Leigh Seeleman: Nitrogen Fixation
Erin Springer: Congo Reform Association
Sherefiah Tomlinson: Right of Passage

2004


Divya Bhatt (COL 2006) "Identification and Characterization of a Putative Microtubule Binding Protein"
Maggie Cocca (COL 2004) "Mitochondrial Diversity in Ethnic Russians"
Katy Cross (COL 2005) "Executive Control and Working Memory: Resolving Proactive Interferenece"
Alastair Green (COL/WH 2005) "Informal Consumption Smoothing Mechanisms in Rural Sierra Ecuador: Examining the Demand for Microinsurance"
Alan Lewis (COL 2005) "Efforts Toward the Total Synthesis of Anti-inflammatory Natural Products Cyclomarins A-C"
Nishi Mehta (COL 2004) "Mitochondrial DBA Variation in Old Believers"
Alyssa Neir (COL 2004) "The Effects of Drought on Groundwater Quality: Examples from the Mid-Atlantic Region"
Lara Roman (COL 2004) "Soil characterization and forest structure along topographic transects in the montane cloud forests of the Luquilo Experimental Forest, Puerto Rico"
Jesse Salazar (COL 2005) "Captain America during the WWII Era: A Case Study in Paradigmatic Nationalism"
Gagan Sawhney (COL 2005) "Cortical Neuron activation after hypoglycemia"
Rebekah Selwyn (NURS 2007) "The Relationship between Socioeconomic Status and Hospitalization for Heart Failure"
Rajiv Shah (COL 2004) "Microbial Activity Responses to Oil and Agricultural Stress Factors between Three Streams in Souhteastern Pennsylvania"
Sarah Singer (COL 2004) "El movimiento de la Nueva Trova coma una forma de comentario social y polico y su relacion con la revolucion cubana"
Blair Wisco (COL 2004 ) " "
Jessica Work (COL 2004) "The Emerging Indigenous-Led Political Movements in Bolivia"

2003

Richard Alonso (COL '02) "Nutrient Translocation to Chesapeake Bay"
Anthony Ambrosini (COL '04) "Archaeology Straddling Time"
Arielle Bernstein (COL '03) "On the Acquisition of DP in English-Speaking Children with SRI"
Mary Braun (COL '03) "Land Value Taxation"
Yevgeny Brudno (COL '04) "Proposed Investigation into the Sterochemistry of the 2+2 photocycloaddition/retro-Mannich sequence of vinylogous amides"
Christopher Crisman (COL '03) "What Steel Remains a Visual Perspective of the Western Pennsylvanian Steel Industry"
Julia Gottlieb (COL '03) "Mythic Exoticism: An analysis of modern scholarship on Hildegaard von Bingen"
Marisa Groveman (COL '03) "The Population histories of Three Jiri Region Ethnic Groups from Nepal Through mtDNA Analysis"
Bennette Harrison (COL '03) "The Zagros Auignacian: More than Typology"
Dora Kravitz (COL ' 030 "Investigation of the Influence of Soil and Moisture Induced Corrosion on the Magnetic Properties of Buried Steel Toxic Waste Drums"
Katarzyna Kubin (COL '03) "Race Relations in France: A Colonial Legacy"
Emily Mok (EAS '03) "Healthcare Privacy Policy: A Case Study on Breast Cancer Genetic Testing (BRCA 1 and 2)
James Palardy (COL '04) "The Effects of Depth and Mophology on Feeding Rates for Three Scleractinian Corals: An Experimental Approach"
Adrian Pike (COL '03) "A Hydrologic and Soil Analysis of Bosque Estatal de Susua, Puerto Rico"
Sahand Rahi (COL '05) "Protein Structure Predictions"
Janai Williams (COL '03) "Reshaping a Neighborhood: The Impact of Urban Renewal Policies on the Hill District"
Aaron Yunis (COL/WH '02) "What is the required t-statistc in the Capital Structure Literature?"

2002


Jaime Bard (COL '02): "Great Old Broads for Wilderness: Little Old Ladies and America's Wild Lands"
Christine Bare (COL '02): "Weaving Identities: The Revival of Germantown Textiles in Navajo Culture"
April Birnbaum (COL '02): "The Strategies of Achieving Environmental Justice: A Comparative Analysis of Grassroots Efforts in Chester City, PA and Covent, LA"
Jordan Fishman (COL '03): "The Neural Basis of Visual Distraction"
Christina Kaba (COL '02): "Forward modeling of nutrient loading in the Gulf of Mexico through the quantification of an agricultural watershed"
Eric Lee (EAS '03): "Biotinylation of proteins using yeast surface-displayed biotin protein ligase"
Sangmin Lee (COL '03): "Membrane heterogeneity and its role in protein localization in E. coli"
Jason Lewis (COL '04): "Apples and Oranges: Comparing Manual Cranial Measurement Techniques and Computed Topography"
Craig Platt (COL '02): "The N-end Rule in Toxoplasma gondii"
Rebecca Spivack (COL '02): "The Effects of Dihydroxyphenylserine on the Postnatal Development of Mice Lacking Dopamine B-Hydroxylase"
Ellen Tarquinio (COL '02): "Beyond the Marshal Decision: Alternative Management and Sustainable Fisheries"
Aparna Wilder (COL '02): "Postpartum Smoking Relapse in the African American Community"
Sandra Yim (COL '03): "Frontal lobe lesions and working memory: an on-line measure of ambiguity resolution"

2001


Dmitriy Boyarchenko (COL'03): "Compactifications of Spherical Varieties and Applications"
Toni Carruol De Mayo (COL'01): "Coral Bleaching Survey: Glover's Reef Atoll, Belize"
Jason S. Chinitz (COL'03): "Active Avoidance Learning Among Inbred Mice Strains"
Zachary Christman (COL'01): "Irrigation Necessities of the Chao Valley, Peru"
Dara Ditsworth (COL'01): "Determining the Role of Caspase Activity in Neonatal Neuronal Death Following Deep Hypothermic Circulatory Arrest"
Cristian Dobre (COL'01): "Reproductibility of Retinotopic Mapping for Defining the Region of Interest for Visual Cortex"
Alexander Farley (COL'01): "The Role of the L1 Reverse Transcriptase in Retrotransposition Activity and Gernomic Insertion Length"
Erica Fruiterman (COL'01): "Printing, Binding and Marginalia: A History of George Herbert's The Temple in the Seventeenth Century"
James Morrison (COL'01): "Determination of Diffusion Rates of Oxygen and Deuterium in Glacial Ice from Measurement of Isotope Ratios"
Vijay Ganesh Sankaran (COL'02): "Investigating the Role of Lipid Binding Protein Modules in Cellular Signal Transduction"
James Silhart (COL'00): "The Effect of Groundwater Temperature"
Jennie Taylor (COL'01): "Invasive Species of Kestrel Field"
Suzanne Urminska (COL'01): "The Photography of Louis Shotridge"


Benjamin Franklin Scholars Summer Research Grant

2001 - Eric Lee (EAS'03)
2001 - Natalie Michelle Gallant (COL'02)
2001 - Nicholas McDermott (COL'02)
2001 - Ethan Kay (WH'03)
2001 - Lydia Dowlath (EAS'04)
2000 - Corey Brooks (COL'03)
2000 - Lincoln Ellis (COL'03)
2000 - Nicholas McDermott (COL'02)
2000 - Seung-Hae Jasmine Park (COL'01)
2000 - Asgeir Sigfusson (COL'01)


University Scholars Research Funding

2001
Arthur Bochner (COL'04): "First-Hand Political Research"
Jason Chinitz (COL'03): "Behavioral pharmacology of dextromethor-phan: A potential mouse model of schizophrenia"
Steven Davis (EAS'01): "Reading material for putting a telescope on the moon"
Lauren Delfs (COL'03): "Foreign language study at the Ph.D. level"
John DePalma (WH'02): "Structural and cyclical correlations across global finance markets"
Joshua Doloff (EAS'04): "Characterization of enhancers and suppressors of the kanadi mutation in arabidopsis"
Nachiketa Gupta (EAS'04): "Medical imaging"
Hanny Hindi (COL'02): "The experience of geometry (Descartes)"
Bryan Hirsch (COL'03): "Trade liberalization: Social "shocks" on Ecuador and Spain"
Bryan Hirsch (COL'03): "How to stay union-free in the 21st century"
Jennifer Hui Bon Hoa (COL'02): "The four-dimensional image: Towards a phenomenology of time through abstract photography"
Beeneet Kothari (EAS/WH'04): "Quantum computing and dots"
Garrick Kwok (COL'03): "Geminin and its inhibition of DNA replication in drosophila melanogaster"
Sangmin Lee (COL'03): "Study of localization of EnvZ in E. coli"
Sophia Malamud (COL'01): "Utrecht Conference on Reference and Discourse"
Sophia Malamud (COL'01): "Conference on Logic, Language and Information"
Linda Oh (COL'02): "Relationships between mestizo and Indian women in Oaxaca"
Linda Oh (COL'02): "Foreign migrant workers in South Korea: Social and cultural aspects"
Claire Sherman (COL'03): "Painting and drawing the figure in space (Chautauqua)"
Rachel Sherman (COL'02): "Conference of the Cognitive Neuroscience Society"
Rachel Sherman (COL'02): "Understanding and modeling specialized cognitive strategies beyond human experience"
Joshua Tam (WH'04): "Chapter 11 bankruptcies: What went wrong?"
Tania Treis (COL'01): "Evolution of mutant rates"

College House Humanities Fellows

2001
Pappa Wasa Chiefy Nduom, Community House
Maya Martin, W. E. B. DuBois College House
Noah Pink, Goldberg College House
Erin Douglas, Goldberg College House
Sherry Orbach, Hamilton College House
Afia Ofori-Mensa, Harnwell College House
Nancy Sun, Harrison College House
Ariane Schwartz, Hill College House
Gerianne Kauffman, Spruce College House
Winston Pear, Stouffer College House
Mitchell Clayton, Ware College House

 

 

last updated on May 23, 2006