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Research

Recent Recipients

2009

  • Pablo Barrera (COL 2010): The Evolution of Joseon Dynasty Aesthetics and Architecture: A Cross Disciplinary Study of “Hanok” in South Korea’s National Building Campaign
  • Emily Belfer (COL 2010): Popular Culture in WWI London
  • Elena Blebea (COL 2010): The Latin American Diet Pyramid: Serving the Hispanic Population?
  • Sophie Cavoulacos (COL 2010): Cold War Cultural Diplomacy: Early U.S. policy in Europe
  • Rachel-Marie Gittelman (COL 2010): Primate Behavior, Ecology and Conservation in the Argentinean Gram Chaco
  • Yuki Hashimoto (COL 2010): Project Evaluation of a PennEWB Water Distribution Initiative in Gundom, Cameroon: a Cultural Ecological Study
  • Sol Jung (COL 2010): The Evolution of Joseon Dynasty Aesthetics and Architecture: A Cross Disciplinary Study of “Hanok” in South Korea’s National Building Campaign
  • Lauren Kapsalakis (COL 2011): Attitudes Towards the Use of Contraceptives in an Indigenous Population in Transition
  • Benjamin Kaufman (COL 2010): Social Identity Among Russian and Russian-Speakers in Latvia
  • Adam Mandelsberg (COL 2011): A Second Look at the Election of 1976: How Jimmy Carter Resuscitated the New Deal Coalition and Why it Failed to Last
  • Kendra McKoy (COL 2011): Hurricane Erosion and Deposition in the Cape May, New Jersey, Area for the Past 2500 Years and Future Implications
  • Anish Mehta (COL 2010): The Effects of Mindfulness/Meditation Training on Executive Function Deficits in Adult ADHD
  • Emma Morgenstern (COL 2011): A Sociolinguistic Study of the Jews in Greece and their Language, Judeo-Spanish
  • Clara Ng (COL 2010): Opportunity Amid Struggle: Development of the Fourth Sector as a Response to Diabetes in West Africa
  • Michail Reiche (COL 2010): Translation Kinetics of an mRNA Containing a Stem Loop
  • Curtis Rogers (COL 2010): Troutfishing a Few Miles above Tintern Abbey

2008

  • Mary Kreamer: “Ethnicity Created”
  • Lauren Mancuso: “Educating the Wandering Mind: A Cognitive Analysis of Text Comprehension During Reading”
  • Laura Heckman: “The inhibition of L1 retrotransposon expression by DNA methylation”
  • Ningkun Li: “Identify MiRNAs that regulate the expression of the neuropeptide Neuromedin U in malignant immature blood cells”
  • Yuri Castaño: “Daily life of La Merced’s sex workers”
  • Steven Wang: “Promotion and Inhibition of Hematopoletic Stem Cell Derived Myofiber Regeneration by Defined Factors”
  • Lavanya Madhusudan: “Self Perceptions of Maternal Health and Their Effects on Child Nutritional Status in Bangalore, India”
  • Max Reibman: “Paris and Damascus Beyond the Holy Land: The Partition of Greater Syria and the Birth of the Palestine Mandate”
  • Brinda Alagesan: “Evaluating the roles of prostaglandins D2 and E2 in skin stem cell function in vivo and in vitro”
  • Srujan Peddapaidi: “Breast cancer stem cells derived from mammospheres and DC61 cells”
  • Sasha Renninger: “Middle Kingdom bread molds and trays at Abydos: creating a ceramic chronology.”
  • Tali Yahalom: “The Murder Trial of Sam Sheppard: Media, Crime and the Court of Public Opinion”
  • Daniel Ross: “Jew Like Me: An Oral History of Congregation Temple Bethel, a Black Synagogue in the West Oak Lane Neighborhood of Philadephia”
  • Jody Pollock: “Documenting the development of sustainable business”
  • Mark Dela Cruz: “The Effect of Prosody on Theory of Mind in Frontotemporal Dementia”
  • Jean Lee: “Philadelphia’s Sex Trafficking Industry”
  • Allison Rao: “Functional Role of New Neurons in Memory”
  • Jason You: “The Mystery of Motility in Archaea”
  • Amber Alhadeff: “Caudal brainstem AMP-kinase as an intracellular mediator of energy balance”
  • George Karandinos: “Dying with AIDS in America”
  • Roopa Gogineni: “Naxal Settlement in Rural Andhra Pradesh”

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