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Recent Recipients

2009

  • Ioana Aron (COL 2012) Electrophilic Aromatic Substitutions of Aryltrifluoroborates Faculty Mentor: Gary Molander
  • Yomara Arroyo (COL 2012) How Mexican Immigrants are Being Received in an American Suburb Faculty Mentor: Stanton Wortham
  • Genevieve Barnard (COL 2012) Consequences, Sexual Networks and Self Testing in Malawi Faculty Mentors: Hans-Peter Kohler and Susan Watkins
  • Sara Brenes (COL 2012) Critical Visions: Classic and Contemporary Readings in Film Theory Faculty Mentor: Timothy Corrigan
  • Matt Buchwald (SEAS 2012) Family training in CPR Using Novel Video Self Instruction Faculty Mentor: Benjamin Abella
  • Royce Cohen (WH 2012) Stakeholders, Stockholders and the Global Credit Crisis Faculty Mentor: Tara Radin
  • Gregory Cordina (SEAS 2012) Using Light to Treat Cancer Faculty Mentor: Theresa Busch
  • Haoyu Deng (SEAS 2012) Guatemala Health Initiative Faculty Mentor: Kent Bream
  • David Dunning (COL 2012) Richard Nisbett’s Privacy and Yours Faculty Mentor: Max Cavitch
  • Michelle Fang (COL 2012) Urban Food Environments Faculty Mentor: Amy Hillier
  • Emily Huang (SEAS 2012) Early Recognition of Children At Risk of Cardiopulmonary Arrest Faculty Mentor: John Holmes
  • To Nhu Thanh Huynh (COL 2012) Our Stories, Our Health Faculty Mentor: Giang Nguyen
  • Amanda Johnson (COL 2012) Poor Richardisms: The Proverbs of Benjamin Franklin Faculty Mentor: Michael Zuckerman
  • Sonia Kartha (COL 2012) Myelination of Stretch-grown Axons Faculty Mentors: Douglas Smith and Min Tang-Schomer
  • Jeffrey Lee (NUR/WH 2012) Transitions in Health Care for Older Adults with Cognitive Impairment Faculty Mentor: Mary Naylor
  • Tamar Lisbona (COL 2012) Hollywood and Copyright Faculty Mentor: Peter Decherney
  • Michelle Lu (NUR/WH 2012) Exploring Economic Abuse in Serious Adolescent Relationships Faculty Mentor: Anne Teitelman
  • Alexander Marple (SEAS 2012) Predicting Artificial General Intelligence and the Singularity Faculty Mentor: Lyle Ungar
  • Michael Masciandaro (COL 2012) That Poor, Insane Creature, the Laureate Faculty Mentor: Michael Gamer
  • Laura Micu (COL 2012) Fostering Self-Control and Grit in School Children to Enhance Achievement Faculty Mentor: Angela Duckworth
  • Reina Moriyama (COL 2012) Wellness after Breast Cancer Faculty Mentor: Jun Mao
  • Brendan Orinstein (SEAS 2012) Improving the Efficacy of anti-ErbB Chemotherapeutics Faculty Mentor: Matthew Lazzara
  • Varesh Prasad (SEAS 2012) All-in-One’ Thin Film Coatings from Layer-by-Layer Deposition Faculty Mentor: Daeyeon Lee
  • Shilpa Sarode (COL 2012) Cognitive Deficits Following Early Life Seizures Faculty Mentor: Brenda Porter
  • Priya Sehgal (COL 2012) Advance Directives and End of Life Preferences Among Defibrillator Recipients Faculty Mentor: James Kirkpatrick
  • Leigh Silver (COL 2012) The Stigma Archive Faculty Mentor: Heather Love
  • Dorsey Standish (SEAS 2012) Haptic Display of Instantaneous Fuel Economy in Automobiles Faculty Mentor: Karen Kuchenbecker
  • Thmolwan Surakiatchanukul (COL 2012) CD56+ T Cells and Hepatitis C Virus Faculty Mentor: Wenzhe Ho
  • Meredith Thurston (COL 2012) Globalization: Method and Theory Faculty Mentor: Brian Spooner
  • Michael Underriner (COL 2012) The SDSS-II Supernova Survey: Properties of Supernova Host Galaxies Faculty Mentor: Masao Sako
  • Benjamin Van Buren (COL 2012) The Central Role of the Arts in Undergraduate Education Faculty Mentor: Thomas Schlatter
  • Andre Xiao (WH/COL 2012) The Use of Bundling Strategies in Communications Industries Faculty Mentor: Katja Seim
  • Tongjia Zhang (COL 2012) Lapham’s Quarterly Research Assistant Faculty Mentor: Peter Struck
  • Fangzhou Zhu (SEAS 2012) Study of Electronic Structure of Graphite Based Layered Compounds Faculty Mentor: Sohrab Rabii
  • Carly Ziegler (COL 2012) A Mouse Model of Parkinson’s Disease Faculty Mentor: David Gasser and Julie Blendy

2008

  • Amy Altemeyer (NUR 2011) Image and Biography Among Older Women Cancer Survivors Faculty Mentor: Sarah Kagan
  • Annie Ashok (COL 2011) Telomere Maintenance and Dysfunction Faculty Mentor: Brad Johnson
  • Eric Cohen (EAS 2011) Relationships and Mechanisms of Tendon and Ligament Injuries Faculty Mentor: Louis Soslowsky
  • Diane Dao (COL 2011) Development of Immunosuppressives for Myasthenia Gravis Faculty Mentor: Jon Lindstrom
  • Hayley Germack (COL 2011) Guatemala Health Initiative Faculty Mentor: Fran Barg
  • Evi Heilbrunn (COL 2011) Seeking Lolita; Cinema, Sexuality, and the New Woman Faculty Mentor: Simon Richter
  • Mary Ibrahim (COL 2011) The Linguistic Structure of Writing Systems Faculty Mentor: Eugene Buckley
  • David Jacobson (COL 2011) Atacama Cosmology Telescope Faculty Mentor: Mark Devlin
  • Anthony Jiang (COL 2011) Human Sideroblastic Anemia Faculty Mentor: Fevzi Daldal
  • Tiffany John-Lewis (COL 2011) African American Scholars in International Relations Faculty Mentor: Robert Vitalis
  • Lauren Kapsalakis (COL 2011) Old Stone Age Archaeology in France Faculty Mentor: Harold Dibble
  • Gerardo Melendez-Torres (NUR/WH 2011) Overcrowding in the Nation’s Emergency Rooms Faculty Mentor: Julie Sochalski
  • Katherine Palusci (WH 2011) Applications of Probability Models Faculty Mentor: Peter Fader
  • Vyas Ramanan (EAS 2011) Spatially Patterning Hydrogels Faculty Mentor: Jason Burdick
  • Melissa Retkwa (COL 2011) Progression of Coronary Calcifications Faculty Mentor: Sylvia Rosas
  • Arden Rienas (COL 2011) Owl Monkeys in Argentina Faculty Mentor: Eduardo Fernandez-Duque
  • Aaron Ross (COL 2011) The Politics of Resentment Faculty Mentor: Jeffrey Green
  • Steven Schenkel (COL 2011) Investigations of Protein-Carbon Nanotube Faculty Mentor: Charlie Johnson
  • Melissa Siegel (COL 2011) Gaming and Gambling in Human History Faculty Mentor: Louise Krasniewicz
  • Lauren Springer (COL 2011) How Cell Phones Have Changed Human Interactions Faculty Mentor: Keith Hampton
  • Michael Sulewski (COL 2011) Molecular Mechanisms of Memory Storage Faculty Mentor: Ted Abel
  • Lee Vandivier (COL 2011) Identification of Human Brain Proteins Faculty Mentor: Ray Roginski
  • Athanasia Vgontzas (COL 2011) Politics of Health Inequalities Faculty Mentor: Julia Lynch
  • Catalina Villamil (COL 2011) Analysis of mtDNA in Native Americans Faculty Mentor: Ted Schurr
  • Shawn Wang (COL/WH 2011) Women and Leadership: Combating Malaria in Malawi Faculty Mentor: Marjorie Margolies
  • Caitleen Weaver (COL 2011) Philadelphia’s Lazaretto Faculty Mentor: David Barnes
  • Summer Yuan (COL 2011) Perceptions of Traditional Chinese and Western Medicine Faculty Mentor: Lisa Bolton
  • Ali Zahalka (COL 2011) Quantitative Analysis of Neural Progenitors Faculty Mentor: Lynnae Schwartz

2007

  • Marga Andersen (COL 2010) Faculty Mentor: Herman Beavers
  • Daniel Axelsen (WH 2010) Faculty Mentor: Sarah Kaplan
  • Phillip Benedetti (COL 2010) Faculty Mentor: Amos Smith
  • Laura Boudreau (WH 2010) Faculty Mentor: Daniel Raff
  • Ava Childers (COL 2010) Faculty Mentor: Thomas Tartaron
  • Evan Daugharthy (COL 2010) Faculty Mentor: Marisa Bartolomei
  • Carolyn Fu (EAS 2010) Faculty Mentor: George Biros
  • Lin He (COL 2010) Faculty Mentor: Jennifer Amyx
  • Harrison Liu (EAS 2010) Faculty Mentor: Peter Petraitis
  • Julia Luscombe (COL/WH 2010) Faculty Mentor: Andrew Lamas
  • Lua O’Brien (COL 2010) Faculty Mentor: Michael Zuckerman
  • Natasha Piano (COL 2010) Faculty Mentor: Ellen Kennedy
  • Daniel Puller (EAS 2010) Faculty Mentor: Fernando Pereira
  • Charlies Slominski (EAS 2010) Faculty Mentor: Alain Plante
  • Mordechai Treiger (COL 2010) Faculty Mentor: Steve DiNardo
  • Brandi Waters (COL 2010) Faculty Mentor: Ann Farnsworth-Alvear
  • Alexander Yen (EAS/WH 2010) Faculty Mentor: Casim Sarkar
  • Gordon Zhu (COL 2010) Faculty Mentor: Femida Handy

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