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Research

Recent Recipients

2009

  • Pablo Barrera (COL 2011) & Sol Jung(COL 2011) “Cultural Heritage and National Identity in Higher Institutions: A Case Study of the Kahoi-dong Bukchon Area”
  • Pallavi Biswas (COL 2009) & Jenny Hong (COL 2009) “Greening Roofs: Cross Sections”
  • Yael Bortnick (COL 2009) “Seward’s Melting Ice Box: Alaskans’ decisions to support climate change adaptation and mitigation policies”
  • Thomas Dreisbach (COL 2009) “The Capital of the “Other Germany”: July 20, 1944, as Remembered in Berlin”
  • Elizabeth Frasco (COL 2009) “Non-Traditional Methods for Non-Traditional Art: Conserving Contemporary Art and Sculpture”
  • Jana Hirsch (COL 2010) “Urban Agriculture and Community Gardens: Heavy Metals in the Urban Tree Connection’s (UTC) Gardens”
  • Cameron Hu (COL 2009) “Fever Dreams of the Modern: Urban Products and Spatial Politics on the Arabian Gulf”
  • Danielle Johnson (COL 2010) & Alycia Davis (COL 2009) “Performance Anxiety, Attention and Concentration”
  • Matthew Kolasa (COL 2009) “NAGPRA and Cultural Property”
  • Ani Momjian (COL 2009) & Keri Wong (COL 2010) “Diurnal Variation in Attention and Processing Speed in Healthy Young Adults”
  • Calypso Montouchet (COL 2009) “Space Beyond Space: The Mirror in Modern Visuality”
  • Rebecca Starr (COL 2009) “A Need to Write: The Evolution of Personal Narrative from Private to Blogosphere”
  • Kristin Szuhany (COL 2009) “Coming through in the Clutch: Validation of a Measure of Clutch Hitting in Major League Baseball”
  • Matthew Torre (COL 2010) “Activation of the Medial Amygdala in C57BL165 and BALB1cJ Mice and Following Social Interaction”
  • Elizabeth Traxler (COL 2010) “The Role of NHERF-1 in the Regulation of Platelet signaling Pathways in Thrombosis and Thrombus Formation”
  • Aro Velmet (COL 2010) “History Textbooks and Curricula in Post-Soviet Estonia”
  • Steven Wang (COL 2010) “Role of Sox2 in Satellite Cell Activation and Myofiber Regeneration”

2008

  • Brandon Chen (EAS 2008) “Mind Wandering”
  • Sujit Datta (COL 2008) “Complex Particle Dynamics and Nanomachining”
  • Lauren Rosenberg (COL 2008) “Individual Differences in Visual and Verbal Intelligence: an fMRI Study”
  • Calvin Gruss (COL 2010) “Tagging genes of the fisson yeast with GFP for cell shape analysis through a confocal microscope”
  • Siong Goh (EAS 2008) “Characterizing small molecules that regulate gene expression through the SMN 3’UTR
  • Kelly Asao (COL 2008) “Morality Across Domains”
  • Savannah Hayes (COL 2008) “Up-Cycled Product Design”
  • Dan Jee (COL 2008) “Racial Stereotyping Examined through Eye Movement Behaviour”
  • Emily Behar (COL 2008) “Local Guatemalan Mothers’ Understandings of the “Evil Eye”“
  • Kyle Sirianno (COL 2009) “Quantifying Penn’s soil and runoff pollution in West Philadelphia”

2007

  • Craig Bergman (COL 2007) “Association Between Primed Leadership Psychology and Third Party Punishment in Human Groups”
  • Courtney Darcy (COL 2007) “The media’s effect on implicit and explicit attitudes towards the body”
  • YinYin Yang (COL 2007) “Prospective Study of Panic Disorder during Pregnancy and Postpartum”
  • Deeptee Jain (COL 2009) “Tagging gene products with GFP in fission yeast for cell pattern analysis”
  • Jenny Jin (COL 2008) “Can siRNA Silencing of Caspase-3 Prevent Cytokine-induced Beta Cell Death?”
  • Grace Lee (COL 2008) “Leptin Reduces Feeding by Amplifying Stomach Distension Signals”
  • Peter Pantelis (COL 2007) “The effects of similarity on memory for name-face associations”
  • Ashish Bhumbla (COL 2008) “Identification of the Bcl-2 Proteins Located at the Mitochondria of Neuroblastoma Cell Lines”
  • Gabriel Crane (COL 2008) “The Mississippi Project: A Creative Exploration of the Mississippi River in Contemporary America”
  • Lucia DiNapoli (CGS 2009) “Citizen Advocacy Groups and the Use of Riparian Buffers in Urban/Suburban Areas Near the Cooper River”
  • Lilla Finta-Peterffy (CGS 2007) “Saving the Oligothrophic Mohos Marshes”
  • Kristin Gustafson (NURS 2007) “Impact of a Dance Program on West Philadelphia Middle School Students”
  • Katherine Fleming (COL 2007) “Doctors, Patients and Battered Women: A Comparison of Knowledge of and Perspectives on Resources”

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