AMERICAN STUDIES
Caroline Pinkston, “Protesting Vietnam from Castine: The Summer Politics of Mary McCarthy and Robert Lowell”
Advisor: Michael Sherry, History
ANTHROPOLOGY
Ivana Brajkovic, “Social Factors Related to Birth Weight of African-born Women Delivering at Stroger Hospital”
Advisor: Kearsley Stewart, Anthropology
Mary Nevrivy, “Reproduction in the 21st Century: An Intergenerational Study of Shifting Attitudes Towards Childbearings”
Advisor: Teresa Woodruff, Neurobiology
Brooke Thurman, “Insuring All Kids: a Step-by-Step Analysis of Illinois Child
Healthcare Policy”
Advisor: Helen Schwartzman, Anthropology
ART HISTORY
Jessica Bell, “Constructing Blackness and Imagining “Asian-ness”: Exploring the Works of Ione Rozeal Brown and Kehinde Wiley”
Advisor: Huey Copeland II, Art History
Madelaine Eulich, “The Influence of Display and Presentation on Non-EuroAmerican Art: A Study of the Musée du Quai Branly”
Advisor: Hannah Feldman, Art History
BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES
Dianne de Leon, “Role of Calbindin in Cholinergic Neuron Loss and Alzheimer’s Disease”
Advisor: Changiz Geula, Cognitive Neurology
Jeffrey Rixe, “Function of a Novel Cation Current in Drosophila Circadian Pacemaker Neurons”
Advisor: Ravi Allada, Neurobiology & Physiology
Hatim Thaker, “Bladder Tissue Differentiation of Autologous Mesenchymal Stem Cells for Bladder Reconstruction in Spina Bifida Patients”
Advisor: Arun Sharma, MED-Urology
Ina Jani, “Tell the Truth or Not – Factors Affecting Truth Telling to Terminally Ill Patients”
Advisor: Mark Sheldon, Philosophy
Lisa Battisfore, “Sleep Alterations Induced by a High-fat Diet in Obesity-prone and Obesity-resistant Mice”
Advisor: Fred W. Turek, Neurobiology & Physiology
Muthiah Vaduganathan, “A-I Junction Titin: A Molecular Zipper?”
Advisor: Jian-Ping Jin, Interdepartmental Biological Sciences Program
Alexander Froyshteter, “Defining the Mechinism of Gene Recruitment to the Nuclear Periphery”
Advisor: Jason Brickner, BMBCB
Peter Hanna, “A Functional Analysis of TRPML3”
Advisor: Jaime García- Añoveros, Anesthesiology, Physiology and Neurology
Amy Wu, “Does the Planar Cell Polarity Pathway Regulate Cell Polarity and Cell Cycle in the Chick Embryo?”
Advisor: Andrew Dudley, BMBCB
BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING
Josh Abecassis, “In Vivo Magnetic Resonance Imaging with a Gadolinium Based Contrast Agent”
Advisor: Thomas Meade, Chemistry
CHEMISTRY
Emilie Lavigne, “Quaternary Uranium Compounds Containing a Pnictogen, Chalcogen, and a First-row Transition Metal”
Advisor: James A. Ibers, Chemistry
David Lin, “Evaluating Kras Oncogene Addiction in Pancreatic Precancer and Cancer”
Advisor: Paul Grippo, Department of Surgery
CLASSICS
Colleen Kron, “Memory and Perception of Bronze Age Tholoi as ‘Heroöa’ in the
Greek Archaic”
Advisor: Amalia Avramidou, Classics
COGNITIVE SCIENCES
Courtney Clark, “Don’t Think of a Pink Elephant: Investigating Brain Activity Underlying Mental Image Generation and Inhibition”
Advisor: Ken Paller, Psychology
COMMUNICATION SCIENCES AND DISORDERS
Edward Lee, “Auditory Training to Increase Speech Perception in Noise”
Advisor: Patrick Wong, Communication Sciences and Disorders
Kaavya Paruchuri, “Effects of Training on Pitch Reflex”
Advisor: Charles Larson, Communication Sciences and Disorders
Anil Roy, “fMRI study of a Bicultural Effect in the Domain of Music”
Advisor: Patrick Wong, Communication Sciences and Disorders
ENGLISH
Dandan Xin, “Linked Narratives: Connecting Identities between Stories”
Advisor: Sheila Donohue, English
GERMAN
David Dillon, “The German Healthcare Crisis”
Advisor: Kathleen Thelen, Political Sciences
HISTORY
Theresa Bowman, “Reading between the Lines: ""Women First"" and the Irish Women's Movement”
Advisor: Tessie Liu, History
Caroline Kemp, “The Punjab, Water-Sharing, and Indo-Pakastani Disputes”
Advisor: Rajeev Kinra, History
Cass Kuklick, “Sustaining Peace: Black Electoral Politics and Robert F. Kennedy, Indianapolis 1961-1968”
Advisor: Martha Biondi, African-American Studies
Anna Prior, “The Shot heard Round the World: Reaction to the American Revolution in 18th century Venice”
Advisor: Edward Muir, History
James Small, “Power, Historical Memory, and the Center against Expulsions”
Advisor: Peter Hayes, History and German
Learning and Organizational Change
Megan Chiou, “The Sustainability of Chicago Public School Service-Learning Programs”
Advisor: Dan Lewis, SESP
Janet Rocha, “I am the first & so can you: Second-generation Latino students fight against the odds throughout their undergraduate college experience at prestigious universities”
Advisor: Carol Lee, SESP
MATHEMATICAL METHODS IN THE SOCIAL SCIENCES
John Collins, “A Model and Analysis of the Shift in Aircraft Control under Trajectory
Based Operations”
Advisor: Aaron Gellman, IEMS
Samuel Lee, “The Role of Developmental Compensation of Clock Gene Expression in Circadian Rhythms”
Advisor: Joseph Takahashi, Neurobiology and Physiology
Tom Zhou, “Identifying genomic abnormalities in acute myeloid leukemia (AML) to enhance the understanding of cancer biology”
Advisor: San Ming Wang, ENH - Research Institute, Center for Functional Genomics
PERFORMANCE STUDIES
Matthew Williams, “l’Art de la Sensibilisation: Performance for Humans Rights and Popular Education in Bamako, Mali”
Advisor: Soyini Madison, Performance Studies
PHYSICS
Leon Mayr, “Finding a Greater Efficiency for Solar Cells”
Advisor: Tamar Seideman, Chemistry
POLITICAL SCIENCE
Elizabeth Nielsen, “Tilting the Scales:The Effect of Perceptions of Terrorism on Counterterrorism Policies in France, the UK, and the U.S.”
Advisor: Stephen Daniels, Political Science
Kristina St. Charles, “Framing and Debates: The Effect of Media Coverage on
Candidate Evaluations”
Advisor: Jamie Druckman, Political Science
PSYCHOLOGY
Samantha Holland, “Personality and Behavior Measures of Trustworthiness and Trust”
Advisor: William Revelle, Psychology
Alyse Lattanzi, “Perspective Taking in Interracial Interactions”
Advisor: Jennifer Richeson, Psychology
Ashley Rolnik, “Self-Objectification and Sorority Recruitment”
Advisor: Renee Engeln-Maddox, Psychology
Deborah Son, “Misattribution of Arousal in Interracial Interactions”
Advisor: Jennifer Richeson, Psychology
SOCIAL POLICY
Priya Fielding-Singh, “Multicultural Approaches to Learning: An Exploration of a British Secular, Secondary Schools' Religious Education Curriculum”
Advisor: Galya Ruffer, International Studies
Claire Ryan, “Shades of Green: Do Environmental Education Programs Affect the Ecological Attitudes of Urban Youth in the Long Term?”
Advisor: Doug Medin, Psychology/SESP
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