AMERICAN STUDIES

Hunter Thomson, “The Politics of Suppression: Southern Politicians, Anticommunism, and the Civil Rights Movement in the US Congress, 1945-1968”
Advisor: Martin Redish, Law School

Mark Shpizner, “Discovering Americanness in Comic-Book Iconography at the V&A Museum in London”
Advisor: Kate Baldwin, American Studies

ANTHROPOLOGY

Iram Azam, “Breast Milk Composition:  Exploring the Effects of Maternal Early Life Nutrition upon Iron Concentration in Breast Milk”
Advisor: Chris Kuzawa, Anthropolgy

Elizabeth Henley, “Immigration from the Perspective of the Rural Community of El Oro: The effects of the global economic crisis”
Advisor: Josef Barton, History
 
Suzanne Sheetz, “The Lost Generation: Sexual Health and Education in Argentine Women” Advisor: Rebecca Seligman, Anthropology

ART HISTORY

Jessica Davidson, “London Parks (1750-1800): Art, Urban Space and Social Freedom”
Advisor: Susan Hollis Clayson, Art History

BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Xheni Basko, “The Use of Liposomes in Delivering LDH-C4 to Sperm”
Advisor: Erwin Goldberg, Biochemistry, Molecular Biology, and Cell Biology

Sara Dubbury, “Diagnosing the Arrays of Cancer”
Advisor: Lonnie Shea, Biological and Chemical Engineering

Benjamin Farah, “N-Alkane Distribution and Population Genetics in Pseudotsuga Menziesii” Advisor: Francesca Smith, Earth and Planetary Sciences

Benjamin Jenny, “Functional Analysis of Human Deleted in Azoospermia (DAZ) Gene Family Using a Drosophila Model”
Advisor: Eugene Xu, Feinberg School of Medicine, Division of Reproductive Biology Research, Obstetrics and Gynecology

Adam Kim, “Mechanism of Peripheral Localization of Constitutively Active Genes in Yeast” Advisor: Jason Brickner, Biochemistry, Molecular Biology, and Cell Biology

Ryosuke Kita, “An experimental and modeling study for the role of NaV2.4 in action potential firing in cerebellar granule cells”
Advisor: Indira Raman, Neurobiology and Physiology

Neha Patel, “NA: The Link between Masking Behavior and Human Psychological Disorders”
Advisor: Ravi Allada, Neurobiology and Physiology

Vanessa Rivas-Lopez, “The Enzymatic Function of LDH-C4 is not the only Function that is Required for Male Fertility”
Advisor: Erwin Goldberg, Biochemistry, Molecular Biology, and Cell Biology

Andrew Rosenbaum, “A Novel MRI Contrast Agent for Use in Tumor Pretargeting Strategies” Advisor: Thomas Meade, Chemistry

Moshini Sivasubramaniam, “Effect of Ldhc Expression on Somatic Cells”
Advisor: Erwin Goldberg, Biochemistry, Molecular Biology, and Cell Biology
 
Jennifer Taylor, “Investigating the Mechanism of the Estrogen Receptor Alpha in the Production of Menopausal Hot Flashes”
Advisor: Teresa Horton, Neurobiology and Physiology

BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING

John Sheppard, “Analysis of hub function in large-scale human cortical networks”
Advisor: Patrick Wong, Communication Sciences and Disorders

CHEMISTRY

Dane Holte, “Lewis Acid promoted N-Heterocyclic Carbene Catalyzed γ-Lactam Synthesis and Applications to the Clausenamide Family of Natural Products”
Advisor: Karl Scheidt, Chemistry

COMMUNICATION SCIENCES AND DISORDERS

Meng-Chieh Hsieh, “Inner-Subject Response Magnitude Variance to Auditory Pitch-shifted Feedback”
Adviosr: Charles Larson, Communication Sciences and Disorders

Hercules Logothetis, “Analysis of two methods to evaluate TEOAE”
Advisor: Jonathan Siegel, Communication Sciences and Disorders

Kruti Parikh, “The Effect of Emotion on the Pitch Shift Reflex”
Advisor: Charles Larson, Communication Sciences and Disorders

COMPUTER SCIENCE

Nikolay Valtchanov, “A System for Information Delivery Based on Location Histories”
Advisor: Lawrence Birnbaum, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science

ECONOMICS

Javaad Ali, “Capital Crimes”
Advisor: Mark Witte, Economics

Spencer Burke, “Religious Convictions, Driving Restrictions: Exploring State-by-State Requirements and the Impact of Real ID”
Advisor: Richard Sobel, BCICS, Medill

Peilong Cong, “The Effects of Corporate Governance on the Sustainability of Competitive Advantage in the Mobile Telecommunications Industry”
Advisor: Susan Perkins, Kellogg

Ravindra Umarji, “Investigating the Role of Profitability in the Outreach of Microfinance Institutions”
Advisor: Mark Witte, Economics

GERMAN

David Dillon, “The German Healthcare Crisis”
Advisor: Kathleen Thelen, Political Sciences

HISTORY

Arlene Alvarez, “Immigration from the Perspective of the Rural Community of El Oro: The effects of the global economic crisis”
Advisor: Josef Barton, History

Alexander Jarrell, “Political Climate of Windham”
Advisor: T.H. Breen, History

Janine  Kacprzak, “Catalysts for Change in Latin America”
Advisor: Frank Safford, History

Kate Stephensen, “Jacob Bailey: A Tale of Loyalist Opposition to the American Declaration of Independence”
Advisor: Timothy Breen, History

HUMAN DEVELOPMENT AND PSYCHOLOGICAL SERVICES

Carryn Christianson, “Generativity and Women without Children”
Advisor: Regina Loga, Human Development and Social Policy

Gene Lee, “Understanding the Student Teaching Experience”
Advisor: Michelle Reininger,            HDSP and Learning Sciences

Laura Mesa-Martinez, “Latino Girls:  Adapting Through the Simultaneous Stress of Acculturation and Adolescence”
Advisor: Jordan Jacobowitz, Psychology

INTEGRATED SCIENCE

Rohan Kumthekar, “Synthesis of Organic Surfactants for Self-Assembly into Nanoscale Faceted Vesicles”
Advisor: Samuel Stupp, Chemistry

INTERNATIONAL STUDIES

Rajni Chandrasekhar, “The Politics of Education Development Interventions: the emergence of new civil society actors in South Indian government primary schools”
Advisor: John McLane, Emeritus History, WCAS Associate Dean for Faculty Affairs

Ashley Jelinek, “Framing Discourses of the French Sans-Papiers Movement”
Advisor: Josef Barton, History

LINGUISTICS

Jiaxi Liu, “Comparing the perception of musical and linguistic discourse structure”
Advisor: Richard Ashley, School of Music; Brady Clark and Stefan Kaufmann, Linguistics           

MATERIALS SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING

Matthew Chastain, “Metallographic Analysis of Copper Artifacts from Cahokia”
Advisor: David Dunand, Materials Science and Engineering

Christopher Chen, “Nanoscale Doping and Characterization of Indium Oxide Thin Films for Transparent Interconnects”
Advisor: Mark Hersam, Materials Science and Engineering

Alexander Kuo, “The Study of Prolonging the Rene N5 Nickel-based Superalloy for Aerospace Engine Application”
Advisor: David Seidman, Materials Science and Engineering

MATHEMATICAL METHODS IN THE SOCIAL SCIENCES

Nathaniel Wong, “The Difficulty of Being a Third Party: The 2008 Presidential Elections”
Advisor: Uri Wilensky, Learning Sciences

NEUROSCIENCE

Margaret Yu, “Pharmacogenetic Factors to Predict Warfarin Doses in Children”
Advisor: Lawrence Jennings, Pathology, Northwestern University Medical School

PERFORMANCE STUDIES

Adam Dorsky, “The 24-Frame Fable: Tolstoy's Ethical Fables, Bresson, and Cinema”
Advisor: Paul Edwards, Performance Studies (School of Communication)

PHYSICS

Julia Fang, “Solar-System-Scale Structure in the Interstellar Medium”
Advisor: David M. Meyer, Physics and Astronomy

PSYCHOLOGY

Amanda Armour, “Stimulating Compassion: Empathy as a Dependent Variable”
Advisor: Joan Chiao, Psychology

Amanda DeLong, “The Influence of Labeling and Context Cues on Children’s Inferences About Race and Gender in Non-Majority Cultures”
Advisor: Sandra Waxman, Psychology

Katharine Funkhouser, “Individual Differences in Affective Experience: Replication and Extension of a Summer Study”
Advisor: William Revelle, Psychology

Josephine Menkin, “Ageism v. Racism: An Experimental Examination of Stereotypes about Black Older Adults”
Advisor: Jennifer Richeson, Psychology

Luke Olson, “Motivations for Promotion or Prevention and the Development and Restoration of Trust”
Advisor: Daniel Molden, Psychology

Rachel Vaughn, “Are the Wealthy Also Born Healthy? Stereotypes about Mental Health, Physical Disfigurement, and Socioeconomic Status”
Advisor: Jennifer Richeson, Psychology

RELIGION

Elizabeth Ryder, “An Analysis of Gullah Religious Expression During and After the Port Royal Experiment"
Advisor: Susanne Sklar, Religion

SOCIAL POLICY

Keenya Hofmaier, “Framing Gender-Based Claims in U.S Asylum Law”
Advisor: Nicholas Pedriana, Legal Studies

Meredith Schwartz, “Identifying Consensus Among Supreme Court Experts as to What the Average Citizen Should Know about the Supreme Court”
Advisor: Cynthia Conlon, SESP

Natasha Yurk, “Not Your Grandma's Debate: Public Forum and its Role in the Forensics Community”
Advisor: Eva Lam, Learning Sciences

SOCIOLOGY

Jennifer Chato, “The "Crisis" of Universalism and the Fight against Discrimination in France”
Advisor: Monica Prasad, Sociology