AMERICAN STUDIES
Michael Breidenbach*, “Hua Qi, or American Flags Made in China: The Crossroads of Nationalism and Capitalism”
Advisor: Melissa Macauley, History
Kristen Molloy*, “From 'The Moment They Touch American Shores:' Chicago's Emigrant Aid Agencies and the Integration of Irish Women”
Advisor: Josef Barton, History, Spanish and Portugese
Joseph Moroni, “Rural Worlds Gained: The Migration of People from Southeast Missouri to Northeast Louisiana and Northeast Texas during the Mid-Twentieth Century”
Advisor: Josef Barton, History, Spanish and Portugese
ANTHROPOLOGY
Nicole Berlin*, “Public vs. Private Space: The Roman Cubiculum”
Advisor: Amalia Avramidou, Classics
Julia Fraser, “Buried in the Benta Valley: Discovery and Analysis of Bronze Age Burial Sites of Hungary's Vatya Culture”
Advisor: Timothy Earle, Anthropology
Matthew Miller*, “The Biggest “I Told You So!” of All Time?: Assessing awareness and attitudes about climate change among university students in the United States and India”
Advisor: Douglas Bolender, Anthropology
ART THEORY AND PRACTICE
Brittney Lower*, “Identity and the Paint Mask”
Advisor: Gretchen Case, Performance Studies
Alexander Robins*, “Michel Foucault and Museums”
Advisor: Penelope Deutscher, Philosophy
Asian and Middle East Studies
Katherine Goodman*, “Declining Dominance: A Study of U.S. Influence Under Mohammed Reza Shah”
Advisor: Stephen Kinzer, Political Science
BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES
Maureen Beederman, “The Role of SoxE Factors in Neural Crest Development”
Advisor: Carole LaBonne, Biological Sciences
Daniel Bohl, “CK2 - A Novel Link Between Fragile X Mental Retardation and Circadian Rhythms”
Advisor: Ravi Allada, Neurobiology and Physiology
Eric Chang, “Adipocyte – Fibroblast Transitions: Implications of Mesenchymal Cell Plasticity for Fibrosis”
Advisor: John Varga, Rheumatology
Christopher D'Angelo, “The Mitochondrial Stress Response and the Communication of Stress Responses Between Subcellular Compartments”
Advisor: Richard Morimoto, Biochemistry, Molecular Biology, and Cell Biology
Alexander Froyshteter, “Investigation of Nuclear Pore Complex Proteins in Gene Recruitment”
Advisor: Jason Brickner, Biochemistry, Molecular Biology, and Cell Biology
Molly Hogan, “Understanding the Regulation of DNA Localization”
Advisor: Jason H. Brickner, Biochemistry, Molecular Biology, and Cell Biology
Avinash Honasoge*, “Creation of a Novel Knock-In Mouse to Determine the Role of Egr3 in Intrafusal Muscle Fiber Fate”
Advisor: Warren Tourtellotte, Pathology
Ankaj Khosla, “Characterizing the Tryptophan-41 Residue of Influenza M2 Protein”
Advisor: Lawrence H. Pinto, Neurobiology and Physiology
Hanna Peter, “Subcellular Localization of TRPML3 Channels”
Advisor: Jaime Garcia-Anoveros, Anesthesiology, Physiology and Neurology
Bryant Priromprintr, “Smooth Muscle Myosin Heavy Chain (SMMHC) Structure, Function and Role in Acute Myeloid Leukemia”
Advisor: Ishwar Radhakrishnan, Biochemistry, Molecular Biology & Cell Biology
David Sum, “Role of the simple sequence domain in proteolytic processing of Cubitus interruptus in Hedgehog signaling”
Advisor: Robert Holmgren, Biochemistry, Molecular Biology, and Cell Biology
Happy Thakkar, “Monitoring Aggregation and Characterizing the Effects of Aggregation Suppression on Toxicity in C. elegans”
Advisor: Richard Morimoto, Biochemistry, Molecular Biology, and Cell Biology
Anita Turk, “Embyronic Stem Cell Differentiation and Commitment into Neuronal Cell Fate”
Advisor: Xiaozhong Wang, Biochemistry, Molecular Biology, and Cell Biology
Jamie White, “Estrogen Mechanism in Thermoregulation”
Advisor: Terry Horton, Neurobiology and Physiology
BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING
Himanshu Aggarwal, “Health and Education of Indian Girls: A Step towards Development”
Advisor: Michael A. Marasco, Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation
CHEMISTRY
Brian Apel, “Asymmetric Ring-Opening of Meso-Epoxides with Alcohols Catalyzed by Chiral Aluminum Complexes”
Advisor: SonBinh T. Nguyen, Chemistry
Allison Condie, “Heavy Metal Cleanup by Calixarene Dendrimers”
Advisor: Joseph B. Lambert, Chemistry
Karen Dugan, “New Approaches to the Rapid Synthesis of Biologically Active Polycyclic Natural Products”
Advisor: Regan Thomson, Chemistry
George Michael, “NOS Inhibition Studies”
Advisor: Richard B. Silverman, Chemistry
Nkechi Okonkwo, “The Copper Switch”
Advisor: Amy Rosenzweig, Biochemistry, Molecular Biology, Cell Biology
Jinglu Sun, “Conformational Analyses of Inducible cAMP Early Repressor in Protein-Protein and Protein-DNA Complexes”
Advisor: Ishwar Radhakrishnan, Biochemistry, Molecular Biology, Cell Biology
Bi-Shun Zeng, “Post-Synthetic Modification of Metal-Organic Frameworks”
Advisor: SonBinh T. Nguyen, Chemistry
Olga Cherepanova, “Hedgehog Cell Signaling: Fused and Suppressor of Fused”
Advisor: Robert Holmgren, Biochemistry, Molecular Biology, Cell Biology
Jennifer Lee, “Catalysis of the [3,3]-Sigmatropic Rearrangement of N-Allylhydrazones and Development of a New Reaction”
Advisor: Regan Thomson, Chemistry
CLASSICS
Laura Garofalo, “Roman Children's Funerary Monuments”
Advisor: William Tortorelli, Classics
Nicole Berlin*, “Public vs. Private Space: The Roman Cubiculum”
Advisor: Amalia Avramidou, Classics
COGNITIVE SCIENCES
Courtney Clark, “Attention in the face of distraction: A behavioral and electrophysiological investigation of the effects of emotive faces on diverting attention”
Advisor: Ken Paller, Psychology
COMMUNICATION SCIENCES AND DISORDERS
Anil Roy, “Neurological Substrates of Behavioral Differences in Cross-Cultural Music Comprehension”
Advisor: Patrick Wong, Communication Sciences & Disorders
Samuel Trosman, “The neural mechanisms governing rhythm perception”
Advisor: Beverly A. Wright, Communication Sciences & Disorders
COMMUNICATION STUDIES
Karen Attiah, “Phone-In Radio and Democracy: Public Political Engagement in Post Colonial Ghana”
Advisor: Barnor Hesse, African American Studies
COMPUTER ENGINEERING
Zachary Bischof, “Dynamic Topological Predicates and Sensor Networks”
Advisor: Peter I. Scheuermann, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
CREATIVE WRITING
Victoria Scher*, “Between Home and Maquiladora: Women Migration and Wages in Ciudad Juarez”
Advisor: Josef Barton, History, Spanish and Portugese
ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING AND COMPUTER SCIENCE
Michael Skalak, “Accelerating Music Database Searching”
Advisor: Bryan Pardo, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
ENGLISH LITERATURE
Harris Sockel, “Intertextuality in Male Adolescent Narrative”
Advisor: Carl Smith, English
ETHNOMUSICOLOGY
Blake Walker*, “Griots of the Prophet: Islam and the Jali in Rural Senegal”
Advisor: Inna Naroditskaya, Music Studies
FRENCH
Zachary Pfau*, “Current Reforms of the French Conservatory System”
Advisor: Jesse Rosenberg, Music Studies
GENDER STUDIES
Katherine Gorringe*, “Women in Music in the 1970s and the Rejection of American Beauty Culture”
Advisor: Tessie Liu, Gender Studies, History
HISTORY
Michael Breidenbach*, “Hua Qi, or American Flags Made in China: The Crossroads of Nationalism and Capitalism”
Advisor: Melissa Macauley, History
Max Clarke, “'A' for Apology: the Apologies of American Universities for Slavery”
Advisor: Gary Fine, Sociology
Katherine Gorringe*, “Women in Music in the 1970s and the Rejection of American Beauty Culture”
Advisor: Tessie Liu, History, Gender Studies
Cass Kuklick, “The Hope for Renewal: Robert F. Kennedy and Martin Luther King, Indianapolis 1968”
Advisor: Martha Biondi, History, African-American Studies
Kristen Molloy*, “From 'The Moment They Touch American Shores:' Chicago's Emigrant Aid Agencies and the Integration of Irish Women”
Advisor: Josef Barton, History, Spanish and Portugese
Amy Odenthal, “The Rise of Public Education in Illinois Towns, 1850-1914”
Advisor: Kate Masur, History
Victoria Scher*, “Between Home and Maquiladora: Women Migration and Wages in Ciudad Juarez”
Advisor: Josef Barton, History, Spanish and Portugese
Amanda Wolfson, “Benjamin Franklin's Trip to Göttingen, Germany”
Advisor: Timothy H. Breen, History
Industrial Engineering and Management Sciences
Stephanie Gravenor, “Emergence of Electronic Health Record: A Global Perspective Standards, Interoperability, and Adoption”
Advisor: Gordon Hazen, Industrial Engineering and Management Sciences
Edwin van Norden, “Factors that Affect the Growth of East African Countries”
Advisor: Susan Perkins, Management and Organizations
INTEGRATED SCIENCES PROGRAM
Jennifer Heller*, “MINERvA Calibration and Normalization Via Neutral Current Neutrino-Electron Scattering”
Advisor: Heidi Schellman, Physics and Astronomy
Avinash Honasoge*, “Creation of a Novel Knock-In Mouse to Determine the Role of Egr3 in Intrafusal Muscle Fiber Fate”
Advisor: Warren Tourtellotte, Pathology
Justin Lieber*, “Mixing and Chaos in Relativistic Systems: Distinguishing the Absolute from the Relative”
Advisor: Adilson E. Motter, Physics and Astronomy
Timothy Linden*, “X-Ray Binary Evolution in Super-Star Clusters: A Statistical Model of Point X-Ray Sources in NGC 1569”
Advisor: Vicky Kalogera, Physics and Astronomy
Seth Myers*, “Statistical Physics of Non-Poissonian Processes: The Case of Inter-event Time Intervals”
Advisor: Adilson Motter, Physics and Astronomy
INTERNATIONAL STUDIES
Rajni Chandrasekhar*, “Domestic NGO Initiatives to Improve Government Primary Education in Southern India: The Study of Inter-Organizational Collaboration, Integration of Cultural Norms, and Best Practices Models for Sustainable Change”
Advisor: Joan Sherman, Gender Studies
Rachel Gandell*, “Democracy and Islam in Mali: A Look at the Presidency”
Advisor: William Reno, Political Science
Katherine Goodman*, “Declining Dominance: A Study of U.S. Influence Under Mohammed Reza Shah”
Advisor: Stephen Kinzer, Political Science
Page Piccinini*, “A Phonetic Analysis of the Italian Media's Standard vs. Dialect Uses as Compared to American Media”
Advisor: Ann Bradlow, Linguistics
JOURNALISM
Matthew Miller*, “The Biggest “I Told You So!” of All Time?: Assessing awareness and attitudes about climate change among university students in the United States and India”
Advisor: Douglas Bolender, Anthropology
LINGUISTICS
Alex Djalali, “The Dynamics of Bridging Inferneces”
Advisor: Brady Clark, Linguistics
Page Piccinini*, “A Phonetic Analysis of the Italian Media's Standard vs. Dialect Uses as Compared to American Media”
Advisor: Ann Bradlow, Linguistics
Jessica Spencer, “The Problem with Creole Exceptionalism: A Study of English-based Creoles in The Problem with Creole Exceptionalism: A Study of English-based Creoles in Suriname”
Advisor: Brady Clark, Linguistics
MATHEMATICS
Jonah Leshin, “Research on p-adic Analytic Number Theory”
Advisor: David Nadler, Mathematics
MUSIC EDUCATION
Julie Glyman, “Musical Parenting Styles and Their Development in Families with Young Children”
Advisor: Peter Webster, Music Studies
Music Studies
Joshua Moshier, “Language of Vision: Jazz and Animation”
Advisor: Thomas Bauman, Music Studies
Music Performance
Zachary Pfau*, “Current Reforms of the French Conservatory System”
Advisor: Jesse Rosenberg, Music Studies
Music Technology
Braxton Boren, “Music and Rhythm in Non-Rhythmic Video Games”
Advisor: Chris Mercer, Music Technology
Percussion Performance
Catherine Barnes, “Perceptions of Time in Ghanaian Music and Culture”
Advisor: Michael Burritt, Winds and Percussion
Performance Studies
Alison Lehner, “How Central Appalachian Women Juggle Gender Roles”
Advisor: Lori Baptista, Performance Studies
PHILOSOPHY
Amber North, “Philosophy of Language's Situation”
Advisor: Souleymane Bachir Diagne, Philosophy
Alexander Robins*, “Michel Foucault and Museums”
Advisor: Penelope Deutscher, Philosophy
PHYSICS AND ASTRONOMY
Jennifer Heller*, “MINERvA Calibration and Normalization Via Neutral Current Neutrino-Electron Scattering”
Advisor: Heidi Schellman, Physics and Astronomy
Justin Lieber*, “Mixing and Chaos in Relativistic Systems: Distinguishing the Absolute from the Relative”
Advisor: Adilson E. Motter, Physics and Astronomy
Timothy Linden*, “X-Ray Binary Evolution in Super-Star Clusters: A Statistical Model of Point X-Ray Sources in NGC 1569”
Advisor: Vicky Kalogera, Physics and Astronomy
Seth Myers*, “Statistical Physics of Non-Poissonian Processes: The Case of Inter-event Time Intervals”
Advisor: Adilson Motter, Physics and Astronomy
PIANO
Anya Yermakova, “Musical Healing of Flamenco: Communication among Performers through Energy”
Advisor: Drew Davies, Musicology
POLITICAL SCIENCE
Rajni Chandrasekhar*, “Domestic NGO Initiatives to Improve Government Primary Education in Southern India: The Study of Inter-Organizational Collaboration, Integration of Cultural Norms, and Best Practices Models for Sustainable Change”
Advisor: Joan Sherman, Gender Studies
Rachel Gandell*, “Democracy and Islam in Mali: A Look at the Presidency”
Advisor: William Reno, Political Science
Vladimir Gutman, “Cosmopolitanism in American Jurisprudence”
Advisor: Stephen Daniels, Political Science
PSYCHOLOGY
Matthew Braslow, “The Psychological
Dynamics of Faith and Politics”
Advisor: Dan McAdams, Psychology
Maya Kuehn, “Achieving Belonging: Strategies for Successful Social Interaction”
Advisor: Wendi Gardner, Psychology
Azmina Lakhani, “Putting Pediatric Obesity and Multiple Comorbidities in a Clinical Context”
Advisor: Michael Diamond, Global Health
Sarah McGowan, “Brain Correlates of Emotionality in Children”
Advisor: Emily Durbin, Psychology
Evgeni Schwartz, “Family Size, Handedness, & Hair-Whorl Orientation Distribution in Men by Sexual Orientation”
Advisor: Alan Sanders, Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences
RADIO/TELEVISION/FILM
Jonas Jacobs, “The Jewish Community in Bolivia”
Advisor: Frank Safford, History
RELIGION
Joshua Urich, “International Buddhism in Bodh Gaya”
Advisor: Stuart Sarbacker, Religion
Blake Walker*, “Griots of the Prophet: Islam and the Jali in Rural Senegal”
Advisor: Inna Naroditskaya, Music Studies
SCIENCE AND HUMAN CULTURE
Rikki Stern*, “Content Analysis of Online Infertility Discussions”
Advisor: Laura Stark, Sociology
SLAVIC LANGUAGES AND LITERATURE
Barbara Zukowski, “Identity through Literature in post-1989 Poland”
Advisor: Clare Cavanagh, Slavic Languages and Literature
SOCIOLOGY
Rikki Stern*, “Content Analysis of Online Infertility Discussions”
Advisor: Laura Stark, Sociology
THEATRE
Brett Janecek, “I Thought the Revolution Was Going to Include Me!: A Case Study of Queer Cuba through the Dramatic Arts”
Advisor: Ana Puga, Theatre
Brittney Lower*, “Identity and the Paint Mask”
Advisor: Gretchen Case, Performance Studies
Tracy MacKenzie, “The Urban Garden Project”
Advisor: Robert Gundlach, Linguistics
*Indicates a student whose interdisciplinary project may appear under more than one department heading. |
