AMERICAN STUDIES
Kristin Buterbaugh, “Humanizing Deindustrialization: The Cultural Narrative of Pittsburgh's Steel Workers in Post-Industrial America”
Advisor: Henry Binford, History
Thomas Rousse, “World of Warcraft: American Social Fantasy Play”
Advisor: Gary Alan Fine, Sociology
ANTHROPOLOGY
Iram Azam, “Breast Milk Composition: Exploring the Effect of Early Life Nutrition Upon Iron Concentration in Breast Milk”
Advisor: Chris Kuzawa, Anthropology
Rachel Berkowitz, “Women's Perceptions of Health and Healthcare in Ho, Ghana: What Really Matters?”
Advisor: Helen B Schwartzman, Anthropology
Laura Biagi, “Stories of the Self in a Medically-Contested World”
Advisor: Rebecca Seligman, Anthropology
Elizabeth Henley, “Immigration from the Perspective of the Rural Community of El Oro”
Advisor: Brodwyn Fischer, History
Hareem Khan, “‘Special’ Students in the Mainstream: Structure of Special Education Programs in Cape Town, South Africa”
Advisor: Rebecca Seligman, Anthropology
Ashwin Kotwal, “The Health Status of Turkish Immigrants in Germany”
Advisor: Christopher Kuzawa, Anthropology
Divya Mallampati, “The Young Woman's Plea: Birth Spacing and Counseling in Andhra Pradesh, India”
Advisor: Thomas McDade, Anthropology
Sarah Mihalov, “Factors affecting feeding practices in the Volta Region, Ghana: The Relationship with Malnutrition”
Advisor: Thomas McDade, Anthropology
Maria Valdovinos, “The Problematic Nature of Treatment Compliance Among Mexican and Mexican-American Type 2 Diabetics: Does Culture Arbitrate Compliance Status?”
Advisor: Rebecca Seligman, Anthropology
BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES
Mark Chen*, “Fabrication of a Nanodiamond-Polymer Drug Delivery Platform for Directed Post-Operative Chemotherapy”
Advisor: Dean Ho, Biomedical Engineering
Amanda Gawin, “PUFAs and Expression of Polycomb Group (PcG) Proteins”
Advisor: Goberdhan Dimri, Department of Medicine
Gregory Goldstein, “Exercise and Chronic Pelvic Pain: A Longitudinal Study in
Women’s Health”
Advisor: Frank Tu, Obstetrics and Gynecology
Ashley Goodman, “Transgene Silencing-Induced Clearance of Protein Aggregates in C. elegans”
Advisor: Richard I Morimoto, Biochemistry, Molecular Biology, and Cell Biology
Elizabeth Hines, “Establishment of Gene Expression Profiles Elucidate Events of Melanocyte Development”
Advisor: Carole LaBonne, Biochemistry, Molecular Biology, and Cell Biology
Daniel Katz, “An RNAi Screen for Coregulators in the D. Melanogaster Hedgehog Pathway”
Advisor: Robert Holmgren, Biochemistry, Molecular Biology, and Cell Biology
Joon-Bom Kim, “Identifying Substrates of Cbk1 in Saccharomyces Cerevisiae Using SDL”
Advisor: Eric Weiss, Biochemistry, Molecular Biology, and Cell Biology
Tami Lieberman, “Visualization of Individual mRNA Transcripts in Single Living Yeast Cells”
Advisor: Jonathan Widom, Biochemistry, Molecular Biology, and Cell Biology
Ashley Lipinski, “Characterization Of The Interaction Of The Narrow Abdomen Ion Channel With The Associated Proteins Dunc79 And Dunc80”
Advisor: Ravi Allada, Neurobiology and Physiology
Silvia McCandlish, “The Cell Stress Response to Mutant Huntingtin: Acetylation of Heat Shock Factor 1”
Advisor, Richard I. Morimoto, Biological sciences
Tracy Ooi, “Cytosolic Retention of Oligomer-Coupled DTPA Contrast Agents”
Advisor: Thomas Meade, Chemistry
Manjari Ranganathan, “The Role of PTEN in Coronary Artery Development”
Advisor: Robert Dettman, Pediatrics
Uzma Rezvi, “Creation of an MRI Phantom for Quantifying Liver Iron Content in Iron Diseases”
Advisor: Thomas Meade, Chemistry
Jeff Rixe, “Function of a Novel Cation Current in Drosophila Circadian Pacemaker Neurons”
Advisor: Ravi Allada, Neurobiology and Physiology
Michelle Rozo, “Characterizing the Migratory Role of the Neural Crest Cell Transcription Factor Twist”
Advisor: Carole LaBonne, Biochemistry, Molecular Biology, and Cell Biology
Anirban Sahu, “Identifying the Physiological Target of the SAP30 Zinc Finger”
Advisor: Ishwar Radhakrishnan, Biochemistry, Molecular Biology, and Cell Biology
Matthew Schwartz, “Identifying MicroRNA Pathway Genes in Drosophila Melanogaster”
Advisor: Richard Carthew, Biochemistry, Molecular Biology, and Cell Biology
Afsaneh Talai, “Biophysical and Biochemical Analyses of Protein-Protein and Protein-DNA Interactions involving the cyclic AMP Response Element Binding Protein”
Advisor: Ishwar Radhakrishnan, Biochemistry, Molecular Biology, and Cell Biology
Jennifer Taylor, “Organizational Effects of Androgens on the Hypothalamus and the Manifestation of Insulin Resistance in PCOS”
Advisor: Teresa Horton, Neurobiology and Physiology
BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING
Rahul Kataria, “Role of PcG Protein Bmi-1 in Induction of Pluripotency in Human Somatic Cells”
Advisor: Goberdhan Dimri, Department of Medicine
Jeffrey Krimmel, “Media Frames in Assisted Suicide: How Biotechnology Has Changed What it Means to be Human”
Advisor: Nicola K. Beisel, Sociology
Nathan Kroll, “Isolation of Alzheimer’s Disease Related Abeta-derived Diffusible Ligands”
Advisor: William L. Klein, Neurobiology and Physiology
CHEMISTRY
Veronica Berns, “Assessing the Viability of Lithium Silver Vanadium Oxide as a Thermoelectric Material”
Advisor: Kenneth Poeppelmeier, Chemistry
Mark Chen*, “Fabrication of a Nanodiamond-Polymer Drug Delivery Platform for Directed Post-Operative Chemotherapy”
Advisor: Dean Ho, Biomedical Engineering
Eric Heckenbach*, “Principal Component Analysis from NMR Data of Plant Exudates”
Advisor: Joseph Lambert, Chemistry
Dane Holte, “Catalytic Asymmetric Synthesis of 3,3’-Disubstituted Isoflavanones”
Advisor: Karl A. Scheidt, Chemistry
Jayme Kwak, “Optimization of Growth Conditions in Methylomicrobium Album BG8”
Advisor: Amy R. Rosenzweig, Biochemistry, Molecular Biology, and Cell Biology
Vaibhav Patel, “Remote Loading of 8-Modified Adenosine Analogues into Liposomes for Targeted Delivery to Cancers: Drug Loading Efficiency as a Function of Counter Anions”
Advisor: SonBinh T. Nguyen, Chemistry
Julia Widom, “Synthesis of Inhibitors of ?-Aminobutyric Acid Aminotransferase: Potential Drugs for Epilepsy and Addiction”
Advisor: Richard B. Silverman, Chemistry
CLASSICS
Carolin Fine, “Dionysian Worship within the Symposium-Room: A Study in Context”
Advisor: William Tortorelli, Classics
Joshua Wall, “Epithet and Characterization in Homer's Odyssey”
Advisor: William Tortorelli, Classics
COGNITIVE SCIENCES
Kaitlin Kohlenbrener, “Connectivity Shifts in Brain Activation in Children During Visual Rhyming Tasks”
Advisor: James Booth, Communication Sciences and Disorders
COMMUNICATION SCIENCES AND DISORDERS
Allison Barr, “Language Learning and the Effect of Phonological Tone Awareness”
Advisor: Patrick Wong, Communication Sciences and Disorders
Daniel Choi, “Volume of Planum Temporale with Speech in Noise Perception”
Advisor: Patrick Wong, Communication Sciences and Disorders
Jayla Gray, “Orthographic and Phonological Consistency Effects in Children”
Advisor: James R Booth, Communication Sciences and Disorders
Yong Yan Ha, “Finding the Most Effective Training Program for Adults Learning a Second Language”
Advisor: Patrick Wong, Communication Sciences and Disorders
Carrie Lam, “Speech-in-Noise Discrimination for Musicians”
Advisor: Nina Kraus, Communication Sciences and Disorders
Yoo Lee, “Perception in Korean-English Bilinguals”
Advisor: Jessica Maye, Communication Sciences and Disorders
Marcus Mason, “Relationship Between HIV/AIDS prevention and Christian Influences”
Advisor: Jeffrey Rice, History
ECONOMICS
Hannah Pitt, “Division of Labor Along Gender Lines in Ghana: The Role of Social Networks in Determining Crop Choice”
Advisor: Sergio Urzúa, Economics
ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERING
Michael Skalak, “Accelerating Music Database Searching”
Advisor: Bryan Pardo, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
HISTORY
Arlene Alvarez, “Immigration from the Perspective of the Rural Community of El Oro”
Advisor: Brodwyn Fischer, History
DeVan Ard, “The Imperial Scramble: Latins vs. Non-Latins at the Egyptian University”
Advisor: Matt Sterenberg, History
Laura Colee, “What We Thought Was the End: A Jewish Messiah’s Effect on Christian Theology”
Advisor: Yohanan Petrovsky-Shtern, History
Arianne Urus, “From Red Light to Red Meat?: A Social Study of Parisian Prostitutes, 1750-1789”
Advisor: Sarah Maza, History
Jacob White, “Stereotypes of Northern Ugandans in Newspapers: 1986-2001”
Advisor: Jeff Rice, History
INTEGRATED SCIENCES PROGRAM
Jeffrey Andrews, “Effects of Supernova Kicks on Double Neutron Star Orbital Geometry”
Advisor: Vicky Kalogera, Astrophysics
Matthew Bierbaum, “High Performance Computing Through CUDA and Massively Data-Parallel Computation”
Advisor: Frederic Rasio, Physics and Astronomy
Daniel Dranove, “New and Better Transparent Conducting Oxides: the Potential of Coupled Substitutions into Indium Oxide”
Advisor: Kenneth Poeppelmeier, Chemistry
James Kath, “Characterizing the Unwinding of Supercoiled DNA by Topoisomerase V”
Advisor: John Marko, Biochemistry, Molecular Biology, and Cell Biology; Physics
Swati Patel, “Biogeographic study of Pteroglossus araçaris”
Advisor: Jason D. Weckstein, Zoology (Field Museum of Natural History)
Benjamin Rolfs, “Growth of High Porosity Aerogel onto Quartz Microbalances”
Advisor: William Halperin, Physics
Sharan Srinivasan, “Identifying Endogenous siRNAs Involved in Tissue-Specific Development in Drosophila melanogaster”
Advisor: Erik Sontheimer, Biochemistry, Molecular Biology, Cell Biology
LINGUISTICS
Jiaxi Liu*, “Comparing the Perception of Musical and Linguistic Discourse Structure”
Advisors: Stefan Kaufmann, Linguistics; Richard Ashley, Music Studies; Brady Clark, Linguistics
Timothy Poepsel, “The Influence of Newly Learned Words on Speech Articulation”
Advisor: Matt Goldrick, Linguistics
Materials Science and Engineering
Wenhao Sun, “Strontium Alanate and Barium Alanate as Effective Hydriding Alloys for Hydrogen Storage”
Advisor: Chris Wolverton, Materials Science and Engineering
MATHEMATICS
Eric Heckenbach*, “Principal Component Analysis from NMR Data of Plant Exudates”
Advisor: Joseph Lambert, Chemistry
Seung Ki Kim, “Tauberian Theorems - A Modern Approach”
Advisor: Matthew James Emerton, Mathematics
MECHANICAL ENGINEERING
Eleftherios Gdoutos, “Effect of Atomic Structure on Mechanical Properties of Nanoscale Thin Films”
Advisor: H. Espinosa, Mechanical Engineering
MUSICOLOGY
Garrett Eng, “To Dance as if Singing It: Giving a Voice and a Body to Orpheus and Eurydice”
Advisor: Linda P. Austern, Musicology
MUSIC STUDIES
Jiaxi Liu*, “Comparing the Perception of Musical and Linguistic Discourse Structure”
Advisors: Stefan Kaufmann, Linguistics; Richard Ashley, Music Studies; Brady Clark, Linguistics
PHILOSOPHY
Gabriel Brunswick, “Achievability of our Moral Ends in Immanuel Kant's Critique of Judgment”
Advisor: Rachel Zuckert, Philosophy
PHYSICS AND ASTRONOMY
Kent Shirer, “Optical Birefringence Characterization of Silica Aerogel and Aerogel Enhanced Transducer Based Gas Detection”
Advisor: William Halperin, Physics and Astronomy
POLITICAL SCIENCE
Alyssa Huff, “Freedom in Freetown: A look at Conflict Victims and Reparations in Informal Settlements”
Advisor: Will Reno, Political Science
Jesse Sleamaker, “Outdoor Education and Environmental Citizenship”
Advisor: Paul Friesema, Political Science
PSYCHOLOGY
Katharine Funkhouser, “Individual Differences in Affective Experience within an Achievement Situation”
Advisor: William Revelle, Psychology
Patricia Hartke, “Understanding Moral Intuitions: The Trolley Problem”
Advisor: Douglas Medin, Psychology
Priya Rajakumar, “Mechanism behind Gestures and Spatial Cognition”
Advisor: David Uttal, Psychology
Rachel Salk, “Health Habits in College Women”
Advisor: Renee Engeln-Maddox, Psychology
Marissa Smith, “Which one has more?: The Origins and Development of Quantity Discriminations in Infants”
Advisor: Susan Hespos, Psychology
Rachel Vaughn, “The Changing Face of Prejudice: African American Responses to Subtle Racial Bias and its Negative Effects”
Advisor: Jennifer A. Richeson, Psychology
Jaclyn Weisman, “Dysfunctional Attitudes as a Function of Life Stress and Depression Status”
Advisor: Susan Mineka, Psychology
*Indicates a student whose interdisciplinary project may appear under more than one department heading. |
