AMERICAN STUDIES
Meaghan Beadle, “Robert Frank’s ‘The Americans:’ An Immigrant’s View of 1950s America and His Place in American Society and Culture”
Advisor: Ivy Wilson, English, American Studies
ANTHROPOLOGY
Peter Luckow, “Health, HIV/AIDS, and Structural Violence in Rural Liberia”
Advisor: William Murphy, Anthropology
Elena Pinsky, “Bailo La Murga: Performing Social Identity Through Dance in Buenos Aires”
Advisor: Rebecca Seligman, Anthropology
Lu Yao, “The Evolution of Bat Brain Size”
Advisor: Robert D. Martin, Anthropology
ART HISTORY
Hannah Dean, “Millard Sheets’ Home Savings and Loan Murals”
Advisor: Christine Bell, Art History
Elliot Reichert, “The Writing on the Wall: Stencil Graffiti on Context, Commodity, and the Fate of the Art Object”
Advisor: Hannah J Feldman, Art History
ART THEORY AND PRACTICE
Allison Putnam, “Control and Public Space”
Advisor: Michael Rakowitz, Art Theory and Practice
BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES
Monisha Banerjee, “Nitric Oxide Treatments for Vascular Injury: A Mechanistic Approach Examining Why Males Respond Better than Females”
Advisor: Melina R Kibbe, Vascular Surgery
Orlando DeLeon, “Small Molecule Activator of the Heat Shock Response as Potential Therapeutics for Neurodegenerative Diseases”
Advisor: Rick Morimoto, Biochemistry, Molecular Biology, and Cell Biology
Sara Dubbury, “Diagnosing the Arrays of Cancers”
Advisor: Lonnie Shea, Biological and Chemical Engineering
Anamika Dwivedi, “Characterization and Analysis of Aggregation/Toxicity in C. elegans Expressing N-terminus hAR Mutants”
Advisor: Richard Morimoto, Biochemistry, Molecular Biology and Cell Biology
Kelsie Eichel, “Generation and Toxicity Analysis of Neuronal Danish Dementia C. elegans Models”
Advisor: Richard Morimoto, Biochemistry, Molecular Biology, and Cell Biology
John Froberg, “Nucleosome Positioning in Plasmodium Falciparum”
Advisor: Jonathan Widom, Biochemistry, Molecular Biology and Cell Biology
Alex Gast, “Topoisomerase V: A Novel Family of Topoisomerases?”
Advisor: Alfonso Mondragón, Biochemistry, Molecular Biology, and Cell Biology
Michael Marshall, “Effect of Per2 Over-expression on Beta-Cell Insulin Secretion and Diabetes"
Advisor: Joseph Bass, Medicine
William Pearse, “Regulation of the Inhibin Alpha Subunit Gene by the NR4A Family of Orphan Nuclear Receptors in Ovarian Granulosa Cells”
Advisor: Kelly Mayo, Biochemistry, Molecular Biology, and Cell Biology, Center for Reproductive Science
Yilu Qin, “Somatic Cell Reprogramming by Small Molecules”
Advisor: Raj Kishore, Cardiology
Ellen Ryan, “The Role of Lipid Raft Disruption in ADDL Binding and Receptor Interaction”
Advisor: William L. Klein, Neurobiology
Steven Sukert, “Glucose Metabolism and Diabetes-Related Mutations”
Advisor: Joseph Bass, Medicine
Irene Swanenberg, “Non-coding RNA’s Functional Role in Gene Regulation”
Advisor: Jhumku Kohtz, Pediatrics
Hatim Thaker, “Autologous Sources of Ureteral Smooth Muscle Cells for Bladder Regeneration” Advisor: Arun K. Sharma, Urology
Cristina Thomas, “Effect of Macrophage-Secreted Cytokines on the Development of Cultured Follicles”
Advisor: Teresa Woodruff, Biochemistry, Molecular Biology and Cell Biology, Obstetrics and Gynecology
Kalie Tommerdahl, “Prolactin Pathway Elucidation Via A Peptidyl Prolyl Isomerase Knockout”
Advisor: Charles Clevenger, Pathology
Wenting Wang, “The Role of Dicer-1 in siRISC Assembly”
Advisor: Erik J. Sontheimer, Biochemistry, Molecular Biology, and Cell Biology
Eric Yoo, “Determining d-GM3 expression in xenografted human melanomas and patient tissues through immunohistochemistry and immunofluorescence”
Advisor: Xiao-Qi Wang, Dermatology
BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING
Daniel Culhane, “An Analysis of Technique Accuracy in Biomechanical Models of the Knee”
Advisor: Yasin Dhaher, Biomedical Engineering, Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation
William Mitzelfeld, “Design of an Automated Optical System for the Study of Neural Sensorimotor Pathways in Rats”
Advisor: Mitra J. Hartmann, Biomedical Engineering
John Sheppard, “Analysis of hub function in large-scale human cortical networks”
Advisor: Patrick C.M. Wong, PhD, Communication Sciences and Disorders & Department of Otolaryngology, Feinberg School of Medicine
Jay Shiao, “Designing and Using Lentiviral Vectors to Understand the Role of Transcriptional Co-Repressors in SCA1”
Advisor: Puneet Opal, Neurology
CHEMICAL ENGINEERING
Theodore Swift, “The Role of pH in Calixarene Adsorption of Butanol”
Advisor: Justin Notestein, Chemical and Biological Engineering
CHEMISTRY
Carl Blumenfeld, “Detection of Cancer with Porphyrazines: A Synthetic and Biological Study” Advisor: Brian Hoffman, Chemistry
Stephanie Choing, “Mechanism of Nitric Oxide Synthase Inactivation by N5-(1-Imino-2-(methylthio)ethyl)-L-Ornithine (L-NIMTEO)”
Advisor: Richard B. Silverman, Chemistry
Thomas Couri, “Binding Affinity Optimization of the Periplasmic Binding Protein and ABC Transporter Complex HI1470/1/2”
Advisor: Heather Pinkett, Biochemistry, Molecular Biology and Cell Biology
Dennis Hu, “Methodology Research Toward the First Total Synthesis of the Natural Antineoplastic Diterpenoid, Maoecrystal V”
Advisor: Regan Thomson, Chemistry
Benjamin Levinson, “Determination of the role of extracellular flavin mononucleotide secreted by Methylocystis sp. strain M”
Advisor: Amy Rosenzweig, Chemistry
Wasut Pornpatcharapong, “Simulation of Pore Stability in Phospholipid Bilayers”
Advisor: George C. Schatz, Chemistry
COGNITIVE SCIENCES
Sterling Hutchinson, “How Do Individual Differences and Task Goals Influence the Nature of Mental Representations?”
Advisor: David Rapp, School of Education and Social Policy
Abigail Jacobs, “Seeing the Big Picture with Different Perspectives: How visualization techniques affect learning from agent-based models”
Advisor: Uri Wilensky, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science; Learning Sciences (SESP)
Lauren Kahn, “Cognition of Spatial Relationships: The Sequential Nature of Perceiving Visual Structure”
Advisor: Steven Franconeri, Psychology
Samuel Wilson, “Infection Control Dashboard”
Advisor: Abel Kho, Division of General Internal Medicine, Feinberg
COMMUNICATION SCIENCES AND DISORDERS
Yoomin Ahn, “Effects of Amusia on the Chinese language”
Advisor: Patrick C. Wong, Commuication Sciences and Disorders
COMPARATIVE LITERATURE
Kyle Tidd, “Interpreting Kafka: The Way in The Castle”
Advisor: Peter Fenves, German
COMPUTER SCIENCE
Clint Sbisa, “Automated Parser Generation for High-Speed Network Intrusion Detection Systems”
Advisor: Yan Chen, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
EAST ASIAN LANGUAGE AND CIVILIZATION
Christine Welch, “Zhu Tianwen: A Post Modern Taiwanese Outlook”
Advisor: Bruce Knickerbocker, African and Asian Languages
GLOBAL HEALTH
Katarzyna Kadela, “Assisted Reproductive Technology Use in Poland”
Advisor: Teresa Woodruff, Obstetrics and Gynecology
HISTORY
Andrew Bank, “Media Frames in the JFK Assassination: Perceived Threats to America in the early 1960s”
Advisor: Michael J. Allen, History
Stephanie DeNotto, “Anti-Imperialism at the End of Empire? The Labour Party’s Decolonization Policy 1945-1951”
Advisor: John Bushnell, History
HUMAN DEVELOPMENT AND PSYCHOLOGICAL SERVICES
Maija Mikkila, “The Role of Comparison in Infants' Ability to Make Quantity Discriminations”
Advisor: Susan Hespos, Psychology
INTEGRATED SCIENCES PROGRAM
Kuan-Ying Fang, “Radially Compressed Aerogel”
Advisor: William Halperin, Physics and Astronomy
Andrew Loveridge, “Determination of the Envelope-Structure Parameter from Detailed Stellar Models”
Advisor: Vassiliki Kalogera, Physics and Astronomy
Zachary Nicolaou, “Exploring Mechanical Networks for the Design of New Materials”
Advisor: Adilson Motter, Physics
INTERNATIONAL STUDIES
Jessica Robinson, “Women's Nongovernmental Organizations in Bolivia”
Advisor: Brodwyn Fischer, History
JOURNALISM
Jacqueline Burns, “The Gulag and the Soviet Family: Exploring the Effects of Labor Camps on the Lives of Children”
Advisor: John Bushnell, History
Tara Garcia Mathewson, “Documenting a Transnational Pathway: Oaxaca, Mexico to New York, USA”
Advisor: Josef Barton, History
LINGUISTICS
Julliard Lin, “Examining Influences on Word Recognition”
Advisor: David N. Rapp, Psychology
Amanda Murphy, “Speech Production and Aphasia: Exploring the Effects of Deficits to Lexical Access on Phonological Encoding”
Advisor: Matthew Goldrick, Linguistics
MATERIALS SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING
Ken Pradel, “Tuning Gold Nanorods for Application in Nanoscale Orientation Sensors”
Advisor: Jiaxing Huang, Materials Science and Engineering
Allen Tsaur, “Electrospun Sucrose Nanofibers and Their Applications”
Advisor: Jiaxing Huang, Material Science and Engineering
Brian Wasserman, “The Development of a Closterium Moniliferum Bioreactor for the Separation of Radioactive Strontium from Contaminated Waste”
Advisor: Derk Joester, Materials Science and Engineering
MUSIC STUDIES
Matvey Kostukovsky, “Effects Processing for Clarinet: Exploring New Possibilities and Applications for Performance and Improvisation”
Advisor: Steven Cohen, Music Performance Studies
Colin McGrath, “From Worlds Apart: Sartre's Nausea and Messiaen's Quartet for the End of Time”
Advisor: Charles Yarnoff, Writing Program
Sasha Khadivian, “Flamenco and Fusion: Evolution in Music and Improvisation”
Adviosr: Anne Waller, Music
PHILOSOPHY
Brett Herda, “The Uninsured Pay Different Prices: Should They Receive Different Information?”
Advisor: Laurie Zoloth, Religion
Mark Anthony Mills, “Intuitions of Time: Bergson, Husserl and the Crisis of Perception”
Advisor: Christopher Bush, French and Comparative Literaary Studies
Stephanie Novak, “Must We Always Tell the Truth?: Factors Affecting Ethical Decision Making in the Medical Field”
Advisor: Laurie Zoloth, Religion
Ken Sasamura, “An Evaluation of Casuistry as an Effective Way to Approach Applied Ethics”
Advisor: Mark Sheldon, Philosophy
Anna Sims, “Space and the Modern Discourse on Renaissance Art”
Advisor: Jesús Escobar, Art History
PHYSICS AND ASTRONOMY
Irina Patrikeeva, “Isotope-Selective Photoionization of Barium Atoms”
Advisor: Brian Odom, Physics and Astronomy
Michael Tremmel, “The Evolution of X-Ray Binaries in the Small Magellanic Cloud”
Advisor: Vicky Kalogera, Physics and Astronomy
POLITICAL SCIENCE
Daniel Hessel, “Public Opinion and its Effect on the Argentine Judiciary”
Advisor: Andrew Roberts, Political Science
PSYCHOLOGY
Ida Samuel, “Magic Ball Machine: Approximate Addition in Young Children”
Advisor: Susan Hespos, Psychology
Christopher Shallow, “Attraction Effect in the Domain of Moral Action”
Advisor: Douglas Medin, Psychology
Bonnie Vu, “Helping Hands: The Role of Gesture in the Encoding and Recall of Spaces”
Advisor: David Uttal, Psychology
RADIO / TELEVISION / FILM
Caroline Guo, “Jean-Luc Godard and the Modern Cinema of the Parisian Metro”
Advisor: Scott Curtis, Radio/Television/Film
RELIGION
Emily Raymond, “Religion Goes To College: Shaping Spirituality in Student Christian Communities”
Advisor: Cristina Traina, Religion
J. Lewis Wallace, “St. Uncumber: The Bearded Lady Crucifix and Medieval Women’s Popular Piety”
Advisor: Barbara Newman, English, Religion and Classics
SOCIAL POLICY
Rae Shih, “Rural Health in Uganda: A Study of Federal Policy Efficacy and Community Health Implementation”
Advisor: Jeremy Freese, Sociology
SOCIOLOGY
Katherine Ranney, “The ‘AP Elite’: A Study of Student Course Placement into College Preparatory Curriculum using the Education Longitudinal Study of 2002”
Advisor: James Rosenbaum, School of Education and Social Policy
Alexandra Tate, “Hidden Transmission: Race and Class in Childrearing of African American and White Families”
Advisor: Monica Prasad, Sociology
Katherine Weisshaar, “Free Love to Hook Ups: What's New in Sex Since the Sixties?”
Advisor: Nicola Beisel, Sociology
THEATER
Stacey Nwokeyi, “Castability: Black Actors in Chicago: A Study of American Non-Traditional Casting in Chicago during the Past Thirty Years”
Advisor: Harvey Young Jr., Theatre
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