2008-2009 Conference Travel Grant Winners

 

 

Ellen Abrams
Paper Title:  “In the Name of the Father, the Son and the Holy Samba:  A Study of Catholicism in Brazil and How It Relates to Brazilian Festivities”
Presented at 2008 International Association for Intercultural Communication Studies Meetings
Advisor:  Ana Thomé Williams, Department of Spanish & Portuguese

Andres Carrasquillo            
Paper Title: “The Death of a Friend:  Mourning in the Virtual Space of Facebook”
Presented at 2008 American Academy of Religion Annual Meeting
Advisor:  Sarah Taylor, Department of Religion

Eric Kramer
Paper Title: “The Effects of Parameter Variation on Reactant Concentration”
Presented at RECOMB Regulatory Genomics, Systems Biology and DREAM3 Conference
Advisor:  Sonbinh Nguyen, Integrated Science Program

Cassandra Blohowiak
Paper Title: “Films, Fame and Fortune:  The American and Brazilian Movie Industries”
Presented at 2008 International Association for Intercultural Communication Studies Conference
Advisor:  Ana Thomé Williams, Department of Spanish & Portuguese

Rebecca Fischer
Earth and Planetary Sciences
Phase Diagram of Wustite at High Pressures and Temperatures
Presented at 2008 Fall Meeting of the American Geophysical Union
Steven Jacobsen, Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences

Samantha Gitelis
Psychology
Optical Imaging in Infants:  Characterizing the Functional Blood Flow Response
Presented at 2009 Society for Research in Child Development Conference
Susan Hespos, Psychology

Dora Begum
Psychology
Infants Make Quantity Discrimination for Substances
Presented at 2009 Society for Research in Child Development Conference
Susan Hespos, Psychology

Katherine Ranney
American Studies
Early Aspirants:  Unpacking the Flow from Aspirations to Entry in K-12 Teaching
Presented at 2009 American Education Finance Association Conference
Michelle Reininger, SESP

Rachel Smith
Biological Sciences
Examining the Effects of Predator Exclusion Structures Associated with Geoduck Aquaculture on Mobile Benthic Macrofauna in South Puget Sound, Washington
Presented at 2009 National Shellfisheries Association Conference                                                  
P. Sean McDonald, University of Washington, School of Aquatic & Fishery Sciences

Rachel Ostrov                    
Psychology
Experimental Evidence that Peer Comments Encourage Restrained Eating in Undergraduate Women
Presented at 2009 Association for Psychological Science Annual Convention
Renee Engeln-Maddox, Psychology

Abigail Jacobs
MMSS
When does 3D Visualization Work?  In Search of Design Principles for Three-Dimensional Visuospatial Agent-Based Models
Presented at 2009 American Association for the Advancement of Science Meeting, Southwestern and Rock Mountain Division
Uri Wilensky, Learning Sciences

Joshua Wall
Classics
Fame and Failure:  Uses of Phaidimos in the Odyssey
Presented at 2009 Classical Association of the Middle West and South
William Tortorelli, Classics

John Sheppard
Biomedical Engineering
Aging Effects on Cortical Network Connectivity during Speech Perception in Noise:  A Graph Theoretical Analysis
Presented at 2009 Organization for Human Brain Mapping Conference
Patrick Wong, Communication Sciences

Hugh Roland
Political Science
The European Union and the Global Financial System
Presented at 2009 Claremont-UC Undergraduate Research Conference on the European Union
Wendy Pearlman, Political Science

Amanda Armour
Psychology
Ironic Effects of Egalitarian Priming on Intergroup Empathy and Altruistic Motivation
Presented at 2009 Stanford Undergraduate Psychology Conference
Joan Chiao, Psychology

Kevin Li
Biomedical Engineering
Aqua Illinois Deep Water Intake System
Presented at 2009 American Water Works Annual Conference and Exposition
Bruce Ankenman, Industrial Engineering and Management Science

Jiaxi Liu
Linguistics
Comparing the Perception of Meaningful Discourse Structure in Music and Language
Presented at 2009 European Society for Philosophy and Psychology Conference
Stefan Kaufmann Linguistics