2008 Summer Provost’s Undergraduate Research Award Recipients

Recipient Name

Proposal Title

Faculty Sponsor

 Ersin Akinci

The Torrid Zone in Fifteenth and Sixteenth-Century Western and Islamic Science

 Professor Richard Kagan

 Anum Azam

The Role of surface Tension Forces in 3D Self-Assembly of Nanoparticles

 Dr. David Gracias

Yoonah Chi and

   Jill Lasak

The Relationship Between the Korean Board Game, Baduk, and Processing Speed, Executive Function, and Short-Term Memory in Older Adults

 Dr. Justin Halberda

 Deanna Chieco

The Role of the Frizzled-3 Receptor in Sympathetic Nervous System Development

 Dr. Rejji Kuruvilla

 Daniel Colacurcio

Boronate Compounds Modulate MAG-Mediated Inhibition of Axon Regeneration

 Dr. Ronald Schnaar

 Avik De

Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (SLAM) with Sparse Sensing: A Topological Approach

 Dr. Noah J. Cowan

 James DiCarlo, Jaime Liu, and
Ingrid Speilman

Mating Type and Ploidy Detector for S. cerevisiae

 Dr. Jef Boeke

 Kristin Donato

Genetically Engineering Fluorescent Brain Tumor Cells

 Dr. Arvind P. Pathak

 Precious Ann

 Ventura Fortes

Migrating Bodies: How Migration Has Altered Health Care and Education in Poor Rural Provinces of Northern Philippines

 Dr. Clara Han

 Jonathan Gilbert

Reversible Removal of Cells from a Surface Using a Switchable Low Density SAM

 Dr. Joelle Frechette

 William Hays

The State of Modern Opera: A Technical Examination and Cultural Investigation

 Dr. Hollis Robbins

 Joseph Heng

Cochlear Implant-Mediated Perception of Musical Timbre

 Dr. Charles J. Limb

 Alexander Hoogland

Exploring the Environmental Chemistry and Fate of a Highly Used Herbicide Safener in Natural and Engineered Systems

 Dr. Lynn Roberts

 Vasilisa Kizub

Advancement of Research on Gene Expression: Defining the Molecular Significance of Chromosomal Remodelers

 Dr. Gregory Bowman

 Su Liu

The Effect of Maternal Antibodies of Mothers of Children with Autism in Mouse Models

 Dr. Harvey Singer

 Rebecca Orchard

Integrated Music Analysis in fin de siecle Vienna

 Dr. David Smooke

 Oi-yng Irene Pang

The Effects of Microfinance on Informal Finance among Urban Market Women in Ghana: A Case Study

 Dr. Joel Andreas

 Molly Plovanich

Enhancing the Stability of the Notch Ankyrini Domain through Consensus-Based Mutagenesis

 Dr. Douglas Barrick

 Aarthi Rao

An Examination of Identity in Young Adult Indian: American Short Fiction

 Dr. Jean McGarry

 Sarah Robinson

Prevalence and Health Effects of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder in African-American and Afro-Caribbean Women

 Dr. Jacquelyn C. Campbell

 Lisa Rosinsky

Poetry in Performance: From Auditory Imagination to Spoken Word

 Douglas Basford

 Shelby Strong

The Cleveland Orchestra's Musical Response to World War II Culture: 1940-1942

 Dr. Richard Giarusso

 Wesley Sudduth

Kelo, Hathcock, and Eminent Domain in America: The Struggle Between Personal Freedom and the Collective Benefit

 Dr. Joel Grossman

 Shaw-Wei David

 Tsen

Inactivation of Viral Pathogens Using Femtosecond Lasers

 Dr. T.-C. Wu

 Callie Vincent

Psychological workplace Violence and Depression Rates in Nurses

 Jacquelyn Campbell, PhD, RN, FAAN

 Jonathan Yen

Generation of Patient-Specific Human Pluripotent Stem Cells without Integrating Viral Vectors

 Dr. Linzhao Cheng