2013 Summer Research Recipients
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| Student | Advisor | Project Title |
| Taylor Applegate '15, English | Mike Benveniste | Black and Blues: A musico-cultural analysis of Delta blues as racial uplift, 1890-1930 |
| Shannon Kilgore '14, English Literature/Hispanic Studies | Harry Velez-Quinones | Reading the Book Collection of the Ingenious Gentleman: An analysis of the intertextual universe of Don Quixote |
| Sean Moffitt '15, Politics & Government | Patrick O'Neil | International Aid in the Syrian Civil War |
| Madeline Waddell '14, Politics & Economics | Patrick O'Neil | The Educational Map of Egypt |
| Sadie Boyers '14, Psychology | David Moore | Perceptions of Sexual Violence on the UPS Campus |
| Miriam Cook '14, History & Spanish | John Lear | Forty Years Later: Remembering the Pinochet Years in 2013 |
| Jana Cary-Alvarez '14, History | Nancy Bristow | Examining American Indian Movement and Take-Overs Through Media Interpretations |
| Megan Gilbertson '14, Science, Technology & Society | Amy Fisher | Making Mad: Examinations of the archetype of the mad scientist |
| Abbie Baldwin '14, Studio Art & Spanish | Janet Marcavage and Mike Johnson | The Art of Printmaking and Textile Design |
| Kristan Shuford '14, Art | Elise Richman | Exploring Sensory Perception: Evoking emotion through art |
| Jordan Meyers '14, Studio Art & Science, Technology & Society | John McCuistion | Apoptosis |
| Julie Kappelman '14, Religion | Jonathan Stockdale | Fluidity Between Christianity and Beer: The monastery, prohibition, and modernity |
| Benjamin Block '14, Art History & Computer Science | Kriszta Kotsis | Thomas Jefferson and Beauty: Art, aesthetics, and politics in the revolutionary era |
| Hannah Fattor '14, English | Brett Rogers | Manifesting Stories: The progression of comics from print to web to print |
| Jason Kelley '15, Psychology | David Andresen | The Effect of Attractiveness on Mirror Neuron Response |
| Heather Dappen '15, Hispanic Studies & International Relations | Mark Harpring | Vale La Pena: Is immigration actually improving the lives of Mexicans on both sides of the border? |
| Clara Sciortino '14, Religion | Greta Austin | The Roles of Belief and Rituals in the Formation of Unitarian Universalist Communities |
| Henry Babbitt-Cook '14, Politics & Government | Alisa Kessel | Seeking a Re-Founding: Occupations, Tea Parties, and the origins of managed democracy |
| Emily Menk '14, Studio Art | Janet Marcavage |
Who's Behind the Lens? Examining artistic voice and identity in portrait photography |
| Annabeth Ryan '14, Comparative Sociology | Ben Lewin | Walking for the Cure: Breast cancer messaging and its effects on women's relationships with their bodies |
| Anna Sable '14, Comparative Sociology | Derek Buescher | Examining Torture: A look at torture discourse in post-9/11 animated films |
| Jinshil Yi '12, Biochemistry, Politics & Government, and Music | Geoffrey Block | Endeavoring to Repair a Crucial Gap in Schubert Scholarship: Compositional process studies |
| Samuel Mandry '14, Art History | Linda Williams | Ordered Chaos: The negotiation of space in deconstructionist museum buildings |
| Veronica Sagert '14, Molecular & Cellular Biology | Kristin Johnson | American Medicine in Wartime: A comparison of Civil War and Iraq War surgeons |
| Jillian Zeidner '13, History & Religion | Katie Henningsen | The Trail |
| Spencer DeChenne '15, Math | Carl Toews | Inverse optimality applied to spawning aggregations |
| Billy Rathje '15, Computer Science | Brad Richards | Model verification of a wireless ethernet simulator for use in networking pedagogy |
| Jack Elder '15, Biochemistry | Luc Boisvert | Investigation of iron complex-catalyzed hydrogenation of alkenes and carbonyl groups |
| Robin Harkins '14, Biochemistry | Eric Scharrer | Synthesis of new liquid crrystalline molecules: Effects of lateral methylation on nematic phase onset temperature in oxadiazole based bent-core mesogens |
| Ameneh McCullough '14, Math | Carl Toews | Optimal control for fisheries management |
| Amelia Asbe '13, Biology | Andreas Madlung | Understanding the mechanisms of reversion in Arabidopsis suecica |
| Kathryn Ginsberg '14, Biochemistry | Dan Burgard | Wastewater analysis of amphetamine enantiomers: Insights into adderall useage in adolescents |
| Bonnie Wirth '14, Biology | Peter Hodum | Plastic prospect: Using planktivorous fish as bio-indicators of marine plastic pollution |
| Erik Solhaug '14, Biology | Andreas Madlung | Allopolyploidy and its effect on the photosynthesis of Arabidopsis suecica |
| Alisa Wallace '14, Biology | Stacey Weiss | Multimodal signaling in the striped plateau lizard (Sceloprous virgatus): Investigating the information content and efficacy of chemical cues and female-specific courtship ornamentation |
| Danique Gigger '14, Chemistry | Jo Crane | Solvothermal synthesis and characterization of chiral metal-organic frameworks |
| John Valenzuela '13, Molecular & Cellular Biology | Leslie Saucedo | Examining the functional role of dPRL-1 in Drosophila melanogaster |
| Morgan Giese '14, Molecular & Cellular Biology | Mark Martin | Designing grpE-lux transcriptional fusions to interrogate in vivo the prey cell periplasm of Bdellovibrio bacteriovorus |
| Kelsey Crutchfield-Peters '14, Biology | Kena Fox-Dobbs and Betsy Kirkpatrick | Below ground respiration and allocation of added C4-carbon in Puget lowland prairie soils |
| David Ho '14, Biology | Betsy Kirkpatrick | Changes in microbial communities of carbon-amended soils in a Puget Sound prairie |
| Spencer Gordon '14, Biochemistry | Andreas Madlung | Regulation of flower development and flower reversion in Arabidopsis suecica |
| Madison Cox '14, Biology | Mark Martin | Cloacal bacterial assemblages of Sceloporus virgatus, the striped plateau lizard |
| Justin Higa '15, Exercise Science | Heidi Orloff | Effect of shoe degradation on rear foot motion, leg stiffness, and peak forces in runners |
| Shelby Willis '15 | Luc Boisvert | Development of iron-based catalysts for the homogeneous hydrogenation of C-X bonds |
| Dinah Draluk '14, Biochemistry | Jeff Grinstead | Molecular modeling of MalA substrate complexes |
| Anne Fetrow '15, Geology | Mike Valentine | Structural and paleomagnetic analysis of the basalt of Summit Creek |
| Kelly Rotstan '14, Biology | Andreas Madlung and Cristy Walcher | Assessing phototropic response in lazy-2 mutants |
| Davis Shurbert '14, Math | Robert Beezer | Implementing group presentations in Sage |
| Mackenzie Hepker '14, Biology | David Andresen | Effect of oxytocin in modulating mirror neuron adaptibility to social context |
| Chris Large '14, Molecular & Cellular Biology | Leslie Saucedo | Using Drosophilia melanogaster as a model to study expression of mammalian PRL-3 |
| Casey Thayer '14, Molecular & Cellular Biology | John Hanson | Exploring the substrate specificity of hen-egg white lysozyme and T4 lysozyme: The role of peptide in binding and catalysis |
| Matthew Thompson '14, Exercise Science | Heidi Orloff | Shoe degradation over 400 miles in veteran runners |
| Audrey Kvam '15, Physics | David Latimer | Analysis of the theoretical propogation of light through dark matter in an expanding universe |
| Sophia Raefsky '14, Exercise Science | Jung Kim | Mapping of spinal interneurons associated with motor tasks in complete spinal cord injured mice |
| Adrian Simpson '15, Biochemistry | John Hanson | Purification and characterization of MalA in Bdellovibrio bacteriovorus |
| Alicia Burns '14, Biochemistry | Steven Neshyba | Molecular dynamics study of ice-vapor viscinal surfaces |
| Cameron Chrisman '15, Biochemistry | Luc Boisvert | Synthesis of new arsenic catalysts for the industrially important amide formation reaction |
| Skyler Tetreau '15, Biology | Siddharth Ramakrishnan | Developmental and neurological effects of bisphenol A on aquatic snails |
| Noah David '15, Molecular & Cellular Biology | Wayne Rickoll | Analysis of would repair in Drosophilia embryo |
| Jenni Brehove '14, Molecular & Cellular Biology | Mark Martin | Exppolysaccharide (EPS) production involved in tracking of Ensifer adhaerens |
| Christine Anderson '14, Biology | Peter Hodum | Relationship between ocean-climate indices and diet of rhinoceros auklets (Cerorhinca monocerate) |
| Nick Davenport '14, Physics | Greg Elliott | Quantized conduction in etched nanowires |
| Amrei Oswald '14, Chemistry & Physics | David Latimer | Hidden dark matter self-interactions |
| Benjamin Boe '14, Physics | Rand Worland | Experimental and numerical analysis of coupling between musical drumheads |
| Annin Ramsing '13, Biochemistry | Jeff Grinstead | Benchmarking HADDOCK's solvated protocol |
| Ed Vinis '14, Chemistry | Eric Scharrer | Effects of altering carbon chain lengths on the phase behavior of oxadiazole based liquid crystals |
| Andrew Ivener '14, Geology | Jeff Tepper | Petrology and Tectonic Setting of the TEanaway Basalt, Washington |
| Elizabeth Roepke '15, Geology | Jeff Tepper | Petrology and Tectonic Setting of the Teanaway Basalt, Washington |
| Ariana Lim '14, Natural Science & Biology | Joel Elliott | Identifying symbiotic bacteria associated with eelgrass (Zostera marina) in high sulfide habitats |