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November–December 2011 Awards

Research Grants
(up to $1,000)


Student

Department/Program

Project Title

Ramon Barthelemy

Physics/Science Education

“Improving Physics: Women's Choice of Research Subfield in Academic Physics”

Zachary Boyt

Music

“The Future of Music Performance Through Sensor Bow Technology”

Allison Buller

Counselor Education and Counseling Psychology

“Excellent Teaching in Counselor Education”

Steven Conrad

Biological Sciences

“The Tanapox Virus as a Therapy for Human Breast Cancer”

Stacy Engebretson

Psychology

“Effect of Exercise in a Corticosterone Model of Depression”

Alexandra Haase

Biological Sciences

“Engineering a Catalytic Site in Bacterial Flagellin Using Rational Design”

Keli Herr

Psychology

“Conditioned Place Preference Procedures in Rats”

Alia Hinz

Chemistry

“Probing the Interaction Between Specific Domains of Wilson Disease Causing Protein”

Akhil Moorthi

Electrical/Computer Engineering

“Development of a Flexible Strain Gauge Sensor Using Screen Printing”

*Jane Okwako

Political Science

“Innovative Governance and Natural Resource Management in Kenya: Modeling Procedural and Substantive Outcomes of Civil Society”

Phillip Sawatzki

Biological Sciences

“Identity, Life-cycles, and Phylogeny of Microsporidia in Benthic Stream Copepods”

*Benjamin Slager

Biological Sciences

“Modeling Monarch Migration”

Stephanie Stilling

Psychology

“Social Behavior in Situations of Uncertainty and Risk”

Travel Grants
(up to $700)


Student

Department/Program

Project Title

Sean Butler

Comparative Religion

1) “Monistic Interpretations of Tawheed in the Sufi Notion of Wahdat al-wujud”; 2) “God, the Devil, and Berkeley: Satan's Berkeleian Justification for the Usurpation of the Position of God”

Ehab Elhoussieny

Physics

“Time Dependent Photoionization of Gas Outflows in Active Galactic Nuclei (AGN)”

*Nishant Gupta

Computer Science

“On Cloud Computing Performance Evaluating Tools”

Christine Haskill

English

“Late Victorian Horrors: Teaching the Fin de Siècle Through the Monstrous”

Casey Jelsema

Statistics

“Self Assessment Model for Obesity-Related Chronic Diseases”

Jancie Philippus

Music

“Music and the Earth: Four Elements for Horn and Piano

Daniel Rubio

Philosophy

“Are There True Libertarian Action Counterfactuals?”

Sudesh Woodiga

Mechanical and Aeronautical Engineering

“Effects of Yaw and Roll Angles on Skin Friction Topology on Delta Wings”

* also awarded a supplemental international travel grant of up to $600 funded by the Graduate Student Advisory Committee

 

 

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