Congratulations to these Arts and Sciences undergraduates who have been awarded research funding for Summer Quarter 2011, by the Undergraduate Research Office (URO), the Karen Holbrook Fund, University Honors & Scholars, Natural and Mathematical Sciences, Psychology, and EEO Biology:

URO SUMMER RESEARCH FELLOWSHIPS

Grant Joslin (Anthropology/Mathematics)

• A GIS-Based Site Catchment Analysis of the Anderson Village and SunWatch Village Sites in Southwest Ohio
• Advisor: Robert Cook

Kyle Olson (Anthropology/Near Eastern Languages and Cultures)

• The Figurines of Tureng Tepe: A Morphological, Stylistic and Contextual Analysis
• Advisor: Joy McCorriston

Katie Sasso (Psychology)

• Prediction of Therapeutic Process and Outcome: Examining Thin Slice Ratings of Clients' Intake Evaluations
• Advisor: Daniel Strunk

Samuel Stuard (Engineering Physics)

• Optical and Electron Beam Patterning of GeSe Glasses
• Advisor: Ratnasingham Sooryakumar

Jonathon Studer (Biochemistry)

• The Biogeography of Disease: Increasing our Understanding through Phylogenetics and the Development of Biological Geographic Information Systems
• Advisor: Daniel James

Joshua Vidmar (Geography)

• The Impact of Climate Change on Pleistocene Megafauna in the Western United States
• Advisor: David Porinchu

Xuyan Zhao (Communication)

• The Decisive Moments in Emotional Political Message Processing: A Psychophysiological Examination of the Peak-and-End Rule, Political Attitudes and Perceived Persuasion
• Advisor: Zheng Joyce Wang

Zhen Ye (Economics/Mathematics)

• Development Dissimilarities among Similar Coastal Cities in China
• Advisor: Belton Fleisher

HOLBROOK RESEARCH ABROAD FELLOWSHIPS

David Garman (German/International Business)

• Defining 'Homosexuality': Magnus Hirschfeld's 'sexual science' and Robert Musil's erotic 'confusions'
• Advisor: May Mergenthaler 

Psychology-URO Summer Research Fellowships

Rui Cao (Actuarial Science/Psychology)

• The Word Frequence and List Length Effect on the First Word Recalled
• Advisor: Simon Dennis

Joseph Doherty (Psychology)

• Increasing Access to Mental Health Treatment in Primary Care: A Moderating Effect of Age
• Advisor: Jennifer Cheavens

Megan French (Psychology)

• Facebook's Effects on Contingencies of Self-Worth
• Advisor: Jennifer Crocker

Jonte Jones (Psychology)

• The Effects of D-cycloserine on the Learning and Memory Dysfunctions of FAS Rats
• Advisor: Derick Lindquist

Kimberly Rolley (Psychology)

• Examining the Effects of Dance Dance Revolution on Cognition and Neural Plasticity in Individuals with Multiple Sclerosis
• Advisor: Ruchika Prakash

Nicholas Shaffer (Psychology)

• The Relevance of Alpha-7 Mediation on Cognition in Schizophrenia
• Advisor: John Bruno

Alexis Wagner (Psychology)

• The Effect of Personal Relevance on Source Memory
• Advisor: Per Sederberg

Rachel Weiskittle (Psychology)

• Relationship Between Depression and End of Life Experiences for Family Members who have Experienced a Death in the Hospital
• Advisor: Sharla Wells-Di Gregorio

EEO BIOLOGY-URO SUMMER RESEARCH FELLOWSHIPS

Jacob Sawmiller (Biology)

• Effect of Habitat Type on Parental Care in House Wrens (Troglodytes aedon)
• Advisor: Jacqueline Augustine

Kristin Schafer (Biology)

• Seasonal Variation in the Song of Male House Wrens (Troglodytes aedon)
• Advisor: Jacqueline Augustine

University Honors & Scholars Summer Research Scholarships

Meredith Krueger (Economics/Geography)

• What's in a wage? Socio-spatial and Economic Factors Underlying Agricultural Labor Compensation in Central Ohio
• Advisor: Darla Munroe

Kevin Kulig (Political Science/Arabic)

• Violence in Global Civic Society
• Advisor: Jennifer Mitzen

Bradley Lander (Political Science)

• The Effect of an Educational Initiative on Increasing Minority Enrollment in Clinical Trials
• Advisor: Robert Baiocchi

Jordan Meyer (Psychology)

• Investigating Patterns of Specificity in Perceptual Learning
• Advisor: Alex Petrov

Laura Moses (History/Music)

• Exploring the Role of the Women's Association in the Success of the Columbus Symphony Orchestra
• Advisor: Steven Conn

MAYERS SUMMER RESEARCH SCHOLARSHIPS (Natural and Mathematical Sciences)

Geoffrey Bennett (Molecular Genetics)

• The Role of Base Excision Repair During HIV Infection
• Advisor: Richard Fishel

Philip Bunting (Chemistry)

• Reactivity of the Tungsten-Tungsten Quadruple Bond
• Advisor: Malcolm Chisholm

Tom Byvank (Physics)

• Separating Magnetically Labeled and Unlabeled Cells within Nicrofluidic Channels
• Advisor: Ratnasingham Sooryakumar

Ayla Cash (Molecular Genetics)

• Regulation of the Mps1 Centrosome Localization Domain (CLD) by VDAC3
• Advisor: Harold Fisk

Andrew Curtright (Microbiology/Pharmacy)

• In Vitro Selection of RNA Aptamers that Bind Human LysRS Protein
• Advisor: Karin Musier-Forsyth

Victoria Garza (Chemistry)

• Chiral Boronate Urea Catalysis
• Advisor: Anita Mattson

Aarthi Gobinath (Biology/Spanish)

• The Effect of Stress on Hippocampal Dendritic Spines During Postpartum Period
• Advisor: Benedetta Leuner

Kurtis Host (Microbiology)

• The Molecular Nature of Mutations that Promote Alginate Production in Pseudomonas aeruginosa
• Advisor: Daniel Wozniak

Katherine Huening (Microbiology)

• Characterization of Suppressor Mutations of a Negative Mutant of RubisCO
• Advisor: Robert Tabita

Eric Keeler (Chemistry)

• Characterizing Structural Order and Disorder around Network Modifier Cations in Silicate Glasses
• Advisor: Philip Grandinetti

Corie Klepper (Microbiology)

• Testing Therapeutic Efficacy of Anti-microRNA-155 in Liposomal Nanoparticles in a Mouse Model of Oncogene-induced Liver Cancer
• Advisor: Kalpana Ghoshal

Lori Koch (Molecular Genetics)

• Examing the Role of Mps1 Phosphorylation on HsSas6 Function in Centriole Replication
• Advisor: Harold Fisk

Rachel Kominsky (Microbiology/Spanish)

• Influence of Mycobacterium tuberculosis induced IL-10 on TLR Function
• Advisor: Joanne Turner

Kathryn Lang (Evolution and Ecology/French)

• Hypoxia as a Mediator of Food Web Interactions and Energy Flow in Reservoir Ecosystems
• Advisor: Stuart Ludsin

Colleen Nackerman (Biochemistry)

• Anti-Listeria monocytogenes Activity of Human Neutrophils
• Advisor: Stephanie Seveau

Paul Nicholson (Microbiology)

• Interactions of ComB and ComC, Proteins Important in the Biogenesis of the Type IV Pilus in Nontypeable Haemophilus influenzae
• Advisor: Robert Munson

Ethan Palay (Physics)

• Spectral Formation of Atomic Ions in Astrophysics
• Advisor: Anil Pradhan

Julianna Poole (Microbiology)

• Identification of Factors Involved in Cell Integrity of Gram-negative Bacteria
• Advisor: Natividad Ruiz

Vitaliy Rotenberg (Biology)

• Identification of Novel Genes Involved in Cytokinesiss in Fission Yeast Cells
• Advisor: Jian-Qiu Wu

Christopher Sedlak (Geological Sciences)

• Lacustrine and Moraine records of Holocene Glaciation in the Central Peruvian Andes
• Advisor: Nathan Stansell

Sarah Zorko (Molecular Genetics/International Studies)

• Characterization of Founder 2X Flag E2F3a1ki and 3XFlag E2F3a3aki Mice
• Advisor: Gustavo Leone