Congratulations to the Office of Undergraduate Research Grant recipients for Spring 2008.

 

Student Researcher: Zenobia Carver
Faculty Mentor: James Szalma (Psychology)
Project: An Examination of the Impact of Challenges to Competence on Entity and Incremental Intelligence Beliefs

 

Student Researcher: Aaron Cross
Faculty Mentor: Laurie von Kalm, David Jenkins (Biology)
Project: Reproductive Parasitismin a Novel Sytem: An Interdisciplinary Approach

 

Student Researcher: Natalia DaSilva
Faculty Mentor: Dennis Ahern (Art)
Project: Social Experiments on People-to-People Influences on Artists and Their Creativity

 

Student Researcher: Lucille Funderburk
Faculty Mentor: Jamie Schwartz (Communication Sciences and Disorders)
Project: Social Skills Training for Learning Disabled School-aged Children

 

Student Researcher: Kevin Gysling
Faculty Mentor: William Safranek (Molecular Biology and Microbiology)
Project: Polymerase Chain Reaction Restriction Fragment Length Polymorphism Identification of Trebouxia Lichen Photosymbionts

 

Student Researchers: Sarah Long, Erika Rydell, Tomas Valladares, Sharon Weaver
Faculty Mentor: Kristin Congdon (Film and Philosophy Department)
Project: ChinaVine Project

 

Student Researcher: Robert Miyares
Faculty Mentor: Kate Giglio
Project: Form and Functionality: Students' Experience with Wiki-boards and Technology in the Humanities Classroom

 

Student Researcher: Stacey Mont
Faculty Mentor: Kiminobu Sugaya (Burnett School of Biomedical Sciences)
Project: Efficacy of the Anti-giogenesis Gene, PEX, on Patient derived Neural Stem Cells

 

Student Researcher: Anastasia Stenyakina
Faculty Mentor: Christina Calestani
Project: Mytella charuana Reproductive Study

 

Student Researcher: Binh Tran
Faculty Mentor: Lei Zhai (Chemistry)
Project: A Synthetic Route for Antifogging Plastic Slides using the Layer-by-layer Self-Assembly Method to Apply Surface Coatings

 

Student Researcher: Matt Weber
Faculty Mentor: Robert Igarashi (Chemistry)
Project: The Expression of Gene Nif-B in Klebsiella pneumoniae