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undergraduate research associates program(urap)

faculty research grants

all USC research groups

URP Funded Projects for 2003-2004
 

 

Principal Investigators

Department

Title

1.

Elaine Anderson
Shrikanth Narayanan

Linguistics/Psych/Neuroscience
Electrical Engineering

Cross-cultural and Cross-
Linguistic Challenges in
Building Child-Machine
Spoken Interfaces for
Education

2.

Frank Corsetti

Earth Sciences

Investigating the Co-Evolution of the Earth and its biosphere

3.

Suzanne Edmands

Biological Sciences

Population and Evolutionary Genetics of Marine Organisms

4.

Sandy E. Green Jr.

Management & Organization

The Role of Rhetoric in the Diffusion of Takeover Practices in Large U.S. Corporations from 1975 to 2003

5.

Martin Gundersen
Cheryl M. Craft
Laura Marcu

Electrical Engineering
Cell & Neurobiology
Biomedical Engineering

The Ultrashort Pulse Systems Electropertubation Technology for Mammalian Cells

6.

Albert A. Herrera

Biological Sciences

Activity-Dependent Elimination of Synapses at Neuromuscular Junctions

7.

Thomas H. Jordan

Earth Sciences

LA3D: A Team-Based Undergraduate Research Project in Earthquake Information Technology

8.

Vitaly Kresin
Maxim Ol’shanii

Physics & Astronomy
Physics & Astronomy

Coordinated Research in Physics & Astronomy

9.

Edward Rhodes

Physics & Astronomy

Coordinated Research in Physics & Astronomy

10.

Joseph R. Landolph, Jr.

Molecular Microbiology &
Immunology

The Molecular Biology of Neoplastic Transformation by Ni/Cr Compounds

11.

William O. McClure
Melvin Lyon

Biological Sciences

Prenatal Stress, Diet, and Schizophrenia

12.

Najmedin Meshkati

Civil/Environmental Engineering

Safety and Ethical Issues Surrounding Nuclear Reactors in Space

13.

Toben H. Mintz
Rachel Walker

Psychology
Linguistics

The Role of Vowel Harmony as a Cue to Word Boundaries for 7-month old infants

14.

E.P. Muntz
A.D. Ketsdever
S.F. Gimelshein

Aerospace & Mech. Engineer.
Aerospace & Mech. Engineer.
Aerospace & Mech. Engineer.

Experimental and Numerical Modeling of Gas Flows Over Nanoporous Materials

15.

Shrikanth Narayanan
Dani Byrd
Sungbok Lee

Elec.Eng./Comp.Sci./Linguistics
Linguistics
Linguistics/Electrical Engineer.

Toward Illuminating Fine Details in Human Speech Production: Investigations of Vocal Tract Movements

16.

Thomas Spiegelhalter

Architecture

Solar Zero-Fossil-Energy-Building Prototype Development for the International DOE & NREL Solar Decathlon Competition 2003-2005

17.

Bosco Tjan

Psychology

Neural and Visuomotor Correlates of Top-Down Shape Perception

18.

Jennifer R. Wolch
Kim Reynolds

Geography
Institute for Prevention Research

Neighborhood Predictors of Urban Trail Use

19.

Brad Zebrack

School of Social Work

Assesing Quality of Life in Long-term Survivors of Childhood Cancer

20.

Bruce Zuckerman
Lynn Swartz Dodd

Religion
Religion

Ancient Innovation: Tracing Communication, Artistic Effects, and Craft Networks

21.

Laura Baker
Dora Lozano

Psychology

Genetic & Environmental Bases of Antisocial Behavior