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Undergraduate Research Proposals 2007-2008

 

Principal Investigator(s)

Department

Title

1.

Jolanta Aritz
Robin Walker

Center for Management

The Influence of Culture on the Performance of Multicultural Work Teams

2.

John P. Walsh
Michael Jakowec
Giselle Petzinger

Gerontology
Neurology/Keck
Neurology/Keck

Multi-disciplinary investigation into pathological mechanism of hypoxia and Parkinson's disease

3.

Maria Luisa Zubizarreta
Tania Ionin

Linguistics/LAS

Second language acquisition at the interface: form, meaning, and prosody

4.

Vitaly Kresin

Physics and Astronomy/LAS

Experimental and Theoretical Studies

5.

Kim Reynolds
Jennifer Wolch
Travis Longcore

Preventive Medicine
Geography/LAS
Geography/LAS

Back Alley LA: Transforming Nuisance Alleys into Green Infrastructure for Los Angeles

6.

Jennifer R. Overbeck

Management & Organization

Status Development in Groups: The Role of Claiming Status

7.

Brad Zebrack

School of Social Work

The Impact of Cancer for Young Adults

8.

Samantha Butler

Biological Sciences/LAS

Molecular mechanisms of axon guidance in the developing spinal cord

9.

Edward Rhodes

Physics and Astronomy/LAS

Helioseismic Studies of Solar Internal Structure and Dynamics

10.

Joseph D. Miller
Robert Chow

CNB/Keck
Physiology & Biophysics

Differentation and Characterization of Dopamine Neurons from Primate

11.

Cheryl M. Craft

Ophthalmology/Keck

Exploring the Molecular Pathways of Visual Arrestins in Cone Phototransduction

12.

Bruce Zuckerman
Lynn Swartz Dodd

Religion/LAS

Ancient Innovation: Strategies for Tracing Communication, Artistic Effects, and Craft Networks Through Archaeometric

13.

Sandy Green

Management & Organization

The Role of the Rhetoric in the Rise of Chinese Stocks Prices

14.

Albert A. Herrera

Biological Sciences/LAS

Embryonic Rearrangement of Nerve-Muscle Synapses

15.

Velina Hasu Houston

School of Theatre

Aging, Memory, and Identity Among Japanese Americans

16.

Brent Liu
Michael Khoo
H.K. Huang

Radiology/Keck
Biomedical Engineering
Radiology/Keck

An Electronic Medical Record (EMR) for Minimally Invasive Spinal Surgery (MISS) Patients

17.

Daryl Davies

Pharmacology and Pharmaceutical Sciences

Molecular Strategies to Identify Sites of Action of Alcohol in Purinergic

18.

Lawford Anderson
Scott Patterson

Earth Sciences/LAS

Geologic Wonders of Yosemite at Two Miles High

19.

Peter C. Mancall

History/LAS

The Economy of the Middle Colonies in 18th Century British North America

20.

Thomas Jordan
Sue Perry

Southern California Earthquake Center/LAS

SCEC/UseIT: Visualizing Earthquake Predictions

21.

Vincent Farenga

Comparative Literature

Literature and Justice

22.

John P. Wilson
Jennifer N. Swift

Geography
Civil and Environmental Engineering

Development of a Web-Based Hydrologic Information System

23.

Joseph R. Landolph, Jr.
Chongwu Zhou

Molecular Microbiology/Immunology/Keck
Electrical Engineering

Molecular Biology of Ni/Cr/Nanoparticle-Induced Cell Transformation: De-Regulation of Gene Expression\

24.

Martin Gundersen
Tom Vernier

Electrical Engineering

Nanopulse Electroperturbation Technology for Intracellular Manipulation

25.

Ian S. Haworth
Daryl L. Davies

Pharmacology & Pharmaceutical Sciences

The Human Intestinal Transporter hPepT1: Structure and Function

26.

Gayla Margolin

Psychology/LAS

Parents' Marital Agression, Parent-Child Relations, and Youth Reactions

27.

John E. Bowlt
Tatyana Akishina
Mark Konecny

Slavic Languages/LAS
Slavic Languages/LAS
Library Special Collections

The Ferris Collection of Sovietica: " The Soviet-Experience: The Russian Material Culture of the 20th Century

28.

Laura A. Baker
Catherine Tuvbiad

Psychology/LAS

Problem Behavior Development in Adolescents: Gene-environment interplay

29.

Albert Rizzo
Thomas Parsons

Institute for Creative Technologies

Social Neuroscience Research using Virtual Reality

30.

William McClure
Melvin Lyon

Biological Sciences/LAS

Prenatal stress, Diet, and Schizophrenia

31.

Kyung Moon Hwang

History/LAS

Nation Building and the Emergence of the Modern State: Korea

32.

Robert H. Chow

Physiology & Biophysics/Keck

Role of Complexin in Regulated Exocytosis

33.

Bosco Tjan

Psychology/LAS

Neural origin of form-vision deficit in the periphery - an fMRI study

34.

Donna Spruit-Metz

Preventive Medicine/Keck

Intra-abdominal fat and rise of disease in adolescents

35.

Roseann Giarrusso
Merrill Silverstein
Vern Bengtson

Gerontology

Stability and Change in Intergenerational Family Relationships: Results from the Last Quarter of the 20th Century

36.

Jeffrey Sellers

Political Sciences/LAS

Regenerating Urban Neighborhoods: A Comparative Analysis

37.

Thomas D. Lyon

Law & Psychology

Honors Projects into Publications: Child Witnesses and the Law

38.

Heather James

English/LAS

Changing Worlds: the Metamorphoses of Ovid in Renaissance England

39.

Frank Corsetti

Earth Sciences/LAS

The investigating oxygenation and the diversification of animals

40.

David Schwartz

Psychology

Friendship as a Protective Factor During Adolescence: A Longitudinal Study

41.

Sergey Gimelshein
Andrew Ketsdever

Aerospace & Mechanical Engineering

Study of non-resonant energy and momentum deposition from a pulsed optical lattice