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2003 Undergraduate Symposium Prize Winners
$500 First Prizes and $250 Second Prizes were awarded in each category
 
Arts
First Place Jennifer Jolley, “Fish” (Thornton School of Music--Composition)
Second Place Alex Herrera, “Ceramics” (School of Fine Arts)
Honorable Mention Liz Weigert, “USC’iesta Project” (School of Fine Arts)
Humanities
First Place Jonathan Vidar, Trevor Muirhead, & Brian Olsen, “The City of Troy” (Religion)
Second Place Maryann Wilson, “Personification, Objectification and the Self-Discrepant Self in Sylvia Plath’s Poetry” (English)
Honorable Mention Aaron Bartels, “Ancient Opium Consumption and Organic Residue Analysis” (Religion)
Life Sciences
First Place Grace Peng, “Ubiquitin-Independent Degradation of ONOO- oxidized Proteins by the Proteasome” (Gerontology/Molecular Biology)
Second Place Heather Feaman, “Long term effects of hybridization on two distinct copepod populations” (Marine Biology)
Honorable Mention Victoria Abraira, Kera Murphy and Raymond Jone, “Development of multiple innervation of skeletal muscle in the frog Xenopus laevis“ (Biology)
Honorable Mention William Woo, “Purification of Soluble Human Recobinant Torsin A Protein” (Preventative Medicine)
Physical Sciences, Mathematics & Engineering
First Place Sajid Siddiqi, "Experiments in Monte-Carlo Localization using WiFi Signal Strength" (Computer Science)
Second Place Jonathan Mapel, "Electron Transport through Gallium Metal-Molecule-Metal Junctions" (Electrical Engineering)
Honorable Mention Joshua Cripps & David Scharfe, "Miniature Pumps with no Moving Parts: Thermal Transpiration Flow" (Aerospace and Mechanical
Engineering)
Honorable Mention Jeremie Smith, Douglas Lam, Gavin Locke, Nick Palmer, Hunter Francoeur, Brandon Teel, Nitin Sharma, Leonard Jimenez, & Gideon
Juve, "LA-3D: Visualizing Southern California's Faults and Earthquakes"
(Earth Sciences)
Social Sciences I
First Place Linda Hou, “Roma Identity in East European Politics” (International Relations)
Second Place Joel Walton, “Text without Readers” (Religion)
Honorable Mention Christina Faegri, Caroline Borchard, Benjamin Albies, Laia Grino, Brandon Mark Higa  & Sue Anne Tay, “Honors Theses In International Relations” (International Relations)
Honorable Mention Marina Whelan, “Measuring the Relationship Between Presidential Emotions and Policy Goals” (Political Science)
Social Sciences II
First Place Julie Moffitt, “Genetic Contribution to Peer Victimization” (Psychology)
Second Place Lewina Lee, “A Cross-Examination of Two Approaches to Trait Anxiety in Relation to Generalized Anxiety Disorder” (Psychology)
Honorable Mention Dan Cutting, “"Rhythm Language" Learning in 8-Month-Old Infants” (Psychology)
Honorable Mention Ronna Banada, Charu Gupta, Ilyas Shaikh, “Identifiying Joined and Unjoined English Letters” (Psychology)
Special Interdisciplinary Award
First Place Tracy Hensley – “Privete Wunderkammen, USC Archaeological Research Collection” (School of Fine Arts)
First Place Steven Hood – “Interpreting Political Power in Iron Age Kingdoms in Anatolia” (USC College)
First Place Sonia Khurana & Talip Ucar – "Capturing Multimodal Patterns in Child-Machine Communication" (Electrical Engineering)

USC Undergraduate Programs, 2004