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Winners

2005 Undergraduate Symposium Prize Winners
$500 First Prizes and $250 Second Prizes were awarded in each category
 
Arts
First Place Paul Spaeth, “Passacaglia: For Piano and Cello”
Faculty Sponsor: Morten Lauridsen
(Music)
Second Place Kym Valvieja, “Teapot and Cups”
Faculty Sponsor: Karen Koblitz
(Fine Arts)
Humanities
First Place Marcia Ciccone, “Shekel of Israel”
Faculty Sponsors: Bruce Zuckerman and Lynn Swartz Dodd
(Religion)
Second Place Spencer Kassimir and Mu Sun, “Written in the Pavement”
Faculty Sponsor: Bruce Zuckerman
(Religion)
Honorable Mention Ebonee Harden, “The Black Expatriate in Paris: Then and Now”
Faculty Sponsor: Judith Jackson Fossett
(English and American Studies & Ethnicity)
Honorable Mention
Daylen Riggs and Jason Adams, “Interacting Effects of Syllable and Phrase on Consonant Production”
Faculty Sponsors: Dani Byrd and Sungbok Lee
(Linguistics)
Honorable Mention
Sameer Asad, “Islam and Hip Hop”
Faculty Sponsor: Megan Reid
(Religion)
Life Sciences
First Place Karen Barnard, “Incipient Speciation in the Intertidal Copepod Tigriopus Californicus”
Faculty Sponsor: Suzanne Edwards
(Marine Biology)
Second Place  Cindy Danielson, “Application of  New High-Throughput System to Study hPepT1 and Screen Compounds”
Faculty Sponsor: Daryl Davies
(Molecular Pharmacology & Toxicology)
Honorable Mention Afshin Arianjam,” Role of MHC II Molecules in the Development of Sjögren’s Syndrome in NOD Mice”
Faculty Sponsors: Sarah Hamm-Alvarez and Ian Haworth
(Pharmaceutical Sciences)
Honorable Mention Nadia Hassan, Amanda Hiler, Ashley  Wofford, “ Increased Complexity of Time-Patterns and Impulsivity of Responding to a Noxious Stimulus in a Prenatal Stress Animal Model of Schizophrenia”
Faculty Sponsor: M. Lyon
(Neuroscience)
Honorable Mention Eugenio Santillan, “Understanding the Genes Involved in Anaerobic Respiration for S-oneidensis, MR-1”
Faculty Sponsors: Kenneth Nealson and Radu Popa
(Earth Sciences)
Honorable Mention Jennifer Yamtich, “The Status of Island Scrub on Oak on Santa Catalina Island”
Faculty Sponsors: Kathy Ann Miller and Jed Fuhrman
(Biology)
Physical Sciences, Mathematics & Engineering
First Place Jennifer Tsakoumakis and Billy Kaplan, “The Composite Violin”
Faculty Sponsor: Ewald Schuster
(Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering)
Second Place Hunter Francoeur, Anmol Bhagchand, Laura Black, Scott Callaghan, Anthony Carlton, Ifraz Haqque, Andrew Hart, Emily Mullen, William Paetzke, Brandee Pierce, Jeremie Smith, Karim Vidhani, Christopher Wu, Dennis Wu, “SCEC/VIDEO: IT Research for Earthquake Science and Communication”
Faculty Sponsor: Tom Jordan
(Earth Sciences)
Honorable Mention Deborah Jarrett, “The Relationship Between Tea and COMT, SULT 1A1 and UGT 1A1 on Breast Cancer”
Faculty Sponsors: Mimi Yu and Jian-Min Yuan
(Preventive Medicine)
Honorable Mention Matthew Smith, “Using Image Compression to Find the Presence of Life in Ordovician Stromatolites”
Faculty Sponsor: Frank Corsetti
(Earth Sciences)
Social Sciences I
First Place Christopher Delaney, “Losing Prestige: Antecedents to Status Loss in Self-
Directed Teams”
Faculty Sponsor: Jennifer Overbeck
(Management and Organization)
Second Place Rebecca Blank, “ Emotional Responses in Children’s Disclosure of Sexual Abuse”
Faculty Sponsor: Thomas D. Lyon
(Law, Psychology)
Honorable Mention Bryce McFerran, Jocelyne Liu, Vivian Lim, “Around the Mental Block: Cognition as Resource Organization”
Faculty Sponsor: Alexandra Michel
(Management and Organization)
Honorable Mention Laurie Casey, Lewis Lawyer, Celeste De-Freitas, “Piecing it Apart: Infants Using Vowel Harmony as a Tool for Sentence Parsing”
Faculty Sponsors: Toben H. Mintz and Rachel Walker
(Psychology, Linguistics)
Social Sciences II
First Place
Alex Aftandilians, “Acknowledging Sudan”
Faculty Sponsor: Steve Lamy
(International Relations)
Second Place (tie)
Kyoko Rice, “Replicating Clever Hans Phenomenon”
Faculty Sponsor: David Lavond
(Psychology)
Second Place (tie)
Pamela Singer, “Differential Maternal Affect and the Development of Depression in Twins”
Faculty Sponsor: Laura Baker
(Psychology)
Honorable Mention
Alice Villatoro, “Genetic, Environment & Personality Factors Contributing to Alcohol Expectancies”
Faculty Sponsor: Laura Baker
(Psychology)
Honorable Mention
Erika North, “I’ve Got Your Back: Motivations for Retaliation within the Vicarious Retribution”
Faculty Sponsor: Norman Miller
(Psychology)
Honorable Mention
Eric Tang, “Private Foreign Micro-Enterprise Venture Investment in China’s TVE System”
Faculty Sponsor: Sandra Chrystal
(Management Communication)
Special Interdisciplinary Award
First Place (tie)

Suet Ying Chong, Pavitra Krishnaswamy, Matthew Boatman, Curtis Wong, “Green Fluorescent Protein labeled cyt-C release in 293T Cells treated with UPSET”
Faculty Sponsors: Martin Gundersen and Laura Marcu
(Electrical Engineering, Material Science and Biomedical Engineering)

First Place (tie) Joseph Sabat, “Mathematical Modeling for a Transdermal Alcohol Sensor”
Faculty Sponsor: Gary Rosen
(Mathematics)
First Place (tie) Christopher Delaney, “Losing Prestige: Antecedents to Status Loss in Self-
Directed Teams”
Faculty Sponsor: Jennifer Overbeck
(Management and Organization)

USC Undergraduate Programs, 2004