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Winners

2006 Undergraduate Symposium Prize Winners
$500 First Prizes and $250 Second Prizes were awarded in each category
 

Arts

First Place

Paul Dooley, “Pomo Canyon Air, for orchestra”

Faculty Sponsor: Frank Ticheli, Music Composition

Second Place

Roger Zare, “The Other Rainbow”
Faculty Sponsor: Rick Lesemann, Music Composition

Honorable Mention

Claudia Zhang, “Ancient Modernism”

Faculty Sponsor:  Zoey Wu, East Asian Languages and Cultures

Interdisciplinary Award

Julianne Gale, “Who am I?  Trans Identity in Los Angeles

Faculty Sponsors:  Joseph R. Hawkins, Gender Studies; Philip J. Ethington, History

Humanities

First Place

Georgiana Nikias, Hannah Marcuson, and Kristin Butler, “Khirbet Mazra’a:  The Lost Excavation”
Faculty Sponsors: Lynn Swartz Dodd, Religion

Second Place

Brigid McManama, “Imag(in)ing Race after Slavery:  Race and Service in the White House”

Faculty Sponsor: Stephanie Bower, The Writing Program

Honorable Mention

Georgiana Nikias, “The Lost Shawabti:  A Scribe’s Ancient Egyptian Funerary Figurine”

Faculty Sponsors: Lynn Swartz Dodd, Religion

Honorable Mention

Celeste DeFreitas and Brian Ronge, “Silent Speech Gestures in Kinyarwanda

Faculty Sponsor:  Rachel Walker, Linguistics

Interdisciplinary Award

Shaun Lea, “Andean Dye Project:  The Mysteries of Textiles”

Faculty Sponsor:  Lynn Swartz Dodd, Religion

Life Sciences

First Place

Stephanie Bughi and Jatturong Wichianson, “Prevalence of Night Eating Syndrome Among College Undergraduate Students”

Faculty Sponsors: Donna Spruijt-Metz and Selena Michel, Health Promotion & Disease Prevention

Second Place 

Anna Maria Maglunog, “The Role of Netrin-1 in Commissural Axon Guidance”

Faculty Sponsor: Samantha Butler, Neuroscience

Honorable Mention

Raymond Jone, Modeling and Characterizing Synapse Elimination Using Xenopus laevis

Faculty Sponsor: Albert Herrera, Neurobiology

Honorable Mention

Ryan Kohlbrenner and Ricardo Mestres, “Effects of Prenatal Stress on Cell Quantity in the Nucleus Accumbens and Cingulate Cortex Area 3 in the Animal Model of Schizophrenia” Faculty Sponsor: William McClure, Biology

Interdisciplinary Award

Mahira Kakajiwala, “Spatial and temporal diversity of marine viruses in the San Pedro Channel

Faculty Sponsor: Jed Furhman, Marine Environmental Biology

Physical Sciences, Mathematics & Engineering

First Place

Suet Ying Christin Chong and Pavitra Krishnaswamy, “Long Term Effects of Nanosecond Electroperturbation Therapy on Cancer Cells”

Faculty Sponsors: Martin Gundersen, Electrical Engineering, Physics and Astronomy and Materials Science; Laura Marcu, Biomedical Engineering

Second Place

Krystal Sly, “The Effect of Varying the Cathode Composition on Organic Solar Cell Performance”

Faculty Sponsor: Mark E. Thompson, Chemistry

Honorable Mention

Timothy Kowalczyk, “Electronic structure and spectroscopy of carbon trioxide”

Faculty Sponsor: Anna Krylov, Chemistry

Honorable Mention

Dolce Wang, “A Shocking Demand”

Faculty Sponsor: Steve Nutt, Materials Science

Interdisciplinary Award

Kristy Akullian, Randy Robertson, Edgar Evangelista, Joshua Garcia, Ee Ling Ooi, Thomas Robinson, Ifraz Haqque, Justin Perez, and Aaron Kositsky, “SCEC/UseIT: Software Engineering to Create an Earthquake Monitoring System”

Faculty Sponsor:  Thomas Jordan, Southern California Earthquake Center (SCEC)

Social Sciences I

First Place

Daniel Goldman, “Alcohol, Expectancies, Dispositional Aggression, & Aggressive Behaviors”

Faculty Sponsor: Jo Ann Farver, Psychology

Second Place

Shaheen Munir, “Cross-Language Transfer of Reading Skills in Three Treatment Groups”

Faculty Sponsors: Franklin Manis and Jo Ann Farver, Psychology

Honorable Mention

Fiona Torrance, “Independent Study in Corporate Blogging

Faculty Sponsor: Sandra Chrystal, Center for Management Communication

Honorable Mention

Tommy Cavanagh, “Awareness and Physiological Arousal in a Classical Conditioning Experiment”

Faculty Sponsors: Jo Ann Farver and Michael Dawson, Psychology

Interdisciplinary Award

Lauren Baron, “The ability of child witnesses alleging sexual abuse to make numerosity judgment”

Faculty Sponsor: Thomas Lyon, The Law School

Social Sciences II

First Place

Meredith Goldin, “Impact of Subtyping Salience on Consensus Estimation and the Black Sheep Effect”

Faculty Sponsors: Norman Miller and Joy Stratton, Psychology

Second Place

Kareem El Sawy, “Issues In Outsourcing Management: A Balanced Scorecard”

Faculty Sponsor: Constantin Vaitsos, Information and Operations Management

Honorable Mention

Elizabeth Cook, Archana Prakash, Kathleen Benton, and Karina Godoy, “Fire in the Built Environment: United States 1790 to the Present”

Faculty Sponsor: Carole Shammas, History

Honorable Mention

Matthew Borba, “The Therapeutic Alliance and Treatment Outcomes in Multisystemic Therapy”

Faculty Sponsor: Stan Huey, Jr., Psychology

USC Undergraduate Programs, 2006