|
Arts |
| First
Place |
Roger Zare, “Green Flash”
Faculty Sponsor: Morten Lauridsen, Music Composition
|
| Second
Place |
Eugenia Sangiovanni, “Complicating Oversimplification”
Faculty Sponsor: Ann Page, Fine Arts
|
| Honorable Mention |
Mariana Evans, “Sunrise” (short film)
Faculty Sponsor: Robert Ballo, School Of Cinematic Arts; Kenny Hall, School of Cinematic Arts Sound; Duke Underwood, School of Cinematic Arts |
| Honarable Mention |
Ari Levinson, “The Red Earth: Living With
Nature in East Africa”
Faculty Sponsors: Joanna Demers, Arts and Letters; Amanda Pope, Cinema |
|
Humanities |
| First
Place |
Kristin Butler, Carly Dykes, Hannah
Marcuson, Elizabeth Martin del Campo,Georgiana Nikias, Ashley Sands, “Reexamining the Past: a Multi-University
Collaborative Research and Mentoring’
Faculty Sponsors: Karen Stern, Religion; Lynn Swartz Dodd, Religion; Bruce Zuckerman, Religion |
| Second
Place |
Tina Huynh, “More than Pretty Women:
The Geisha and Courtesan in Popular Western Film”
Faculty Sponsors:Margaret Rosenthal, Italian and Comparative Literature |
|
Life Sciences |
| First
Place |
Martin Wainstein, “Ultrabasic
Geomicrobiology from the Cedars Peridotite: Life at pH 11.5”
Faculty Sponsor: Kenneth Nealson, Earth Sciences |
| Second
Place |
Brad Johnson, “Anammox in Catalina
Island Sediments”
Faculty Sponsor: John Heidelberg, Biology |
| Honorable
Mention |
Anuj Aggarwal, “Molecular Strategies to
Identify Sites of Alcohol Action in LGICs”
Faculty Sponsor: Daryl Davies, Molecular Pharmacology and Toxicology
|
| Honorable Mention |
Nihal Patel, “Sites of Ethanol Action in
Purinergic P2X3 Receptors”
Faculty Sponsor: Daryl Davies, Pharmacology and Pharmaceutical Sciences |
| Honorable Mention |
Margaret (Maggie) Cass, “Novel repellant
activity of motorneurons in the guidance of commisural axons”
Faculty Sponsor: Samantha Butler, Neurobiology
|
| Interdisciplinary Award |
Brad Johnson, “Anammox in Catalina
Island Sediments”
Faculty Sponsor: John Heidelberg, Biology
|
|
Physical Sciences,
Mathematics & Engineering |
| First Place |
Andrew Horning, “Around the Ring: Molecular Geometry & Energy Transfer In Photosynthetic”
Faculty Sponsor: Stephen Bradforth, Chemistry
|
| Second Place |
Elizabeth (Nicole) Ball, Glenn Fischer, Bradford Foley, Jeffrey Thompson, “Magmatic and Volcanic Plumbing Systems, Crustal Evolution, and the Search for the Mysterious Mojave-Snow Lake Fault: 2007-07 Earth Sciences Undergraduate Team Research in th High Sierra”
Faculty Sponsors: Lawford Anderson, Earth Science; Valbone Memeti, Earth Science; Scott Paterson, Earth Science; Geoffrey Pignotta, Earth Science
|
| Honorable
Mention |
Mario Bialostozky, “A Non-Invasive
Method for Evaluating Cardiovascular Health”
Faculty Sponsor: David D'Argenio, BME |
| Honorable
Mention |
Becky Gallagher, “The Efficiency of
Biogenic Silica Burial in Cascadia Basin Sediments”
Faculty Sponsor: Douglas Hammond, Earth Sciences
|
| Interdisciplinary Award |
Pavitra Krishnaswamy, Israel Morales,
Jeanie Paik, “An Interdisciplinary Study of Apoptotic Effects Induced by Nanoelectropulses on Cancer Cells”
Faculty Sponsor: Martin Gundersen, Electrical Engineering, Physics and Astronomy, Material Science |
|
Social Sciences I |
| First
Place |
Janelle Colangelo, Hannah (Brice)
Keltner, David Press, “Religiosity and Perceived Stress among College Students”
Faculty Sponsor: Juliana Fuqua, Health Promotion Disease Prevention
|
| Second
Place |
Camille Boudreau, “Finding An Effective
Way to Question Children Using ‘Before’ and ‘After’”
Faculty Sponsor: Thomas Lyon, USC Law
|
| Honorable
Mention |
Nicole Schneider, “The relation between
self-esteem and eating behavior”
Faculty Sponsor: Carol Koprowski, Institute for Prevention Research, Keck
School of Medicine
|
| Honorable
Mention |
Nicholas Scurich, “Applying Value to
Decisions in Actuarial Predictions of Violence: A Bayesian”
Faculty Sponsor: Richard John, Psychology
|
| Interdisciplinary Award |
Ashley Sands, “Rewriting the History of
Technology: unique proof of tin bronze manufacture”
Faculty Sponsor: Lynn Swartz Dodd, Religion
|
Social Sciences II
|
First Place
|
Celeste DeFreitas, Ashlee Welday, “Baby
Linguists: Infants attend to complex vowel patterns to understand speech”
Faculty Sponsor(s): Toben Mintz, Psychology & Linguistics; Rachel Walker, Linguistics |
Second Place
|
Hala Mohammad, “Media portrayal &
Middle Eastern women: Reconstructing Orientalism & Empire?”
Faculty Sponsor: Ellen Seiter, Cinema Critical Studies |
Honorable Mention
|
Kimberly White, “Manipulating Skin Tone:
The Effects of Skin Tone on Self Esteem and Mood”
Faculty Sponsor: Brian Lickel, Psychology |
Honorable Mention
|
Anna Bokarius, Matt Wallace, “Sources of
Linguistic Knowledge in Second Language English Article Acquisition”
Faculty Sponsor(s): Tania Ionin, Linguistics; María Luisa Zubizarreta, Linguistics |
Interdisciplinary Award
|
Melanie Billow, “Young Maltreated
Children’s Ability to Answer and Understand Oath-Taking Competency”
Faculty Sponsor: Thomas Lyon, Law |
