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Winners

2009 Undergraduate Symposium Prize Winners
$1000 First Prizes and $500 Second Prizes were awarded in each category
 
Arts
First Place Elke Schnittker, Greensburg 'Natural Swim Park'
Janek Dombrowa, Architecture
Second Place Ciaran Vejby, "Ishi's Legacy"
Faculty Sponsor: Nathalie Joseph, English
Honorable Mention Nicole Ferguson, “Knowledge and Art”
Faculty Sponsor: Dallas Willard, Philosophy
Interdisciplinary Award Emily Yu, “A Travelogue from Botswana”
Faculty Sponsor: Ron Rizk, Fine Arts
Humanities
First Place Jennifer Crawford, “Bringing the Past to Life: Recreating an Ancient Egyptian Gilding Technique”
Faculty Sponsor: Lynn Swartz Dodd, Religion
Second Place Joseph Henderer, “Southern California's Indigenous Languages: Documenting Our Intangible Cultural Heritage in the Fight Against Language Endangerment ”
Faculty Sponsor: Andrew Simpson, Linguistics
Honorable Mention Jacob Bongers, “Illuminating Culture Clash: Material Smashing in Northern Chile"
Faculty Sponsors: Ran Boytner, Anthropology; Lynn Swartz Dodd, Religion
Life Sciences
First Place Valerie Yuan, “The Roles of Oncogene Homolog Sch9 and Rev1 Polymerase in Age-Dependent Genomic Instability”
Faculty Sponsor: Valter Longo, Gerontology
Second Place  Stephanie Hudiburgh, “Investigating the Role of Smads in Commissural Neuron Specification”
Faculty Sponsor: Samantha Butler, Biological Sciences
Second Place  Miriam Lassiter, “Pharyngeal Pouch Development in Zebrafish”
Faculty Sponsors: Chong Pyo Choe, Center for Stem Cell and Regenerative Medicine; Gage Crump, Center for Stem Cell and Regenerative Medicine
Honorable Mention Amy Hurwitz, Bacterial Aging: the cause of death phase in E. coli”
Faculty Sponsor: Steve Finkel, Computational and Molecular Biology
Honorable Mention Sara Kingston, “Exploring the Nature of 7 rrn Operons Through Their Effects on Growth Rate and S”
Faculty Sponsor: Steve Finkel, Computational and Molecular Biology
Physical Sciences, Mathematics & Engineering
First Place Marie Anne Cuevas, “Low Temperature Synthesis of Perovskite Nanocrystals and their Applications to Nanocomposite Dielectrics”
Faculty Sponsor: Richard Brutchey, Jr., Chemistry
Second Place Hubert Lau and Balyn Zaro, “Solvent-Free, One-Pot Synthesis of Alpha-Aminonitriles Using Acid Catalysts”
Faculty Sponsor: Surya Prakash, Chemistry
Second Place Joseph Lubinski and Kedar Naik, “Heat Transfer from a Cylinder undergoing Streamwise Oscillations in a Cross-flow”
Faculty Sponsor: Tait Pottebaum, Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering
Honorable Mention Sharla Shimono, “U-Pb Zircon Age Constraints on the Tectonic Evolution of the Northern Margin of the North China Craton and Souther Margin of the Central Asian Orogenic Belt”
Faculty Sponsor: Scott Paterson, Geological Sciences
Honorable Mention Harris Talsky, “Emanation Rates of Radon and Radium from Coastal Sands: A tool for estimating seawater circulation rates through permeable sediments”
Faculty Sponsor: Douglas Hammond, Earth Sciences
Social Sciences
First Place Lydia Green, “Central Alaskan Yup'ik: A Linguistic Research Project”
Faculty Sponsor: Bruce Zuckerman, Religion
Second Place Joshua Lang, “Cuban Health Care: First Class Public Health on a Third World Budget”
Faculty Sponsors: Nancy Lutkehaus, Anthropology; Cheryl Mattingly, Anthropology
Second Place Noelle Miller, “A Question of Reproductive Freedom”
Faculty Sponsors: Nancy Lutkehaus, Anthropology
Honorable Mention Amanda Bogart and Ashley Flor, “Rhythm in Second Language Speech”
Faculty Sponsor: María Luisa Zubizarreta, Linguistics
Honorable Mention Diana Bennett, Lauren Ford and Rachel Rice, “You Defriended Me!?: The Scope and Prevalence of Interpersonal Aggression”
Faculty Sponsors: Gayla Margolin, Psychology
Interdisciplinary Award Nicole Hummel, “Deconstructing Sex Tourism: Imperialism, Patriarchy, and Women's”
Faculty Sponsor: Amy Parish, Anthropology/Gender Studies
Most Innovative
First Place
Marie Anne Cuevas, “Low Temperature Synthesis of Perovskite Nanocrystals and their Applications to Nanocomposite Dielectrics”
Faculty Sponsors: Richard Brutchey, Jr., Chemistry
Second Place
Tina Hovsepian, “Cardborigami”
Faculty Sponsor: Doris Sung, Architecture
Honorable Mention
Ashley Maker, “Design and Fabrication of Waveguide Sensors”
Faculty Sponsor: Andrea Armani, Chemical Engineering and Materials Science
Honorable Mention
Amy Hurwitz, “Bacterial Aging: the cause of death phase in E. coli”
Faculty Sponsor: Steve Finkel, Computational and Molecular Biology

USC Undergraduate Programs, 2004