2010 Undergraduate Symposium Prize Winners
$1000 First Prizes and $500 Second Prizes were awarded in each category
| Arts | |
| First Place | Yuan-Yu (Henry) Chang, "Latrine Lander" Faculty Sponsor: Erik Mar, Architecture |
| Second Place | Saul Tobin, Piano Sonata "HaTzmichah" Faculty Sponsor: Frederick Lesemann, Thornton School of Music, Composition |
| Second Place | Annamaria Feist, Andrea Vancura, "Orange Appeel" Faculty Sponsor: Everett Lewis, School of Cinematic Arts |
| Honorable Mention | Martin Benson, "A Self Expressive Truth" Faculty Sponsor: Roski School of Fine Arts |
| Honorable Mention | Jeremy Allen, "Paris Portraits" Steve Child, Roski School of Fine Arts; Shannon Ebner, Roski School of Fine Arts; Haven Lin-Kirk, Roski School of Fine Arts |
| Honorable Mention | Olivia Burke, Nathan Doctor, Ryan Fischvogt, Michael (David) Hoffman, Zlatan Sehovic, Bradley Sutton, "Vernacular Architecture in Panama" Faculty Sponsors: Rachel Berney, USC School of Architecture; Jeff Guh, USC School of Architecture; Erik Mar, USC School of Architecture |
| Humanities | |
| First Place | Sarah Hawley, “The Iconography of Empire: Political Transition as Demonstrated in the Terracotta Figurines of Tell al-Judaidah” Faculty Sponsor: Lynn Swartz Dodd, Religion |
| Second Place | Alexandra Sinnott, “Rome Goes Green: A study of glass recycling in the ancient Roman Empire” Faculty Sponsor: Lynn Swartz Dodd, Religion |
| Honorable Mention | Janinda Gunawardene, Gemma Morales, "Early Acquisition of Spanish Tense and Verbal Aspect by Spanish-English Bilinguals" Faculty Sponsor: Carmen Silva-Corvalán, Spanish & Portuguese |
| Honorable Mention | Sarah Butler, Tiffany Tsai, "The Front Lines of Empire: Metal Arrowheads and Projectile Points as Indicators of Social and Political Transformation in the ancient Middle East" Faculty Sponsor: Lynn Swartz Dodd, Religion |
| Life Sciences | |
| First Place | Marissa Srour, “Development of a Rib Regeneration Model in Mammals” Faculty Sponsor: Francesca Mariani, Eli and Edyth Broad Center for Regenerative Medicine and Stem Cell Research at USC |
| Second Place | Dustin Tetzl, “FMRI study of the neural correlates of ADHD” Faculty Sponsors: Xavier Castellanos, NYU School of Medicine: Departments of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry and Radiology; Albert Herrera, Biological Sciences |
| Second Place | Rebecca Gibbs, “Selective vulnerability of the neuromuscular junction in a mouse model of Spinal Muscular Atrophy” Faculty Sponsors: Chein-Ping Ko, Biological Sciences; Karen Ling, Biological Sciences |
| Honorable Mention | Negar Kahen, "Rizobia and Crop Productivity in High Salinity Areas" Faculty Sponsor: Sergey Nuzhdin, Molecular Cell Biology |
| Honorable Mention | James Chalfant, "Reciprocal Relations of Subcutaneous and Visceral Fat to Bone Structure and Strength" Faculty Sponsor: Tishya Wren, BME |
| Honorable Mention | Jasmine Thum, "Are You Breathing?: Monitoring Autonomic Function using Spontaneous Cardiorespiratory Variability" Faculty Sponsors: Patjanaporn Chalacheva, Biomedical Engineering (PhD Candidate); Michael C.K. Khoo, Professor of Biomedical Engineering and Pediatrics, Viterbi School of Engineering, Dwight C. and Hildagarde E. Baum Chair |
| Honorable Mention | Jeannie Zhang, "Phosphotyrosine-like immunoreactivity marks putative microglia in the hypothalamus and thalamus" Faculty Sponsor: Arshad M Khan, Biological Sciences |
| Honorable Mention | Grace Hwang, "Assessing the impact of handling sea turtles and exploring ways to improve conservation efforts by reducing injury incurred" Faculty Sponsor: Steve Lund, Earth Sciences |
| Interdisciplinary Award | Rami Hamzey, Michael Hazboun, Darcelle Kimble-Manalo, Kotaro Uyeda, Matthew Williams, "Biomechanical Analysis of Movement Strategies in Collegiate Women's Volleyball Players" Faculty Sponsor: Jill McNitt-Gray, Kinesiology |
| Physical Sciences, Mathematics & Engineering | |
| First Place | Szeyan (Charlotte) Chan, Hannah Gray, "Bio-Sand Filters for Removal of Pathogenic Bacteria and Arsenic from Drinking Water in Rural Areas of Developing Countries" Faculty Sponsors: Massoud Pirbazari, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering; Varadarjan Ravindran, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering |
| First Place | Henry Yuen, Fingerprinting DNA with Quantum Mechanics: DNA Nanopore Sequencing via Principal Component Analysis Faculty Sponsor: Aiichiro Nakano, Department of Physics, Department of Computer Science |
| Honorable Mention | Ryan Berti, “Bridging the Gap: The Use of Ad-Hoc Enabled Smart Phones to Distribute Data Locally in the Cellular Network” Faculty Sponsors: Michael Crowley, Viterbi School of Engineering; Robert De Groot, Southern California Earthquake Center |
| Honorable Mention | Lesley Petrie, Hydrogen Isotopic Analyses of Leaf Wax Biomarkers in Miocene and Pliocene Age Marine Sediments off NE Africa Faculty Sponsor: Sarah Feakins, USC College of Letters, Arts and Sciences; Department of Earth Sciences |
| Social Sciences | |
| First Place | Jenna Tomei, Emilie Winckel, “The "Monster Molester" and the "Innocent Victim": Child Sexual Abuse Stereotypes and Their Effects on Jury Decisions” Faculty Sponsor: Thomas D. Lyon, Gould School of Law and USC Department of Psychology |
| Second Place | Daniel Wu, “Reimagining the Figueroa Corridor, 1960-2000: Growth Politics, Policy, and Displacement” Faculty Sponsor: Leland Saito, Sociology |
| Second Place | Shelly McArdle, “The Best Boss You Will Ever Have: A Field Study on Personality Traits in Student Leaders” Faculty Sponsor: Richard John, Psychology |
| Honorable Mention | Ellen Lee, “Falling out of favor: Processes of status loss within groups” Faculty Sponsor: Jennifer Overbeck, Marshall School of Business |
| Honorable Mention | Zachary Kleiman, "Emotion Driven Outcome Assessment in Sports” Faculty Sponsors: Jo Ann Farver, Psychology; Richard John, Psychology |
| Interdisciplinary Award | Marrissa Emond, “Menstrual Culture from Seven Ethnic Dayak Tunjung and Benuaq Villages of West Kutai (Borneo): Associated Spiritual Practices, Attitudes, and Distress” Faculty Sponsor: Robert Delgado, Anthropology and Biological Sciences |