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2011-12 Undergraduate Research Award Projects
being conducted in Spring 2012

Student Full Name	Faculty Full Name	Faculty Department	Project Title
Lissa Amin	Leonard J. Smart	Psychology	Effects of Field of View on Postural Regulation
Natalie Bata	Michael Kennedy	Chemistry and Biochemistry	Osteporitin-C and Breast Cancer
Daphne Benzaquen	Haifei Shi	Zoology	How Female Mice Respond to Short-term High-fat Diet Feeding
Martha Buckley	Eva Rodriguez-Gonzalez	Spanish and Portuguese	The Role of Language Heritage in the Development of a Spanish-English Bilingual Child
David Conway Alexander Bush	Joyce J. Fernandes	Zoology	Does the dHb9 Gene Regulate the Eclosion Behavior of the Fruit Fly?
Michael Diehl Claire Dobbertin Adam Stiwald	Catherine Almquist	Chemical and Paper Engineering	Anaerobic Digestion of Biomass
Andrew Duberstein	Joseph G. Johnson	Psychology	Effects of Monetary and Non Monetary Incentives on Persistence and Accuracy
Nicole Dusthimer	Carrie Hall	Psychology	The Relationship Between Mimicry and Construal Level
Dustin Duval Trevor Ham Mathew Wren Haley Clark Stephanie Lemmo	Justin Saul	Chemical and Paper Engineering	Separation Extraction Processes for Kerotin Biomaterials
Tara Fallah Chris Lakis John Wilber	Joyce J. Fernandes	Zoology	Genetic Manipulations of the Glial Sheath that Surrounds Peripheral Nerves in Drosophila
Erin Gadda	Donald Ferguson	Microbiology	Generation of a mttP2 Knockout Mutant and Cloning of mttP2 Gene for Complementation of Mutant
Alycia Geerken Roger LaFrance John Moher Aaron Moran	Catherine Almquist	Chemical and Paper Engineering	Elimination of Sulfate Reducing Bacteria Using a Novel Enzyme and Bleach
Michael Gemma	Katia Del Rio Tsonis	Zoology	Effects of N-Acetyl Cysteine and XJB-5-131, Two Scavenger Antioxidants, on Retinal Regeneration
Chloe R. Hines	Pepper Stetler	Art History	Primitivism and the Modern Vision of the Bauhaus-bucher
Maria Holztrager	Xiao-Wen Cheng	Microbiology	Screening Chitinase Enzymes to Control Dandruff Associated Yeast Malassezia
Matthew Huffman	Jeong-Hoi Koo	Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering	Investigation of Smart Materials for Actuating Electronic Braille Displays
Marcelo Jorge Ethan Lindenbaum	Kathleen Killian	Zoology	Dopamine Involvement in Insect Hydrocarbon Development
Amelia Kinsella	Leonard J. Smart	Psychology	Changes in Perception-Action Coupling Influence Postural Sway and Motion Sickness
Jeffery Kleykamp	Burcin Bayram	Physics	Raman Spectroscopy for Non-invasive Glucose Measurement in Blood using Optical Phantoms
Emma Lasley	Haifei Shi	Zoology	Effects of Maternal Diet on Metabolic Regulation of Offspring
Melissa Leonard	Michael Robinson	Zoology	Determining if Apoptosis can be Prevented by Knocking out PTEN when FGF Receptor-2 is Deleted in the Lens
Katherine Lindauer Sarah Blaha Kathyrn Hasselfeld	Phyllis Callahan and James Janik	Zoology	Interaction of Prolactin and the Hypothalamic-Pituitary Adrenal (HPA) Axis during Stress in Male Mice
Sarah V. Lynch Caitlin Finelli	Xiao-Wen Cheng	Microbiology	Development of a Fifth Generation Baculovirus Expression Vector System for Future Vaccine Production
Ross E. McDermott	Richard C. Moore	Botany	The Effect of Linkage and Recombination on Genetic Diversity
Maria McNurlen	Michael Kennedy	Chemistry and Biochemistry	Targeting Early Stage Pancreatic Cancer in a Mouse Model Using Fluorescent Antibodies
Claire Meikle	Craig Williamson	Zoology	Daphnia and the UV-curing Hypothesis- Can Daphnia Reduce M. bicuspidata Infection by Self-exposing to UV?
Andrew T. Oberlin	Iddo Friedberg	Microbiology	Database of Mycoplasma Evolution: A Web based Resource for the genomic study of Mycoplasma
Elizabeth Perez	Michael Kennedy	Chemistry and Biochemistry	Crystallization of Membrane Proteins in Lipidic Cubic Phase Liquid Crystals
Kris Pericleous	Robin D. Thomas	Psychology	Cross-Cultural Comparison of Object Affordance Between Western and Chinese Students
Kevin Phaup	Geoff Riggle	Art	Naturally Digital
Julia Pizzuti	Carrie Hall	Psychology	Development of a New Behavior Mimicry Methodology: Using First-Person Perspective Videos as a Substitute for Confederates
Abigail Purdum Nicole Fisher Halie Tansom Chloe Hazen Joseph Banks	Robert J. Setlock Glenn Platt	Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering Interactive Media Studies	Project High Flight
Willie Ramirez Zachary Mix Luis Colon Benjamin Saska	Robert J. Setlock	Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering	Support Device for Cincinnati's Goodwill(Ability One Challenge)
Pavan Reddy	Joyce Fernandes	Zoology	Homeotic Genes (Hox) Regulate the Adult-specific identity of Abdominal Motor Neurons in the Fruit Fly
Ashley Richards	Luis Actis	Microbiology	Role of Blue-Light Sensing in the Response of Acinetobacter Baumannii to Oxidative Stress
Chelsey Rodriguez	Richard L. Bretz	Chemistry and Biochemistry	Isolation and Identification of Antifungal Compounds in Aloe Cameronii
Nathaniel Rogers	Fazeel Khan	Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering	Development of an Electronically Activated Shape Memory Polymer Based Actuator
Andrew Rush	Jeong-Hoi Koo and Willliam Berg	Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering Kinesiology and Health	Collaborative Study on Human Balance Using Haptic/Biofeedback Systems
Claire Saltzman	John Humphries	Architecture and Interior Design	Gang-land Green: ecological design principles in Chicagoland after architect Jeannie Gang
Hanna Scinto Adam Spurling	Marcia Lee	Microbiology	Comparative Keratinolytic Capacities of Live Bat Isolates of Geomyces Species
Chris Shumrick	Michael Robinson	Zoology	The Role of Frs2 in Lacrimal Gland Development
Rachael Siekemeyer	Joseph Carlin	Microbiology	Chlamydial Modifications of Interferon-y Receptors in Human Epithelial Cells
Ana Tanner	Leah Wasburn-Moses	Educational Psychology	Miami Connections Program Evaluation: Student Perceptions
Marc Toral	Joyce J. Fernandes	Zoology	Following the Fate of Individual Motor Neurons in Drosophila by Single Cell Labeling