Student Name
Research Topic (year received) School | Major
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Kristin Bibee Investigation of Membrane Targeting Signals in the Two Human GLUT9 Splice Variants (2005) Arts & Sciences | Biology View Detail
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Rebecca Stainman Efficacy of the Ketogenic Diet in Children with Surgically Approachable Epilepsy (2006) Arts & Sciences | undecided
PI: Eric Kossoff
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David Hartstein Education and Reconciliation: Growing Up in Modern South Africa (2007) Arts & Sciences | Social Thought and Analysis
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Lance Moen Sigma Xi Scholar (2005) School of Engineering & Applied Science | Civil Engineering
Lance is the co-recipient, along with Carley Schaffer, of the Sigma Xi Undergraduate Research Scholars ... View Detail
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Christina Skelley Expanding the Membership of the Revolutionary Nation: Germaine de Stael's Consideration on the French Revolution and Helen Maria William's Letters from France (2007) Arts & Sciences | Interdisciplinary Project in the Humanities
Faculty Mentor: Steven Hause View Detail
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Sarah Rose Klein Social Anxiety and Reactions to Friendly and Unfriendly Behavior in Social Dilemmas and Real Life (2007) Arts & Sciences | Psychology
"My experience writing an honors thesis was truly valuable because I developed a much deeper knowledge o ... View Detail
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Campbell Williams The anatomy of the Vestibular Labyrinth of the Florida Manatee (2005) Arts & Sciences | Psychology and Biology View Detail
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Carley Schaffer Sigma Xi Scholar (2005) School of Engineering & Applied Science | Civil Engineering, Environmental Engineering (minor)
Carley is the co-recipient, along with Lance Moen, of the Sigma Xi Undergraduate Research Scholarshi ... View Detail
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Micah J. King Homosexuality in Cameroon's Public Sphere: Rejecting Homosexuality as Protest against the Other (2007) Arts & Sciences | International and Area Studies, Anthropology Receipient, Hoopes Undergraduate Research Award, research published in WUURD, vol 2, no 2, Spring 2007. Fac ... View Detail
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David Eby Ramifications of a certain model of the quark star (2006) Arts & Sciences | Physics
Laura Robb Variants of the Middle English poem (2006) Arts & Sciences | English Literature
Recipient of a Hoopes UR Award for research on the 39 variations of the poem "Erthe upon Erthe".
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Paven Bhat Role of JIP-1 in Regulating Axonal Transport (2007) Arts & Sciences | Recipient 2007 SURF Award, Faculty Mentors: Aaron DiAntonio and Catherine Collins View Detail
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Jia-an Koo Undergraduate Research Fellow (2004) Arts & Sciences | Biochemistry & Molecular Biology
Jia-an Koo is the recipient of an Undergraduate Research Scholarship. He is a biochemistry and molecular ... View Detail
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Mark Sawyier The British New Left (2007) Arts & Sciences | International and Area Studies
Faculty Mentor: Guy Ortolano View Detail
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Jessica Friedman Clarifying the preliminary geologic and geomorphologic assessment of the Danilo Polje (2005) Arts & Sciences | Earth and Planetary Sciences
Benjamin Nanes Regulation of the Urea Transporter UT-A in Rats with Adriamycin Induced Nephrotic Syndrom (2006) Arts & Sciences | Biochemistry
PI's: Janet Klein and Jeff Sands View Detail
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Alexandra Harmon-Threatt Undergraduate Research Fellow (2004) Arts & Sciences | Environmental Studies and Political Science
Alexandra Harmon-Threatt is the recipient of an Undergraduate Research Scholarship. She is a joint major in Environmental Studies and Political Science. Alexandra will be studying the role of pollinat ... View Detail
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Justin Barr Development of Special Forces Medics (2005) Arts & Sciences | History
Received Hoopes UR Award to research the development of the Special Forces medic and its ties to the physician assistant program.
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Aine Steiner Concentration and isotopic variations of carbon dioxide in cave air (2007) Arts & Sciences | Earth and Planetary Sciences
"My research experience was probably the highlight of my undergraduate career.", Facutly Mentor: R ... View Detail
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Lauren Bernstein Extralegal Enslavement: Sexualized Violence across the Color Line (2007) Arts & Sciences | History Recipient 2007 Hoopes Undergraduate Research Award, Faculty Mentors: Margaret Garb and Iver Bernstei ... View Detail
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Emiliano Huet-Vaughn Sigma Xi Scholar (2005) Arts & Sciences | Economics and PNP, Writing (minor)
Emiliano is the recipient of the Sigma Xi Undergraduate Research Scholarship. Emiliano is from Overland Park, Kansas and a senior at Washington University. His research is titled, "The power of turn ... View Detail
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Sonal Singhal Sleeping-Site Choice in three Anolis Lizards Species (2005) Arts & Sciences | Biology View Detail
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Andrea Young Continuing the Technology Debate: the Effects of Interactivity and Visual Stimulation on Learning (2006) Arts & Sciences | Psychology and Spanish
Mellon Mays Undergraduate Fellow, PI: Desiree White View Detail
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Linda Zhou Guanxi: A Reemerging or Disappearing Key to China's Labor Markets? (2006) Arts & Sciences | Economics
"my time in the Undergraduate Honors Fellowship thus far has been great. It has
been enlightening, suppor ... View Detail
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Katherine Dillon Education and Fertility (2007) Arts & Sciences | Anthropology Recipient 2007 Hoopes Undergraduate Research Award, Faculty Mentor: Glenn Stone View Detail
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Jason Metcalf The Role of Fibroblast Growth Factor Receptor 3 in Mucopolysaccharidosis Bone Defects (2007) Arts & Sciences |
Recipient 2007 SURF Award,
Faculty Mentor: Katherine Ponder
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Wesley Janson CEOs: Upping the Ante Only After Cashing Out? (2007) School of Business (Olin) | Managerial Economics and Strategy, Finance, International Business
Faculty Mentor: Ohad Kaden
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Pooja Agarwal Testing the testing effect with open and closed book tests (2005) Arts & Sciences | Elementary Education and PNP View Detail
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Jeffrey Lancaster Israelow Fellow (2005) Arts & Sciences | Chemistry, Art History and Archeology, and Sculpture
Jeffrey Lancaster is the recipient of an Israelow Scholarship. Jeff will be studying supersonic e ... View Detail
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Ilana Cohen Breaking Promises of Protection: The Controversy over Drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (2007) Arts & Sciences | Environmental Studies Mentor: Clare Palmer View Detail
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Nathan Killian Noise Reduction by Spectral Contrast Shaping (2006) School of Engineering & Applied Science | Biomedical Engineering
PI: Dennis Barbour;
Summer Scholar in Biology and Biomedical Research 2003 View Detail
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Michelle Miller Mapping the MIA 1 Gene in Chlamydomonas Reinhardtii (2006) Arts & Sciences | Biology
Michelle began her research as a Summer Scholar in Biology and Biomedical Research.
PI: Susan Dutcher View Detail
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Julia Buck Effects of insecticide carbaryl on aquatic communities (2005) Arts & Sciences | Environmental Studies
Recipient of an HHMI fellowship for research on oviposition behavior of the gray treefrog in response t ... View Detail
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Jessica Pryde Reading Islam in the Italian Renaissance:... (2006) Arts & Sciences | Interdisciplinary Project in the Humanities
PI: Michael Sherberg View Detail
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Timothy Bono Automatic processing of threat and prejudice (2005) Arts & Sciences | Psychology
Vinay Kampalath The Patient-Provider Relationship at the Dynamic Interface between Lived Experience and Structural Context: An Interactional Approach (2007) Arts & Sciences | African and African-American Studies, Chemistry
Overall, my thesis was an emotionally thrilling and intellectually fulfilling experience. I look for ... View Detail
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Charlene Ng Comparison of Thalamic Shape between Schizophrenia Subjects and Controls (2007) Arts & Sciences | Biology and East Asian Studies
Faculty Mentor: Lei Wang
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Victoria Schiffman Women in Photography During the Spanish Civil War (2007) Arts & Sciences | International and Area Studies, Spanish
Faculty Mentor: Tabea Linhard View Detail
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Cordula Simon In Defense of Onset: Yoruba Vowel Elision Revisited (2007) Arts & Sciences | Psychology, Spanish
Faculty Mentor: Brett Hyde
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Noga Landau Researching and Drafting the Original Play (2006) Arts & Sciences | Drama
Recipient of Hoopes Undergraduate Research Award
PI: Henry Schvey View Detail
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Elizabeth Herndon Microbial arsenic processes in shallow marine hydrothermal systems (2005) Arts & Sciences | Earth and Planetary Sciences View Detail
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Rui Guan apoptotic pathway in neurotoxin-induced Parkinson's disease models (2005) Arts & Sciences | Anthropology and Biology
Recipient of a Hoopes Undergraduate Research Award, Faculty Mentor: Karen O'Malley View Detail
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Somalee Banerjee Elucidating Preconditioning-Induced, AKT-Mediated Signaling Mechanisms Operative in Cerebral Endothelim that Protect the Microvasculature from Stroke (2006) Arts & Sciences | Painting and Biology
PI: Jeffrey Gidday
Recipient of a Sigma Xi/Israelow Award for her research on the Role of survivin ... View Detail
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Shachar Shimonovich The Effects of Repetitious Element 1360 on Heterochromatin Formation in Drosophila Melanogaster (2007) Arts & Sciences | Recipient 2007 SURF Award, Faculty Mentor: Sarah Elgin View Detail
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Dafang Zhang Nucleic Acid Triggered Prodrug and Probe Activation (2006) Arts & Sciences | Philosophy and Chemistry
PI: John-Stephen Taylor View Detail
Leah Corey A Comparative Analysis of the St. Paul (MN) Hmong in Charter and Non-Charter Schools (2007) Arts & Sciences | Educational Studies and American Cultural Studies
"Completing a senior honors thesis at Washington University provided me with an informative introduction ... View Detail
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Rebecca Martin Role of the Transcription Factor HIF-1a in Epithelial Inflammation (2006) Arts & Sciences | Biology and Religious Studies
PI: Jeffrey Arbeit View Detail
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Cristina Montero Diez Sequence Requirements for the Elimination of the R-IES and the Effect of Flanking Sequences on IES Rearrangement (2007) Arts & Sciences | Biology Recipient, HHMI/Hoopes Research Award
"Working at a laboratory for two years-- part-time during ... View Detail
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Magdalena Osburn Undergraduate Research Fellow (2004) Arts & Sciences | Earth and Planetary Sciences
Magdalena Osburn is the recipient of an Undergraduate Research Scholarship. Maggie is from St. Louis, ... View Detail
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Erik Carl Study of the structure and uses of metal hydrides focusing primarily on ScH2 and MgH2 (2006) Arts & Sciences | Physics
PI: Mark Conradi View Detail
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Cara Dolan Pictures of the Mind: the Pictorial Foundation of Contemporary Neuroscience (2006) Arts & Sciences | undeclared
Hoopes Award, Mentors: John Doris and Tony Jack
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David J. Harris Beyond Type II: Toward a Unified Theory of Migration (2007) Arts & Sciences | Recipient 2007 SURF Award, Faculty Mentor: Jon Chase View Detail
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Robert Klemisch IVF Project (2005) Arts & Sciences | PNP
Faculty Mentor: Dr. Lyda Bigelow.
The overall purpose of the IVF Project is to determine how various factors affecting the prestige of invitro fertilization clinics affect the flow of new technolo ... View Detail
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Justin Thompson Cholesteatoma Research (2005) Arts & Sciences | Economics
Recipient of Hoopes UR Award for research on cholesteatomas and the effect of their growth on heari ... View Detail
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Thomas Goldstein Magnetic Resonance Imaging (2005) Arts & Sciences | Mathematics
Angela (Xiaowei) Li Designer Drugs, Designer Bugs: Antifolates and Transgenic Leishmania (2007) Arts & Sciences | Recipient 2007 SURF Award, Mentor: Stephen Beverley View Detail
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Anne K. Greenberg Biodiversity and Energy Availability: Testing the Evolutionary Hypothesis (2006) Arts & Sciences | Environmental Studies
PI: Barbara Schaal View Detail
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Brittany Teller Effects of Management on Garlic Mustard (Allaria Petolata) Fitness (2006) Arts & Sciences | Environmental Studies
HHMI Summer Research Fellow, PI: Tiffany Knight View Detail
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Kristopher Kelley Culturally Sensitive Market Based Conservation in Madagascar (2007) Arts & Sciences | Aesthetics & Society, Entrepreneurship
PI: Ken Harrington View Detail
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Carolyn Maus Lead Adsortion to Titanium Dioxide Nanoparticles (2006) School of Engineering & Applied Science | Chemical Engineering
PI: Daniel Giammmar View Detail
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Sheena Chew Study of zebrafish, morphological development and maturation of bipolar cells (2005) Arts & Sciences | Biology View Detail
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Rachel Gartner Health, Gender, and Leadership Program Development and Analysis in Muhuru Bay, Kenya (2007) Arts & Sciences | Women and Gender Studies and Psychology Recipient 2007 Andrea Biggs Undergraduate Research Award, Faculty Mentors: Susan Stiriz and Barbara Ba ... View Detail
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Jansi Gnanasekaran Assisted Living Facility Activities Participation Project (2007) Arts & Sciences | Anthropology
"(research) was one of my best experiences as an undergraduate. As the first author of the proje ... View Detail
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L. Reynolds Whalens Haba na Haba and the Use of Drama for Community Education and Development (2007) Arts & Sciences | Drama and African and African-American Studies Recipient 2007 Hoopes Undergraduate Research Award, Faculty Mentor: Henry Schvey View Detail
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Michael Lamberta Methods in Assaying for Cell-Autonomous Homeostatic Plasticity (2007) Arts & Sciences | Recipient 2007 SURF Award, Faculty Mentors: Krista Moulder and Steven Mennerick View Detail
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Brian San Francisco Effects of Environmental Iron Limitation on System I and System II Cytochrome C Biogenesis (2007) Arts & Sciences | Environmental Studies
Recipient, HHMI/Hoopes Research Award. Faculty Mentor: Robert Kranz
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Margot Dankner A New World Crop in an Old World: the Impact of Maize Cultivation on Sustainability in Sub-Saharan Africa (2006) Arts & Sciences | International and Area Studies
PI: Glenn Stone View Detail
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Stephanie Lu Developmental Neuromorphometry in Young Depressed Twins: Impairment of Verbal Memory and Early-Onset Major Depressive Disorder (2006) Arts & Sciences | Biology View Detail
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Daniel Silver The Effect of Relative Economic Growth on Ideologies in the United States (2007) Arts & Sciences | Economics
Recipient 2007 Hoopes Undergraduate Research Award View Detail
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Rebecca Sherman (2007) Arts & Sciences | Psychology, Educational Studies, Spanish
Faculty Mentor: Carol Camp Yeakey View Detail
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Kristi Nigh What Would Sex Education from the Left Look Like? (2006) Arts & Sciences | Psychology and Women and Gender Studies
PI: Susan Stiritz; Andrea Biggs Scholarship Recipient View Detail
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Lisa Sudmeier Analysis of DIAP2 Rescue of diap1 Mutant Cells in Drosophila (2006) Arts & Sciences | Biology
PIs: Ross Cagan and Pascal Meier View Detail
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Kathleen Schwarz Investigating new hydrogen storage materials: a computational approach (2005) Arts & Sciences | Chemistry
Israelow Research Award recipient. Investigated new hydrogen storage materials for transporting hy ... View Detail
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Victoria Rodriguez Undergraduate Research Fellow (2004) Arts & Sciences | Biology
Victoria Rodriguez is the recipient of an Undergraduate Research Scholarship. Victoria is from Dow ... View Detail
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Mark Kizelshteyn Medicine and the Metaverse (2007) Arts & Sciences | Social Thought and Analysis Faculty Mentor: John Bowen View Detail
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Lauren Matsunaga Restriction and Liberation: An Exploration of Modern Dance in the Period Surrounding World War II in Japan and America (2007) Arts & Sciences | Economics
Faculty Mentor: Elizabeth Claire View Detail
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Andrew Schupanitz Individualism, Economics, & Revolution: Socioeconomic Ideology in Revolutionary France and America (2006) Arts & Sciences | Interdisciplinary Project in the Humanities
Undergraduate Honors Fellow,
PI: Gerry Izenberg View Detail
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Katherine Maschmeyer Edge Detection by Multi-Dimensional Wavelets (2007) School of Engineering & Applied Science | Computer Science and Mathematics Participated in 2007 NCSU REU in Mathematics and Industrial Applied Mathematics View Detail
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Erica Thompson Problems of the African American Language: Perspectives (2005) Arts & Sciences | Secondary Education and English Literature View Detail
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Lee Cordova Quantitative Analysis of Sphingosine 1-Phosphate Cellular Signaling (2007) School of Engineering & Applied Science |
Recipient 2007 SURF Award, Faculty Mentor: Don Elbert View Detail
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Jian (James) Xie Development of Synapses in Rohon-Beard Neurons (2007) Arts & Sciences | Recipient 2007 SURF Award, Mentor: Michael Nonet View Detail
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Adrienna Huffman How do Formal and Informal Restrictions on Women Affect Economic Performance? (2007) Arts & Sciences | Economics
"Doing my senior honors thesis was one of the toughest but ultimately the
most rewarding academic e ... View Detail
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Taylor Hermes Bronze Age Steppe Dynamics and Stable Strontium Isotopes (2006) Arts & Sciences | Anthropology
PI: Michael Frachetti View Detail
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Justin Gladman Studying monkey habitats in Costa Rica and Nicaragua (2005) Arts & Sciences | Anthropology View Detail
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Aashish Manglik Constructing Various Mutants of Pathogenic Bioluminescent Salmonella for a Murine Model of Infection (2006) Arts & Sciences | Biology
HHMI/Hoopes Award,
PI: Jeffrey McKinney,
awarded Biology Department Spector Prize in 2008 View Detail
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Ramana Gorrepati Constructing Rab5 Chimeras to Investigate Specificity of Interacting Molecules (2007) Arts & Sciences | Biology Recipient 2007 Hoopes Undergraduate Research Award, Faculty Mentor: Philip Stahl View Detail
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Erendira Quintana-Morales Exploring the Meanings of the Huipil (2006) Arts & Sciences | Anthropology
Mellon Mays Fellow,
PI: David Browman View Detail
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Jerome Molleston The Effect of a Viral Complement Regulatory Protein on Host DNA Damage Responses in gHV68 Infection (2007) Arts & Sciences | Recipient 2007 SURF Award, Faculty Mentor: Herbert Virgin IV View Detail
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Daniel Katz Annotated bibliography of the current criticism that has been produced in Cuba (2005) Arts & Sciences | Comparative Literature View Detail
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Andrew Newman Investigating Paleodiet with Isotopic Analysis of Archeological Amino Acids (2006) Arts & Sciences | Physics and Mathematics
Hoopes and Israelow Awardee
PI: James McCullagh View Detail
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Emily R. Hawkins The Silent Victims of the AIDS Epidemic: Rethinking the Illusion of Monogamy and the Social Constructions of Marriage (2006) Arts & Sciences | Anthropology
PI: Shanti Parikh View Detail
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Sylvia Hardy Between Domestication and Wildness (2007) Arts & Sciences | Anthropology and Photography
Recipient 2007 Sigma Xi Hoopes Undergraduate Research Award, Faculty Mentor: Richard Krueger View Detail
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Emily Dangremond Story of Survival: A Population Viability Analysis of Lupinus Tidestromii (2007) Arts & Sciences | Recipient 2007 SURF Award, Faculty Mentor: Tiffany Knight View Detail
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Rashied Amini VERITAS Observation of GRB060501 (2006) Arts & Sciences | Physics
PI: Henric Krawczynski View Detail
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Aaron David Enhancement of Inbreeding Depression in Mimulus Ringens (2007) Arts & Sciences | Recipient 2007 SURF Award,
Faculty Mentor: Tiffany Knight View Detail
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Sarah Laaff Documentary film: (2007) Arts & Sciences | American Cultural Studies
Fauclty Mentor: Bradley Stoner
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Jake Levitas Collaborating with an Amazonian Cocoa Cooperative to Plan a Sustainable Chocolate Factory in Ecuador (2007) Arts & Sciences | Environmental Studies "Working with Kallari, an Ecuadorian cocoa cooperative, has been one of the most interesting, challenging ... View Detail
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Michelle Mo Binding Characteristics of the PAT Protein Family (2006) Arts & Sciences | undecided
Hoopes Award, PI: Perry Bickel View Detail
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Alejandra Figueroa-Clarevega Repetitious Element 1360 as a Target for Heterochromatin Formation in Drosophila Melanogaster (2006) Arts & Sciences | Biology
HHMI Summer Research Fellow, PI: Sarah Elgin View Detail
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Lauren Staub Museums of the Vatican (2005) Arts & Sciences | History
Received Hoopes UR Award for research on the Vatican Museums. View Detail
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Michael Mendenhall Sigma Xi Scholar (2005) Arts & Sciences | Physics and Mathematics
Michael is the recipient of the Sigma Xi Undergraduate Research Scholarship. Michael is from Nashville, Tennessee in his senior year at Washington University. He will be studying NMR Characterizati ... View Detail
Jonathan Mueller Dispersive Optical Model Analysis of Asymmetric Dependence of Correlations (2007) School of Engineering & Applied Science | Physics and Mathematics
PI: Professor Lee Sobotka View Detail
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Alona Banai Rarity among genus Lupinus (2005) Arts & Sciences | Environmental Studies and Hebrew
Received Israelow Award for investigating the causes of rarity among the genus Lupinus at Point Reyes ... View Detail
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Chelsea Winter Nolen Virtual Pluralities: What a Video Game Teaches Us About Cultural Pluralism (2007) Arts & Sciences | Anthropology
"I transferred to Wash U in the spring semester of my junior year, which presented extra challenges in ... View Detail
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Kevin Mercurio Decays of 10C Above the 2-alpha 2-proton Threshold (2006) Arts & Sciences | Physics
PI: Lee Sobotka View Detail
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Jason Ladner Israelow Fellow (2005) Arts & Sciences | Environmental Studies and Biology
Jason Ladner is the recipient of an Israelow Scholarship. Jason will be studying anapolis lizards and ... View Detail
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Aaron Mertz Israelow Fellow (2005) Arts & Sciences | Physics and American Culture Studies, German (minor)
Aaron Mertz is the recipient of an Israelow Scholarship. Aaron with be studying gamma ray nuclear astr ... View Detail
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Zachary Dyer "We are Owners without Pay": Ideological Disconnect between North and South over Fairtrade Standards (2007) Arts & Sciences | International and Area Studies, Spanish "The opportunity to do field work while I was studying abroad was instrumental in my thesis. Not only d ... View Detail
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Matthew T. Miller Guatemalan Border Control and Implications for the Trafficking of Persons (2006) Arts & Sciences | International and Area Studies
PI: James Wertcsh View Detail