home search students news contact # Student Name Research Topic (year received) School | Major Comments (excerpt) link to detail 1 Katherine Dillon Education and Fertility (2007) Arts & Sciences | Anthropology Recipient 2007 Hoopes Undergraduate Research Award, Faculty Mentor: Glenn Stone View Detail 2 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 3 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 4 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 5 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 6 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 7 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 8 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 9 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 View Detail 10 Jian (James) Xie Development of Synapses in Rohon-Beard Neurons (2007) Arts & Sciences | Recipient 2007 SURF Award, Mentor: Michael Nonet View Detail 11 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 12 David Eby Ramifications of a certain model of the quark star (2006) Arts & Sciences | Physics View Detail 13 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 14 Rashied Amini VERITAS Observation of GRB060501 (2006) Arts & Sciences | Physics PI: Henric Krawczynski View Detail 15 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 16 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". ... View Detail 17 Rebecca Martin Role of the Transcription Factor HIF-1a in Epithelial Inflammation (2006) Arts & Sciences | Biology and Religious Studies PI: Jeffrey Arbeit View Detail 18 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 19 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 20 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 21 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 View Detail 22 Aaron David Enhancement of Inbreeding Depression in Mimulus Ringens (2007) Arts & Sciences | Recipient 2007 SURF Award, Faculty Mentor: Tiffany Knight View Detail 23 Lauren Karbach Photosynthetic Bacteria Acaryochloris marina Genome Annotation (2007) Arts & Sciences | Recipient 2007 SURF Award, Faculty Mentor: Robert Blankenship View Detail 24 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 25 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 26 Sheena Chew Study of zebrafish, morphological development and maturation of bipolar cells (2005) Arts & Sciences | Biology View Detail 27 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 28 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 29 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. View Detail 30 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 31 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 32 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 33 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 34 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 35 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 36 Jessica Pryde Reading Islam in the Italian Renaissance:... (2006) Arts & Sciences | Interdisciplinary Project in the Humanities PI: Michael Sherberg View Detail 37 Charlene Ng Comparison of Thalamic Shape between Schizophrenia Subjects and Controls (2007) Arts & Sciences | Biology and East Asian Studies Faculty Mentor: Lei Wang View Detail 38 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 39 Carolyn Maus Lead Adsortion to Titanium Dioxide Nanoparticles (2006) School of Engineering & Applied Science | Chemical Engineering PI: Daniel Giammmar View Detail 40 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 41 Sonal Singhal Sleeping-Site Choice in three Anolis Lizards Species (2005) Arts & Sciences | Biology View Detail 42 Cordula Simon In Defense of Onset: Yoruba Vowel Elision Revisited (2007) Arts & Sciences | Psychology, Spanish Faculty Mentor: Brett Hyde View Detail 43 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 44 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 45 Mark Sawyier The British New Left (2007) Arts & Sciences | International and Area Studies Faculty Mentor: Guy Ortolano View Detail 46 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 47 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 48 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 49 Campbell Williams The anatomy of the Vestibular Labyrinth of the Florida Manatee (2005) Arts & Sciences | Psychology and Biology View Detail 50 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 51 Stephanie Lu Developmental Neuromorphometry in Young Depressed Twins: Impairment of Verbal Memory and Early-Onset Major Depressive Disorder (2006) Arts & Sciences | Biology View Detail 52 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 53 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 54 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 55 Kevin Mercurio Decays of 10C Above the 2-alpha 2-proton Threshold (2006) Arts & Sciences | Physics PI: Lee Sobotka View Detail 56 Kristin Bibee Investigation of Membrane Targeting Signals in the Two Human GLUT9 Splice Variants (2005) Arts & Sciences | Biology View Detail 57 Daniel Calabrese Vestibular system of cetaceans (2005) Arts & Sciences | Anthropology View Detail 58 Sarah Laaff Documentary film: (2007) Arts & Sciences | American Cultural Studies Fauclty Mentor: Bradley Stoner View Detail 59 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 60 Rebecca Sherman (2007) Arts & Sciences | Psychology, Educational Studies, Spanish Faculty Mentor: Carol Camp Yeakey View Detail 61 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 62 Daniel Katz Annotated bibliography of the current criticism that has been produced in Cuba (2005) Arts & Sciences | Comparative Literature View Detail 63 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 64 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 65 Justin Gladman Studying monkey habitats in Costa Rica and Nicaragua (2005) Arts & Sciences | Anthropology View Detail 66 Anne K. Greenberg Biodiversity and Energy Availability: Testing the Evolutionary Hypothesis (2006) Arts & Sciences | Environmental Studies PI: Barbara Schaal View Detail 67 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 68 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 69 Dafang Zhang Nucleic Acid Triggered Prodrug and Probe Activation (2006) Arts & Sciences | Philosophy and Chemistry PI: John-Stephen Taylor View Detail 70 Victoria Schiffman Women in Photography During the Spanish Civil War (2007) Arts & Sciences | International and Area Studies, Spanish Faculty Mentor: Tabea Linhard View Detail 71 Jessica Friedman Clarifying the preliminary geologic and geomorphologic assessment of the Danilo Polje (2005) Arts & Sciences | Earth and Planetary Sciences View Detail 72 Erendira Quintana-Morales Exploring the Meanings of the Huipil (2006) Arts & Sciences | Anthropology Mellon Mays Fellow, PI: David Browman View Detail 73 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 74 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 75 David Hartstein Education and Reconciliation: Growing Up in Modern South Africa (2007) Arts & Sciences | Social Thought and Analysis Watch David's Video!!! 76 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 77 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 78 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 79 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 View Detail 80 Noga Landau Researching and Drafting the Original Play (2006) Arts & Sciences | Drama Recipient of Hoopes Undergraduate Research Award PI: Henry Schvey View Detail 81 Taylor Hermes Bronze Age Steppe Dynamics and Stable Strontium Isotopes (2006) Arts & Sciences | Anthropology PI: Michael Frachetti View Detail 82 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 83 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 84 Lisa Sudmeier Analysis of DIAP2 Rescue of diap1 Mutant Cells in Drosophila (2006) Arts & Sciences | Biology PIs: Ross Cagan and Pascal Meier View Detail 85 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 86 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 87 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 88 Timothy Bono Automatic processing of threat and prejudice (2005) Arts & Sciences | Psychology View Detail 89 Erica Thompson Problems of the African American Language: Perspectives (2005) Arts & Sciences | Secondary Education and English Literature View Detail 90 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 91 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 92 Pooja Agarwal Testing the testing effect with open and closed book tests (2005) Arts & Sciences | Elementary Education and PNP View Detail 93 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 94 Mark Kizelshteyn Medicine and the Metaverse (2007) Arts & Sciences | Social Thought and Analysis Faculty Mentor: John Bowen View Detail 95 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 96 Lauren Staub Museums of the Vatican (2005) Arts & Sciences | History Received Hoopes UR Award for research on the Vatican Museums. View Detail 97 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 98 Elizabeth Herndon Microbial arsenic processes in shallow marine hydrothermal systems (2005) Arts & Sciences | Earth and Planetary Sciences View Detail 99 Kristopher Kelley Culturally Sensitive Market Based Conservation in Madagascar (2007) Arts & Sciences | Aesthetics & Society, Entrepreneurship PI: Ken Harrington View Detail 100 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 101 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 102 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 103 Angela (Xiaowei) Li Designer Drugs, Designer Bugs: Antifolates and Transgenic Leishmania (2007) Arts & Sciences | Recipient 2007 SURF Award, Mentor: Stephen Beverley View Detail 104 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 105 Thomas Goldstein Magnetic Resonance Imaging (2005) Arts & Sciences | Mathematics View Detail 106 Cara Dolan Pictures of the Mind: the Pictorial Foundation of Contemporary Neuroscience (2006) Arts & Sciences | undeclared Hoopes Award, Mentors: John Doris and Tony Jack View Detail 107 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 108 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 109 Rebecca Stainman Efficacy of the Ketogenic Diet in Children with Surgically Approachable Epilepsy (2006) Arts & Sciences | undecided PI: Eric Kossoff View Detail 110 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 111 Michelle Mo Binding Characteristics of the PAT Protein Family (2006) Arts & Sciences | undecided Hoopes Award, PI: Perry Bickel View Detail
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