Outstanding Student Awards
2009 Outstanding Student Research Award Winners
Undergraduate
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Computer & Information Sciences
Yamani Jana, Ala Harelik
"Congestion Control Algorithms"
Advisor: Christopher King
- Engineering and Technology
Martina List, Bing Sun
"In‐Situ Surface Characterization with RHEED‐TRAXS"
Advisor: Katherine S. Ziemer
- Health Sciences and Technology
John Brabant, Michael Gallagher, Renee Noel, Rachel Tabak
"The Reliability of the Cyberglove as a Measurement Device for Selected Grasp and Gesture
Movements in Healthy Subjects"
Advisor: Maureen K. Holden
- Humanities and Arts
Ying Xu
"Urban Housing"
- Interdisciplinary Topics, Centers and Institutes
Tom Cinq‐Mars
"Spain and the Genesis of the Cold War"
Advisor: Jeffrey Burds
- Physical and Life Sciences
Kostas Papamarkakis, Benjamin Bird, Milos Miljkovic, Jennifer Schubert
"Cytopathology by Optical Methods: Spectral Cytopathology of the Oral Mucosa"
Advisor: Max Diem
- Social Sciences, Business and Law
Vanessa Castro
"Perceiving Emotions in Dance: An Analysis of the Differences in Nonverbal Accuracy
between Dancers and Non‐Dancers"
Advisor: Judith Hall
Graduate
- Computer and Information Sciences
Laura Pfeifer
"Virtual Nurse Agents for Hospital Discharge"
Advisor: Timothy Bickmore
- Engineering and Technology
Selvapraba Selvarasah
"Highly Flexible and Biocompatible SWNT Thin Film Transistor for Wearable and Implant Devices"
Advisor: Mehmet R. Dokmeci
- Health Sciences and Technology
Jamie Becker
"VocaliD: Personalizing Text‐to‐Speech Synthesis for Individuals with Severe Speech Disorders"
Advisor: Rupal Patel
- Humanities and Arts
Aleta Budd
"Park House"
Advisor: Tiffany Lin
- Interdisciplinary Topics, Centers and Institutes
Anthony Westphal
"Controlling a lamprey‐based robot with an electronic nervous system"
Advisor: Joseph Ayers
- Physical and Life Sciences
Thayaparan Paramanathan
"Drug DNA interactions – View with Optical Tweezers"
Advisor: Mark C. Williams
- Social Sciences, Business and Law
Kristen Hudak
"Political Institutions & Grassroots Development: The Political Economy of Microfinance"
Advisor: Kirsten Rodine‐Hardy
2008 Outstanding Student Research Award Winners
Undergraduate
- Daniel Cocuzzo
"Depth-dependent resonant target strength analysis of a dense Atlantic Herring school from wide-area OAWRS and localized 3D morphology sensing"
Principal Investigator: Dr. Purnima Ratilal
- Jessica La Rosa
"Influence of group size on behavior in Nasutitermes corniger"
Principal Investigator: Rebeca Rosengaus
- Patrick Ng
"Microwave Expedited Synthesis of PET Imaging Ligands"
Principal Investigator: Dr. Graham B. Jones
- Andrea Quintero
"The brain response to theory of mind inferences generalizes across items and modalities"
Principal Investigator: Jay McLaughlin
Graduate
- Jing Lou
Magnetic and microwave properties of FeGaB thin films and their applications in tunable magnetoelectric microwave devices
Principal Investigator: Nian Sun
- Brian Plouffe
Microfluidic depletion of endothelial cells, smooth muscle cells, and fibroblasts from heterogeneous suspensions
Principal Investigator: Dr. Shashi Murthy
- Kathryn Portale
Design of a cell-free biomimetic collagen printer or "nanoloom"
Principal Investigator: Dr. Jeffrey Ruberti
- Nadya Vasilyeva
Representations of Individual People and Social Groups
Principal Investigator: John D. Coley
2007 Outstanding Student Research Award Winners
Undergraduate
- Tamara Garcia:
"Addressing the Social Justice Problem for Human Enhancement Technologies"
Principle Investigator: Ronald Sandler
- Jared Schwartzer
"Alterations in Anterior Hypothalamic Dopamine and Dopamine D2 Receptor Immunoreactivity Correlates with Aggression in Adolescent, Anabolic Androgenic Steroid Treated Hamsters"
Principle Investigator: Richard Melloni, Jr.
Graduate
- Suman Dandamudi
"Development of Magnetic Cationic Liposome Therapeutics Against Cancer"
Principle Investigator: Robert Campbell
- Stefano Gulla
"Electron Spin Labeling Studies of Proteins and Nanodevices"
Principle Investigator: David Budil