13th Annual Undergraduate Symposium for
Scholarly & Creative Work
Wednesday, April 13, 2011
Keynote Speaker: Elizabeth Garrett
2011 Symposium Program
2011 Awards Banquet Program
2011 Undergraduate Symposium Prize Winners
$1000 First Prizes and $500 Second Prizes were awarded in each category
Arts |
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| Honorable Mention | Michelle Khazaryan The Sweetest of Pomegranates Faculty Sponsors: Trisha Tucker, Thematic Option, Dornsife College |
| Honorable Mention | Simon Fink Out of Hand Faculty Sponsors: David Maquiling, School of Cinematic Arts |
| 2nd Prize | Tiffany Pereira Nothing is Black and White: Depicting an Environmental Case Study through Scientific Illustration Faculty Sponsor: Xavier Fumat, Roski School of Fine Arts |
| 1st Prize | Bernice Fang Ngo Housing and Medical Facility in Floating Village of Tonle Sap Lake Faculty Sponsor: Erik Mar, School of Architecture |
| Interdisciplinary Award | Nicholas Brice, Jonathan Carmel, Katelyn Endow, Daniel Lum, Andrew Ogden, Blade Olson, Raunak Roy, Lawrence Sequino, Patrick Shay, David Sommer Dance Pad – Social iPad Game Faculty Sponsors: Chris Swain, Interactive Media & Games, School of Cinematic Arts; Michael Zyda, GamePipe Laboratory, Viterbi |
Humanities |
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| Honorable Mention | Katelyn Endow Katelyn Goes to Japan – Spring 2010 Faculty Sponsor: Yumi Matsumoto |
| Honorable Mention | Grant Dixon What is a King to Do: An Investigation of Images of Kingship Faculty Sponsor: Lynn Swartz Dodd, Religion, Dornsife College |
| Honorable Mention | Sarah Butler, Renee Duncan-Mestel, Bradford Jackson The Front Lines of Empire: Metal Arrowheads and Projectile Points as Indicators of Social and Political Transformation in the ancient Near East Faculty Sponsor: Lynn Swartz Dodd, Religion, Dornsife College |
| 2nd Prize | Parin Patel Archaeology and the Literary Narrative: Using Written Language to Understand Material Culture in the Buddhist World Faculty Sponsor: Lynn Swartz Dodd, Religion, Dornsife College |
| 1st Prize | Jacob Bongers Landscapes of Death: GIS-based Analyses of Chullpas in the Western Lake Titicaca Basin Faculty Sponsor: Elizabeth Arkush, University of Pittsburgh; Ran Boytner, USC/UCLA; Michael Harrower, Johns Hopkins University |
Life Sciences |
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| Honorable Mention | Mathew Schur An inhibitory role for PID1 in ATRT cells Faculty Sponsors: Anat Erdreich-Epstein, Cancer Biology, Pediatrics, Hematology Oncology, Keck School of Medicine, Department of ; Hong Zhou, Children’s Hospital Los Angeles, Hematology Oncology; Xiuhai Ren, Children’s Hospital Los Angeles |
| Honorable Mention | Meghan Brown Independent and Interactive Effects of Estrogen and Progesterone on Neuroprotection in an Animal Model of Neurodegeration Faculty Sponsor: Christian Pike, Gerontology |
| Honorable Mention | Lindsay (LJ) Agostinelli Distribution of neurons expressing nitric oxide synthase, acetylcholinesterase, and hypocretin/orexin in the rat hypothalamus: relation to basal and stimulated levels of Fos and phospho-ERK Faculty Sponsor: Arshad Khan, Biological Sciences, Dornsife College |
| 2nd Prize | Marissa Srour Rib Regeneration in a Mammalian Model Faculty Sponsor: Francesca Mariani, Eli and Edythe Broad Center for Regenerative Medicine and Stem Cell Research at USC |
| 2nd Prize | John Choi The effects of oxidative damage on competitive fitness in aging E. coli Faculty Sponsor: Steve Finkel, Biological Sciences, Dornsife College |
| 1st Prize | Cara Bickers Novel Mutants Link DNA Replication and Centromere Function in the Fission Yeast, Schizosaccharomyces pombe Faculty Sponsor: Susan Forsburg, Molecular and Computational Biology, Dornsife College |
Physical Sciences & Engineering |
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| Honorable Mention | Niral Patel Symmetry-Breaking Intramolecular Charge Transfer in meso-Linked BODIPY Dyadsk Faculty Sponsors: Mark Thompson and Matthew Whited, Chemistry, Dornsife College |
| 2nd Prize | Tisa Thomas One-pot synthesis of N-(Fluoroethyl)amines by MCR strategy using Fluoroalkyl Sulfones as Efficient Fluoromethyl-Transfer Motifs Faculty Sponsor: Surya Prakash, Chemistry, Dornsife College |
| 1st Prize | Szeyan (Charlotte) Chan, Hannah Gray, Avril Pitter, Kristen Sharer, Lillian Ware Investigating the mechanisms of arsenic removal by microbial layer in a bio-sand filter used for drinking water purification in developing countries Faculty Sponsors: Massoud Pirbazari and Varadarjan Ravindran, Sonny Astani Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Viterbi |
Social Sciences |
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| Honorable Mention | Dana Jebreel Young Children’s Ability to Generate False Statements as a Precursor to False Belief Understanding Faculty Sponsor: Thomas Lyon, Gould School of Law |
| Honorable Mention | Joshua Real Linking Blink Rate to Motivational Systems and its Neural Substrates Faculty Sponsors: Brian Baucom and Gayla Margolin, Psychology, Dornsife College |
| 2nd Prize | Daniel Paris Conceptual and Empirical Definitions of Group Membership: Measuring Street Gang Affiliation Faculty Sponsors: Jo Ann Farver and Karen Hennigan, Psychology, Dornsife College |
| 2nd Prize | Shelly McArdle National Responses to September 11 Over Time: Analyzing Changes in Emotions, Beliefs, and Behaviors Faculty Sponsors: Richard John, Psychology, Dornsife College; Heather Rosoff, USC CREATE |
| 1st Prize | Jordan Vieira Performance, Sex, and Politics: The Quest for Identity in Southern Uganda Faculty Sponsor: Tok Thompson, Anthropology, Dornsife College |
| Interdisciplinary Award | Sarah (Katie) Camarda When Material and Digital Culture Collide: Ethnographic Expressions of “The Contemporary Faculty Sponsors: Dorinne Kondo, Anthropology and American Studies and Ethnicity, Dornsife College; Andreas Kratky, Institute for Multimedia Literacy, School of Cinematic Arts |
Most Innovative
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| Honorable Mention | Brian Rose Silica Sol-Gel Synthesis for Integrated Photonics Faculty Sponsors: Andrea Armani and Heather Hunt, Mork Family Department of Chemical Engineering and Material Science, Viterbi |
| 2nd Prize | Bernice Ngo Housing and Medical Facility in Floating Village of Tonle Sap Lake Faculty Sponsor: Erik Mar, School of Architecture |
| 1st Prize | Laura Corrales-Diaz Pomatto The Oxygen Conundrum Faculty Sponsors: Kelvin Davies and Aaron Hagedorn, Davis School of Gerontology |
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