10th Annual Undergraduate Symposium for
Scholarly & Creative Work
Wednesday, April 9, 2008
Keynote Speaker: Gene Bickers
2008 Symposium Program Book
2008 Undergraduate Symposium Prize Winners
$1000 First Prizes and $500 Second Prizes were awarded in each category
Arts |
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Honorable Mention | Robert Lydecker Rancid Roots No. 2 (an original music composition) Faculty Sponsors: Stephen Hartke, Composition, Thornton School of Music |
Honorable Mention | Dalton Gaudin Dirge to Earth and Sky – The Colour Faculty Sponsor: Jeffrey Obrow, Production, School of Cinematic Arts |
2nd Prize | Geoffrey Pope Chamber Concerto for Two Violins Faculty Sponsor: Donald Crockett, Composition, Thornton School of Music |
1st Prize | Jonathan Ortega Anguished Windsong Exultant Faculty Sponsor: Frank Ticheli, Composition, Thornton School of Music |
Interdisciplinary Award |
Leanne Joyce Whites Faculty Sponsor: Apichai Shipper, International Relations, USC College; Holly Willis, Institute for Multimedia Literacy, School of Cinematic Arts |
Humanities |
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Honorable Mention | Melissa Shimizu American Fertility Decline in the 19th Century Faculty Sponsor: Carole Shammas, History, USC College |
Honorable Mention | Sadaf Nejat The Literary-Scientific Culture of the Late Nineteenth Century and its Relationship with Natural Theology: Representations of Science and Scientists in the Victorian Era Faculty Sponsors: Jim Kincaid and Margaret Russett, English, USC College |
2nd Prize | Jacob Bongers, Sarah Hawley Revolutionizing Research: Online Publication of Figurines from Tell al-Judaidah Faculty Sponsor: Lynn Swartz Dodd, Religion, USC College |
1st Prize | Divinity Barkley Kaya Hip-Hop in Coastal Kenya: The Urban Poetry of Ukoo Flani Faculty Sponsor: Francille Rusan Wilson, History, American Studies & Ethnicity, USC College |
Interdisciplinary Award | Jacob Bongers, Sarah Hawley Revolutionizing Research: Online Publication of Figurines from Tell al-Judaidah Faculty Sponsor: Lynn Swartz Dodd, Religion, USC College |
Life Sciences |
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Honorable Mention | Matthew Getz The Role of the SPN/FACT Complex in DNA Replication in the Fission Yeast, Schizosaccharomyces pombe Faculty Sponsor: Susan Forsburg, Biological Sciences, USC College |
Honorable Mention | Shen Soh Large T Helicase Mutagenesis Faculty Sponsor: Xiaojiang Chen, Molecular Biology, USC College |
2nd Prize | Robert Saddawi-Konefka Identification and Characterization of a Novel Repellent Role of Motor Neurons in Axon Guidance Faculty Sponsor: Samantha Butler, Neurobiology, USC College |
1st Prize | Gerald Sun Expression of melanopsin-containing ganglion cells in degenerative retina Faculty Sponsor: Eun Jin (Grace) Lee, Biomedical Engineering, Viterbi |
Interdisciplinary Award |
Sonya Hanson A docking study of the autoantibody-nAChR interaction in myasthenia gravis Faculty Sponsor: Lin Chen, Chemistry, USC College |
Physical Sciences & Engineering |
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Honorable Mention | Marie Anne Cuevas Very Low-Temperature Synthesis of Perovskite Nanocrystals Faculty Sponsor: Richard Brutchey, Jr., Chemistry, USC College |
2nd Prize | Bradford Foley Generation of Plate Tectonics from a 3-D Spherical Convection Model Faculty Sponsor: Thorsten Becker, Earth Sciences, USC College |
1st Prize | Megan Thorson Towards a General Hydride Abstraction Catalyst: Mechanistic Studies of C-H Oxidation with Cyclopentadienone-Ligated Metal Carbonyls (M= Ru, Fe) Faculty Sponsors: Kortney L. Klinkel, Postdoctoral Fellow; Jianmei Wang, Postdoctoral Fellow; Travis J. Williams, Chemistry, USC College |
Social Sciences I
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Honorable Mention | Diana Bennett Youth Reports of Parents’ Marital Conflict: What is Upsetting? Faculty Sponsors: Gayla Margolin, Psychology, USC College |
Honorable Mention | Maynard Hughes Turning Cold Water into Salsa: Effects of Pain as a Time One Provocation Faculty Sponsor: Norman Miller, Psychology, USC College |
2nd Prize | Michael Kane Birds of a Feather, Psychopathic Together? Faculty Sponsor: Laura Baker, Psychology, USC College |
2nd Prize | Dawn Powell, Becky Turner The Effectiveness of a Development Project in a Small Community in Rural Ecuador Faculty Sponsor: Carol Wise, International Relations, USC College |
1st Prize | Maya Babla, Sarah Erickson, Kirstin Heinle Scene, Not Heard: The Presence & Influence of Movie-Making Women (or lack thereof) in G-rated films Faculty Sponsor: Stacy Smith, Communication |
Interdisciplinary Award | Debi Ogbonna Children”s Explanations of Delaying Disclosure of Sexual Abuse Faculty Sponsors: Jo Ann Farver, Psychology, USC College; Thomas Lyon, Gould School of Law |
Social Sciences II
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Honorable Mention | Charlina Gozali Reluctance and Response in Child Sexual Abuse Victims Faculty Sponsors: Jo Ann Farver, Psychology, USC College; Thomas Lyon, Gould School of Law |
Honorable Mention | Hilary Feybush Do Attorneys Follow Good Practice in Preparatory Examination of Child Sexual Abuse Victims? Faculty Sponsor: Thomas Lyon, Gould School of Law |
2nd Prize | Karoline Brandt Trauma Disclosure and Pronoun Use: How Our Words Reflect Our Health Faculty Sponsor: Stan Huey, Psychology, USC College |
1st Prize | Candise Chen The Critical Period Hypothesis: Differential Influences on Aspects of Second Language Acquisition Faculty Sponsor: Franklin Manis, Psychology, USC College |
Interdisciplinary Award | Benjamin Paul Physiology of music-related mystical experiences Faculty Sponsor: Antonio Damasio, Psychology, Neuroscience, USC College |
Most Innovative
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Honorable Mention | Jeannette Chang Multimodal Analysis of User Uncertainty in Child-Machine Problem Solving Interactions Faculty Sponsor: Shrikanth Narayanan, Electrical Engineering, Viterbi |
2nd Prize | Noelle Stiles Intraocular Camera for Retinal Prostheses Faculty Sponsor: Armand R. Tanguay, Jr., Electrical Engineering, Viterbi |
1st Prize | Sarah Childers, Chanel Fischetti, Ekaterina Gee, Megan Miller, Tanya Nguyen, Carlos Tagabuel Prenatal Valproic Acid Animal Model of Autism: Potential Benefits of Choline Faculty Sponsors: Melvin Lyon, Biological Sciences; William McClure, Neuroscience, Biological Sciences, USC College |
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