8th Annual Undergraduate Symposium for
Scholarly & Creative Work
Wednesday, April 12, 2006
2006 Symposium Program
2006 Undergraduate Symposium Prize Winners
$500 First Prizes and $250 Second Prizes were awarded in each category
Arts |
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| Honorable Mention |
Claudia Zhang Ancient Modernism Faculty Sponsor: Zoey Wu, East Asian Languages and Cultures |
| 2nd Prize |
Roger Zare The Other Rainbow Faculty Sponsor: Rick Lesemann, Music Composition |
| 1st Prize |
Paul Dooley Pomo Canyon Air, for orchestra Faculty Sponsor: Frank Ticheli, Music Composition |
| Interdisciplinary Award |
Julianne Gale Who am I? Trans Identity in Los Angeles Faculty Sponsor: Joseph R. Hawkins, Gender Studies, Philip J. Ethington, History |
Humanities |
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| Honorable Mention |
Celeste DeFreitas and Brian Ronge Silent Speech Gestures in Kinyarwanda Faculty Sponsor: Rachel Walker, Linguistics |
| Honorable Mention |
Georgiana Nikias The Lost Shawabti: A Scribe’s Ancient Egyptian Funerary Figurine Faculty Sponsor: Lynn Swartz Dodd, Religion |
| 2nd Prize |
Brigid McManama Imag(in)ing Race After Slavery: Race and Service in the White House Faculty Sponsor: Stephanie Bower, The Writing Program |
| 1st Prize |
Georgiana Nikias, Hannah Marcuson, and Kristin Butler Khirbet Mazra’a: The Lost Excavation Faculty Sponsor: Lynn Swartz Dodd, Religion |
| Interdisciplinary Award |
Shaun Lea Andean Dye Project: The Mysteries of Textiles Faculty Sponsor: Lynn Swartz Dodd, Archaeology |
Life Sciences |
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| Honorable Mention |
Ryan Kohlbrenner and Ricardo Mestres Effects of Prenatal Stress on Cell Quantity in the Nucleus Accumbens and Cingulate Cortex Area 3 in the Animal Model of Schizophrenia Faculty Sponsor: William McClure, Biological Sciences |
| Honorable Mention |
Raymond Jone Modeling and characterizing Synapse Elimination using Xenopus laevis Faculty Sponsor: Albert Herrera, Neurobiology |
| 2nd Prize |
Anna Maria Maglunog The Role of Netrin-1 in Commissural Axon Guidance Faculty Sponsor: Samantha Butler, Neuroscience |
| 1st Prize |
Stephanie Bughi and Jatturong Wichianson Prevalence of Night Eating Syndrome Among College Undergraduate Students Faculty Sponsors: Donna Spruijt-Metz and Selena Michel, Health Promotion & Disease Prevention |
| Interdisciplinary Award |
Mahira Kakajiwala Spacial and temporal divesity of marine viruses in the San Pedro Channel Faculty Sponsors: Jed Furhman, Marine Environmental Biology |
Physical Sciences, Mathematics & Engineering |
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| Honorable Mention |
Dolce Wang A Shocking Demand Faculty Sponsor: Steve Nutt, Materials Science, Viterbi School of Engineering |
| Honorable Mention |
Timothy Kowalczyk Electronic structure and spectroscopy of carbon trioxide Faculty Sponsor: Anna Krylov, Chemistry |
| 2nd Prize |
Krystal Sly The Effect of Varying the Cathode Composition on Organic Solar Cell Performance Faculty Sponsor: Mark E. Thompson, Chemistry |
| 1st Prize |
Suet Ying Christin Chong and Pavitra Krishnaswamy Long Term Effects of Nanosecond Electroperturbation Therapy on Cancer Cells Faculty Sponsors: Martin Gundersen, Viterbi School of Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Physics and Astronomy and Materials Science; Laura Marcu, Biomedical Engineering |
| Interdisciplinary Award |
Kristy Akullian, Randy Robertson, Edgar Evangelista, Joshua Garcia, Ee Ling Ooi, Thomas Robinson, Ifraz Haqque, Justin Perez, Aaron Kositsky SCEC/UseIT: Software Engineering to Create an Earthquake Monitoring System Faculty Sponsors: Thomas Jordan, Southern California Earthquake Center (SCEC) |
Social Sciences I |
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| Honorable Mention | Tommy Cavanagh Awareness and Physiological Arousal in a Classical Conditioning Experiment Faculty Sponsors: Jo Ann Farver and Michael Dawson, Psychology |
| Honorable Mention | Fiona Torrance Independent Study in Corporate Blogging Faculty Sponsor: Sandra Chrystal, Center for Management Communication |
| 2nd Prize | Shaheen Munir Cross-Language Transfer of Reading Skills in Three Treatment Groups Faculty Sponsors: Franklin Manis and Jo Ann Farver, Psychology |
| 1st Prize | Daniel Goldman Alcohol, Expectancies, Dispositional Aggression, & Aggressive Behaviors Faculty Sponsor: Jo Ann Farver, Psychology |
| Interdisciplinary Prize Award | Lauren Baron The ability of child witnesses alleging sexual abuse to make numerosity judgment Faculty Sponsors: Thomas Lyon, The USC Law School |
Social Sciences II |
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| Honorable Mention | Matthew Borba The Therapeutic Alliance and Treatment Outcomes in Multisystemic Therapy Faculty Sponsor: Stan Huey, Jr., Psychology |
| Honorable Mention | Elizabeth Cook, Archana Prakash, Kathleen Benton, Karina Godoy Fire in the Built Environment: United States 1790 to the Present Faculty Sponsor: Carole Shammas, History |
| 2nd Prize | Kareem El Sawy Issues In Outsourcing Management: A Balanced Scorecard Faculty Sponsors: Constantin Vaitsos, Information and Operations Management |
| 1st Prize | Meredith Goldin Impact of Subtyping Salience on Consensus Estimation and the Black Sheep Effect Faculty Sponsors: Norman Miller and Joy Stratton, Psychology |