9th Annual Undergraduate Symposium for
Scholarly & Creative Work
Wednesday, April 11, 2007
Keynote Speaker: C.L. Max Nikias
2007 Symposium Program
2007 Awards Banquet Program
2007 Undergraduate Symposium Prize Winners
$1000 First Prizes and $500 Second Prizes were awarded in each category
Arts |
|
Honorable Mention | Aaron Levinson The Red Earth: Living With Nature in East Africa Faculty Sponsors: Joanna Demers, USC College; Amanda Pope, Cinematic Arts |
Honorable Mention | Mariana Evans Sunrise (short film) Faculty Sponsor: Robert Ballo, Kenny Hall, and Duke Underwood, School of Cinematic Arts |
2nd Prize | Eugenia Sangiovanni Complicating Oversimplification Faculty Sponsor: Ann Page, Fine Arts |
1st Prize | Roger Zare Green Flash Faculty Sponsor: Morten Lauridsen, Composition, Thornton School of Music |
Humanities |
|
2nd Prize | Tina Huynh More than Pretty Women: The Geisha and Courtesan in Popular Western Film Faculty Sponsors:Margaret Rosenthal, Italian and Comparative Literature, USC College |
1st Prize | Kristin Butler, Carly Dykes, Hannah Marcuson, Elizabeth Martin del Campo, Georgiana Nikias, Ashley Sands Reexamining the Past: a Multi-University Collaborative Research and Mentoring Faculty Sponsors: Karen Stern, Lynn Swartz Dodd, and Bruce Zuckerman, Religion, USC College |
Life Sciences |
|
Honorable Mention | Margaret (Maggie) Cass Novel repellant activity of motorneurons in the guidance of commisural axons Faculty Sponsor: Samantha Butler, Neurobiology, USC College |
Honorable Mention | Nihal Patel Sites of Ethanol Action in Purinergic P2X3 Receptors Faculty Sponsor: Daryl Davies, Pharmacology and Pharmaceutical Sciences |
Honorable Mention | Anuj Aggarwal Molecular Strategies to Identify Sites of Alcohol Action in LGICs Faculty Sponsor: Daryl Davies, Molecular Pharmacology and Toxicology |
2nd Prize | Brad Johnson Anammox in Catalina Island Sediments Faculty Sponsor: John Heidelberg, Biological Sciences, USC College |
1st Prize | Martin Wainstein Ultrabasic Geomicrobiology from the Cedars Peridotite: Life at pH 11.5 Faculty Sponsor: Kenneth Nealson, Earth Sciences, USC College |
Interdisciplinary Award |
Brad Johnson Anammox in Catalina Island Sediments Faculty Sponsor: John Heidelberg, Biological Sciences, USC College |
Physical Sciences & Engineering |
|
Honorable Mention | Mario Bialostozky A Non-Invasive Method for Evaluating Cardiovascular Health Faculty Sponsor: David D’Argenio, Biomedical Engineering, Viterbi |
Honorable Mention | Becky Gallagher The Efficiency of Biogenic Silica Burial in Cascadia Basin Sediments Faculty Sponsor: Douglas Hammond, Earth Sciences, USC College |
2nd Prize | Elizabeth (Nicole) Ball, Glenn Fischer, Bradford Foley, Jeffrey Thompson Magmatic and Volcanic Plumbing Systems, Crustal Evolution, and the Search for the Mysterious Mojave-Snow Lake Fault: 2006-07 Earth Sciences Undergraduate Team Research in th High Sierra Faculty Sponsors: Lawford Anderson, Valbone Memeti, Scott Paterson, and Geoffrey Pignotta, Earth Science, USC College |
1st Prize | Andrew Horning Around the Ring: Molecular Geometry & Energy Transfer In Photosynthetic Faculty Sponsor: Stephen Bradforth, Chemistry, USC College |
Interdisciplinary Award |
Pavitra Krishnaswamy, Israel Morales, Jeanie Paik An Interdisciplinary Study of Apoptotic Effects Induced by Nanoelectropulses on Cancer Cells Faculty Sponsor: Martin Gundersen, Electrical Engineering, Physics and Astronomy, Material Science |
Social Sciences I
|
|
Honorable Mention | Nicholas Scurich Applying Value to Decisions in Actuarial Predictions of Violence: A Bayesian Faculty Sponsor: Richard John, Psychology, USC College |
Honorable Mention | Nicole Schneider The relation between self-esteem and eating behavior Faculty Sponsor: Carol Koprowski, Institute for Prevention Research, Keck School of Medicine |
2nd Prize | Camille Boudreau Finding An Effective Way to Question Children Using ‘Before’ and ‘After’ Faculty Sponsor: Thomas Lyon, USC Law |
1st Prize | Janelle Colangelo, Hannah (Brice) Keltner, David Press Religiosity and Perceived Stress among College Students Faculty Sponsor: Juliana Fuqua, Health Promotion Disease Prevention, Keck School of Medicine |
Interdisciplinary Award | Ashley Sands Rewriting the History of Technology: unique proof of tin bronze manufacture Faculty Sponsor: Lynn Swartz Dodd, Religion, USC College |
Social Sciences II
|
|
Honorable Mention | Kimberly White Manipulating Skin Tone: The Effects of Skin Tone on Self Esteem and Mood Faculty Sponsor: Brian Lickel, Psychology, USC College |
Honorable Mention | Anna Bokarius, Matt Wallace Sources of Linguistic Knowledge in Second Language English Article Acquisition Faculty Sponsor(s): Tania Ionin and María Luisa Zubizarreta, Linguistics, USC College |
2nd Prize | Hala Mohammad Media portrayal & Middle Eastern women: Reconstructing Orientalism & Empire? Faculty Sponsor: Ellen Seiter, Cinema Critical Studies |
1st Prize | Celeste DeFreitas, Ashlee Welday Baby Linguists: Infants attend to complex vowel patterns to understand speech Faculty Sponsor(s): Toben Mintz, Psychology & Linguistics; Rachel Walker, Linguistics, USC College |
Interdisciplinary Award | Melanie Billow Young Maltreated Children’s Ability to Answer and Understand Oath-Taking Competency Faculty Sponsor: Thomas Lyon, USC Law |
Most Innovative
|
|
Honorable Mention | Aaron Levinson The Red Earth: Living With Nature in East Africa Faculty Sponsors: Joanna Demers, USC College; Amanda Pope, Cinematic Arts |
2nd Prize | Pavitra Krishnaswamy, Israel Morales, Jeanie Paik An Interdisciplinary Study of Apoptotic Effects Induced by Nanoelectropulses on Cancer Cells Faculty Sponsor: Martin Gundersen, Electrical Engineering, Physics and Astronomy, Material Science |
1st Prize | Joel Linke, Kristin Swihart Wave Generation for a Surfing Environment by Bottom Moving Bumps Faculty Sponsors: Adam Fincham, Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering, Viterbi |
Photos