11th Annual Undergraduate Symposium for
Scholarly & Creative Work
Wednesday, April 15, 2009
Keynote Speaker: Peter C. Mancall
2009 Symposium Program
2009 Awards Banquet Program
2009 Undergraduate Symposium Prize Winners
$1000 First Prizes and $500 Second Prizes were awarded in each category
Arts |
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| Honorable Mention | Nicole Ferguson Knowledge and Art Faculty Sponsor: Dallas Willard, Philosophy |
| 2nd Prize | Ciaran Vejby Ishi’s Legacy Faculty Sponsor: Nathalie Joseph, English, USC College |
| 1st Prize | Elke Schnittker Greensburg ‘Natural Swim Park’ Faculty Sponsor: Janek Dombrowa, Architecture |
| Interdisciplinary Award |
Emily Yu A Travelogue from Botswana Faculty Sponsor: Ron Rizk, Fine Arts |
Humanities |
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| Honorable Mention | Jacob Bongers Illuminating Culture Clash: Material Smashing in Northern Chile Faculty Sponsors: Ran Boytner, Anthropology; Lynn Swartz Dodd, Religion, USC College |
| 2nd Prize | Joseph Henderer Southern California’s Indigenous Languages: Documenting Our Intangible Cultural Heritage in the Fight Against Language Endangerment Faculty Sponsor: Andrew Simpson, Linguistics, USC College |
| 1st Prize | Jennifer Crawford Bringing the Past to Life: Recreating an Ancient Egyptian Gilding Technique Faculty Sponsor: Lynn Swartz Dodd, Religion, USC College |
Life Sciences |
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| Honorable Mention | Sara Kingston Exploring the Nature of 7 rrn Operons Through Their Effects on Growth Rate and Survival of E. coli Faculty Sponsor: Steve Finkel, Computational and Molecular Biology |
| Honorable Mention | Amy Hurwitz Bacterial Aging: the cause of death phase in E. coli Faculty Sponsor: Steve Finkel, Computational and Molecular Biology |
| 2nd Prize | Miriam Lassiter Pharyngeal Pouch Development in Zebrafish Faculty Sponsors: Chong Pyo Choe, and Gage Crump, Center for Stem Cell and Regenerative Medicine |
| 2nd Prize | Stephanie Hudiburgh Investigating the Role of Smads in Commissural Neuron Specification Faculty Sponsor: Samantha Butler, Biological Sciences, USC College |
| 1st Prize | Valerie Yuan The Roles of Oncogene Homolog Sch9 and Rev1 Polymerase in Age-Dependent Genomic Instability Faculty Sponsor: Valter Longo, Gerontology |
Physical Sciences & Engineering |
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| Honorable Mention | Harris Talsky Emanation Rates of Radon and Radium from Coastal Sands: A tool for estimating seawater circulation rates through permeable sediments Faculty Sponsor: Douglas Hammond, Earth Sciences, USC College |
| Honorable Mention | Sharla Shimono U-Pb Zircon Age Constraints on the Tectonic Evolution of the Northern Margin of the North China Craton and Souther Margin of the Central Asian Orogenic Belt Faculty Sponsor: Scott Paterson, Geological Sciences, USC College |
| 2nd Prize | Joseph Lubinski and Kedar Naik Heat Transfer from a Cylinder undergoing Streamwise Oscillations in a Cross-flow Faculty Sponsor: Tait Pottebaum, Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering, Viterbi |
| 2nd Prize | Hubert Lau and Balyn Zaro Solvent-Free, One-Pot Synthesis of Alpha-Aminonitriles Using Acid Catalysts Faculty Sponsor: Surya Prakash, Chemistry, USC College |
| 1st Prize | Marie Anne Cuevas Low Temperature Synthesis of Perovskite Nanocrystals and their Applications to Nanocomposite Dielectrics Faculty Sponsor: Richard Brutchey, Jr., Chemistry, USC College |
| Interdisciplinary Award |
Leslie Koehn Positive Train Control – The Answer to Rail Safety Calamity Faculty Sponsor: Najmedin Meshkati,Civil & Environmental Engineering, Industrial Systems Engineering, Viterbi |
Social Sciences |
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| Honorable Mention | Diana Bennett, Lauren Ford and Rachel Rice You Defriended Me!?: The Scope and Prevalence of Interpersonal Aggression Faculty Sponsors: Gayla Margolin, Psychology, USC College |
| Honorable Mention | Amanda Bogart and Ashley Flor Rhythm in Second Language Speech Faculty Sponsor: María Luisa Zubizarreta, Linguistics, USC College |
| 2nd Prize | Noelle Miller A Question of Reproductive Freedom Faculty Sponsors: Nancy Lutkehaus, Anthropology, USC College |
| 2nd Prize | Joshua Lang Cuban Health Care: First Class Public Health on a Third World Budget Faculty Sponsors: Nancy Lutkehaus and Cheryl Mattingly, Anthropology, USC College |
| 1st Prize | Lydia Green Central Alaskan Yup’ik: A Linguistic Research Project Faculty Sponsor: Bruce Zuckerman, Religion, USC College |
| Interdisciplinary Award | Nicole Hummel Deconstructing Sex Tourism: Imperialism, Patriarchy, and Women’s Bodies Faculty Sponsor: Amy Parish, Anthropology/Gender Studies, USC College |
Most Innovative
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| Honorable Mention | Amy Hurwitz Bacterial Aging: the cause of death phase in E. coli Faculty Sponsor: Steve Finkel, Computational and Molecular Biology |
| Honorable Mention | Ashley Maker Design and Fabrication of Waveguide Sensors Faculty Sponsor: Andrea Armani, Chemical Engineering and Materials Science, Viterbi |
| 2nd Prize | Tina Hovsepian Cardborigami Faculty Sponsor: Doris Sung, Architecture |
| 1st Prize | Marie Anne Cuevas Low Temperature Synthesis of Perovskite Nanocrystals and their Applications to Nanocomposite Dielectrics Faculty Sponsors: Richard Brutchey, Jr., Chemistry, USC College |