16th Annual Undergraduate Symposium for
Scholarly & Creative Work
Wednesday, April 16, 2014
Keynote Speaker: Arie Kapteyn
2014 Symposium Program
2014 Awards Banquet Program
2014 Undergraduate Symposium Prize Winners
$1000 First Prizes and $500 Second Prizes were awarded in each category
Arts |
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Honorable Mention | Anaka Morris Somewhere in South Central Faculty Sponsor: Alan Mittelstaedt, School of Journalism |
Honorable Mention | Saad Haddad Mai Faculty Sponsor: Bruce Broughton, Thornton School of Music |
2nd Prize |
Eunice Chang Once Upon a Slave’s Ambition Faculty Sponsors: Max Naporowski, Sheila Sofian, and Shelly Wattenbarger, Animation, School of Cinematic Arts |
1st Prize |
Jordan Perkins Disaster Relief: Deployable Shelters Faculty Sponsor: Doris Sung, Architecture |
Humanities |
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Honorable Mention | Kalena Giessler Examining Obsidian Provenance and Procurement: a pXRF Analysis of Obsidian Artifacts Found at Chavín de Huánta, Peru Faculty Sponsor: Lynn Swartz Dodd, Religion, Dornsife College; and John Rick, Anthropology, Stanford University |
Honorable Mention | Katrina Miller El Rexurdimento: The Redemption of Galician Poetry Faculty Sponsor: Margaret Rosenthal, Comparative Literature, Dornsife College |
2nd Prize | Vivian Yan “Their History,” “Our History”: Constructions of Chinese American History and Community Identity, 1960-2013Faculty Sponsor: Lon Kurashige, History, Dornsife College |
1st Prize |
Anneleise Azua Curanderismo in the Rio Grande Valley: A Study of Transformation Faculty Sponsor: George Sanchez, American Studies and Ethnicity, Dornsife College |
Life Sciences |
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Honorable Mention First Prize | Joshua Dreyzen Characterization of sleep disruption in known sleep and homeostatic synaptic plasticity mutants Faculty Sponsors: Dion Dickman, Dornsife College |
Honorable Mention | Brian Lentz Rates and costs of ion transport are genetically determined during animal development Faculty Sponsors: Donal Manahan, Dornsife College; Dr. Francis Pan; Dr. Scott Applebaum |
Honorable Mention | Yael Freiberg A Four-Chromosome Yeast Model for Robertsonian Translocation Faculty Sponsors: Susan Forsburg, Ruben Petreaca, Ji-Ping Yuan, Molecular and Computational Biology |
2nd Prize | Eliza Asherian Chronic Ethanol Exposure in Mice Leads to Neuroinflammatory Response and Increased P2X7 Receptor Expression Faculty Sponsors: Liana Asatryan and Daryl Davies, School of Pharmacy |
2nd Prize | Karthik Vasan Inhibition of cell growth and induction of apoptosis in KSHV-transformed cells by an inhibitor of sirtuins, Nicotinamide (Vitamin B3) Faculty Sponsor: Shou-Jiang Gao, Molecular Microbiology and Immunology |
1st Prize |
Elaine Roh Adaptive Capacity to Bacterial Diet Modulates Aging in C. elegans Faculty Sponsors: Sean Curran and Shanshan Pang, Davis School of Gerontology |
Physical Sciences, Mathematics & Engineering |
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Honorable Mention | Carlos Portela High Temperature Nanoindentation Method: reducing sample oxidation in metallic single crystals Faculty Sponsor: Andrea Hodge, Aerospace & Mechanical Engineering, Viterbi |
Honorable Mention | Matthew Orr Photon-dominated Region Modeling of the [C I], [C II], and CO Line Emission from a Boundary in the Taurus Molecular Cloud Faculty Sponsors: Gene Bickers, Physics & Astronomy; Paul Goldsmith and Jorge Pineda, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology |
2nd Prize |
Renée Wang Trace Metal Transport and Illegal Gold Mining in Peru Faculty Sponsor: Joshua West, Earth Sciences, Dornsife College |
1st Prize |
Evan Brown Nanowire Simulations Provide Key to Harnessing Sun Faculty Sponsors: Aiichiro Nakano, Computer Science, Physics & Astronomy, and Chemical Engineering & Materials Science; Chunyang Sheng, Chemical Engineering & Materials Science; Fuyuki Shimojo, Physics, Kumamoto University |
Social Sciences I |
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Honorable Mention | Da Eun (Danny) Kim Breaking the Cycle – Cracking Gender Disparity in Game Development Education Faculty Sponsor: Mathew Curtis, Annenberg School for Communication & Journalism |
Honorable Mention | Stephanie Chui, Francesca Corley A Pharmacological Pandemic: How counterfeit drugs have turned medicine against us & how we can stop it Faculty Sponsor: Erin Quinn, Science & Health, Dornsife College and Family Medicine, Keck School of Medicine |
2nd Prize |
Kristene Hossepian, Corey Pettit, Vivian Rotenstein Restorative versus Punitive Justice: A College Student’s Perspective Faculty Sponsors: Gayla Margolin and Michelle Ramos, Psychology, Dornsife College |
1st Prize |
Michael Bertch Hostile Takeover: The USIA and the Soviet Occupation of Austria, 1945-1955 Faculty Sponsor: Paul Lerner, History, Dornsife College |
Interdisciplinary Prize Award | Jack Koppa FrackMented – Contextualizing Environmental Policy Faculty Sponsor: James Boyda, Media Arts + Practice, School of Cinematic Arts |
Social Sciences II |
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Honorable Mention | Svadharma Keerthi, Janis Yue Effects of Marijuana Use on Cognitive Ability: A Twin Study Faculty Sponsors: Laura Baker and Nick Jackson, Psychology, Dornsife College |
Honorable Mention | Elizabeth Volpicelli A Twin Study of Accumulated Environmental Risk Factors on Childhood Antisocial Behavior Faculty Sponsor: Laura Baker, Psychology, Dornsife College |
2nd Prize |
Kelsey Bradshaw GABRA2 Associations with Conduct Problems in Childhood and Alcohol Dependence by Mid-Adulthood in a Non-Western Sample Faculty Sponsor: Susan Luczak, Psychology, Dornsife College |
1st Prize |
Mary Bassily Characterizing Vowel Production in Post-Glossectomy Speech Using Real-time MRI Faculty Sponsors: Christina Hagedorn, and Rachel Walker, Linguistics, Dornsife College; Shrikanth Narayanan, Electrical Engineering |
Interdisciplinary Award | Stephanie Wetzel Acute Stress Disorder and Posttraumatic Stress Disorder in children and parents after child’s admission to a pediatric intensive care unit (PICU). Faculty Sponsors: JoAnn Farver, Psychology, Dornsife College; Jeffrey Gold, and Lara Nelson, Children’s Hospital Los Angeles, Anesthesiology Critical Care Medicine |
USC Schwarzenegger Institute |
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2nd Prize | Tito Thomas Polyamines Supported on Fibrous Silica Nanospheres: New Regenerable Adsorbents for CO2 Recycling Faculty Sponsors: Prof. Surya Prakash, Department of Chemistry; Laxman Gurung, Research Assistant |
1st Prize |
Erica Arnold, Peter Grasso Sustainable Energy Recovery from Wastewater Treatment by Bioelectrochemical Fuel Cells (BEFCs) Faculty Sponsor: Pirbazari, Sonny Astani Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering |
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