1999-2000 Academic Year Undergraduate Research Grants
Each grant lists individual student researcher(s)
with respective cooperating faculty member(s) in parenthesis.
SCHOOL OF BUSINESS
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Candace Klein (Diane Parente and Michael Ishman), $760, "Electronic Supply Chain Management Research: 1989-1998"
School of Humanities & Social Sciences
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Anne Rajotte (Gregory Morris), $500, "Allen Ginsberg's America: Naomi Ginsberg's Influence on Identity"
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Nathan Childs and John Learn (Victoria Kazmerski), $500, "The Role of Working Memory Capacity in Test Anxiety"
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Elizabeth Oslak, Penny Przybylski, and Ashley Newhouse (Dawn Blasko), $500, "College Students Perceptions of Justification for Relational Aggression"
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Teresa Bailey (John Gamble), $500, "Economic Treaties: Changing Trends over 350 Years"
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Jared Hawk (John Gamble), $750, "Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs) and Multilateral Treaty-Making: From the Electric Typewriter to the World Wide Web - Two Recent Case Studies"
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Michael Chmielewski (Kimberly Skarupski), $500, "Needs Assessment and Program Development for the City Mission's Family & Children's Program"
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Maureen P. Gallagher (Melissa Bender), $500, "Metaphors of Imperialism in 18th and 19th Century British Literature"
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Nadine Cross (Ralph Eckert), $500, "An Unexamined Rebel: Mary Greenhow Lee's View of the American Civil War"
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Christopher Cairns (John Gamble), $500, "Comprehensive Database of Multilateral Treaties"
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Banchiamlack Dessalegn and Athena Farantzos (Dawn Blasko and Victoria Kazmerski), $500, "Measuring Metaphor Activation Processes in the Brain with Event-Related Potentials (ERPs)"
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Amanda Ervin and Jessica Turos (Kathy Holliday-Darr and Dawn Blasko), $500, "Initial Evaluation of a Web-based Cognitive Visualization Program"
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Jennifer Lore (Ursula Davis), $460, "The Clinton Health Care Campaign: A Public Relations Analysis"
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Amy Hardesty and Christy Taylor (Dawn Blasko), $500, "Family Size Effects on Observed and Measured Levels of Self Reported Shyness"
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Amy Brown and Elizabeth Henry (Dawn Blasko), $650, "Attributional Style, Stress, and First-Year Seminars as Predicators of Adjustment and College Success"
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Kristy Bender and Janel Palmatier (Charisse Nixon), $500, "Saving the Adolescent Girls: The Strong Vincent Project: An Evaluative Study"
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Katherine Gueco (Ursula Davis), $500, "Domestic Violence and Its Influence on Campus Life"
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Jennifer Blair and Steve Johnson (Charisse Nixon), $500, "An Evaluation of Mentoring on Jr. High School Students"
School of Science
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Dean Cass (Mary Chisholm), $500, "The Identification of Some Major Odorants in Key Lime Oil Using Column Chromatography and Gas Chromatography-Olfactometry (GCO)"
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Gina Gaskey (Mary Chisholm), $500, "Comparative Analysis of the Essential Oils of Key Lime Using Gas Chromatography-Olfactometry (GCO), Mass Spectrometry (GC-MS), and Solid Phase Microextraction (SPME)"
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Jason Jell (Mary Chisholm), $500, "Analysis of Clementine Oil Using Gas Chromatography-Olfactometry (GCO) and Gas Chromatography-Mass Spectrometry (GC-MS)"
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Bryan Katzenmeyer (Thomas Spudich), $500, "Radiation Characterization of Photochromic Pt(II) Compounds of o-Aminobenzaldehyde and Derivatives"
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Ian Moon (Alan Jircitano), $500, "Synthesis of Metal Complexes Using Di-2-Pyridyl Ketone Analogues"
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Gina Gaskey (Alan Jircitano), $500, "Synthesis and Characterization of a Macrocyclic Ligand: Tetraaza [1,6,11,16] [b,g,l,j] Tetrabenzocycloeicosine"
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Jeremy Jackson (Alan Jircitano), $500, "Studies of Photochromic PT(II) Compounds of o-Aminobenzaldehyde and Derivatives"
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James Sarson (Alan Jircitano), $500, "Synthesis and Characterization of a Potential Magnetic Resonance Imaging Contrast Agent"
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Brent Blood (Thomas Spudich), $500, "Modern Data Acquisition for Research and Teaching in Chemistry"
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Jeffrey Uhal (Thomas Spudich), $500,
"The Characterization and Use of an Acousto-Optic Background Correction System for Atomic Emission Spectrometry" -
Dustin Broussard (Bruce Wittmershaus), $500, "Device for the Detection of the Output of Luminescent Solar Concentrators"
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Gregg Beaumont (Bruce Wittmershaus), $500, "Usage of Thin Film Polymers and Fluorescent Dyes in Luminescent Solar Concentrators"
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Jamie Skibicki (Bruce Wittmershaus),
$500, "Investigating Possible Multi-Dye Spheres for Use in a
Luminescent Solar Concentrator"
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Sarah Fry and Erin Hersman (Michael
Campbell and Larry Eckroat), $1,000, "Determining Genetic Diversity
in Black Cherry, Prunus serotina, using Isoenzymatic Analysis and
Analysis of these Isoenzymes at the DNA Level"
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Gary Schumaker (Mark Pyron), $500, "Differences between the Mitochondrial DNA of Fundulus diaphanus in Presque Isle Bay and Lake Erie"
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Jennifer Osmanski (Michael Campbell), $500, "Characterization of an Intergenic Spacer as a Means of Measuring Genetic Diversity in the Spotted Salamander (Ambystoma maculatum)"
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Lee Szkotnicki (Michael Campbell), $500,
"Isolation and Purification of Antibodies Specific for
Branched-chain Amino Acid Amino-transferase"
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Richard Gill (James Warren), $500,
"Sequencing and Characterization of the Zebrafish (Danio rerio)
Enzymes: Dihydrofolate Reductase and Thymidylate Synthase"
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Gabriel Josset (Michael Campbell and Paul Barney), $500, "Isolation and Sequencing of the Gene Coding for Branched-chain Amino Acid Aminotransferase in Capsicum chinense"
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Chris Won (Thomas Spudich), $500, "The Design, Characterization and Use of Reverse Osmosis as a Method of On-line Preconcentration"