2000-2001 Academic Year Undergraduate Research Grants
Each grant lists individual student researcher(s)
with respective cooperating faculty member(s) in parenthesis.
SCHOOL OF ENGINEERING AND ENGINEERING
TECHNOLOGY
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Dave Marasco (William Lasher), $500, "Prediction of Force Coefficients on a 1/4 Cylindrical Arc Using RANS Simulation"
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Kevin Barbash (L. Ken Saunders), $500, "Stress Concentrations in Drilling"
SCHOOL OF HUMANITIES AND SOCIAL SCIENCES
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Nicole Dirling (John Gamble), $488, "International Law and Globalization"
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Michael S. Chmielewski (Carl Kallgren), $500, "Item Analysis and Norming of the Chmielewski Importance of Religion Scale (CIRS)"
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Sara A. Lawrence and Mary H. Pietrzak (Dawn Blasko and Victoria Kazmerski), $600, "Instructional Development of an Observational Research Tutorial"
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Jessica Turos and Amanda Ervin (Victoria Kazmerski and Dawn Blasko), $600, "Gender Differences in a Spatial Stroop Task"
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Cynthia K. Young (Charisse Nixon), $750, "Relational Aggression Preventions Program for Students (RAPPS)"
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Erika L. Dauber and Matt A. Jones (Charisse Nixon), $1,000, "Roosevelt Mentoring Program"
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Erin M. Lyons (Dean Baldwin), $580, "Discovering the Approaches Actresses Take to Shakespearian Roles"
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Banchiamlack Dessalegn, Athena Farantzos, Megan Walsh, and Matthew Stevenson (Dawn Blasko), $1,500, "Time Perspective among Ethiopian and Greek Biculturals"
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Amy S. Brown and Ann M. Brown (Dawn Blasko), $1,000, "College Student Adjustment, Stress, and Explanatory Style as Predictors of GPA"
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Jessica L. Dzuricky, Sara A. Lischerelli, and Ashley M. Williams, (Dawn Blasko), $1,312, "Effects of Emotional Intelligence on Leadership Qualities in Problem Solving"
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Amanda McFarland, Heather Peters, and Brooke Rhodes (Carl Kallgren), $936, "The Relationship between Depression and Parenting Styles among College Students"
SCHOOL OF SCIENCE
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Amie E. Uhal (Mary Chisholm), $500, "The Identification of Major Odorants in Key Lime Juice Using Gas Chromatography-Olfactometry (GCO) and Gas Chromatography-Mass Spectrometry (GC-MS)"
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Dean M. Cass Jr. (Mary Chisholm), $500 "The Identification of Major Odorants in Clementine Juice Using Gas Chromatography-Olfactometry (GCO) and Gas Chromatography-Mass Spectrometry (GC-MS)"
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Tessa Marshall (Thomas Spudich), $500, "Radiation Characterization of Photochromic Pt(II) Compounds of o-Aminobenzaldehyde and Derivatives"
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Stacy Cox (Thomas Spudich), $500, "The Characterization and Use of an Acoustic-Optic Background Correction System for Atomic Emission Spectrometry"
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Jason A. Jell (Mary Chisholm), $500, "Analysis of Clementine Oil Using Column Chromatography, Gas Chromatography-Olfactometry (GCO), and Gas Chromatography-Mass Spectrometry (GC-MS)"
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Timothy T. Baseler (Bruce Wittmershaus), $495, "Study of Excitation Energy Transfer between Polystyrene Microspheres and Fluorescent Dyes"
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Gregg T. Beaumont (Bruce Wittmershaus), $495, "Indoor Investigation of the Performance of Multiple and Single Dye Concentrations in Luminescent Solar Concentrators"
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Jason B. McLafferty (Bruce Wittmershaus), $488, "Development of a Fluorescence Quantum Yield Standard"
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Matthew R. Ahrens (Joseph Paullet), $500, "Black Jack and Statistics"
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Amanda Jo Adamski (Mark Pyron and Thomas Spudich), $750, "Toxicity of Copper and Zinc in Combination to Lake Erie Crayfish"
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Lee Thomas Szkotnicki (Michael Campbell), $750, "Localization of Branched-chain Amino Acid Aminotransferase mRNA in Potato"
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Kristin Elisabeth Fleming (Michael Campbell), $750, "Purification and Characterization of BCAT"
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Leanne Donovan (James Warren Jr.), $750, "Characterization of a Putative Fragile X Mental Retardation Related Protein Homolog in Zebrafish"
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Lisa Kobylinski (James Warren Jr.), $750, "Characterization of a Putative Apoptosis Related Factor in Zebrafish"
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Melissa M. Moser (James Warren, Jr.) $750, "Zebrafish (Danio rerio) tag 1: Characterizing the Expression Pattern of its Protein Via Whole Mount Antibody Stains"
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Jeana Ferilla (Michael Campbell), $750, "Characterization of Ambystoma maculatum Based on Mitochondrial Sequences"
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Gita Dev (Mark Pyron), $700, "Habitat Selection in Banded Killifish, Fundulus diaphanus"