2001-2002 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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Michael J. Earley (Syed Saad Andaleeb), $700, "Does a Hospital's Name Influence Customer Attitudes, Perceptions, and Choice: a Comparative Study"
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Mirna Panic (Syed Saad Andaleeb), $700, "Success Factors: a Comparison of American and Bangladesh Female Marketers"
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Nicholas R. Pflugh (Frank DeWolf and Diane Parente), $700, "Electronic Supply Chain Internet Solutions for Buyers and Suppliers"
SCHOOL OF ENGINEERING AND ENGINEERING TECHNOLOGY
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Jonathan Fallon (William Lasher), $700, "Experimental Testing of Force Coefficients on a Spinnaker"
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Timothy S. Meyers (Robert Weissbach), $450, "Development of a Residential Renewable Energy System"
SCHOOL OF HUMANITIES AND SOCIAL SCIENCES
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Danielle Bemis, Christina Gritzer, and Kara Kaufman (Victoria Kazmerski), $700, "Sex Roles and Interpersonal Violence Perceptions among Male and Female College Students"
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Erika Dauber (Charisse Nixon), $700, "The Effect of Mentoring on Connectedness and Academic Achievement in Adolescents"
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Banchiamlack Dessalegn and Alejandra W. Marroquin (Dawn Blasko and Victoria Kazmerski), $700, "Metaphor Processing in the Spanish-English Bilingual Brain"
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Nicole Dirling and Emily Allen (John Gamble), $700, "Regionalism/Globalization in Multilateral Treaties"
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Destiny Dudenhoeffer (Charisse Nixon), $684, "Designing an Effective Comprehensive Mentoring Program for Local Erie Schools"
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Mary Ann Kerch (Matt Davies), $700, "A Moral Plague: the Genocide Convention and the West's Failure in Rwanda"
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Jonathan Lobaugh (Dawn Blasko, Victoria Kazmerski, and Carla Torgerson), $700, "Instructional Development of an Observational Research Tutorial"
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Ryan Maddock and Nicole White (Derek Mace), $700, "Working Memory and Dual Task Interference"
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Amanda Mitchell and Claudia Diaz (Derek Mace, Dawn Blasko, and Victoria Kazmerski), $700, "Using Word Pairs to Determine Memory Processing in Bilinguals"
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Kathleen E. Perry (Charisse Nixon), $687, "Examining the Effects of a Pilot RA Intervention Program"
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Aimee Peterson (John Gamble), $500, "Reservations to Multilateral Treaties"
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Maggie Skopow and Heather Twining (Derek Mace), $700, "Parenting Style and its Influence on Attachment Style in College Love Relationships"
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Michael R. Steele (Diana Hume George), $687, "Field Studies in Creative Writing in the White Mountains of New Hampshire"
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Matthew Stevenson, Linda Kelso, and Brooke Springer (Dawn Blasko and Victoria Kazmerski), $700, "Working Memory and Metaphor Processing"
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Erica Zilleruelo (Dean Baldwin), $660, "An Anthology of Colonial and Post-Colonial Short Stories"
SCHOOL OF SCIENCE
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Jestin Carlson (James Warren), $700, "Investigating the Role of Folate Metabolism in Zebrafish Heart Development"
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Theresa Crawford (Pamela Silver), $400, "An Educational Tool for the General Public and Students: the Conflict between Conservation and Beach Maintenance on Presque Isle Peninsula"
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Antoinette Digel (Lisa Mangel), $700, "Restoration and Analysis of Cow Bones"
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Melissa Feile (Michael Campbell), $697, "Changes in Gene Expression in Arabidopsis thaliana Regulated by Lead, Nickel, Zinc, and Copper Levels"
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Jeana Ferilla (Michael Campbell), $700, "Microsatellites Diversity in Ambystoma maculatum Samples Collected from Adult Tissues"
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Brandon Galan (Alan Jircitano), $700, "Synthesis and Characterization of a Potential Magnetic Resonance Imaging Contrast Agent"
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Herb Gilroy and Trevor Manendo (Edwin Masteller and Michael Campbell), $1,409, "Identification of Freshwater Mussels Using DNA Markers"
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Melinda Hanes (Michael Campbell), $787, "Using HPLC to Identify Amino Acid Mutants"
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Matthew L. Hillwig (Michael Campbell), $635, "Determining the Genetic Composition of Parnassia glauca"
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Chayanant Hongfa (Martin Kociolek), $700, "Development of Methods for the Synthesis of Verbalactone"
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Matthew S. Irwin (James Warren), $700, "Zebrafish (Danio rerio) Methionine Synthase: fully Sequencing the Methionine Synthase Gene and Investigating its Activity in Zebrafish"
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Kyle Kalbarczyk (Martin Kociolek), $700, "Development of Methods for the Synthesis of Verbalactone and Analogs of Verbalactone"
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Jennifer M. Kuntz (Thomas Spudich), $700, "The Characterization of a Digital Micromirror Array for Use in Atomic Spectrometry"
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Andreas Lesjak (Meng Su), $700, "Improving Search Efficiency on Image Feature Vectors"
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Gretchen Lokey (Bruce Wittmershaus), $686, "Incorporation of Dyes into Polymethyl Methacrylate through Solvent Soaking to Create Luminescent Solar Concentrators"
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Erika D. Mack (Mary Chisholm), $700, "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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Tessa Marshall (Thomas Spudich), $470, "Radiation Characterization of Photochromic Pt(II) Compounds of o-Aminobenzaldehyde and Derivatives"
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Melissa M. Moser (James Warren), $700, "Zebrafish (Danio rerio): characterization of a Putative Fragile X Mental Retardation Protein Homolog"
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Michael J. Nageotte (Pamela Silver), $700, "Effects of On-Campus Construction and Road Runoff on the Sediment Load and Salinity of Trout Run"
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Michelle Rizzo (Tracy Halmi), $500, "Exploring the Emission Spectra of Alkali and Alkaline Metals Using the Electric Pickle Demonstration"
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Jennine Rozanski (James Warren), $700, "Characterization and Analysis of the Mature Astrocyte Marker GFAP in Zebrafish"
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Maciej Z. Rusin (Meng Su), $700, "Towards Building an Efficient Image Retrieval System"
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Patrick Shaughnessy (Pradeep Singh), $700, "A Study of Factors that Influence Student's Calculus I Performance"
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John Shearer (Bruce Wittmershaus), $686, "Feasibility Study of Spin Casting Thin Polymer Films for Use as Luminescent Solar Concentrators"
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Amanda Svitek (James Warren), $700, "Analysis of Folate Metabolism and its Effects on Neural Tube Development in the Early Zebrafish (Danio rerio) Embryo"
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Amie Uhal (Mary Chisholm), $700, "The Identification of Some Major Odorants in Persian Lime Juice Using Column Chromatography and Gas Chromatography-Olfactometry (GCO)"