2001 Undergraduate Student Summer Research Fellowships

Each grant listed includes student researcher(s) with respective cooperating faculty member(s) in parenthesis.

School of Business

  • Ryan Ferguson (John Fizel), $1,200, "Rationale Behind Last Minute Bidding"

  • Susan Klinger (John Fizel), $1,200, "The Impact of Late Bidding in Online Reverse Auctions"

  • Clint N. Lewis (John Fizel), $1,200, "Industry Analysis of Prices: The Effects of E-commerce"

  • Dean Lutz (Brian Boscaljon), $1,200, "The Importance of Non-Financial Leading Indicators in Increasing Firm Value"

  • James Washburn (James Kurre), $1,400, "Brain Drain or Brain Gain in Erie County?"

SCHOOL OF ENGINEERING AND ENGINEERING TECHNOLOGY

  • Brian Hill (Robert Gray), $1,200, "Investigation of Remote Sensing for Condition-Based Maintenance"

SCHOOL OF HUMANITIES AND SOCIAL SCIENCES

  • Emily C. Allen (John Gamble), $1,200, "Information Technology, Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs) and Multilateral Treaty-Making: From the Typewriter to the World Wide Web"

  • Teresa A. Bailey and Aimée S. Peterson (John Gamble), $1,200, "The Comprehensive Database of Multilateral Treaties (CDMT) Next Phase"

  • Miles J. Dinnen (Anne Pancake), $1,000, "Research of the History and Culture of Kingston, Ontario and the Thousand Islands"

  • Nicole Dirling (John Gamble), $1,115, "Regionalism and Globalism in International Law"

  • Justina Egan (Carl Kallgren), $1,200, "The Relationship between Religiosity and Risk-Taking Behaviors"

  • Miranda Galbreath, Adan Huber, and Melinda Duckett (Victoria Kazmerski), $1,200, "Gender Comparison of Physiological and Emotional Response to Erotic Reading Material"

  • Elizabeth A. Hayes (Colleen Kelley), $1,200, "The Political Rhetoric, Media Framing, and Public Opinion of World War I"

  • Jackie Tetuan (Victoria Kazmerski), $1,200, "Aging Effects on Performance on a Spatial Stroop Task"

  • Jessica Turos, Jenn Enas, Adam Wagner, Kyle French, Kathleen Scarpino, Jill Johnson, Karen Simpson, Nicole Harlan, and Jesse Matola (Dawn Blasko, Kathy Holliday-Darr, and John Kerwin), $10,837, "An Interdisciplinary Project for the Development and Evaluation of a "Web-based Spatial Visualization Training Program"

SCHOOL OF SCIENCE

  • Elizabeth A. Aaron (Michael Campbell), $1,200, "Ethylene Production in Developing Orchids"

  • Gregg T. Beaumont (Bruce Wittmershaus), $1,200, "Using Förster Resonance Excitation Energy Transfer Networks in Polymer Thin Film Luminescent Solar Concentrators"

  • Patricia Bettinger (Larry Eckroat), $1,200, "Determining Genetic Diversity in Phragmites, Phragmites australis, Using Microsatellite Analysis"

  • Brian M. Coleridge (Alan Jircitano), $1,200, "Synthesis and Characterization of a Macrocyclic Ligand: Tetraaza[1,6,11,16][b,g,l,j] Tetrabenzocycloeicosine"

  • Stacy Cox (Thomas Spudich), $1,200, "The Characterization and Use of an Acoustic-Optic Background Correction System for Atomic Emission Spectrometry"

  • Justin Crepp (Darren Williams), $1,200, "The Hill Radius"

  • Melissa Feile (Michael Campbell), $1,200, "Changes in Gene Expression in Arabidopsis thaliana Regulated by Lead and Arsenic Levels"

  • Chris Felege (Mark Pyron), $1,200, "Iowa Darter Habitat in Presque Isle Bay"

  • Jeana Ferilla (Michael Campbell), $1,200, "Mitochondrial Sequence Diversity in Ambystoma maculatum Samples Collected from Adult Tissues"

  • Kristin E. Fleming (Michael Campbell), $1,235, "Purification and Characterization of BCAT for the Amino Acid Isoleucine"

  • Brandon Galan (Alan Jircitano), $1,200, "Synthesis and Characterization of a Potential Magnetic Resonance Imaging Contrast Agent"

  • Matthew L. Hillwig (Michael Campbell), $1,200, "Determining Genetic Diversity in Prunus serotina: Using Prunus persica Microsatellite Markers"

  • Chayanant Hongfa (Martin Kociolek), $1,200, "Development of Methods for the Synthesis of 1,3 -Amino Alcohols from Isoxazolines"

  • Lisa Kobylinski (James Warren Jr.), $1,200, "Characterization of a Putative Apoptosis Related Factor in Zebrafish"

  • Eugene Lhymn (Richard Stankewitz), $1,200, "Evaluating Integrals Without Calculus"

  • Tessa Marshall (Thomas Spudich), $1,200, "Radiation Characterization of Photochromic Pt(II) Compounds of o-Aminobenzaldehyde and Derivatives"

  • Jason B. McLafferty (Bruce Wittmershaus), $1,200, "Choosing Dyes for a Multidye Luminescent Solar Concentrator"

  • Molly E. Means (James Warren Jr.), $1,200, "Sequencing and Characterization of the Zebrafish (Danio rerio) Necdin Gene"

  • Melissa M. Moser (James Warren, Jr.), $1,200, "Zebrafish (Danio rerio) tag 1: Characterizing the Expression Pattern of Its Protein via Whole Mount Antibody Stains"

  • Michael N. Perkins (Darren Williams), $1,200, "The Orbital Evolution of Uranus and Neptune in the Early Solar System"

  • Nathan D. Polansky (Michael Campbell), $1,200, "Characterization of Unknown Gene from Potato"

  • Jennine Rozanski (James Warren Jr.), $1,200, "Characterization and Analysis of the Mature Astrocyte Marker GFAP in Zebrafish"

  • Lee T. Szkotnicki (Michael Campbell), $1,200, "Localization of Branched-chain Amino Acid Aminotransferase mRNA in Potato"

  • Bruce Tepke (G. William Baxter), $1,200, "Stress Distribution in a Granular Medium"

  • Amie E. Uhal (Mary Chisholm), $1,200, "The Identification of Some Major Odorants in Persian Lime Juice Using Column Chromatography and Gas Chromatography-Olfactometry (GCO)"

  • Lauren Ulrich (Alan Jircitano), $1,200, "Studies of Photochromic Pt(II) Compounds of o-Aminobenzaldehyde and Derivatives"

  • Charles Utz (Brian Moore), $1,200, "Computer Simulations of Liquid Clusters: Collisional Processes and the Effect of the Range of the Interatomic Potential"


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