2003-2004 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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Angela Fetzner (Diane Parente and Mary Beth Pinto) - $700
"High School Students and Credit Cards: Consumer Socialization and
Financial Awareness"
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Kelvin Leung (Kenneth Louie) - $450
"Interrelationship between the Financial Services Market and the Foreign Exchange Market of the United States"
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Barton L. Towell (Randy Brown and Diane Parente) - $700
"Adoption of a New Technology: Applying a Model for Analyzing and Assessing Readiness for Change"
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Brian Veshecco (Diane Parente and Mary Beth Pinto) - $700
"High School Students and Credit Cards: Consumer Attitudes"
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Jenny Zhang (Diane Parente) - $700
"Analyzing Product Characteristic Impact in B2B Reverse Auction Environment"
SCHOOL OF ENGINEERING AND ENGINEERING TECHNOLOGY
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Christopher D. Agosti (John Roth) - $700
"Energy Consumption Reduction Through Electrically Assisted Machining"
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Robert Cunningham, Joseph Petrovich, and Ted Yowonske (David Loker) - $700
"Non-contact Sensing Using Motorola's MC33794 Electric Field Imaging Device"
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Andrew R. Detar (Oladipo Onipede) - $700
"Twisting of Airfoil Sections Using Shape Memory Alloy Wire"
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Kevin M. Fisher (John Roth) - $700
"Multiple Sensor Integration"
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Jarred Heigel (John Roth) - $700
"Analysis of Electrically Aided Machining Process"
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James Jukkola (Ronald Krahe) - $700
"Electronically Controlling the Rolling Motion of a Ball on a Tilting Surface"
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Jeffrey Kirsch and Michael Porter (David Loker) - $700
"802.11b Wireless LAN Data Transmission/Reception"
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Shawn Kozen (Ronald Krahe) - $700
"Steering for an Electric Vehicle"
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Amy McCullough (William Lasher) - $700
"Optimization and Automation of Fluid Flow Simulation Spinnaker Aerodynamics"
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Nathan D. Russell (John Roth) - $700
"Effect of Cryogenic Treatment of Carbide Inserts on Tool Wear"
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Robert Walters (Ronald Krahe) - $700
"Electric Motor Drive and Driver Circuitry"
SCHOOL OF ENGINEERING AND ENGINEERING TECHNOLOGY AND SCHOOL OF HUMANITIES AND SOCIAL SCIENCES
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Eric D. Johnson (Dawn Blasko, Derek Mace, and Kathy Holliday-Darr) - $700 "Programming for Cognitive Science: Using Technology to Understand Human Thought"
SCHOOL OF HUMANITIES AND SOCIAL SCIENCES
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Chrissy Anderson and Dotty Shaffer (Dawn Blasko and Victoria Kazmerski) - $1,400
"Metaphor Comprehension in Young Adults and Children"
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Holly Blasko-Drabik and Joshua W. Rowe (Victoria Kazmerski and Dawn Blasko) - $1,400
"ERP Evidence of Stroop-Like Interference with Instrument Timbres"
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Jennifer Braithwaite, Elma Dorić, and Lauren Sanko (Victoria Kazmerski) - $700
"A Comparison of Self-Esteem and Adult Attachment Styles to Body Mass Index"
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Tabitha Chase, Lisa Jacobs, Erin Kuchcinski, and Lisa Miller (Charisse Nixon) - $700
"An Evaluation of CASS at Greenhills, Michigan"
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Tabitha Chase, Natasha Chrebet, and Lisa Miller (Victoria Kazmerski) - $697
"An Evaluation of Personal Space and Test Scores"
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David Daquelente, Danielle Lombardo, and Jeannie Roos (Victoria Kazmerski) - $700
"The Study of Stress Levels of College-Aged Students in Monogamous Relationships vs. Singles"
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Linda Fanning (Victoria Kazmerski) - $700
"Hands-on Science Curriculum Evaluation"
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Erin Ferguson and Jessica Sevinsky (Victoria Kazmerski) - $450 "Physical vs. Non-Physical Characteristics in Heterosexual Dating Partner Preferences"
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Lindsey Giuliana, Erin Ferguson, Ashley Conrad, and James Rummel Jr. (Charisse Nixon) - $700
"CASS: Creating a Safe School in Notre Dame Academy"
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Sarah Hildreth (Clare Porac) - $700
"Spatial Frequency Manipulations in the Poggendorff Illusion"
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Megan Horanic and Jennifer Hornaman (Victoria Kazmerski) - $700 "Differences in Bereavement at Five Weeks and Nine Weeks"
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Lisa M. Jacobs and Erin E. Troester (Victoria Kazmerski) - $300 "Experimentation with Context Dependent Memory"
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Jessica Knapp, David Daquelente, Danielle Lombardo, and Jeannie Roos (Charisse Nixon) - $901
"CASS: Creating a Safe Social Climate in Our Schools - Thomas Jefferson Middle School and Benjamin Franklin School, Valparaiso, IN"
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Sarah Lawson, Melissa Donnelly, Joanna Obert, and Jessica Sevinsky (Charisse Nixon) - $832
"An Evaluation of CASS at Southwestern Middle School, Jamestown, NY and Solon Middle School, Solon, OH"
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Ann Murosky (Charisse Nixon) - $700
"An Evaluation of CASS at Selinsgrove Area Middle School, Selinsgrove, PA"
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Joanna Obert and Mary Flowers (Dawn Blasko) - $700
"The Relationship Between Psychological Distance from Home and First Year College Student Adjustment"
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Brian J. Pratt, Eldridge J. McNair, and Lindsey M. Giuliana (Victoria Kazmerski) - $600
"Relational Aggression and Adjustment in College Students"
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Marvin A. Sanderson and Jason J. Wheeler (Victoria Kazmerski) - $700 "The Effect of Aggressive Rap Music on Compassion"
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Kristen Shaffer (Dawn Blasko and Victoria Kazmerski) - $700
"Do Individual Differences in Relational Aggression Influence Brain Activity for Sarcastic Language?"
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Jennifer Stanford and Kelly Miller (Charisse Nixon) - $700
"An Evaluation of CASS at Saint Mary's Episcopal Day School, Tampa, FL"
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Kathryn Weinschenker and Brittany Yost (Charisse Nixon) - $700
"An Introduction of the CASS Program at Tampa Preparatory School, Tampa FL"
SCHOOL OF SCIENCE
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Sheldon T. Bailey (Bruce Wittmershaus) - $700
"Photodegradation of Quantum Dots"
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Leann Bartomioli and Russell Neuner (Michael Campbell) - $1,362
"The Microarray Analysis of an Arabidopsis thaliana ndp Mutant"
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Lee Beers (Michael Campbell) - $698
"Analysis of RD22 in Dormant and Non-Dormant Potato Meristems"
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Anita L. Brock (James Warren Jr.) - $700
"A Functional Analysis of the Three Zebrafish Fragile X Related Genes"
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Jason Creps (James Warren Jr.) - $700
"Subcloning of 3 Zebrafish Fragile X Related Protein Genes into Bacterial Expression Vectors for Protein Purification"
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David Duberow (Thomas Spudich) - $700
"Trace Elemental Analysis of Snapping Turtles Collected from Erie County, Pennsylvania by Graphite Furnace Atomic Absorption Spectrophotometry"
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Christopher M. Kareis (Alan Jircitano) - $700
"Synthesis and Characterization of a Potential Magnetic Resonance Imaging Contrast Agent"
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Adam J. Lanier (Kevin Norton) - $660
"GIS Based Analysis of the Chautauqua Drumlin Field, Northwestern Pennsylvania, and Western New York"
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Jared McFarland, Stephanie Benson, and Todd Gregg (Lisa Mangel) - $2,100
"Avian Population/Habitat Assessment for Presque Isle State Park"
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Margaret L. Morrison (Mary Chisholm) - $700 "The Identification of Major Odorants in Honey Tangerine Oil Using Gas Chromatography- Olfactometry (GCO) and Gas Chromatography-Mass Spectrometry (GC-MS)"
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Emily Morse (Margaret Voss) - $699
"The Roles of Predation and Dominance Rank on Optimal Foraging Techniques in Wintering Black-Capped Chickadees"
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Thomas R. Moyer (David Hunnicutt and James Warren Jr.) - $700 "Motility as a Requirement for Pathogenesis of Flavobacterium johnsoniae"
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Robert J. Mycka (Alan Jircitano) - $700
"Synthesis of Potential Photochromic Pt(II) Complexes"
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Brett Myers (Paul Olson) - $700
"A Study of Combinatorial Game Theory"
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William T. Parker (Alan Jircitano) - $700
"A Novel Photochromic Pt(II) Compound Based on 2-Amino-4-Phenylbenzaldehyde"
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Timothy A. Perkins (Boon Wee Ong) - $686
"Number Theory in Cryptography and the Knapsack Problem"
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Jared E. Pierce (Pamela Silver) - $700
"An Evaluation of Odonata Assemblages in Mitigated and Natural Wetlands"
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Roy Schleicher (Jay Amicangelo) - $700
"The Characterization of Silicon Nitride Intermediates Using a Microwave Discharge Source and Matrix-Isolation Infrared Spectroscopy"
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Jolene Schuster (Martin Kociolek) - $700
"Development of a Novel Tandem Ring-Opening/Aldol Condensation of 2-Isoxazoles"
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Joshua A. Smith (David Hunnicutt) - $700
"Cloning and Sequencing of Disrupted Flavobacterium johnsoniae Motility Genes"
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Lee J. Steen (Boon Wee Ong) - $700
"Creating an Interactive Interface for Real Analysis"
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Nicholas G. Straub (Martin Kociolek) - $700
"The Investigation of Novel Ring-Opening Methods of 2-Isoxazoles"
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Kyle Szklenski (Blair Tuttle) - $700
"Analyzing the Route to Chaos Displayed in Non-Linear Systems"
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Erika E. Weissenfluh (David Hunnicutt) - $700
"The Construction of Flavobacterium johnsoniae Genomic DNA Libraries"
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Shun-Hsiang Yang (Michelle Previte) - $700
"The Topological Dimension of Limits of Graph Substitutions with More Than One Replacement Graph"
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Megan E. Zuschlag (Joseph Previte) - $700 "Optimizing the Use of Calculus Techniques to Predict Stock Market Fluctuations"