2004 Undergraduate Student Summer Research Fellowships
Each grant listed includes student
researcher(s) with respective cooperating faculty member(s) in
parenthesis.
SAM AND IRENE BLACK SCHOOL OF BUSINESS
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Peter Binotto (James Kurre) - $1,200
"Is Erie County Incubating Enough New Businesses"
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*Michael Hammill (James Kurre) - $1,200
"Is It Worse to be Poor in a Big City? Spatial Cost of Living Differences and Their Effect on Poverty Thresholds"
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Kenneth Schwab (Barry Weller) - $1,200
"Seasonal Adjustment of Erie County Employment Data"
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Ross Zambanini (James Kurre) - $1,200
"Erie Bankruptcy Pattern Compared to the Nation"
SCHOOL OF ENGINEERING AND ENGINEERING TECHNOLOGY
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Arizona Alburg (Thomas Briselden) - $1,190
"Material Optimization Using a Homogeneous Mixture of Silicon, Silicon Carbide, and Phenolic Resin"
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Andrew Deter (Oladipo Onipede and James Sonnenmeier ) - $1,200 "Aerodynamic Performance of SMA Twisted Airfoil Sections"
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Jared Heigel (John Roth) - $1,200
"Analysis of Electrically Aided Machining Processes"
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Kristopher Parrish (Thomas Briselden) - $1,200
"Formation of SpyroCor Inserts without Using a Mold"
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Joseph Piazza (John Roth) - $1,200
"Analysis of Cryogenic Treatment of Carbide Inserts with Respect to Material Properties"
SCHOOL OF HUMANITIES AND SOCIAL SCIENCES
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Jacqueline Cavicchio (Sean Dougherty and George Looney) - $1,161
"Children's Literature Co-Authored by Toni Morrison"
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John Crane, Eric Johnson, and Holly Blasko-Drabik (Dawn Blasko and Victoria Kazmerski) - $3,600
"Examining High and Low Working Memory: An ERP Study of Spatial and Verbal Working Memory"
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Kristin Dressner, Allison Dzuricky, and Mathew Peters (Leigh-Ann Bedal) - $3,600
"The Petra Garden and Pool-Complex Excavation (Jordan)"
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Erin Ferguson and Jessica Knapp (Dawn Blasko and Karolina Niedobecka) - $2,400
"An Evaluation of the Math Options Program"
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Rebecca Gordon (Dawn Blasko) - $1,200
"The Effects of Working Memory Capacity on Change Detection"
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Lisa Jacobs (Victoria Kazmerski) - $1,200
"Context Dependent Memory: Memory for Advertisements"
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Nicole Kramer (Dean Baldwin) - $1,200
"London: Hero or Anti-Hero in Victorian and Romantic Literature"
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Lorie Lannen (Dean Baldwin) - $1,200
"Investigating the Controversy in the US and the UK Surrounding the Author J. K. Rowling and Her Harry Potter Series of Books"
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Seraina Naef (Charisse Nixon) - $1,200
"Protective Factors for Adolescent Bullying: Extracurricular Activities and Normative Beliefs"
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Denise Nowacinski (Charisse Nixon) - $1,200
"Protective Factors for Adolescent Bullying: Extracurricular Activities and Normative Beliefs"
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Dotty Shaffer and Chrissy Anderson (Dawn Blasko and Victoria Kazmerski) - $2,400
"Utilizing ERP to Analyze Directionality and Similarity in Metaphor Comprehension"
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Jon Stafford and Michael Pontzer (Victoria Kazmerski) - $2,100
"Authority Influence on False Recall"
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Carolyn Tellers (George Looney) - $1,200
"In Search of King Arthur"
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Joshua Wilczynski (John Gamble) - $1,200
"Comprehensive Statistical Database of Multilateral Treaties"
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Kyle Woodside (Rod Troester and Cathy Mester) - $850
"A Critical Examination of Existing Research in Theories of Communication and Civility"
SCHOOL OF SCIENCE
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Sheldon Bailey (Bruce Wittmershaus) - $1,200
"Thin-Film, Multiple-Dye Luminescent Solar Concentrators Based on Lumogen Red"
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Lee Beers (Michael Campbell) - $1,200
"In-Situ Hybridization and Real-Time Quantitative PCR Analysis of RD22"
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**Stephanie Benson and Jared McFarland (Lisa Mangel) - $6,227
"Avian Population/Habitat Assessment for Presque Isle State Park"
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Charlotte Boni (Michael Campbell) - $1,200
"Microarray Analysis of Dormancy in Potato Meristems"
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Jessica Collier (Jay Amicangelo) - $1,200
"The Characterization of Silicon Nitride Intermediates Using a Microwave Discharge Source and Matrix Isolation Infrared Spectroscopy"
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Jason Creps (James Warren Jr.) - $1,200
"Subcloning of 3 Zebrafish Fragile X Related Protein Genes into Bacterial Expression Vectors for Protein Purification"
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Dominick D'Aurora (Darren Williams) - $1,200
"Porting the SWIFT Subroutine Package from FORTRAN 77 to C and Animating Orbits Using IDL"
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Erik Gilford (Jeanette Schnars) - $1,200
"The Effects of PCB on the Respiration of the Hatchlings during the Frenzy Period"
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John Lapek Jr. (James Warren Jr.) - $1,200
"Sequencing of Folate Metabolism Genes in Zebrafish (Danio rerio)"
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Timothy Lyon (Pamela Silver and Anthony Foyle) - $884
"Chironomid Response to Sediment in Presque Isle Bay as an Assessment of Bay Health"
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Elizabeth Marton (Martin Kociolek) - $1,200
"Synthesis and Ring Opening of 3-Alkoxy and 3-Amino-2-Isoxazoles"
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Sam Marvit (Margaret Voss) - $1,200
"The Effect of Urban Noise on Breeding Behavior and Reproductive Successes in Songbirds"
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Floyd Mattie (Michael Campbell) - $1,200
"Analysis of Microsatellite Diversity of Ambystoma maculatum using Fluorescent Microsatellite Tagging"
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Lee Mitchell (Meng Su) - $1,200
"Optimization of the R-Tree Data Structures' Splitting Algorithm"
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Emily Morse (Margaret Voss) - $1,200
"The Roles of Rank, State, and Seasonal Considerations on Caching Behavior in Black-Capped Chickadees"
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Stacy Mosier (James Warren Jr.) - $1,200
"Sequencing and Characterization of Zebrafish (Danio rerio) Folate Metabolism Gene Implicated in Neural Tube Defects"
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Thomas Moyer (David Hunnicutt and James Warren Jr.) - $1,200
"The Importance of Gliding Motility for Flavobacterium johnsoniae Pathogenesis in Zebrafish"
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Ryan Odell (Darren Williams) - $1,200
"Consequences of Interplanetary Collisions between Terrestrial Planets and Jovian Satellite Systems"
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Katie Ortmann (Thomas Spudich) - $1,200
"Multielemental Analysis of Snapping Turtles Collected from Erie County, Pennsylvania by Cold Vapor Atomic Absorption Spectrophotometry and Hydride Generation Atomic Absorption Spectroscopy"
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Melissa Peters (Margaret Voss) - $1,200
"The Impact of Noise Disturbance on Reproductive Fitness in Black-Capped Chickadees"
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Thaddeus Ruefthaler (Meng Su) - $1,150
"Examining the M-Tree Data Structure and Modifying for Efficiency"
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Jessica Sarver (Thomas Spudich) - $1,200
"Multielemental Analysis of Snapping Turtles Collected from Erie County, Pennsylvania by Hydride Generation and Cold Vapor Atomic Absorption Spectrophotometry"
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Nancy Saxton (Jay Amicangelo) - $1,200
"The Characterization of Titanium Nitride Intermediates Using a Microwave Discharge Source and Matrix-Isolation Infrared Sprectroscopy"
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Nancy Saxton (Thomas Spudich and Jay Amicangelo) - $1,200
"Kinetic Study of Photochromic Pt(II) Compounds of o-Aminobenzaldehyde Derivatives"
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Daniel Scannell (Blair Tuttle) - $1,197
"Educational Chaos Theory Java Applet"
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Dennis Scheuer (Paul Barney) - $1,200
"Development of the Herbarium of the Arboretum at Penn State Behrend"
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Daniel Slomski (G. William Baxter III) - $1,200
"Mathematical Determination of Ant Search Dynamics"
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Kayla Smith (Jeanette Schnars) - $1,200
"Relationship between Cheyldra serpentina serpentina and Species of Hirudinea"
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Nicholas Straub (Martin Kociolek) - $1,200
"The Investigation of Novel Ring-Opening Methods of 3-Bromo-2-Isoxazoles with Samarium (II) Iodide"
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Kyle Szklenski (Blair Tuttle) - $1,200
"Analyzing the Route to Chaos Displayed in Non-Linear Systems"
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Amanda Wolbert (Mary Chisholm) - $1,200
"The Identification of Major Odorants in Murcott (Honey) Tangerine Juice Using Gas Chromatography-Olfactometry (GC-O) and Gas Chromatography-Mass Spectrometry (GC-MS)"
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Kala Wolfe (Margaret Voss) - $1,200
"The Effect of Localized Environmental Warming on Breeding Tree Swallows at Long Point Bird Observatory"
*Graduate student
**Special project