2005 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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Robert Lantzy (James Kurre) - $1,100
"The Large and Small of the Erie Economy: Are Small Firms the Real Locomotive Driving the Erie Economy?"
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Jason Pflueger (James Kurre) - $1,100
"How Much Income Inequality is There in the Erie Area and Why Does It Exist?"
SCHOOL OF ENGINEERING AND ENGINEERING TECHNOLOGY
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Jon Boysel (John Roth) - $1,100
"Analysis of Electrical Aided Bending Processes"
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Lisa Buziewicz (Oladipo Onipede) - $1,100
"Modeling and Analysis of Electrostatically Driven Combdrive Actuators"
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Mark Cipriani (Oladipo Onipede) - $1,100
"Design and Testing of SMA Embedded Composite Wings"
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William Cutter (Ronald Krahe) - $1,100
"Dynamic Motion and Position Game Sensor"
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Dennis Darak (Ronald Krahe and Shouling He) - $1,100
"Inverted Pendulum Using Fuzzy Logic"
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Amanda Evans (John Roth) - $1,100
"Extending the Tool Life of Solid Tungsten Carbide Endmills using Cryogenic Treatment"
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Jon Glendinning and Sean Salem (David Loker and Ronald Krahe) - $2,200
"Real-time Characteristics of 'PC in the Loop' Control"
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Ryan McCarthy (Thomas Briselden) - $1,100
"Characterization of Siliconized Silicon Carbide"
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Krista Mikula (John Roth) - $1,100
"Effects of DC Current on the Mechanical Properties of Various Metals"
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Terence Musho (William Lasher) - $1,100
"Comparison of Fluent and ANSYS/CFX Software for Spinnaker Simulation"
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Adam Neff (John Roth) - $1,100
"Extending the Life of Solid Tungsten Carbide Tooling using Cryogenics"
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Timothy Perkins (John Roth) - $1,100
"Study of Applied Current to Machining Processes"
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Zachary Sadowski (John Roth) - $1,100
"Life Expectancy of Tungsten Carbide Tooling by Means of Cryogenic Treatment"
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Shawn Stahlman (James Sonnenmeier) - $1,100
"Calculation of the Aerodynamic Performance of Twisted Wings - Part II"
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Nate Steele, Jason Donnell, Andy King, Francis Kargbo, D. Isaac Aunkst, and Michael Lukehart (Ronald Krahe) - $6,600
"Remote Distributed Matchbox® Race Monitoring and Scoring System"
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Ryan Walker (Chris Coulston) - $1,060
"Design and Fabrication of a Multimodal Sound System"
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Dustin Yautz (Yi Wu) - $1,100
"GUI for a Human Circulatory Model and Improvement for Heart Simulation Function"
SCHOOL OF ENGINEERING AND ENGINEERING TECHNOLOGY AND SCHOOL OF HUMANITIES AND SOCIAL SCIENCES
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Holly Blasko Drabik, Steven Brown, Chris Camilleri, Stuart Daman, Patrick Harris, Jonathan Hika, Nechal Kachalia, Gary Krugger, Ivan Lopez, Kristin Macha, Chris Marisic, and Michael Vogt (Dawn Blasko, Kathy Holliday-Darr, Derek Mace, Jennifer Trich Kremer, and Ronald Krahe) - $12,400
"Interdisciplinary Project to Develop Activities to Enhance Spatial Visualization"
SCHOOL OF HUMANITIES AND SOCIAL SCIENCES
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John Crane and Eileen Haase (Victoria Kazmerski) - $2,200
"Science Activity Learning and Spatial Abilities in Fourth Graders"
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Jenna Dominick (Cathy Mester and Rod Troester) - $1,100
"Analysis of Conflict and Conflict Management in Adolescents"
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Sandra Grgic (Victoria Kazmerski and Dawn Blasko) - $1,100
"Read my Lips or Read my Face: ERP Evidence of an Emotional and Phonetic McGurk Effect"
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Erik Regis (Michael Christofferson) - $1,100
"Intensive French Language Study and Research on Nineteenth-Century French Socialism and the Problem of Universal Suffrage"
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Joshua Wilczynski, Chris Strayer, Rob Lantzy, and Leslie Sargent (John Gamble) - $3,400
"Comprehensive Database of Multilateral Treaties (CSDMT)"
SCHOOL OF HUMANITIES AND SOCIAL SCIENCES AND SCHOOL OF SCIENCE
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Carly Kosinski, Stuart Daman, Teri Ritenour, Holly Greiner, Alla Sokolyuk, Crystal Willis, and Amy Rogan (Dawn Blasko, Antonella Cupillari, and Jonathan Hall) - $7,100
"Civic and Community Engagement: Math Options in the Schools"
SCHOOL OF SCIENCE
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Harry Balwick Jr. (Margaret Voss) - $1,100
"Can Nest Construction and Incubation Feeding Alter the Behavior of Female Songbirds during Incubation"
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Leann Bartomioli, Andrew Collins-Hed, Jennifer Nimako, and Adam Rhodes (Yi-Hong Wang and Michael Campbell) - $4,400
"Amino Acid Profiling of Tomato Plants Generated by Activation Tagging and Insertional Mutagenesis"
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Jason Campbell (Lola Deets) - $1,100
"Accessing Native Plants of Pennsylvania by Ecoregions through Web-based and CD-ROM Tools"
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Christen Case and Sarah Pattison (Lisa Mangel) - $2,200
"Avian Population/Habitat Assessment for the Lake Pleasant Wetlands"
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Christopher Dine (Jay Amicangelo) - $1,100
"The Characterization of Silicon Nitride Intermediates Using a Microwave Discharge Source and Matrix-Isolation Infrared Spectroscopy"
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Dave Gilson (Blair Tuttle) - $1,100
"Amorphous Silicon Models Using Monte-Carlo Simulations"
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Lawrence Glick (Paul Olson and Joseph Previte) - $1,100
"Conway's Game of Life and Surreal Numbers"
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Rory Hanczar (Eric Obert and Pamela Silver) - $1,100
"Determining the Home Range of Fundulus diaphanus and its Possible Use as a Bioindicator for Contamination Hotspots in Presque Isle Bay"
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Sara Hester (Margaret Voss) - $1,100
"Effects of Temperature on Clutch Size in House Wrens"
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Meredith Hyldhal (Darren Williams) - $1,100
"Frequency of Giant Impacts on Extrasolar Earth-Like Planets"
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Sam Marvit (Margaret Voss) - $1,100
"Extra-Pair Paternity in Black-Capped Chickadees (Poecile atricapillus) as a Function of Noise Disturbance"
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Joshua Meyer (Michael Campbell) - $1,100
"Creation of an NDP1 Antisense Mutant in A. Thaliana"
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Ryan Odell (Darren Williams) - $1,100
"Consequences of Interplanetary Collisions between Terrestrial Planets and Jovian Satellite Systems"
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Stacey Olechowicz (James Warren Jr.) - $1,100
"Expression Analysis of Three Fragile X-Related Gene Homologs in Zebrafish"
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Rachel O'Patchen (Lisa Mangel) - $1,100
"Restoration and Analysis of Aves, Mammals, and Reptiles"
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Nicholas Ross (Blair Tuttle) - $1,100
"Computing through the Ages: Hands-on Curriculum Development"
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Jason Shaffer (Martin Kociolek) - $1,100
"Development of New Ring Opening/Cyclocondensation Reactions of 3-Bromoisoxazoles"
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Jennifer Sidun (Jennifer Holt) - $1,100
"Spectroscopic Investigations of Novel Host-Guest Materials Using Merocyanine Dyes in Cyclodextrin Cavities"
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Christopher Suprock (Lawrence Downey) - $1,100
"Image Compression Using Quadrant Decomposition with Variance Procedure"
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Kyle Szklenski (Paul Olson) - $1,100
"Chess and Combinatorial Game Theory"
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Peter P. Tagala (James Warren Jr.) - $1,100
"Sequence Determination and mRNA In Situ Hybridization Analysis of the Glycine Cleavage System for Genes in Zebrafish (Danio rerio)"
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Justin Walker (G. William Baxter) - $1,100
"Mathematical Determination of the Effect of Surface Texture on Ant Search Dynamics"