2008 Summer Research Participants

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Silin Li '11 with Professor Steve Orvis From McDonald's to Chinese Cultural Identity in a Globalization World	Madeline Caudle '10, Jacqueline Marra '10 and Savannah Knell '10 and Professor Jean Burr Preschool relationships and school readiness
Geoffrey Hicks '09 Reversing the Curse of Ham	Hai Lin '10 Researching Regression towards the Mean, Preferential Recruiting
Li Qiu '09 with Professor Ann Owen A Study of the Global Stock Markets Integration	J. Kevin O'Connor '09 with Professor Peter Cannavo Anacostia and the U-Street Corridor: Interactions between Class, Race, and Conceptions of Place in the Nation's Capitol
Michael Petrey '09 and Professor Karen Brewer Investigating Similarities Between Molecular Geometry and Steiner Trees	Ha Eun Samuel Cho '10 and Professor Camille Jones Viscosity and density for hydrate-forming solutions
Kelsey Rice '10 and Professor Shoshana Keller Misinterpreting the Middle East: Western Bias in Approaches in Middle Eastern History	Benjamin Van Arnam '09 and Professor Nicole Snyder Exploring the nature of ligand binding in the carbohydrate recognition domain of galectin-1
Kaitlin Britt '09 with Professor David Rivera Public Opinion and Democracy: A Comparative Study of Russia and China	Sven Oman '10 and Professors Nicole Snyder and David Gapp Determining the factors that contribute to red blood cell fragility in a diabetic mouse model
Joshua Hicks '09 and Professor Stephenson Humphries-Brooks Romans, Movies, and the Disappearance of the Bible	Stephen Rowe '09 and Professor Robert Martin Stephen Rowe '09 Studies Democracy and Justice in Nepal and India
Christopher Bouton '09 and Professor Carl Rubino Modern Classics: The Search of Classical Themes in Modern Media	Gregory Fullman '09 and Professor Natalia Connolly Designing a software package for spectral analysis of Type 1 a supernovae
Avery Rizio '09 and Professor Mark Oakes Directed forgetting or directed remembering? A comparison of remember, forget, and incidental learning instructions	Lisa Fontes '09, Heather Otis '10 and Professor Nathan Goodale Type variance and the Near Eastern pre-pottery Neolithic social landscape: implications of stone tool typologies and the transition to food production
Richard Munschauer '09 and Professor David Bailey Calciobetafite in a whole new world	Deborah Pless '09 and Professor Todd Franklin Neitzsche and the Dying-Reviving Cycle
James Greisler '10 and Professor Nicole Snyder New routes for the synthesis of septanose carbohydrates	Amy Rumack '09, Valerie Valant '10 and Professor Michael McCormick Diversity of microorganisms in Green Lakes, Fayetteville, NY
Trevor Pedrick '09 and Professor Tim Elgren Controlling electron transfer to encapsulated enzymes	Robin Joseph '09 and Professor Anne Lacsamana The Origins and Cultural Complexity of FGC
Gail Corneau '10, Lydia Rono '11 and Professor Nicole Snyder The synthesis of vancomycin derivative incorporating an unnatural carbohydrate at vancosamine position	Daniel Rudel '10 with Professor Dan Chambliss Theories for Community Integration: Refugees in Utica, N.Y.
Kaitlyn Bishara '09 and Professor Carl Rubino The Role of Classics in the Founding of America	Kristen Selden '09 and Professor David Gapp Comparisons of turtle gastrointestinal tract morphology using scanning electron microscopy
Jesse Stromwick '09 and Professor Alistair Campbell Extending snarpy to new robots	Zachary Cohen '09 and Professor Alan Cafruny American Attitudes Towards the European Union
Stephanie Anglin '10, Jessica Ruddiman '09 and Professor Jennifer Borton Suppressing thoughts about oneself and others	Cindy Zhu '11 with Professor Steve Wu The Impact of China's Housing Reform on Income Inequality
Gregory Huffaker '09 and Professor Sylvia deSwaan Utica and the Mohawk Valley: A History in Pictures	Amy Klockowski '09 and Professor Robin Kinnel Synthesis of Germacrene-D
Stephanie Wong '10 Working as HOPE VI Project Evaluation Assistant and Levitt Civic Engagement Fellow	Casey Green '09 and Professor Barbara Gold Republican Mothers: A Comparative Study
Thomas Morrell '10, George Shields and Thomas Castonguay A computational study of atmospheric water clusters and the development of a cloud formation model	Meaghan LaVangie '09 and Professor Shelley McConnell The Relationship Between Civil Society and Democracy
Wenxi Li '10 and Professor Douglas Ambrose African Americans Vote Democrat: Trend or Here to Stay?	Blake Hulnick '09 with Professor Frank Anechiarico Assessing Federal Election Administration at the State and Local Level

Kathryn Arpino '10 and Professor Karen Brewer
Synthesis and characterization of rare-earth nanoparticles

Alexa Ashworth '09 and Professor George Shields
Understanding formation of sulfuric acid Water Clusters using computational models

Deborah Barany '11 and Professor Jon Vaughan
Evaluation of computation models for the planning of everyday movements

Jane Barnes '09 and Professor Barbara Tewksbury
Mapping and causes of deformation bands in palagonites

William Bauder '10 and Professor Brian Collett
aCORN: A correlation in the neutron

Jillian Berkowitz '09 and Professor Michael McCormick
Explorations into the iron reduction mechanisms of various microorganisms and its potential environmental implications in addressing uranium contamination

Nicholas Berry '09 and Professor Herm Lehman
Determining the spacial, temporal, and expression profile of the gene TBhR

Sarah Bertino '09 and Professor Herm Lehman
The role of tyramine beta-hydroxylase related protein (tbhr) in Apis mellifera

Andrew Beyler '10 and Professor Brian Collett
Correcting aCORN's uniform magnetic field

Andrew Branting '11 and Professor Tim Elgren
An exploration of the power of enzymes

Matthew Breen '11 and Professor Karen Brewer
Rare earth complexes incorporated into silica sol gel glass

Linnaea Chapman '10 and Professors Ernest Williams and Bill Pfitsch
Lupine and butterflies at the Rome Sand Plains

Suzannah Chatlos '10 and Professor Mark Oakes
The effects of automatic associations influence on behavior, physiology, and cognitive information systems

Fallon Chipidza '10 and Professor Camille Jones
Chemical analysis between host and guest molecules in the semiclathrate compound

Sam Colalillo '10 and Professor Tara McKee
The impact of ADHD symptomatology in college students

Bryden Considine '08 and Professor Michael McCormick
Abiotic and biotic uranium reduction kinetics

Brendan Conway '09 and Professor Tina Hall
Why We Need Supermen: The Purpose of Superheroes in Society

Jeffrey Corbett '09 and Professor Wei-Jen Chang
GenetictTransfer between the macro and micro ciliate nucleuses

William Cowles '09 with Professor Kevin Grant
Gandhi's Political Community in South Africa

Sarah Cryer '10 and Professor Camille Jones
Stability research on semiclathrates: developing fuel cells for our tomorrow

Alex de Moor '10 and Professor Eugene Domack
Accumulation rate of glacial marine sediments

Ann Dickson '09 and Professor Jon Vaughan
Modeling complex reaching movements

Emma Domby '11 and Professor David Gapp
Internal relief of turtle and frog gastrointestinal tract using scanning electron microscopy (SEM)

Sam Dudley '09 with Professor Lisa Trivedi
In the Name of Our Fathers: The Historical Conditions and Lived Experience of Partition in South Asia

Will Eagan '11 and Professor Natalia Connolly
Cosmology: dark energy and supernovae (Type Ia)

Matthew Eichenfeld '09 and Professor Stuart Hirshfield
Web service discovery in cross-domain environments

Kelly Fitzsimmons '10 and Professors Ernest Williams and Bill Pfitsch
Lupine and butterfly biology in the Rome Sand Plains

Mason Fried '10 and Professor Eugene Domack
Antarctic glacial marine sediments ice shelf history

Linhong Fu '09 and Professor Jay Williams
Reassessment of the Church of the East in Southeastern China

Megan Fung '10 and Professor Eugene Domack
Sedimentary environmental studies of Oneida Lake

Cristina Garafola '11 and Professor Hong Gang Jin
The Effects of Input Flood and Corrective Feedback on Learning Chinese as a Foreign Language

Cameron Gaylord '09 with Professor Ted Lehmann
U.S. Foreign Policy and Oil: America, Democracy and the Global Oil Competition

Joseph Ginther '10 and Professor Jon Vaughan
Evaluation of the coordination of every day movement using computational models

Katie Giuliano '10 and Professor Eugene Domack
Sedimentology and environmental geology of Oneida Lake

Madeleine Gunter '11 and Professor Todd Rayne
Determining the influence of surface water on Clinton municipal wells

Graham Hone '10 and Professor Ian Rosenstein
The application of ring openings

Rachel Horowitz '09 and Professor Nathan Goodale
Type variance and the Near Eastern pre-pottery Neolithic social landscape: implications of stone tool typologies and the transition to food production

Kristina Hubley '10 and Professor Doug Weldon
Midbrain neuronal responses during reward retrieval in rats

Juan Hurtado '11 and Professor Ann Silversmith
Spectroscopy of rare earth based sol-gel glasses

Cassidy Jay '11 and Professor Todd Rayne
Determining the influence of surface water on Clinton municipal wells

Ryan Jorrey '10 and Professor Eugene Domack
Sedimentary environmental studies of Oneida Lake

Jennifer Karl '09 with Professor Lisa Trivedi
The Health of Women Textile Workers in Lancashire and Lowell

Kevin Kerr '10 and Professor Todd Franklin
Two Types of Freedom: Emancipation in the Writings of Leo Tolstoy and Freidrich Neitzsche

Peter Kosgei '10 and Professor Karen Brewer
Co-doped silica glasses containing the rare earth Ions

Caroline Krumholz '10 and Professors Ernest Williams and Bill Pfitsch
Effects of fire disturbance on lupine and Frosted Elfin communities in the Rome Sand Plains

Kathy Lee '11 and Professor Ian Rosenstein
The synthesis of selenide precursors to study the kinetics of cyclopropylcarbonyl radical ring openings

Chris Lorenc '10 and Tim Elgren
Characterization of encapsulated enzymes

Tongxin Lu '11 and Professor Wei-Jen Chang
Copy number puzzle in ciliates

Tawanda Mashavave '10 and Professor Mark Bailey
Securing vulnerable software using software dynamic translation

Divij Mathew '09 and Professor Camille Jones
Formation of sII clathrate hydrates: modeling the results from high pressure synthesis and neutron diffraction studies

Romina Memoli '09 and Professor Carole Bellini-Sharp
Finding a Political Voice: El Teatro Campesino

Andrew B. Miller '10 with Professor Chris Georges
Agent Based Modeling of Firm Dynamics and Labor Turnover

Timothy Minella '09 and Natalia Connolly
Developing new computational tools for identifying Type Ia supernovae

Shyama Nair '10 and Professor Tim Elgren
Probing the activity of encapsulated enzymes in aprotic solvents

Thomas Nevers '10 and Professor Camille Jones
Analysis and synthesis of novel new sH clathrate hydrates, particularly cyclic ethers such as tetrahydropyran derivatives

Thao Nguyen Thi Nguyen '08 and Professor Silversmith
Aluminium as co-dopant in Rare-Earth doped sol-gel silicate glasses

Victoria Nygren '11 and Professor Mark Oakes
The exploration of relational aggression in high school students

Andrew Portuguese '11 and Professor Natalia Connolly
Quantifying the differences between astronomical objects

Lu Qi '11 with Professor Julio Videras
Lunar New Year of 2008 Encounters Big Snowstorm: How the Natural Disaster Reveals China's Migration and Economic Structure Issues

Eileen Rivera '10 and Professor Masaaki Kamiya
Slight of Tongue: Code Switching Phenomenon

Kimberly Roe '08 and Professor Gene Domack
Stable isotopic analysis of sub-ice shelf sediments

Ramunas Rosgys '09 and Professor Erol Balkan
Privatization in Lithuania

James Russell '09 and Professor Tim Elgren
Novel materials for bio-remediation of halogenated hydrocarbons

Benjamin Saccomano '09 and Professors Camille Jones and Ian Rosenstein
Synthesis of selectively proteated propylene oxides

Anthony Sali '10 and Professor Tara McKee
The impact of ADHD symptomatology in college students

Gregory Schwedock '10 and Professor Seth Major
Self-organized criticality in toy dynamics in 2+1D quantum gravity

Razeena Shrestha '09 with Professor Stephen Ellingson
Social Entrepreneurship: How It Has Transformed Sustainable Community Development in Nepal

Gillian Smith '09 and Professor Ann Silversmith
The effect of rare earth ion doping on the fluoresence of sol-gel glass

Glenn Smith '10 and Professor Brian Collett
aCORN

Jessica Smith '09 and Professor Brian Collett
Measuring the polarization of helium 3 using electron spin resonance

Valerie Valant '10 and Professor Michael McCormick
A study of microorganisms within Green Lake, in Fayetteville, NY

Lauren Vilardo '11 and Professor Seth Major
Modeling of dynamics in 2 + 1 D quantum gravity

Elena Wood '10 and Professor George Shields
Understanding the formation of sulfuric acid water clusters through high level computational models

Kendra Wulczyn '10 and Professor Doug Weldon
Neurobiological basis of the "frustration response" in rats

Ke Xu '11 and Professor Camille Jones
Synthesis of clathrate hydrates and semiclathrates for neutron scattering studies

Xiaolu Xu '10 with Professor Peter Cannavo
The Challenge of Architectural Preservation in Booming Shanghai