Senior Fellowship Program

Steve Humphries-Brooks
315-859-4280

Past Senior Fellows: 1996 - Present

2009-10

Gail M. Corneau
Seven-Membered and Sweet: Routes to Rational Antibiotic Design Using Unnatural Carbohydrates to Explore Antimicrobial Resistance in Staphylococcus Infections
Advisors: Nicole Snyder, Michael McCormick and  Ashleigh Smythe

Catherine Fiona Kirkpatrick
Gendering Empire: British Women, Indian Women, and Discourses of Race, Gender and Intimacy in Colonial India 1858-1947
Advisors: Chaise LaDousa and Lisa Trivedi

Autumn Rose Haroutunian
Psycho-Architecture: An Exploration of Phenomenology, Intention, and the Construction of Human Consciousness
Advisors: Marianne Janack and Steve Goldberg

2008-09

Leeann Brigham
Experimental Tests on Neurotransmitter Models of Schizophrenia
Advisors: Douglas Weldon (p); Jennifer Borton (c)

Matthew G. Crowson
Vascular Endothelial Growth Factor Augmentation by IRF2BP2 in Muscle Tissue Principal
Advisors: Herman Lehman (p); Sue Ann Miller, Alexandre Stewart (University of Ottawa Heart Institute) (c)

Nicole Dietsche
Midnight Circus: An Original Graphic Novel
Advisors: Tina Hall (p); Bruce Muirhead, Frank Sciacca, Richard Seager (c)

Kyla Gorman
Narrative Weaving: An Exploration of the Unique Aspects of Storytelling in Video Games
Advisors: Stuart Hirshfield, Doran Larson (p)

Christopher C. Sullivan
Culture and Cultivation: An Exploration of the Agrarian Philosophy and the Implications of an Agricultural Existence.
Advisors: Peter Cannavo (p); Wyatt Galusky(c)


2007-08

Amy M. Barrows

Electrochemical Control of Metalloproteins: Coupling Hydrogel Encapsulated Proteins to Electrodes
Advisors: Tim Elgren (p); Michael McCormick (c)


Rachel Marie Cannon

Neruoscience and Free Will
Advisors: Marianne Janack (p); John Vaughan (c)


Kristy Colombine

"I Feel Pretty, and Witty and Gay ": an Analysis on the Relationship between Gay and Lesbian Media Images and Legal Acceptance in the twentieth Century.
Advisors: Shoshana Keller (p); Martha Mockus (c)


Sarah Lieberman Cornblath

Comparing the Success of Non-Governmental organizations in Combating Social Issues in Paraguay and Argentina
Advisors: Stephen Orvis (p); Yolanda Aguila (c)
 

Stephen Andrew Orlando

A Graphical Novel based on the Russian Folktale of Vasilisa the Beautiful
Advisors: Tina Hall (p); John Bartle (c)


Miranda Aycock Raimondi

The Art of Science: an Exploration of the Creative Principles that Unite Art and Science
Advisors: Ella Gant (p); Sam Pellman, Ann Silversmith (c)

2006-07


Emily Thereesa Starr

"Microbiotic Soil Crusts at the Rome Sand Plains, NY: Disturbance and Biodiversity in a Pine Barren Ecosystem"
Advisors: William Pfitsch, Biology (p); Michael McCormick, Biology (c)
 

2005-06


Alan Thomas Clark

"Being There: Realism, Presence, and Identification in Virtual Environments"
Advisors: John Adams (p); Bonnie Urciuoli (c)


Michael Eli Gruen

"Wireless Security in Resource Constrained Mobile Systems"
Advisors: Mark Baily (p); Robert Redfield (c)


Carlyn Anne Patterson

"Brain Circuitry for Detecting Rewards: Neural Activity in the Rat Caudate Nucleus and Superior Colliculus"
Advisors: Doug Weldon (p); Ian Rosenstein (c)


Amy Elizabeth Schloerb

"The Creation of an Actor Identity: Working at Acting"
Advisors: Jennifer Irons (p); Carole Bellini-Sharp (c)
 

2004-05

Thomas Joseph Acampora

"The Sex Fiend, the Oreintalist and the Homebody: Roger Casement, T.E. Lawrence and E.M. Forster.  Three Models of Male Homosexuals in the Early Twetieth-Century British Empire"
Advisors: Esther Kanipe (p); Gillian Gane (c)


Aletha Faye Asay

"Atomic bomb Literature in Japan: Narrative Response to Trauma"
Advisors: Melek Ortabasi (p); Kyoto Omori (c)


Elizabeth Anne Jones

"Doing God's Work: An Ethnography of Pro-Life Activism in an American Evangelical Community"
Advisors: Bonnie Urciuoli (p); Richard Werner (c)

Emily Peters Kerr

"Como de Eso: Agriculture and Food Security in the Dominican Republic"
Advisors: Carol Drogus (p); Alan Cafruny (p); Derek Jones (c); Henry Rutz (c)

Christopher George Takacs

"Coping in the Metropolis: The Architecture of Public Life in American Cities"
Advisors: Daniel Chambliss (p); A. Todd Franklin (c)

Jouis Joseph Vaickus

"Intermolecular Free Radical Addition Reactions of a-Nitro Esthers, Amides, and Ketones and b-Keto Esters: Explorations"
Advisors: Ian Rosenstein (p); Stephen Waratuke (c)

 

2003-04

Jessica A. Kent

"In Search of a Novel: or, Jessica Becomes a Writer"
Advisors: Doran Larson (p); Peter Rabinowitz (c)

 

Melissa K. Stoos

"The Actions of the Nitrosylated Octopamine Compound, 4'Hydroxycetophenone"
Advisors: Herman Lehman (p); Robin Kinnel (c)
 

2002-03

Jon Paul Bellona

"Monument of Sound: Creating a Vietnam War Memorial"
Advisors: Samuel Pellman, Music (p); Douglas Raybeck, Anthropology (c)


Samuel J. Klempner

"Investigation of the Morphogenesis of Ephemeral Aortic Arches in Chick Embryos with Special Attention to a Role for Apoptosis in Their Removal"
Advisors: Sue Ann Miller, Biology (p); David Gapp, Biology (c)
 

Shauna Sweet

"Power in the Margins: Investigating Contemporary Social Spaces"
Advisors: Daniel Chambliss, Sociology (p); Mitchell Stevens, Sociology (c); Richard Seager, Religion (c)  
 

2001-02

Leah Byrne

"An Investigation of the Effect of Nitration on the Invertebrate Neuromodulator Octopamine: The Biological Implications and Actions of Nitrooctopamine"
Advisors: Herman Lehman, Biology (p); Douglas Weldon, Psychology (c)
 

Maggie Hanson

"The Personality of Distance Runners: Performance, Injury, and Mental Health"
Advisors: Greg Pierce, Psychology (p); Daniel Chambliss, Sociology (c); Jennifer Borton, Psychology (c); Julie Dunsmore, Psychology (c)
 

Danielle Wittern

"Entre Lenguas: Reflections of an American Girl in Spain"
Advisors: Naomi Guttman, English (p); Jeremy Medina, Spanish (c)
 

2000-01

Lauren A. Ivison

"Am I My Mother's Daughter? Choices of Identity and Cultural Survival for Bolivian Indigenous Women"
Advisors: D. Chambliss, Sociology (p); S. Sanchez-Casal, Romance Languages (c)


Cynthia M. Fadem

"Chronology of the Landscape Evolution at Oneida Lake with an Investigation into Possible Human Occupation"
Advisors: E. Domack, Geology (p); G. T. Jones, Anthropology (c)
 

1999-2000

Scott Hiley

"Making Relics: Holy Objects, Human Agents, and the Sacralisation of the Material in High Medieval French Literature"
Advisors: R. Krueger, French (p); E. Wheatley, English (c)
 

Cemile Guldal

"Revealing the Unknown Function of Scm2, the Yeast Tryptophan Permease"
Advisors: J. Garrett, Biology (p); T. Elgren, Chemistry (c)
 

Laura Knapp

"Religion as an Outlet for Insecurity: An Approach from an Attachment Perspective"
Advisors: J. Borton, Psychology (p); J. Williams, Religion (c); J. McArn, Chaplain (c)
 

1998-99

Karlen Lee Chase

"Between Destinies: Exhuming Two Southern Women's Secrets, a Novel"
Advisors: Naomi Guttman, English (p); Doran Larson, English (c)
 

1997-98

Mary B. Dias

"Visual Navigation of a Mobile Robot"
Advisors: Stuart Hirshfield, Computer Science (p); Brian Collett, Physics (c)


Jonathan Goldstein

"Characterization of Compound U and the Catalase Chemistry Associated with the R2 Subunit of Ribonucleotide Reductase"
Advisors: Tim Elgren, Chemistry (p); Jinnie Garrett, Biology (c)


Kim-Ee Yeoh

"Computations of Galois Groups"
Advisors: Robert Redfield, Mathematics (p); Richard Decker, Computer Science (c)
 

1996-97

Marc Campbell

"The Conceptual Significance of a New Relationship Schema Activation Methodology"
Advisors: Gregory Pierce, Psychology (p); Penny Yee, Psychology (c)
 

Rebecca Pierce

"The Evangelical Poor in Bogota, Columbia"
Advisors: Dennis Gilbert, Sociology (p); Gwen Dordick, Sociology (c); Mitchell Stevens, Sociology (c)


Leandre Waldo

"A Reconsideration of the Battered Woman Syndrome: Sociological, Psychological, and Legal Implications"
Advisors: Margaret Gentry, Women's Studies (p); Carol Drogus, Government (c); Gwen Dordick, Sociology (c)