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Fall 2008 Grant Recipients - (M-S)
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Student Name
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Major(s) |
Faculty Mentor(s) |
Project Title |
| Psychology |
Does Effector Selection Modulate the Stimulus-Response Uncertainty Effect? |
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| Unaffiliated/ Actual Major: Nursing Science, College of Health Sciences |
Myths of Coping with Grief: An Empirical Analysis of Nursing Texts |
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| Biological Sciences |
Effects of Age on the Human Meibomian Gland |
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| Political Science/ International Studies |
Constituent Representation within the Economic Bailout of 2008 in Relation to Congressional Voting and Re-election Rates |
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| Chemistry/ Mathematics |
Investigation of Stoichiometry of Ozonation of Fumaric and Maleic Acids in Water |
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| Criminology, Law & Society |
Civil Liberties v. National Security: Has 9/11 Changed Public Opinion Regarding Civil Liberties? |
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| Sociology/ Anthropology |
Exploring Structures, Techniques, and Faculty Experiences of Fundamental and Neighborhood Elementary Schools in Santa Ana |
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| Psychology |
Overregularization in Second Language Acquisition: A Study Comparing Children Learning Spanish and Children Learning English as a Second Language |
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| Economics/ Accounting Minor |
Criminal Delinquency and Its Long Term Affects on Wages |
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| Biological Sciences |
Regulation of EFEMP1 Promoter Activity in Glioma Cells |
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| Sociology |
The Transformation from Military to Civilian Life |
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| Psychology |
Social Support at Encoding and Retrieval and Its Influence on Children's Performance |
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| International Studies |
Focused Ethnographic Bibliography Pre-test Coding for the Standard Cross-Cultural Sample “Marriage Payments Project” |
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| Criminology, Law & Society |
Assessing Gang Unit Officer Disposition towards Gang Members while on Patrol |
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| Psychology |
Latino Male Coping Strategies in Higher Education: A Psychosociocultural Perspective |
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| Criminology, Law & Society |
The Effects of Civil Gang Injunctions on Physical and Social Disorder in Targeted Neighborhoods |
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| Political Science |
Professor Lina Kreidie |
The Change in Palestinian Identity After the First Intifada |
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| Art History/ European Studies (will declare) |
The Changing Reception of the Artist Gian Lorenzo Bernini: How the Discipline of Art History is (Re)Defined Through Textbooks and Exhibitions |
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| Psychology & Social Behavior |
Perceived Stress and Cognitive Functioning among Spousal Caregivers and Non-Caregivers |
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| Anthropology |
Investigating the Characteristics of Fan Fiction to Illuminate the Psychosocial Influence of Video Games |
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| Biological Sciences |
The Role of Serotenergic Projections from the NRP to rVLM in Modulating Electroacupuncture Related Inhibition on Cardiovascular Responses |
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| Biomedical Engineering/ Premedical |
Schwann Cell Integrin Expression Following Peripheral Nerve Injury |
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| English |
The Gentlemen of Jane Austen: A Progression in Time |
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| Chemical Engineering |
Post-adsorption Crystallization of Streptavidin at the Air-Water Interface |
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| Biological Sciences |
Cellular Localization of Hec1 Leucine Heptad Motif Mutants |
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| Chemistry/ Biology |
Scandium Triflate Catalyzed Acetylation of Sugars for the Better Elucidation of Molecular Structures through NMR Spectroscopy |
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| Biological Sciences |
Calcineurin and Ceramide: Opposing Forces in Nutrient Transporter Down-Regulation |
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| Chemistry |
Synthesis of Resveratrol Derivatives for Anticancer Studies |
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| Comparative Literature |
Honoré de Balzac’s "Le Colonel Chabert" and the Nature of Translation |
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| Biological Sciences |
Changes in Inflorescence Architecture after Two Generations of Selection for Sex Allocation in Schiedea Salicaria |
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| Earth & Environmental Sciences/ Biology |
Effects of Plant Species Diversity on Resource Heterogenity |
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| Chemistry |
Studying Multielectron Processes by Tantalum Complexes Containing Redox-Active Ligands |
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| Biological Sciences |
NITROXYL (HNO) adduct of Cytochrome P450 BM3 |
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| Biomedical Engineering |
Investigating the Effects of Massage Therapy on Cardiovascular and Autonomic Functions |
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| Sociology/ German |
Attitudes towards Gay Males and Lesbians by Freshmen on Campus |
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| Psychology |
Tonality Perception |
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| Psychology & Social Behavior |
Associations between Interparental Conflict and Adolescent Peer Relationships, and Adolescent Romantic Relationships |
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| Biological Sciences/ Business Economics |
Developing Protocols for 5′ Fluorescent Labeling of RNA |
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| Biological Sciences |
Melanin-Concentrating Hormone System: The Next Potential Drug Target to Stymie Epilepsy Development |
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| Chicano/Latino Studies/ Public Health Policy |
Social Determinants of Health: SES, Dietary Patterns, and Open Park Space in Santa Ana, California |
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| Biomedical Engineering |
Measuring Adhesion Forces Using Optical Tweezers |
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| Political Science |
We The People? |
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| Economics |
The Effect of Political Events on Banking During the Great Depression |
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| Chicano/Latino Studies/ Psychology |
Community Empowerment |
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| Biochemistry & Molecular Biology |
The Pursuit of a Heme-Bound Structure of a Mycobacterium Putative Hemophore |
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| Social Ecology |
An Analysis of Renewable Energy Policies in Rapidly Developing Countries: Comparing China and India |
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| Chemistry |
Hygroscopicity of Nanoparticles Containing Surfactants |
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| Chemistry/ Biological Sciences |
In Vitro Selection of Self-Cleaving Ribozymes in the Mouse Genome |
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| Political Science |
The Challenges of French Muslims' Integration |
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| Psychology |
The Intelligibility of Degraded Sentences |
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| Biological Sciences |
Nicotine Self-administration Combined with Norharmane, a Constituent of Tobacco Smoke, in Adolescent Male Rats |
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| Biological Sciences |
Assessment of Cryopreservation Methods for Long Term Storage of Human Nerve Cells |
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| Chemistry |
Palladium-Catalyzed Carboauration of Alkynes |
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| Physics/ Quantitative Economics |
Semiclassical Methods Applied to Quantum Mechanical Theory |
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| Women's Studies |
V-Day UCI 2009 |
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| Biological Sciences/ Minor in Psychology |
Psychological Stress in Birth Outcomes |
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| Anthropology |
Rock and Roll Masculinities: An Ethnographic Study of Performance, Gender, and Music |
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| Biological Sciences Biological Sciences |
Microbial Decomposers and Their Competitors |
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| Sociology/ Political Science Minor |
Labor Responses to the Origins of Capital Flight: 1950-1960 |
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| Criminology, Law & Society/ Political Science |
Race and the Juvenile Justice Process: Exploring the Overrepresentation of Latino Youth in California’s Juvenile Justice System |
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| Chicano/Latino Studies/ Cognitive Psychology |
Gangs and Youth Prevention Programs: Looking at the Lessons and Best Practices from Honduras |
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| Biological Sciences |
Drosophila, Virginity, and Lifespan |
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| Biomedical Engineering |
Improved Optical Coherence Tomography of Human Vocal Cords Through the Use of a Swept Source Data Collection System |
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| Materials Science Engineering/ Aerospace Engineering |
Electron Backscatter Diffraction Study of a Titanium Alloy |
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| European Studies/ French |
Pierre Corneille and a Nuanced Raison D’état |
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| English |
Inside Illusory Hollywood: Hyperreality in the Hollywood Novel |
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| Studio Art |
Remix: An Exploration of the Aesthetics of Advertising |
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| Anthropology/ International Studies |
Egyptian Christian Coptic Orthodoxy Within its Cultural and Historical Context and its Increasing Transnationalism |
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| International Studies/ Political Science |
China’s Growing Rural-Urban and Intra-Urban Income Disparity: Threat of Social Instability as a Result of the Widening Gap between the Rich and Poor |
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| Social Ecology |
“Building a Bridge” |
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| Psychology |
Hardiness and Death: The Relationship between Existential Courage and Existential Meaning |
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| Psychology |
Relationship between Hardiness, Narcissism, and Self-Esteem |
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| Criminology, Law & Society/ Sociology |
Native Americans' Experiences of Autonomy |
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| Aerospace Engineering |
Tagging Asteroids: In Search of Long-term Stable Orbits Around Asteroids |
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| Psychology & Social Behavior |
The Effects of High Rejection Sensitivity on the Cardiovascular System |
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| Sociology |
Asian Indian Immigrants and Drinking Behavior: The Effect of Acculturation and Religious Identity |
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| Biological Sciences/ Criminology: Law & Society |
Crystallography Studies of Mycobacterium Tuberculosis Protein, Rv0203 |
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| Physics/ Mathematics |
ATLAS Data Quality Monitoring Graphical User Interfaces |
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| Dance/ Dance Performance and Choreography |
Teaching of Choreography: An Intimate Account |
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| Sociology/ African American Studies (Minor) |
Levels of Identity and Connection to the African American Community among College-Aged Blacks |
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| Psychology & Social Behavior |
Memory for Emotion Moderated by Overt and Narrative Memory Rehearsal and Optimism and Neuroticism |
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| Chemistry |
Synthesis of Difluoroacetic acid and anhydride for Better Elucidation of Molecular Structure through NMR Spectroscopy |
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| Music/ Education minor |
Expanding the Boundaries and Connecting the Dots: An Endeavor to Create a Recording of Music Both Theoretically Contemporary and Culturally Relevant |
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| Sociology |
The Effects and Causes of Political Discussion |
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| Psychology |
Fitness and Physical Activity in Online Gaming |
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| Economics |
Liquidity Ratio Deterioration and Bank Failures during the Great Depression |
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| Biomedical Engineering |
Analyzing the Optimal Mechanics of Needle Insertion into Rabbit Auricular Cartilage |
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| Chemistry |
Photophysical and Electrochemical Characterization of [Ru(Bpy)2 L]2+ |
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| Psychology |
Phonological and Semantic Influences on Verbal Short Term Memory |