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Fall 2010
Grant Recipients - (M-S)
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Student Name
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Major(s) |
Faculty Mentor(s) |
Project Title |
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Chemistry |
Progress Towards the Total Synthesis of (-)-Stenine |
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Psychology & Social Behavior |
Moderate Alcohol Consumption and its Relationship to Cardiovascular Morbidity |
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Biological Sciences |
Analysis of Microbial Community and Methanogens in Deep Subsurface Environment usingTitanium Pyrosequencing |
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Psychology & Social Behavior/ Social Ecology |
The Experiences of Youths on Probation |
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Public Health Sciences |
Family-Based Intervention to Improve Overall Health of High Risk Latino Families for Type II Diabetes |
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Political Science/ International Studies |
Nicaragua's 2011 Presidential Election |
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Music/ Information and Computer Science minor |
Concretizing the Metaphor of Musical Gesture |
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Film & Media Studies |
Transactivist Performance |
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Art History |
Appropriation and Integration: British and Indian Painting and Photography during the 1857 Rebellion |
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Studio Art |
This Too Shall Pass/http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vMG-LWyNcAs |
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Public Health Sciences/ Medical Anthropology |
Dengue Infections in Los Angeles County from January 2007 through December 2010 |
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Chemistry |
Approach to the Total Synthesis of (-) Stenine |
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Sociology |
Comparative Study: On Organizational Culture and Leadership |
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History/ Anthropology |
Neo-Colonialism in Ghana: Worldstock’s Commodification of the Ashanti |
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Neurobiology |
Age Differences in the Effect of Nicotine on Alcohol Self-Administration |
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Biochemistry & Molecular Biology |
Structure-Function Relationship of Mycocerosic Acid Synthase in Mycobacterium tuberculosis |
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Sociology/ Cognitive Psychology |
Bringing the Men Back In: Do Men Overpursue Mathematics and Science Intensive Careers? |
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Biological Sciences |
Imaging Agents for Plaques and Tangles in Alzheimer’s Disease |
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Biological Sciences |
Professor
Bharath Chakravarthy |
Development of a Decision Instrument for Selective Chest Radiography in Blunt Trauma |
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Political Science/ Economics |
Latin American Immigrant Incorporation in Spain and the United States |
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European Studies |
A Cross-Cultural Comparison of Joint Book Reading in the First 18 Months |
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Biological Sciences |
CASI/CCABI |
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Sociology/ Chicano/Latino Studies |
Salvadoran Students: Obstacles Faced In The Pursuit of Higher Education |
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Psychology/ Sociology |
Hemispheric Lateralization: Vietnamese Lexical Tone Processing in Mandarin Chinese Speakers |
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Chemistry |
Molecular Dynamics Simulation of Water Uptake by 1-ethyl-3-methylimidazolium tetrafluoroborate Particles |
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Biomedical Engineering |
Production of Ultrafine grain Titanium for Biomedical Applications using ECAP |
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Business Economics |
Professor
Kristin A. Peterson |
Autism: The Obvious Truth |
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Business Economics |
Fluctuation in Public Transportation Ridership and its Impact on Emission Efficiency: A Case Study of OCTA Busses |
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Neurobiology |
The Role of Agrin/ Alpha 3 Na,K ATPase interaction in Learning and Memory |
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Pharmaceutical Science |
The Study of Resveratrol’s Metabolites and their Cytotoxic Effects on Melanoma |
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Psychology/ Sociology |
Development of the East Asian Relationship Norms Scale-Multidimensional |
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Biomedical Engineering |
Mechanical Changes in Bovine Tendon Following Electromechanical Reshaping |
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Chemistry |
Efficient Synthesis of Norfluorocurarine |
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Biological Sciences/ Psychology |
Role of External Lateral Parabrachial Nucleus in Processing Cardiac Sympathetic Afferent Reflexes |
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Biological Sciences/ Chemistry |
The Anti-Proliferative Effects and Underlying Mechanisms of a New Class of Selective COX-2 Inhibitors on Prostate Cancer Cells |
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Biological Sciences |
Diabetes Patients' Level of Adherence in Relations to Patient Doctor Language Concordance |
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Biological Sciences |
Regulation of Epithelial Cells function by Dendritic cells |
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Biological Sciences |
The Role of the Ventral Hippocampus in the Temporal Context of Episodic Memories |
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Public Health Policy/ Minors in: Political Science, Conflict Resolution and Educational Studies |
An Assessment of the Health Status and Literacy of Individuals At-Risk & Diagnosed with Respiratory and Related Cancers to Augment Personal Health Education, Quality of Life, and Public Health |
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Biological Sciences |
Effect of Absent Gclm and Nnt and its Interaction on Female Mouse Fertility |
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Biological Sciences |
The Level of Self-Compatibility after Self-fertilizations in Oxalis alpina |
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Public Health Sciences/ Public Health Policy |
In vivo Monitoring of VEGF-GFP Transgenic Mice Microvasculature Following Photothermal Injury to Blood Vessels |
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Comparative Literature |
Self-Interest vs. Communality |
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Criminology, Law & Society/ Social Ecology |
Law Enforcement’s Interaction with Homicide Cases: Factors Influencing Homicide Clearance Rates |
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Mechanical Engineering |
Plasma Pump |
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Public Health Sciences |
Neuronal Activation in Response to the Tobacco Smoke Constituents Nicotine and Norharmane |
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Psychology & Social Behavior |
Does Sibling Relationship Quality Influence the Acquisition of Theory of Mind in Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder? |
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Biomedical Engineering |
Determining the Force Gradient of the Mr. Twisty and its Influence on Capillary Formation |
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Political Science/ Criminology, Law and Society |
Theory of Moral Choice: Applied and Contrasted |
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Music Theatre |
The Actor's Experience: An Interview Project |
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Chemistry/ Biology |
Alternative Method of His-tagged Protein Purification using Peptide Imprinted Nanoparticles |
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Biological Sciences |
Exhaled Gases in Emergency Department Patients with Diabetes Mellitus |
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Biological Sciences |
PksA SAT |
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Biomedical Engineering/ Electrical Engineering |
Implementation and Evaluation of a Shortest Paths Approach to DT-MRI Fiber Tracking |
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Economics/ International Studies |
Nevada’s Unique Economic Experience: Resources, Legalized Gambling, and the Housing Market during the Great Depression |
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Biological Sciences |
Nrf1 Stability: Locating the Degron Responsible for Nrf1 Stability via Site Directed Mutagenesis |
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Psychology & Social Behavior |
Hardy Habits |
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Biological Sciences |
Norfallypride: Evaluation of a New and Novel Dopamine Receptor Imaging Agent |
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European Studies/ French; Minors: Political Science & Art History |
Narratives of the Vietnam War |
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Biological Sciences |
Determining the Ideal Lips through Manipulating Upper and Lower Lip Ratios |
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Developmental & Cell Biology |
A Qualitative Evaluation of the Long-term Effectiveness of the COPE Model of CUIDAR |
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Drama |
Shakespeare: Here and Now |
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History/ Chicano/Latino Studies |
“English for the Children”: Living Memories of Proposition 227 in California |
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Chicano/Latino Studies/ Sociology |
Latino Male Undergraduates Coping Strategies and Well-Being A Psychosociocultural Approach |
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Chicano/Latino Studies/ Sociology |
Single Mothers Influence on the Latino Male Undergraduate Academic Success and Life Experiences: A Psychosociocultural Analysis |
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Psychology & Social Behavior |
Physiological Aspects of Critical Thinking |
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History |
The Red Army and the Russian Civil War |
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Economics |
Business Formation During America’s Industrial Renaissance 1890-1940 |
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Earth & Environmental Science |
How Deep does the Flux of Particulate Organic Carbon Penetrate in the Ocean? |
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Psychology |
Perceived Control, Affective Reactivity, and Stress in Populations Living with Spinal Cord Injury |
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Psychology & Social Behavior |
Give A Little, Take A Little: Examining the Relationship Between Emotional Support and Affect Among People with Spinal Cord Injury |
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Physics |
Usage of Pyroelectric Crystals as a Novel Radiation Source in Medical Radiotherapy |
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Dance |
So You Think You Can Be an Artistic Director |
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Literary Journalism |
Role of Rhetoric Definitions and Ethos in Literary Journalism |
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Biological Sciences |
Determination of the Gene Sequence and Structure of Sensory Appendage Proteins (SAPs) in Anopheles Gambiae for the Purpose of Insecticide Engineering |
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Biomedical Engineering |
The Implementation of Threshold Laser Parameters to Further Characterize the DNA Damage Response of Mitotic Chromosomes |
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Mechanical Engineering/ Materials Science Engineering |
Production of Ultrafine grain Titanium for Biomedical Applications using ECAP |
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Biological Sciences |
Imaging of Auditory Pseudosensation in Rat Cortex: Cortical Response in the Absence of Expected Stimulus |
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Political Science |
Muslim Post Enlightenment Experience |
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Information & Computer Science |
Design and Optimization of Computational Analysis for Neuron Ensembles Associated with Episodic Memory |
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Computer Science |
Wordsleuth: Deducing Social Connotations from Syntactic Clues |
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English |
Out of the Ghetto |
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Biomedical Engineering: Premedicine |
Femtosecond and Pulsed Infrared Laser Ablation of Articular Cartilage: an Alternative to Microfracture Surgery |
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Biomedical Engineering |
Analysis of Angiogenesis and Cell-Cell Interactions through Micromechanical Substrates |
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Sociology |
Generational Gaps Between First and Second Generation Immigrants Regarding Religion |