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Fall 2011
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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Chicano/Latino Studies |
The Cholo Stories: Latinos Choosing Streets Over Classrooms |
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History/ International Studies |
Safavids contributions to Modern Iranian State |
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History/ International Studies |
Identifying influences of the Usuli-Akhbari Schism in Shi’a Islam on 19th and 20th Century Events in Iran |
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Chemistry |
Progress Towards the Total Synthesis of (–)-Stenine |
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Pharmaceutical Science |
Examining Translation Initiation Function in Ribozymes |
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Anthropology/ Public Health Policy |
Women and "PMS": Clinical, Pharmaceutical, and Social Influences |
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Chicano/Latino Studies |
"Migrant Farmworkers: The Conceptualization of Daily Stressors and its Influence on Anxiety and Depression |
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Dance-Choreography |
A Viewing Station |
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Sociology |
Global Inequality and Ties to the World Polity By INGO Sector |
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Mathematics/ Philosophy |
The Epistemic and Methodological roles of Visualization in Mathematics |
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Biological Sciences |
Modulation of Cardiopulmonary Depressor Reflex in Nucleus Ambiguus by Electroacupuncture: Role of Opioid Neural Pathways |
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Biomedical Engineering |
The Effects of Hypoxia-Conditioned Tumor Cultures on 3D Capillary Formation |
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Psychology & Social Behavior |
Recantations Across Abuse Types |
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Biochemistry & Molecular Biology |
Structure-Function Relationship of Mycocerosic Acid Synthase in Mycobacterium tuberculosis |
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Biomedical Engineering |
Microplatforms for Malaria Diagnosis |
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Biological Sciences |
HDV-like Ribozyme Self-Cleavage Enhancement in the Presence of a Metabolite |
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Biomedical Engineering: Premedicine |
Donor Variability of Endothelial Progenitor Cells in Prevascularized Fibrin Tissue |
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English |
Playing For Immunity: Survivor’s Role as an Emergent Genre in the Humanities |
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Mechanical Engineering |
Quantifying Dental Pulpal Vitality with Laser Speckle Imaging |
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Sociology |
Cultural Production and Urban Renewal in Echo Park. |
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Social Ecology |
Simpatía and Stress: Do Cultural Ideals Shape Stress Experience? |
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Psychology & Social Behavior |
Stress Reactivity and Depression in Early Pregnancy |
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Political Science/ Comperative Literature |
Effect of Hudood (Hadd) Laws upon the Legislative branch of the state (Pakistan vs. Indonesia) |
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Criminology, Law & Society |
Question Asking Behavior Among Parents With Children With Autism Spectrum Disorder and Typically Developing Children |
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Biological Sciences |
Is There a Correlation Between Parental Anxiety and the Behavior towards and Use of Pain Medication in Pediatric Cancer Patients |
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Criminology, Law & Society/ Minor - Educational Studies |
Assessment of Structured (Facilitated) vs. Unstructured (Unfacilitated) Study Groups and Their Effect on Student Learning in C7 - Introduction to Criminology, Law and Society: a Course Offered at UCI |
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Quantitative Economics |
The Role of the United States Government in Monitoring Economic Reform and Protecting Consumers |
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Public Health Policy/ minor in cognitive sciences |
Analysis of Mitochondrial Dysfunctions in Autism Spectrum Disorder Using Induced Pluripotent Stem Cells |
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Neurobiology |
The Role of Agrin/alpha3 Na+, K+ ATPase Interaction in Regulating Postsynaptic Ion Homeostasis |
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Business Economics |
Bank Morbidity in Rural vs. Cosmopolitan California in 1933 |
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Biomedical Engineering/ Materials Science |
An Investigation into the Effect of Parameters on Spark Plasma Sintering of Cryomilled Titanium Powders |
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Biomedical Engineering |
Effects of Electromechanical Reshaping on Mechanical Behavior and Structural Changes of Bovine Tendon |
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Biomedical Engineering: Premedicine |
The Role of the Extracellular Matrix in Regulating Bone-Marrow Derived Macrophage Phenotype |
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Chemistry |
Zincke Aldehyde Heck Couplings and Synthesis of Substituted Pyridines |
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Biological Sciences |
Elucidating the Novel Priming Mechanism by the Enzymes AuaE and AuaEII in Aurachin D Biosynthesis |
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Biological Sciences |
The Effects of Nicotine on Behavior Mediated by the Dentate Gyrus |
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Criminology, Law & Society |
Obstacles For Change: The Challenges Faced by Critical Resistance Activists |
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Chemistry/ Biology |
Expression of Heparan Sulfates in Regenerating Limbs of an Axolotl (Ambystoma mexicanum) |
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Public Health Sciences |
Determining the Role of Nicotinic Acetylcholine Receptors (nAChRs) in the Rewarding Mechanism of Cigarette Smoke Extract (CSE) Using Radioligand Binding Displacement |
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Biomedical Engineering/ Material Science Engineering |
Characterizing the 3-D Micro-Environment of Matrigel Network in a Novel Strain Gradient Device |
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Biological Sciences |
Determining the Structure and Function of Monooxygenases BexI, BexE and BexM Involved in the Biosynthesis of BE-7585A |
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Chemistry |
Fluorescent Labeling RNA to Analyze Ribozyme Kinetics by Fluorescence Anisotropy |
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Business Economics |
Do Income Tax Levels Have a Distinct Effect on Recovering from Economic Recession? |
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Biological Sciences |
Determining the Role of Lhx2 in maintaining the radial glial population |
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Biological Sciences |
Motor Vehicle Collision in Relation to the Proximity of Electronic Billboard in a Large Urban Setting |
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Biomedical Engineering: Premedicine |
Mechanisms of Dendritic Spine Loss in Dissociated Hippocampal Pyramidal Neurons Induced by Corticotropin Releasing Hormone (CRH) |
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International Studies/ Political Science |
Human Rights in the Middle East |
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Biomedical Engineering |
Cell Simulation using Cardiomyocyte Cells |
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Dance/ Drama |
Playground |
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Criminology, Law & Society |
Transphobia and the Prison Industrial Complex |
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Criminology, Law & Society |
To Serve and Protect: Tribal Policing in California |
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Sociology |
The Perception of the Male Sex-Role in Media |
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Psychology |
Investigating Properties of the Auditory Temporal System |
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Chicano/Latino Studies/ Sociology |
Latina/o Mestizaje: The Influence of Generational Assimilation on Spiritual and Religious Practices |
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Sociology |
Ethnic Mexican Women Activism and Resistance |
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Psychology & Social Behavior |
Minority Police Officers – Their Experience and How They are Viewed by Their Communities |
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English |
Jane Austen: Characterization and Literature in Transition |
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English |
Idealized Hypermasculinity and Demonized Femininity in the Grail Legend: A Look into the Gender Dynamics in the Society of Arthurian Writers |
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Political Science/ Criminology, Law & Society |
Protecting Loyalty to the Truth? A Comparative Analysis of Whistleblower Legislation |
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Psychology & Social Behavior |
Banking Panics and Decisions |
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Biochemistry & Molecular Biology |
Altered Function of Kinesin by Halo Interaction |
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Biological Sciences |
Impacts of Tai Chi on Athletic Performance Strength, Speed and Endurance |
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Sociology |
Gender Differences is Math Course Selection Across High School Students |
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Psychology |
Positive and Negative Experiences in Romantic Relationships: How do these Experiences Affect Anger in Adolescents and Rates of Offending while Incarcerated? |
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Biological Sciences |
Noninvasive In-Vivo Monitoring of Host Response to Biomaterial Encapsulated Islets using the Dorsal Window Model |
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Psychology & Social Behavior |
Do Mothers of Children with Autistic Spectrum Disorder View Maternal Employment Differently than Mothers of Typically Developing Children? |
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Political Science |
Causes of Corruption in Colonial India |
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International Studies |
Professor
Christine Hegel-Cantarella |
American Muslim Women: Applicability of Islamic Principles in a Western Context |
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Business Economics/ Political Science |
The Years since 9/11: US Political Involvement in the Middle East: A Study of Afghanistan |
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Developmental & Cell Biology/ Anthropology |
Effect of Alk1 on VEGF Pathway in Endothelial Cells |
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Biomedical Engineering |
Computer Simulation of Cell Migration |
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English/ Creative Writing Emphasis |
Short Stories Discussing the Insane |
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Biological Sciences |
Phylogenetics of fishes in the family Stichaeidae |
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Women's Studies/ Psychology and Social Behavior |
Marketing Birth Control and The Deviant Female Body |
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Biological Sciences |
Regulation of Kinesin by CK II |
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Biomedical Engineering: Premedicine |
Analysis of Tumor-Stromal Migration on Micromechanical Reconfigurable Co-Culture |
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Sociology |
Inter-Asian Discrimination: Exclusion of Southeastern Asians in Mate Selection |
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Biological Sciences |
Preclinical Evaluation of Photosensitizers in the Use of PDT on Normal Vasculature Using the Dorsal Window Chamber Model |
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Biological Sciences |
Electromechanical Reshaping and viability of Ex-vivo porcine trachea |
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Sociology/ Anthropology |
Attitudinal Support for Women in the Public Sphere and Men in the Private Sphere |