Spring 2015 Undergraduate Research Scholar Awardees

• Subira Brown (Duane McBride), Ethnic Differences in the Relationship between Parent Bonding and Alcohol Use

• Michael Choi (Harvey Burnett), Man's search for meaning: The case of Legos revisited

• Noah Chun (Getahun Merga), Characterization of naked noble metal nanoparticles before and after binding them to specific organic molecules and biomolecules

• Re’Jeanne Greene (Benjamin Navia), Changes in phonotactic behavior of female A. domesticus are influenced by properties of specific auditory neurons

• Cooper Hodges (Duane McBride), Religiosity & Perceived Stress Among College Students

• Rufaro Musvosvi (Hyun Kwon), Matlab Gui application for Optical trapping

• Fonda Mwangi (Rachel Williams-Smith), From Good to Great-An Action Research study to Improve the New Faculty Onboarding Experience

• Michael Plantak (Ryan Hayes), Ames Test Optimization for Evaluating Mutagenicity of Arginine-Based Heterocyclic Amines

• Cody Rieger (Boon-Chai Ng), Dielectric electro active polymer (DEAP)

• Andrew Stewart (Ryan Hayes), Direct Synthesis of Arginine-based Heterocyclic Amines

• Isaac Suh (Lionel Matthews), Demographic, Psycho-social, and Religious Predictors of Suicide Attempts among Adolescents of a Conservative Religious Denomination

• WayAnne Watson (Trina Thompson), Musical Borrowing in Las cuatro estaciones porteñas: Piazzolla, Desyatnikov, Vivaldi

• Hyelin You (David Nowack), Stabilization of Aqueous Ascorbic Acid Solutions using PAMAM Dendrimers