2006 Undergraduate Student Summer Research Fellowships
Each grant listed includes student
researcher(s) with respective cooperating faculty member(s) in
parenthesis.
SAM AND IRENE BLACK SCHOOL OF BUSINESS
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Alexander Kazmierczak (James Kurre) - $1,200
“What Type of Products’ Prices Vary More Across Space? An Initial Examination”
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Jason Pflueger (James Kurre) - $1,200
“What Causes the Link between Income Inequality and Manufacturing Employment?”
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Elizabeth Stablein (Michael Brown and Michael Maloni) - $1,200
“Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) in the Supply Chain: Assessing Current Practices in the Food Industry”
SCHOOL OF ENGINEERING AND ENGINEERING TECHNOLOGY
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Matthew Baker (Wen-Li Wang) - $1,115
“Studying Audio Protocols and Developing a Software System for Recording, Playback, and Signal Monitoring”
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Justin Beale (Thomas Hemminger) - $1,200
“Small Object Radar Filtering”
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Russell Carter (Oladipo Onipede) - $1,200
“Design and Testing of SMA Embedded Composite Wings”
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John Donovan (John Roth) - $1,200
“Testing and Analyzing the Effects of DC Current on the Material Properties of Various Metals”
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Edward Falk (John Roth) - $1,200
“Cryogenic Treatment of Coated Tungsten Carbide Tools and its Effect on Tool Life”
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Joshua Green (James Sonnenmeier) - $1,200
“Measurement and Calculation of the Aerodynamic Performance of Twisted Wings - Part II”
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Kent McKee (William Lasher) - $1,200
“Calculating Heeling Moments on the Brig Niagara”
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Thomas Spinner (John Roth) - $1,200
“Optimization and Tool Library Expansion for On-line Directionally Independent Failure Prediction of Mill Cutting Tools”
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Kevin Sunealitis (Oladipo Onipede) - $1,200
“Finite Element Analysis of Electrostatically Driven Micro-Beams”
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Matthew Warner (John Roth) - $1,200
“Effects of DC Current on the Mechanical Properties of Various Metals”
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Alexander Winter (Robert Weissbach) - $1,200 “Data Analysis and Software Development for a Wind Energy Protocol”
SCHOOL OF ENGINEERING AND ENGINEERING TECHNOLOGY AND SCHOOL OF HUMANITIES AND SOCIAL SCIENCES
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Jenna Beck, Jimmie Hodge, Eric Johnson, Ivan Lopez, Megan Miller, Matt Morrison, Lauren Wagner, and Matt Widdowson (Dawn Blasko, Kathy Holliday-Darr, Derek Mace, Jennifer Trich Kremer, and Ronald Krahe) - $9,600 “Interdisciplinary Project to Develop Activities to Enhance Spatial Visualization”
SCHOOL OF HUMANITIES AND SOCIAL SCIENCES
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Kevin Belknap, Mike Long, Sabina Medilovic, Leslie Sargent, Cassidy Schenley, and Chris Strayer (John Gamble) - $4,406
“Comprehensive Statistical Database of Multilateral Treaties (CSDMT)”
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Angela Speck and Andrew Walker (Dawn Blasko and Victoria Kazmerski) - $2,400
“Analyzing How Sex Differences and Relational Aggression Influence Sarcasm Processing”
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Stephen Wingerter (Cathy Mester and Rod Troester) - $1,170
“Behavioral Standards at Fortune 500 ‘Best Companies’: The Civility Component”
SCHOOL OF SCIENCE
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Robert Blanner III (Martin Kociolek) - $1,200
“Investigating the Synthesis and Reactivity of Monosubstituted Isoxazoles”
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Casey Bradshaw (Pamela Silver and Jeanette Schnars) - $1,200
“Use of Polarized Light as an Orientation Cue towards Water in Painted Turtles”
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Anita Brock (David Hunnicutt) - $1,200
“Nasal Carriage of Community-Acquired Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus in a Healthy Population of College Students”
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Stephanie Burbules (James Warren Jr.) - $1,200
“Molecular Genetic Analysis of Folate Metabolism in the Zebrafish (Danio rerio): Analysis of the in vivo Role of BHMT in Early Development”
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W. Clay Campbell (Michael Campbell) - $1,200
“The Development of Antisense NDP1, OHP2, and Overlapping Region Mutants of Arabidopsis thaliana for the Determination of Gene Function and Regulation”
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Andrew Collins-Hed (Michael Campbell and Yi-Hong Wang) - $1,200
“Modification of Branched-Chain Amino Acids in Tomato Fruit by Changing Expression of the Enzyme Acetolactate Synthase”
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Todd Eckroat (David Hunnicutt) - $1,200
“Pathogenesis of Flavobacterium in Zebrafish”
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Ashley Ethridge (Pamela Silver and Jeanette Schnars) - $1,200
“Nesting Ecology of Chelydra serpentina in Lake Erie Watershed”
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Megan Hammers (Heather Jones) - $1,200
“Effects of CPT-11, a Chemotherapeutic Agent Used in Colorectal Cancer, on Colonic Secretion”
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Jennifer Hughes (Pamela Silver and Jeanette Schnars) - $1,200
“Herpetological Study of the Species of Frogs and Toads at Presque Isle State Park”
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Meredith Hyldahl (Bruce Wittmershaus) - $1,199
“The Photostability of CdSe/ZnS Core-Shell Quantum Dots in Luminescent Solar Concentrators”
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Matthew Jackel (Martin Kociolek) - $1,200 “Synthesis of Substituted 1-Benzoxepin Derivatives from 3-Carboxyisoxazoles”
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Benjamin Kuhn (Heather Jones) - $1,200
“Defining a Role for Intracellular Chaperones in Trafficking of the KCNN Potassium Channel Proteins”
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Ashley Loker (Heather Jones) - $1,200
“Effects Growth Factors on Colonic and Airway Chloride Secretion”
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Jeffrey Machusko (Darren Williams) - $1,200
“Dynamical Response of the Moon to a Major Impact on the Early Earth”
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Alissa Mague (Heather Jones) - $1,200
“Role of Growth Factors in the Expression and Function of the Human Intermediate Conductance Calcium (Ca2+) Activated Potassium (K+) Channel hIK1”
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Erin Mathes (David Hunnicutt) - $1,200
“Localization of Flavobacterium johnsoniae and Flavobacterium columnare in Danio rerio”
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Jonathan McDowell (Pamela Silver and Jeanette Schnars) - $1,200
“Proposal of Herpetological Collection at Presque Isle State Park”
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Michelle McGregor (Margaret Voss) - $1,200
“Microbial Effects on Nesting Mortality”
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Keri McNamara (Martin Kociolek) - $1,200
“Synthetic Studies toward the Synthesis of 1-Benzoxepin Natural Products”
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Joshua Meyer (Michael Campbell) - $1,200
“Investigation of the Interaction of the Genes NDP1 and OHP in Arabidopsis thaliana”
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Stacey Olechowicz and Julie Miller (James Warren Jr.) - $2,400
“Investigating the in vivo Functions of the Fragile X Gene Family in Zebrafish through Gene Knockdowns”
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Stephen Oyler (Lola Deets) - $1,200
"Environmental Sustainability through Agroforestry, Organic and Fair Trade Certification”
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Frank Pagel (Michael Campbell) - $1,200
“Investigating the Overlapping Region of the NDP1 and OHP Genes in Arabidopsis thaliana”
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Joe Pleso (Paul Olson) - $1,200
“The Game of Go and Surreal Analysis”
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Daniel Rogers (Lisa Mangel) - $1,200
“Support Network and Facilities Required for Skeletal Preparation”
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Emma Rogers (Lisa Mangel) - $1,200
“Care, Maintenance, and Growth of a Dermestid Beetle Colony”
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Kristen Schnepp (Pamela Silver and Jeanette Schnars) - $1,200
“Proposal for a Herpetological Inventory of Presque Isle State Park”
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Erika Segear (Michael Campbell) - $1,200
“Microarray Analysis of the Potato Genome”
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Casandra Sheldon (Jennifer Holt) - $1,200
“Investigations of the Orientations of Merocyanine Dyes in Zolites Host Materials”
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Mark Stauffer and Shannon Rupprecht (Pamela Silver) - $2,400
“The Effect of Road Salt (NaCl) on Life History Characteristics of Chironomus riparus (Diptera, Chironomidae)”
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Christopher Suprock (Lawrence Downey) - $1,200
“Image Compression using Quadrant Decomposition, Dimensional Correlation, and Functional Compression”
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Kaile Taylor and Daryl Nowacki (Yi-Hong Wang) - $2,400
“Generation of Activation-Tagged Tomato Plants for Functional Genomics”
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Colleen White (Heather Jones) - $1,200
“The Role of Protein 14-3-3 in Trafficking and Function of the KCNN Potassium Channels”
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Malorie Winters (Joseph Previte) - $1,200
“Feedback of a Scavenger on Competing Species and Lotka-Volterra Models”
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Kala Wolfe (Margaret Voss) - $1,200
“The Effects of Clutch Size on Incubation Period and the Heating and Cooling Rates of Eggs in the House Wren”