SERC-URGP RECIPIENTS FALL 2008

BIOLOGY

Student	Faculty Mentor	Project Title
Cory Leach	Dr. Williams	Origin and founder population size of the invasive swamphen in Everglades National Park, FL
Komitige Hashanthi Perera	Dr. Misamore	Quantification of gamete activation during fertilization in Chlamydomonas
Karin Ruiz-Roehrs	Dr. Williams	Locating the source of the Invasive Brazilian peppertree

CHEMISTRY

Student	Faculty Mentor	Project Title
Pradeep Budhathoki	Dr. Ryu	Modulation of the anti-thrombin activity of ecotin with unnatural amino acids
Arunendra Saha Ray	Dr. Ryu	Identification of the protein secretion pathways in E. coli.
Fatima Reem Sahyouni	Dr. Ryu	Genetic Incorporation of Fluorescent Amino Acids into Proteins

COMPUTER SCIENCE

Student	Faculty Mentor	Project Title
José Carlos Márquez-Hernández	Dr. Sanchez	Physical Computing and Face Identification for the Smart Home

GEOLOGY

Student	Faculty Mentor	Project Title
Clayton Winkler	Dr. Hanson	Formation of an Ancient Basaltic Vent in Big Bend National Park, West Texas: Implications for Explosive Behavior During Eruption of Basaltic Lava Fields

PHYSICS AND ASTRONOMY

Student	Faculty Mentor	Project Title
Pankaj Kumar	Dr. Strzhemechny	Photoluminescence Spectroscopy of Optically Active Infrared Transitions in Pristine and Doped ZnO Crystals
Belle Marco	Dr. Strzhemechny	Size Separation & Analysis of Zinc Oxide Nanopowders

PSYCHOLOGY

Student	Faculty Mentor	Project Title
Morgan Albert	Dr. Papini	The Effects of D-cycloserine on Escape from on Loss Induced Anxiety
Heather Hartigan	Dr. Cross	Effects of Physical Contact on Resting Cortisol & Positive/Negative Affect
Meredith Jantzen	Dr.Petursdottir	The Effects of Collateral Response Training on Children’s Acquisition of Foreign-Language Vocabulary Words
Derek Matthies	Dr. Petursdottir	Analyzing Failures of Stimulus-Stimulus Pairing to Establish Speech-Sound Preferences
James Miller	Dr. Barth	Effects of Chronic Cocaine Use on Self-Control Behavior
Nathan Mitchell	Dr. Barth	Does Peripheral Activation of the Immune System Affect Aspartame-Induced Memory Deficits in Rats?
Mark Munns	Dr. Boehm	Chronic Antidepressant Treatment Protects Memory, Central BDNF Expression, and Neurogenesis after Repeated Lipopolysaccharide Administration]
Greg Repasky	Dr. Barth	Ethical Decision-Making in College Students
Brighton Richie	Dr. Boehm	Endotoxin Tolerance and Memory Consolidation
J. Mack Slaughter Jr.	Dr. Boehm	Environmental Enrichment, Cognition, and Neurogenesis
Jessica Swanson	Dr. Boehm	Effects of cytokines on GAP-43 and synapsin-1 expression in PC12 cells: an in vitro model