2013 Winners

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Arts

Dean's Award

• B.M. Senior Recital
  Elliott Nguyen (Kresge)
  Jennifer Lependorf (Porter)
  
• Big, Black, and Bold: A Historical Textual Analysis of Black Women on Television Sitcoms
  Ashley Young (Ten)
  
• By Resort to Parables: Space, Time, and Awakened Minds in The Lotus Sutra.
  Michael Yarnell (Porter)
  
• Rethinking Fragonard: Jean-Jacques Rosseau and the Contemporary Rococo
  Lois Rosson (Merrill)
  
• Sean Hayward - Senior Recital
  Sean Hayward (Kresge)
  
• The Dichotomy of Visual Beauty: Portraiture of the Ideal and Anti-Ideal
  Tiffany Seagrave (Porter)
  

Engineering

Dean's Award

• A Novel Method to Mobilize Stem Cells for Transplantation in Cancer Therapies
  Herman Tsang (Eight)
  
• Assessing Functionality of GFP+ Hematopoietic Stem Cells in Neonate Bone Marrow
  Chethan Jujjavarapu (Crown)
  
• Co-functionality of AlkB and BER DNA Repair Genes in Response to Chemotherapeutic Agents
  Ramsey Aweti (Nine)
  
• Error Rates for Nanopore Discrimination Among Cytosine Markers Along Individual DNA Strands
  Jacob Schreiber (Crown)
  
• Evaluation of the Effect of Age on the Function of Fibroblasts through a Wound-healing Assay
  Margaret Donovan (Nine)
  
• LASSIE (Live-in ASSistant for Independence and Eldercare)
  Peter Samuel Cottrell (Merrill)
  
• MOCVD Growth of Indium Phosphide Nanowire Networks for Thermoelectrics
  Amanda Flores (Crown)
  Juan Jose Diaz Leon (Ten)
  
• Nanomaterials for energy
  Juan Jose Diaz Leon (Ten)
  
• Saccharid Sensitive Polyelectrolyte for Charge-based Sensing with a Solid State Nanopore
  Ace Galermo (Crown)
  Alexander Wollenberg (Crown)
  
• Unfoldase-mediated protein translocation through an α-hemolysin nanopore
  Douglas Marks (Kresge)
  Jeffrey Matthew Nivala (Porter)
  

Humanities

Dean's Award

• A Tale of Two Dummies
  Matilda Morrison (Merrill)
  
• Gothic and Dickens: An Examination of Ghosts, Memory, and Self/Other Relations
  Melissa Ottele (Cowell)
  
• Italian Clitics
  Emma Peoples (Stevenson)
  
• Japanese Numerals and Numeral Quantifiers
  Sylvia Primrose (Merrill)
  
• Surviving on the Interface
  Kristoffer Hellen (Cowell)
  
• The "Fortuyns" of Europe
  Cory Schiff (Nine)
  
• Vegetable Gold: Gardens as Transition Points in Marvell and Milton
  Lauren Young (Porter)
  
• Where Light Looks: Edward Hopper and Ekphrasis
  Conner Lowe (Cowell)
  

Physical and Biological Sciences

Dean's Award

• A SPICE Analysis of ILC Long-Ladder Noise
  Khilesh Mistry (Crown)
  
• An investigation into small RNAs’ role in the genomic gymnastics that take place during macronuclear
  Cameron Ferguson (Stevenson)
  
• BioCAM: Biological and Chemical Annotation by Mode-of-Action
  Emerson Glassey (Merrill)
  
• Critical Conditions For The Detonation of Helium Matter: An Investigation Into The Destruction Of Wh
  Cole Holcomb (Nine)
  
• In Situ Generation of Dichloroindium Hydride via Reduction of Indium (III) Chloride
  Panathda Bayrasy (Nine)
  
• REGULATION OF LIFESPAN BY THE MES-2/3/6 COMPLEX AND H3K27ME3 DEPLETION DURING AGING IN C. ELEGANS
  Geoffrey Slaughter (Oakes)
  
• Searches of RHESSI Data for Weak Signals Associated with Terrestrial Gamma-Ray Flashes
  Paul Buzbee (Eight)
  Justine Matten (Crown)
  
• Studies with Helicobacter pylori: Filling in the mystery sequence of the cagY gene and determining w
  Sarina Porcella (Merrill)
  
• THE EFFECTS OF AUTOPHAGIC PROTEINS ON FOCAL ACCUMULATIONS OF KINESIN MUTANTS IN DROSOPHILA AXONS
  Michelle Sloan (Cowell)
  

Social Sciences

Dean's Award

• For The Record: The Struggle Over Foreclosures and Loan Modifications in the Immigrant Community of
  Aleshia Barajas (Merrill)
  
• Indigeneity in the Neoliberal Era: Anti-Mining Protests in Puno, Peru
  Emma McDonell (Eight)
  
• Indigenous Youth Perspectives, Oil Development and Human Environmental Rights in Ecuadorian Amazonia
  Nestor Silva (Merrill)
  
• Neoliberalism, International Law, and the Failures of Privatized Water Systems to Increase Access to
  Allison Bach (Kresge)
  
• New Media & Communication Paradigms: Intersections of Social and Technological Progress
  Daniel Kagan (Stevenson)
  
• Sanitation Services and Perceptions of Possibilities: A Case Study of Old Fadama in Accra, Ghana
  Carson Watts (Oakes)
  
• Testing the Predictive Validity of the Sexual Double Standards Scale in Undergraduate Women
  Alexa Paynter (Cowell)
  
• What is Water Equity?
  Matthew Goff (Kresge)