2013 Winners
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Arts
Dean's Award
- B.M. Senior Recital
Elliott Viet Quoc Nguyen (Kresge)
Jennifer Ying Lependorf (Porter)
- Big, Black, and Bold: A Historical Textual Analysis of Black Women on Television Sitcoms
Ashley Simone Young (Ten)
- By Resort to Parables: Space, Time, and Awakened Minds in The Lotus Sutra.
Michael Patrick Yarnell (Porter)
- Rethinking Fragonard: Jean-Jacques Rosseau and the Contemporary Rococo
Lois Ruby Rosson (Merrill)
- Sean Hayward - Senior Recital
Sean Pryce Hayward (Kresge)
- The Dichotomy of Visual Beauty: Portraiture of the Ideal and Anti-Ideal
Tiffany Ann 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 N Aweti (Nine)
- Error Rates for Nanopore Discrimination Among Cytosine Markers Along Individual DNA Strands
Jacob Matthew Schreiber (Crown)
- Evaluation of the Effect of Age on the Function of Fibroblasts through a Wound-healing Assay
Margaret Kathleen Rose Donovan (Nine)
- LASSIE (Live-in ASSistant for Independence and Eldercare)
Peter Samuel Cottrell (Merrill)
- MOCVD Growth of Indium Phosphide Nanowire Networks for Thermoelectrics
Amanda Nicole 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 Gita Galermo (Crown)
Alexander Lee Wollenberg (Crown)
- Unfoldase-mediated protein translocation through an α-hemolysin nanopore
Douglas Benjamin Marks (Kresge)
Jeffrey Matthew Nivala (Porter)
Humanities
Dean's Award
- A Tale of Two Dummies
Matilda Catherine Morrison (Merrill)
- Gothic and Dickens: An Examination of Ghosts, Memory, and Self/Other Relations
Melissa Ann Ottele (Cowell)
- Italian Clitics
Emma Marie Peoples (Stevenson)
- Japanese Numerals and Numeral Quantifiers
Sylvia Opal Primrose (Merrill)
- Surviving on the Interface
Kristoffer Walter Hellen (Cowell)
- The "Fortuyns" of Europe
Cory Robert Schiff (Nine)
- Vegetable Gold: Gardens as Transition Points in Marvell and Milton
Lauren Elizabeth Young (Porter)
- Where Light Looks: Edward Hopper and Ekphrasis
Conner Killian Lowe (Cowell)
Physical and Biological Sciences
Dean's Award
- A SPICE Analysis of ILC Long-Ladder Noise
Khilesh Pradip Mistry (Crown)
- An investigation into small RNAs’ role in the genomic gymnastics that take place during macronuclear
Cameron Walker Ferguson (Stevenson)
- BioCAM: Biological and Chemical Annotation by Mode-of-Action
Emerson Walker Glassey (Merrill)
- Critical Conditions For The Detonation of Helium Matter: An Investigation Into The Destruction Of Wh
Cole James Holcomb (Nine)
- In Situ Generation of Dichloroindium Hydride via Reduction of Indium (III) Chloride
Panathda Victoria Bayrasy (Nine)
- REGULATION OF LIFESPAN BY THE MES-2/3/6 COMPLEX AND H3K27ME3 DEPLETION DURING AGING IN C. ELEGANS
Geoffrey Thomas Slaughter (Oakes)
- Searches of RHESSI Data for Weak Signals Associated with Terrestrial Gamma-Ray Flashes
Paul Robert Buzbee (Eight)
Justine Whitney Matten (Crown)
- Studies with Helicobacter pylori: Filling in the mystery sequence of the cagY gene and determining w
Sarina Yvonne Porcella (Merrill)
- THE EFFECTS OF AUTOPHAGIC PROTEINS ON FOCAL ACCUMULATIONS OF KINESIN MUTANTS IN DROSOPHILA AXONS
Michelle Fay 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 Katherine 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 Jill Bach (Kresge)
- New Media & Communication Paradigms: Intersections of Social and Technological Progress
Daniel Alexander Kagan (Stevenson)
- Sanitation Services and Perceptions of Possibilities: A Case Study of Old Fadama in Accra, Ghana
Carson Brian Watts (Oakes)
- Testing the Predictive Validity of the Sexual Double Standards Scale in Undergraduate Women
Alexa Rae Paynter (Cowell)
- What is Water Equity?
Matthew Alan Goff (Kresge)