The Office of Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program announced its Winter - Spring/Summer 2016 Undergraduate Research Awards and the Irvin D. Reid Honors College was well represented with 21 research award recipients.
The award funding will help students to complete faculty-mentored research and creative projects and gain valuable experience in the process.
The recipients include:
Nisanth Alluri: Third-world Flint: Anthropology, Water, Human Rights, and Peace
Hussain Atieh: Defining Urban American Indians in Social, Psychological, and Health Research
Dhanushya Battepati: Thalmo-cortical functional connectivity at rest and its relationship to increased thalamic modulation or cortex during working memory in Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder
Griffin Calme: Improving Immunohistochemistry Scoring Techniques for Cancer Biopsies with Computer Vision Algorithms
Elizabeth Diviney: Uncertainty within Relationships between Resident Advisors and Residents
Pattamestrige Eresha Perera: Effects of Tylosin and Tri(dichloroisopropyl) phosphate on Oxygen Combustion and Filtration Rate of Quagga Mussels (Dreissena bugensis)
Nicole Farley: Creation of Species-Specific Primers to aid in the Detection and Identification of Gar species from Environmental DNA
Logan Hart: Return to Russia: Utilizing and Showcasing Stanislavski's Theatrical Legacy
Stefanie Hilton: Comparing Physical Activity Monitors against Energy Expenditure Assessed using a Cardiovascular Fitness Test
Tyler Hoffman: Smart Harmony
Elena Hunsanger: Determination of Biomarkers for Autoimmune Diseases in DNA Replication and Repair and Falectin-3 Enzymes
Brigid Jacobs: Structural effect of Carbohydrate-Linked Platinum Compound on DNA
Gaia Klotz: Exploring the "Green-Eyed Monster": Shakespeare in Prison and the Leading Role of Conflict Resolution in the Creative Process
Alexandra Lemieux: Effects of Estradial and Bisphenal A on a Trophoblast Cell Line
Ben Mick: Ultrasonic Echolocation Device for Assisting the Visually Impaired
Maricruz Moya: How do Latino Children view their Health
Harsh Parekh: Thalamo-cortical Functional Connectivity at rest and its Relationship to Handedness: fMRI Studies in Right and Non-right Handed Participants
Nathan Reddmann: Ultrasonic Echolocation Device for Assisting the Visually Impaired
Farah Sattar: Role of Regulated Chromosome Loss in Resistance and Adaptability of Candida Albicans
Abdul-Rahman Suleiman: Trans-Generational Effects of Pre-Conventional Stress and Gestational Anti-Depressant Exposure
Vanessa Verstraete: Effects of Tylosin and Tri(dichloroisopropyl) phosphate on Oxygen Combustion and Filtration Rate of Quagga Mussels (Dreissena bugensis)