2012 Student Summer Scholars
Danielle Bradke
“Den Site Characteristics and Kit Survival of American Marten in West Michigan”
Faculty Mentors: Paul Keenlance, Natural Resource Management & Joseph Jacquot, Biology
Tami Brown
“Using DNA Barcoding for Plant Identification in a Long-term Prairie Restoration Study”
Faculty Mentor: Neil MacDonald, Biology
Brittany Cooke
“Generation of Diffraction Gratings Using Photographic Film”
Faculty Mentor: Richard Vallery, Physics
Brianne Docter
“Probing the Binding Site in the Antibiotic Resistance Enzyme, AmpC β-lactamase”
Faculty Mentor: Brad Wallar, Chemistry
Samantha Ellis
“Macromolecular Assemblies for Gas Storage from Dynamic Bonds”
Faculty Mentor: Andrew Korich, Chemistry
Jessica Franks
“Comparison of Constructed vs. Natural Wetlands”
Faculty Mentor: Eric Snyder, Biology
Danielle Grimm
“Using Artificial Breeding of Eurasian and Northern Watermilfoils to Study the Evolutionary Ecology of Herbicide Resistance”
Faculty Mentor: Ryan Thum, Annis Water Resources Institute
Anthony Hage
“Detection of 6xHis Labeled HDC Protein in Drosophila melanogaster”
Faculty Mentors: Martin Burg, Biomedical Sciences & Debra Burg, Biomedical Science
José Jiménez
“The Young Lords in Lincoln Park”
Faculty Mentor: Melanie Shell-Weiss, Liberal Studies
Kip-Chumba Kaitany
“Biochemical Investigations of a High-Threat Family of β-lactamases”
Faculty Mentor: Dave Leonard, Chemistry
Joshua Lee
“Screening the Effects of Gene Overexpression on Markers of Neural Progenitor Differentiation in the Developing Chick Midbrain”
Faculty Mentor: Merritt Taylor, Biomedical Sciences
Jackie Main
“Exploring the Effects of Self-affirmation”
Faculty Mentor: Amanda Dillard, Psychology
Danielle Maryanski
“Novel MADS-box genes isolated from the gymnosperm cones of Ephedra and Juniper”
Faculty Mentor: Jennifer Winther, Biology
Michael Peruzzi
“Synthesis of Tripodal CMPO Compounds for Heavy Metal Chelation”
Faculty Mentor: Shannon Biros, Chemistry
Jeremy Peshl
“Explorations in Sonoluminescence”
Faculty Mentor: Karen Gipson, Physics
Kira Smith-Butland
“Untitled Michigan Horror Script”
Faculty Mentor: Austin Bunn, Writing
Christopher Stretton
“The Testing of GV Derivatives for Antibacterial Activity in the Presence of Human Serum Protein”
Faculty Mentor: Roderick Morgan, Biology
Jessica Thoe
“Characterizing Protein-Protein Interactions for Accurate Cell Division in Fission Yeast”
Faculty Mentor: Dawn Clifford Hart, Cell & Molecular Biology
Angela Tramontelli
“Putting Michiganese on the Map: A Study in Perceptual Dialectology”
Faculty Mentor: Kathryn Remlinger, English Language and Literature
Sarah VanOeveren
“Germline Clonal Analysis of the delorean Mutation in Drosophilia melanogaster”
Faculty Mentor: Georgette Sass, Biology
William Waalkes
“Pollutant Effects on Neurophysiological Recordings from Sensory And Motor Neurons Of The Crayfish”
Faculty Mentor: Daniel Bergman, Biomedical Sciences
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