2005 Student Summer Scholars
Andrew Berke
Development of technologies for monitoring isotope ratios in environmental samples and chemical reaction progress via laser-based vibrational spectroscopy
Faculty Mentor: Stephanie Schaertel, Chemistry
Emily Blamer
Asymmetric Synthesis of Chiral Silanes Faculty
Mentor: Randy Winchester, Chemistry
James Bouwman
Form Follows Function: Establishing the Correlation between Metal-Olefin Bong Asymmetry and the Reactivity of the Olefin
Faculty Mentor: Stephen Matchett, Chemistry
Kevin Donner
Energetics of a superabundant brown trout (Salmo trutta) population, Sand Creek, MI
Faculty Mentor: Eric Snyder, Biology
Katie Erdman
Ancient Transcaucasian Migrations in Anatolia: A Petrographic Analysis of Pottery from Malatya Turkey
Faculty Mentor: Mark Schwartz, Anthropology
Cynthia Groenink
Mathematics Remediation for Low Achieving Elementary Students Using Districts Mandated Assessments
Faculty Mentor: John Golden, Mathematics
David Howard
Study of Temperature and Light Intensity Dependence of Photoconductivity in Semiconductor Materials
Faculty Mentor: Lihong (Heidi) Jiao, Engineering
Timothy Major
Bioinformation Algorithm Development Using Matlab
Faculty Mentor: Manish Chakrabarti
Stacy Makino
Muscle Activation during Therapeutic Exercises of the Shoulder
Faculty Mentor: Brian Hatzel, Movement Science
Samuel Otten
Exploring dynamics of the dual billiard map in the hyperbolic place
Faculty Mentor: Feliz Dogru, Mathematics
Matt Race
Improving the Statistical Curriculum Sequence
Faculty Mentor: John Gabrosek, Statistics
Maysee Salleva
Environmental Phosphorus Analysis by 31P NMR
Faculty Mentor: John Bender, Chemistry
Peter Schwallier
How does separability affect the desirability of referendum election outcomes?
Faculty Mentor: Jonathan Hodge, Mathematics
Nathan Siladke
Water Evaporation From Tropospheric Aerosols
Faculty Mentor: Chris Lawrence, Chemistry
Aranda Slabbekoorn
Combined Molecular Mechanics/Electronic Structure Examination of the Ultrafast Vibrational Spectroscopy of Carbonmonoxy-myoglobin
Faculty Mentor: Chris Lawrence, Chemistry
Christopher Smith
Hypergeometric Summation and WZ
Faculty Mentor: Akalu Tefera, Mathematics
Michelle Smith
The Meaning of Education Project
Faculty Mentor: Donna Henderson-King, Psychology
Nathan Smith
Stylized Time: Music as Symbolic Process
Faculty Mentor: Kelly Parker, Philosophy
Brittany Stropich
Protein Interactions in Diaphanous-related Formins: defining specific biochemical interactions involved in the regulation of important cellular processes
Faculty Mentor: Bradley Wallar, Chemistry
Catherine Sundt
Social Dimensions of Consumption in Santiago, Chile
Faculty Mentor: Joel Stillerman, Sociology
Timothy Trichler
Acute Responses of Pulmonary and Coronary Arteries to Natural Steroids
Faculty Mentor: Frank Sylvester, Biomedical Sciences
Adam Werts
Neurotoxic Effects of PCB Congeners in Goldfish
Faculty Mentor: Xiaojuan (Xandra) Xu, Psychology
Catherine Willis
Study of the human mitochondrial DNA polymorphism
Faculty Mentor: Alexey Nikitin, Biology
If you'd like to see more about some of these scholars' projects, then check out the abstract document.