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DEANS' SUMMER RESEARCH FELLOWSHIP
Deans' Summer Research Fellowships of up to $2500 were awarded to forty-eight Trinity College students for research projects to be conducted in Summer 2007. The projects proposed by the successful applicants are taking place in more than fifteen countries. For detailed information regarding the Deans' summer fellowship, click here.
The goals of the Deans' Summer Research Fellowship Program are to strengthen undergraduate research opportunities for Trinity College undergraduates, to enlarge the scope of undergraduate scholarship conducted on and off campus during the summer, and to provide support to enable undergraduates to extend the period over which they engage in research. Several students received additional funding from other university-sponsored research awards.
Listed below are the names, faculty mentors and research topics of this year's Deans' Summer Fellowship recipients:
Summer Fellow |
Faculty Mentor |
Project Title |
| Daniel Agarwal | David Sherwood | Matrix Metalloproteinases: Role in AC Invasion in C. elegans |
| Kristin Alves | Warren Meck | The Role of D2 Receptors in Interval Timing |
| Christopher Anderson | Alice Kaplan | The Greatest Conflict of Interest |
| Malika Atmakuri | Christopher Kontos | Binding Domains Involved in the Interaction between HIFI-α and PTEN |
| Rita Baumgartner | Elizabeth Fournier | Impact of Harm Reduction Interventions for Injecting Drug Users in Denver, Colorado |
| Aria Branch | Mark Neal | For Whom Things Did Not Change: Emerging Feminism in Ghana |
| Alex Campbell | Raymond Gavins | Moravian Choir Houses in North Carolina |
| Denise Chang | Rytas Vilgalys | Extent of Clonality between Clinical and Environmental Strains of C. tropicalis |
| Lydia Chen | Joseph Heitman | Identification and Characterization of Inositol Mating Signaling Genes in C. neoformans |
| Youngeun Cho | Xinnian Dong | Transcriptional Regulators of Disease Resistance in Arabidopsis |
| Tayo Edun | William Darity | The Extent of Gentrification in Washington |
| Sarah Ellis | Charlotte Sussman | Constructing Identity in Jane Austen's Personal and Literary Letters |
| David Fiocco | Marc Bellemare | Social Capital, Agency, and Market Participation in Western Sierra Leone |
| L. Elizabeth Floyd | Michael Newcity | From You I Can Expect No Pity: Russia's Besprizornye, A Case Study in American Humanitarian Intervention |
| Elizabeth He | Rytas Vilgalys | Genetic Variation of the Mating Gene within a Population of C. tropicalis |
| Taylor Jardno | Jocelyn Olcott | Mimesis and Alterity in Argentine Political Cartoons |
| Shivam Joshi | Rodger Liddle | Cellular Regulation of Cholecystokinin Secretion |
| Nabihah Kara | Kathryn Whetten | Assessing the Needs of the Transgender Community in New Delhi |
| Elizabeth Kelly | Michael Newcity | Foreign Corrupt Practices Act in the Former Soviet Republics |
| Allison Kenney | Claudia Koonz | Ten Years Later: A Study of Post-Apartheid Education in South Africa |
| Jay Levin | Dirk Bonker | Examining the American Media's Changing Perceptions of the Six Day War |
| Angela Lin | Philip Febbo | The Role of Melanotransferrin in Metastatic Adenocarcinomas |
| Emily Long | Sherryl Broverman | Just Do It: Reinforcing Healthy Habits |
| Andrea Marston | Diane Nelson | Integration of Kuna Women into the Culitvation of Natural Resources in the Kuna Yalo? |
| Chiara McPhee | Kenneth Rogerson | Genocides: Differences and Similarities between U.S. Media Coverage |
| Cameron Miller | Paul Manos | Host Specialization and Co-evolution of Ceanothus and Frankia |
| Christie Milleson | Anne Drapkin-Lyerly | Exploring Community Receptiveness to Building a Birthing Center in Turrialba, CR |
| Beatriz Mogollon | Norm Christensen | Environmental Education for Low-Income Schools in Columbia |
| Jennifer Morris | Hans Van Miegroet | The Art of the Reformation: Pictorial Representations of Lutheran Doctrine in 16th Century Germany |
| Ngoc-Lien Nguyen | William Wetsel | Animal Mouse Model of Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) |
| David Noyd | Dennis Clements | Children's Health Issues of Nicaraguan Immigrants in Costa Rica |
| Joshua Oyster | Leslie Digby | Effect of Home Range Volumes on Primate Social Behavior |
| Anita Pai | Daniel Schmitt | Experimental Studies of Animal Locomotion: The African Elephant (Loxodonta africana) |
| Viren Patel | Nicole Calakos | Significance of Alternative mRNA Splicing for RIM1a Protein-Protein Interactions |
| Emily Pontzer | Philip Febbo | An Antibody Mediated Therapy for Prostate Cancer |
| Alisa Prager | Anita Hjelmeland | Targeting PI3K Pathway and TGF-β Pathway in Brain Tumor Stem Cells |
| Daniel Pu | Marcy Speer | Imaging Phenotypes in Posttraumatic Stress Disorder: Genetic Background |
| Jonathan Russell | Alejandro Aballay | Role of ced-1 in Caenorhabditis elegans Innate Immunity |
| Aaron Sandel | Leslie Digby | Comparing the Capacity for Casual Inference in Rhesus Macaques and Ring-tailed Lemurs |
| Grace Shih | Huntington Willard | The Role of Heterochromatin Barriers in Centromere Structure and Function |
| Grant Smith | Deborah Gold | Design, Implementation, and Evaluation of a Transition Program for Adolescent Sickle Cell Patients |
| Claire Teigland | Rebecca Buckley | Efficiency of Booster Transplantations in Severe Combined Immunodeficiency |
| Eric Wang | Mathias Gromier | Transgenic Mouse Model for the Common Cold |
| Clara Ward | Scott Eckert | Community-Based Leatherback Sea Turtle Conservation and Ecotourism in Northeast Trinidad |
| Dai Weng | Terrance Oas | Determining Free Energies of Bacillus Subtilis Rnase P Protein Folding |
| Melissa Wiesner | Laura Sjoberg and Katherine Ewing | Ni Putes, Ni Soumises: Muslim Maghrebi Women Defining a new Feminism in France |
| Julie Yang | Joseph Heitman | FKBP12 Governed Amino Acid Metabolic Cascade for Antimicrobial Therapeutic Intervention |
| Richard Zhu | Nicole Calakos | Therapeutic Responses of a Mouse Model of Dystonia |