We are pleased to announce our Winter 2006 research grant recipients:
Raynolds Expedition Fund
"Germany's Interpretation of Fundamentalist Terror and German Counter-Terror Policies"
Advisor: Allan Stam, Government
Richter Memorial Fund
"Bhutia Folk Music of Sikkim, India"
Advisor: Ted Levin, Music
Raynolds Expedition Fund
"Media Reflections and Self-Perceptions of Militant Sufferagists"
Advisor: Margaret Darrow, History
John L. Murphy Family Fund
"Form and Content of the Poetic Representation of Repression and Exile during the Chilean 'Dirty War' "
Advisor: Raul Bueno, Spanish and Portuguese
Richter Memorial Fund
"Tracking the Movement of Uranium and its Daughters Surrounding the Palermo #1 Pegmatite"
Advisor: Benjamin Bostick, Earth Science
Richter Memorial Fund
"Historical Analysis of South Adelbert Languages"
Advisor: Lindsay Whaley, Lingustics
Raynolds Expedition Fund
"Using Remote Sensed Data to Identify Potential Sites of Arsenic Contamination in Southeast Asia"
Advisor: Benjamin Bostick, Earth Science
Waterhouse Research Award
"The History of the Department of Pediatrics at DHMC"
Advisor: Alan Rozycki, Pediatrics
Richter Memorial Fund
"Understanding Biofilm Antimicrobial Resistance Mechanisms in P. areuginosa"
Advisor: George O'Toole, Microbiology
Robert G. McGuire III 1958 Memorial Fund
"Chicago's Trumbull Park Homes: 1937-1950s"
Advisor: Annelise Orleck, History
Raynolds Expedition Fund
"A Comparative Study of the Pebble Mosaics of Ancient Greece"
Advisor: Jeremy Rutter, Classics
Waterhouse Research Award
"Factors of Lipid Raft Synthesis in 1B Mutants"
Advisor: Ta Yuan Chang, Biochemistry
David C. Hodgson Endowment for Undergraduate Research
"UCL Independent Research"
Advisor: Michael Gazzaniga, Psychological and Brain Sciences
Richter Memorial Fund
"Polis Under Threat: Investigating the enduring power of Euripides' 'Hecuba' "
Advisor: Margaret Williamson, Classics
Richter Memorial Fund
"Homosexuality and Political Ideology in Conservative America"
Advisor: Anne Sa'adah, Government
Waterhouse Research Award
"Neighbors of the Animal House: A Screenplay About the 'Girls Next Door' "
Advisor: Bill Phillips, Film & Television Studies
Waterhouse Research Award
"The Environmental Chemistry of Tungsten"
Advisor: Benjamin Bostick, Earth Sciences
Waterhouse Research Award
"Fringe Benefits"
Advisor: Peter Hackett, Theater
"Role of Art as Diplomacy in Mughal-Jesuit Relations"
Advisor: Douglas Haynes, History
Richter Memorial Fund
"Thesis Research in Lucca Italy"
Advisor: Jane Carroll, Art History
E.E. Just Internship
"Exploring the Use of Digging with Wheels"
Advisor: Devin Balkcom, Computer Science
Richter Memorial Fund
"The Church and Women's Activism in Chiapas, Mexico"
Advisor: Tanalis Padilla, History
Richter Memorial Fund
"Synthesis and Characterization of Poly (ethylene oxide) -block-poly (4-phenylethynylstyrene) Diblock Copolymers and Their Potential Applications in Metallic Nanoparticle Synthesis"
Advisor: Robert Grubbs, Chemistry
Richter Memorial Fund
"Ecological Impacts of Historic Land Use in the Upper Valley"
Advisor: Doug Bolger, Environmental Studies
Robert G. McGuire III 1958 Memorial Fund
"Looking for the New South: Race Relations in Madison, GA"
Advisor: Michael Chaney, English
Anna Thompson Burnap Undergraduate Student Research Award
"Behavioral and Physiological Ecology of Infection by Trematode Parasites in the Common Periwinkle, Littorina littorea"
Advisor: Kathryn Cottingham, Biological Sciences
Robert G. McGuire III 1958 Memorial Fund
"The Republic of Black Africa and Black Separatism in Detroit"
Advisor: Bruce Nelson, History
