Faculty Student Summer Research Program
2015 Research Projects

For summer 2015, there are 88 students and 41 faculty members working on 67 different projects.

Projects

• Synthetic investigation and application of a substituted 4,6-dimethyl-3-cyclohexene compound, 10-week, Weg
  Nicholas Friedman '17
  Kara Cetto Bales, Senior Teaching Associate, Chemistry

• Synthetic investigation of Diels-Alder reactions with a-B unsaturated ketones, 10-week, Weg
  Justin O'Sullivan '17
  Kara Cetto Bales, Senior Teaching Associate, Chemistry

• Synthetic investigation of Diels-Alder reactions with a-B unsaturated ketones, 5-week-1, Weg
  Lauren Soong '16
  Kara Cetto Bales, Senior Teaching Associate, Chemistry

• Using zebrafish to study nervous system defects in fetal alcohol spectrum disorder, 10-week, Philip P. Markowitz
  Agnieszka Brojakowska '17
  Jennifer Bonner, Associate Professor, Biology and Neuroscience

• Using zebrafish to study nervous system defects in fetal alcohol spectrum disorder, 10-week, HEOP
  Delon Campbell '16
  Jennifer Bonner, Associate Professor, Biology and Neuroscience

• Role of nano-economics in economic growth and development , 5-week-2, undesignated
  Lukas Raynaud '17
  Monica Das, Associate Professor, Economics

• Functional role of auxin hormones in charophytes: an evolutionary perspective, 10-week, Weg
  Anna Lietz '17
  David Domozych, Professor, Biology

• Charophyte cell wall proteomics: In search of the super polymer domain, 10-week, Weg
  Molly Patten '17
  David Domozych, Professor, Biology

• Who let the wolves in? Geometric morphometric analysis of morphological variation during domestication, 5-week-2, Weg
  Jessica Street '16
  Abby Grace Drake, Teaching Professor, Biology

• Assessing water quality in Kayaderosseras Creek, 5-week-1, Axelrod
  Lauren Sidor '17
  Anne Ernst, ES Program Coordiator, Environmental Studies

• Assessing water quality in Kayaderosseras Creek, 10-week, Margaret Williams Page
  Nate Van Meter '17
  Anne Ernst, ES Program Coordiator, Environmental Studies

• Measuring hydrothermal plume particles with optical backscattering sensors: preliminary tests of a new method, 10-week, Samuel Croll
  Emma McCully '16
  Margaret Estapa, Visiting Assistant Professor, Geosciences

• Development of a lab-on-a-CD player analysis platform, 5-week-2, Weg
  Julie Bryant '16
  Kimberley Frederick, Professor, Chemistry

• Construction of a lab-on-a-CD player analysis platform, Schupf (10-week)
  Kelly Cantwell '18
  Kimberley Frederick, Professor, Chemistry

• Development of a remote analysis device for monitoring water contamination near fracking sites, Schupf (10-week)
  Jillian Greenspan '17
  Kimberley Frederick, Professor, Chemistry

• Development of a urine-based diagnostic for malaria, 10-week, Reiderer Family
  Nathanael Rehmeyer '18
  Kimberley Frederick, Professor, Chemistry

• Development of a paper-based test for malaria, 5-week-2, HEOP
  Sibin Wang '16
  Kimberley Frederick, Professor, Chemistry

• Synthetic investigations of tandem intramolecular diels-alder reactions, 5-week-1, D & J Richards Fund
  Jood Ani '16
  Ray Giguere, Professor, Chemistry

• Inflation in 2+1 dimensions, 8-week, undesignated
  Guram Vardiashvili '16
  Evan Halstead, Visiting Assistant Professor, Physics

• Physicochemical determinants of alcohol modulation in a model ligand-gated ion channel binding site, 5-week-1, Riederer Family
  Alex Mola '16
  Rebecca Howard, Assistant Professor, Chemistry

• Physicochemical determinants of alcohol modulation in a model ligand-gated ion channel binding site, 5-week-1, Axelrod
  Travers Ruel '16
  Rebecca Howard, Assistant Professor, Chemistry

• Strangite Mormon narratives of religious freedom and religious persecution in New York and beyond, 8-week, undesignated
  Alina Williams '16
  David Howlett, Visiting Assistant Professor linked with Eliza Kent, Professor Philosophy & Religion

• The effects of aging, a high fat diet, and long term succinic acid treatment on vascular health and mitochondrial function in mice, 10-week, Richard A. Mellon
  Cassandra Eddy '17
  Stephen Ives, Assistant Professor, Health and Exercise Sciences

• The effects of aging, a high fat diet, and long term succinic acid treatment on vascular health and mitochondrial function in mice, 10-week, Christy Johnson
  Gabe O'Brien '16
  Stephen Ives, Assistant Professor, Health and Exercise Sciences

• The processing of blend words in visual word recognition, 10-week, Harman Cain Family
  Sarah Rose Slate '16
  Rebecca Johnson, Associate Professor, Psychology

• The effect of emotion-laden words on processing during reading, 5-week-2, Harman Cain Family
  Emma Starr '16
  Rebecca Johnson, Associate Professor, Psychology

• The future of restorative justice, 10-week, undesignated
  Olivia Frank '16
  David Karp, Campus Life

• The power of the Chittenden Falls dam, 5-week-1, Marlene Oberkotter Fowler
  Caroline Hobbs '16
  Karen Kellogg, Associate Professor, Environmental Studies

• Computational photochemistry of organic fluorescent molecules, 10-week, Shehan Dissanayake
  Elijah Kofke '16
  William Kennerly, Visiting Assistant Professor, Chemistry

• Meta proactive interference, 8-week, Harman Cain Family
  Juliana Boucher '16
  H. Faye Knickerbocker, Visiting Assistant Professor, Psychology

• Modeling spinocerebellar ataxia type 1 in mice and cells, 5-week-2, Rafael Nasser
  Spencer Lowry '18
  Sara Lagalwar, Assistant Professor, Neuroscience

• Modeling spinocerebellar ataxia type 1 in mice and cells, 5-week-2, Rafael Nasser
  Donna Nguyen '18
  Sara Lagalwar, Assistant Professor, Neuroscience

• Modeling spinocerebellar ataxia type 1 in mice and cells, 5-week-2, Rafael Nasser
  Eliza Burr '17
  Sara Lagalwar, Assistant Professor, internNeuroscience

• Creative Web Design: Application of cognitive map theory in the context of online restaurant marketing, 10-week, Mr. & Mrs. Kenneth Woodcock
  Sarah Rinaolo '17
  Ela Lepkowska-White, Associate Professor, Management and Business and International Affairs

• Education systems in the international context, 5-week-1, Jim Lippman and Linda Friedman Lippman
  Kendall Gross '16
  Soyong Lee, Associate Professor, Education Studies

• Dacryoconarid biostratigraphy of the middle devonian bakoven shale of Eastern NYS,  5-week-1, undesignated
  Matthew Kilgore '16
  Richard Lindemann, Associate Professor, Geosciences

• How does cannabidiol reduce seizure activity?, 5-week-1, Weg
  Kathleen Schoolcraft ’16
  Hassan Lopez, Associate Professor, Psychology and Neuroscience

• Relative age effect on college admission and enrollment, 10-week, Jim Lippman and Linda Friedman Lippman
  Mackenzie Furman '16
  Michael Lopez, Assistant Professor, Mathematics

• Relative age effect on college admission and enrollment, 10-week, undesignated
  Sarah Markiewicz '16
  Michael Lopez, Assistant Professor, Mathematics

• Survival under copper shock - testing the importance of a proposed copper resistance island, 5-week-1, Weg
  Ana Sofia Rivera '16
  Sylvia McDevitt, Associate Professor, Biology

• Copper-Silver cross resistance-testing the potential of homolog proteins of CopA from Escherichia coli, 5-week-1, Richard A. Mellon
  Bryan Zepeda-Carranza '17
  Sylvia McDevitt, Associate Professor, Biology

• Surveillance studies in the 21st century: A study of GIS and surveillance technologies for classroom use and museum exhibition, 5-week-1, Marlene Oberkotter Fowler
  Makeda Diggs '17
  Scott Mulligan, Visiting Assistant Professor, Management and Business and International Affairs

• Reel sport and Hollywood, 5-week-1, Marlene Oberkotter Fowler
  Nevon Kipperman '16
  Daniel Nathan, Professor, American Studies

• Environmental effect of humic acids on aqueous iron, 10-week, Weg
  Jaya Borgatta '16
  Juan Navea, Assistant Professor, Chemistry

• Atmospheric aerosol dissolution, Schupf (10-week)
  Deborah Kim, '18
  Juan Navea, Assistant Professor, Chemistry

• Water adsorption on tropospheric aerosols, Schupf (10-week)
  Katherine Shi '18
  Juan Navea, Assistant Professor, Chemistry

• Heterogeneous  chemistry and photochemistry, Schupf (10-week)
  Talia Stortini '18
  Juan Navea, Assistant Professor, Chemistry

• Paths to Power: An Examination of the Career Trajectories of Turkish Political Elites, 5-week-1, undesignated
  Ovgu Bozgeyik '16
  Feryaz Ocakli, Assistant Professor, Government

• Paths to Power: An Examination of the Career Trajectories of Turkish Political Elites, 5-week-1, undesignated
  Oyku Bozgeyik '16
  Feryaz Ocakli, Assistant Professor, Government

• Are galaxies pre-processed in filaments? 5-week-1, undesignated
  Graeme Gengras '17
  Mary Crone Odekon, Professor, Physics

• Are galaxies pre-processed in filaments? 5-week-1, undesignated
  Mario Hyman '16
  Mary Crone Odekon, Professor, Physics

• Geometric morphemetric analysis of the effects of lead on Drosophila wing shape and body size, 5-week-2, HEOP
  Randy Cuevas '16
  Bernard Possidente, Professor, Biology

• Succinic acid as a potential treatment for age-related metabolic dysfunction, 5-week-2, HEOP
  Daniela Escudero '16
  T.H. Reynolds, Associate Professor, Health and Exercise Sciences

• Succinic acid as a potential treatment for age-related metabolic dysfunction, 5-week-1, Christy Johnson
  Lauren Gorstein '17
  T.H. Reynolds, Associate Professor, Health and Exercise Sciences

• Tunability of nanoparticle's color in polymer preparation, 5-week-1, Michael Rose
  Hannah Skipper '17
  Maryuri Roca, Visiting Assistant Professor, Chemistry

• Impacts of participation in environmental voluntourism programs on participant Commitment to Volunteerism, Pro-Environmental Attitudes and Behaviors, and Involvement in Envrionmental Issues, 5-week-2, undesignated
  Sarah Coburn '16
  Andrew J. Schneller, Teaching Professor, Environmental Studies

• Evaluating the impact of shame on treatment-seeking for anxiety, 5-week-1, Harman Cain Family
  Elizabeth Aaron '16
  Casey Schofield, Assistant Professor, Psychology

• Asparaginyl-tRNA formation in Bacilli, 10-week, Riederer Family
  Ruth Allard '16
  Kelly Sheppard, Assistant Professor, Chemistry

• Asparaginyl-tRNA formation in Bacilli, Schupf (10-week)
  Meggie Danielson '17
  Kelly Sheppard, Assistant Professor, Chemistry

• Expanding the genetic code of E.coli with Pyroglutamate, Schupf (10-week)
  Hannah Schapiro '17
  Kelly Sheppard, Assistant Professor, Chemistry

• Strange bedfellows of state immigration politics, 10-week, Marlene Oberkotter Fowler
  Elena Veatch '16
  Robert Turner, Associate Professor, Government