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2010 Summer Scholarship Recipents

The decisions of the selection committees are final. Awarding of funds is contingent upon the necessary approvals (such as PHSC), when necessary.

Yong Hwan Kim: Evaluating the Role of Microglia-mediated Brain Inflammatory Response in Pathogenesis of Parkinson's Disease Through Computational Modeling
Matthew Peppe: Regulation of Calcium Ion diffusion in cells
Ruoyan Sun: Global Stability of Multigroup Epidemic Model with Group Mixing and Nonlinear Incidence Rates

Committee members reviewed 31 applications; recipients listed with their respective advisors in parentheses.

Devin Braun (Brent Kaup):
Molly Copeland (David Aday): Communication Structures and Community Health in Cuje, Nicaragua
Harry Gao (Qun Li): Online Social Networking
Dana Hardbower (Kurt Williamson): The Temporal Dynamics of Bacterial Assemblages in Lake Matoaka
Jacob Lassin (Sasha Prokhorov): Oral History of Women Activists in Russia
Jennifer Saunders (Neil Norman): Africatown in Mobile, Alabama
Aniko Toth (Jonathan Micancin): Southern Cricket Frogs (Acris gryllus) in Virginia: the enigmatic decline continues?

Committee members reviewed 54 applications

Ishita Ahmed: Efficacies of Education Incentive Interventions in Improving Child Welfare in Bangladesh
Brittany Fallon: Toward a Greater Enrichment: The Importance of Natural Context, Stability, and Collaboration in Captive Primate Welfare
Benjamin Gullickson: American Investment in China: How Business Culture Affects Market Entry
Jennifer Joyce: Hanged Harpers and Incinerated Instruments
Morrison Mast: Conservation Ethics in Coastal Communities: A Survey of the Work of TAMAR
Khristopher Nguyen
Barry O'Keefe: Art and Oral History in Russia
Anushya Ramaswamy: South Korean Education
Mariangela Schneider: Division between migrants and urbanites in Shahe, Beijing
Austin Strange: Energy Policy in China

Committee members reviewed 30 applications

Anne Armstrong: Testing the consequences of environmentally induced multiples in the sand dollar Echinarachnius parma
Amir Arsalan: Conditioned taste aversion following social transmission of food preferences
Matthew Badgett: The Function of Proteins in the Development of Germline Stem Cells in Fruit Flies
Amber Bruce: The Alternative Splicing of Pax5 and the Immune Response in Spawning Teleost Fish
Chelsea Estancona: War on Terrorism
Rebeca Garcia: From Buffy to Twilight: an analysis of teen vampire culture over the past decade
John Haight: Mechanisms of ingroup-outgroup discrimination
Irene Morrison-Moncure: Many Roads to Rome: Investigating the Motivations of Latin Students in the 21st Century
Arati Pudasaini: Long-term deficits in hippocampus-dependent learning in animal model of fetal alcohol spectrum disorder
Nick Wamsley: The authenticity of works attributed to J. Palin Thorley
Mason Watson: T. E. Lawrence and the revolution in British military thought, 1918-1939
Courtney Wickel: Effects of an invasive aquatic plant, Hydrilla verticillata, on secondary production in the tidal freshwater SAV habitats of the lower Chesapeake Bay estuaries

Casey Lesser: The Healing of a Nation: Picasso's Guernica in Post-Civil War Spain

Andrew Squires: The impact of a non-governmental organization on the lives of Peruvian brazil nut harvesters

Committee members reviewed 11 applications

Kacie Burke: The Effect of Satiety on Infants' Acceptance of Foods
Krysten Corzo: Inquiry into the Duration of Infectivity of Bacteriophage in Soil
Sarah Son: Flavor-Taste/Flavor-Calorie Conditioning in Children
Christopher Sowers: Effect of Adolescent Nicotine Exposure on the Brain: Test of a Hippocampus-As-Circuit Hypothesis for Spatial Navigation
Nora Wicks: Avian Community Response to the Human Footprint in Upland and Riparian Habitats

Brent Bickings: Ancient Synagogues as Indicators of the Nature and Extent of Jewish-Gentile Interaction in the Roman Empire
Brittney Calloway: Exploring Effective Discipline Strategies for Middle Schools
Elena Carey: A Grid of Meaning: The Significance of Zoning in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania
Amy Clinger: An Ethnography and Exploration of the Social Marginalization and Stigmatization of Unwed Single Mothers in Rabat, Morocco
Brian Focarino: The Language of Consumerism: What the Doctrine of Foreign Equivalents tells us about foreign language assumptions in trademark law
Meredith Howard: Uncovering Codice L. 3: A Cultural, Legal and Religious Examination of the Zugarramurdi Witch-Hunts, 1609-1612
Dolores Huberts: The genetics and genomics of inter- and intra- population variations in disease rates: a look at the interplay between ancestral continent of origin, sex, genes and differential expression
Sam McVane: The Bare Necessities: Ancient Eastern Ascetics in Western Literature
Sean Moran: The Paleoecology, Taphonomy, and Depositional Environment of Microvertebrate Accumulations in the Cloverly Formation (Early Cretaceous, WY)
Benjamin Norris: An American Troubadour: The Career and Role of Alfred Kreymborg
Michael Smith: Haussmann's Political Promenades: A Literary History of the Reconstruction of Paris
Jean Paul Wallace: Constructing a classical guitar with interchangable fret-boards

Stephen Lendway: The impact of the VA restructuring act of 2005 on the financing of higher education in VA

Steven Linnett - summer study at the London School of Economics and Political Science

Jeffrey Holloman (Oliver Kerscher): Targeting SUMO protease Ulp1 to its substrates

Brent Bickings: Ancient Synagogues as Indicators of the Nature and Extent of Jewish-Gentile Interaction in the Roman Empire

Ashley Ingram / Melissa McInerney, advisor: An economic study of how macroeconomic conditions differently affect people of different socioeconomic classes
Eytan Jankowitz / Daifeng He, advisor: Analyzing changes in Medicare legislation and their impacts