Undergraduate Recipients

William Epstein, Department of English 
“Write it Off: Understanding Gender Interactions in the Writing Center,” presented at the International Writing Centers Association in Denver, Colorado
Faculty Mentor: Mr. Travis DuBose, Department of English

Kadeem Pratt, Urban Studies Program
“US Economic Recession: Impacts to State and County Public Education Funding,” presented at the Black Doctoral Network Conference in Atlanta, Georgia
Faculty Mentor: Mr. Zachary Wood, Urban Studies Program

Rachel Carr, Department of Biology
“A hidden ecosystem service: Terrestrial arthropods and food security”
Faculty Mentor: Dr. Angélica González, Department of Biology

Katrina DeWitt, Department of Biology
“Caught in the web: Spiders and their webs as a bio-indicator” 
Faculty Mentor: Dr. Angélica González, Department of Biology

Grace Houmbaloussakou, Department of Biology
“Intratelencephaic Interconnections”
Faculty Mentor: Dr. William Saidel, Department of Biology

Marina Mikheil, Department of Biology
“Drosophila Eggshell Respiration”
Faculty Mentor: Dr. Nir Yakoby, Department of Biology

Nguyen Nguyen, Department of Biology
“Using EGFR Inhibitors to Manipulate Drosophila and Scaptomyzda Eggshells”
Faculty Mentor: Dr. Nir Yakoby, Department of Biology

Adriana Pereira, Department of Chemistry
“Signal Amplification by HCR for Detection of Antigens”
Faculty Mentor: Dr. Jinglin Fu, Department of Chemistry

Abby Robinson, Department of Chemistry
“Probing the self-assembly and visible light release mechanism of nanoparticle encapsulated polymersomes”
Faculty Mentor: Dr. Julianne Griepenburg, Department of Physics

Jacob Foster, Department of Fine Arts
“The Psychology of Gesture in Contemporary Art”
Faculty Mentor: Ms. Margery Amdur, Department of Fine Arts

Brian O’Rourke, Department of History
“The Curious Case of Sydney Gruson”
Faculty Mentor: Dr. Lorrin Thomas, Department of History

Steven Rowe, Department of Psychology 
“Examining the Role of Tyrosine in Working Memory and Associative Learning Plasticity under Acute Stress”
Faculty Mentor: Dr. J. William Whitlow, Department of Psychology 

Kevin DeYoung, Department of Biology
Faculty Mentor: Dr. Eric Klein, Department of Biology

Ashley Lewis, Department of Biology
Faculty Mentor: Dr. Barry Komisaruk, Department of Biology, Rutgers–Newark